The Ministry of Ecology and Environment ("MEE") has recently issued five national environmental protection standards, including the Technical Guidelines for the Calculation of Pollution Source Intensity: Flat Glass Manufacturing (Published Version) (the "Technical Guidelines") and the Technical Guidelines for the Calculation of Pollution Source Intensity: Petroleum Refining Industry, all of them will go into effect from January 1, 2019.
Technical Guidelines are applicable to the calculation of pollution source intensity for exhaust gas, sewage, noise and solid waste, generated during the process of manufacturing flat glass and the glass used on solar cells in the electronic glass industry, through techniques such as float and rolling. The Technical Guidelines provide that, procedures for the calculation of pollution source intensity are comprised of identifying pollution sources, determining the pollutants, selecting calculation methods and parameters, calculating the pollution source intensity, and summarizing the calculation results. The Technical Guidelines for the Calculation of Pollution Source Intensity: Petroleum Refining Industry apply to the calculation of pollution source intensity for exhaust gas, sewage, noise and solid waste generated by main production equipment and public and ancillary facilities of entities in the petroleum refining industry. Further, it is clarified that, among methods to calculate the pollution source intensity are the material balance method, the analog method, the field measurement method and the pollutant production coefficient method, and the sequence in which calculation methods will be adopted is also specified.