1. Air Emissions Team, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
TFEIP/EIONET Meetings May 2011, Bern Switzerland AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY – UPDATE 2012
Air Emissions Team, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Kristina Saarinen, Tommi Forsberg, Santtu Mattila, Johanna Mikkola-Pusa

2. Guidebook IIRs Literature Total 2011 9445 2746 484 12415 2012 7298 500
Guidebook
IIRs
Literature
Total
2011
9445
2746
484
12415
2012
7298
500
17243
AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY IIRs still to be checked: BG, FR, IE, MC, UK, US
INFORMATION CAN BE USED TO
compare EFs used in different countries
search for an emission factor for sources/pollutants not in the GB
identify methods in the IIRs but not in the GB
identify sources of pollutants not yet covered in the IIRs/GB AT
454 BE
277 CH
650 DE 59 DK
967 EE
878 FI
353 IT
163 LT
1274 LV 42 NL
125 NO 64 PO
350 PT
442 SE
385 SK
306 SL
509
Source
Energy
Transport
Industry
Products
Agriculture
Waste
Other
IIR
5603
479
328
138
160
261 9
Litterature
426 44 16 8 6
Guidebook
4871
2341
1200
193
361
267 40

3. AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY www.apef-library.fi

4. STATISTICS FOR AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY
Number of visits
Unique visitors
Duration of visits
Hits from search engines
Pages
Oct-Dec 2010
5-50/ month
<2 min 50%
>2 min 30%
131
2011
216
132
<30s %
2-5min 11%
5-30min 10%
30-1h %
>1h %
983
827
Jan-Apr
2012
668
394
<30s %
2-5min 16%
5-30min 11%
30-1h %
>1h %
2836
2444
EXAMPLES OF SEARCH TERMS
Industrial activity (e.g. concrete, ferro alloy plants, tyre&brake)
Fuel (e.g. HFO, peat, NG)
Substance (e.g. PM10, PCDD/F)

5. AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY
Data input form

6. THANK YOU! AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY
EFs from 17 IIRs submitted in 2011 have been uploaded
by the Finnish air emissions team (SYKE).
The remaining Efs from 6 IIRs will be uploaded during summer 2012.
How to update after this:
The plan is that SYKE sends you ”your EFs” to be updated and completed with possible new EFs….
THANK YOU!