About this manual

The purpose of all emission estimation technique (EET) manuals in this series is to assist Australian manufacturing, industrial and service facilities to report emissions of listed substances to the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI). This manual describes the procedures and recommended approaches for estimating emissions from facilities engaged in beer manufacturing. The beer brewing activities covered by this manual will pertain to facilities engaged in the manufacturing, bottling, or canning of beer, ale, stout or porter.

EET manual: Beer manufacturing

Industry sector: Beer and ready to drink alcoholic beverage manufacturing

ANZSIC codes : 2182

First published in February 1999
Version 1.1 - 16 May 2005
Version 1.2 - March 2007
National Pollutant Inventory
Department of Environment and Water Resources

Emission estimation techniques used in the manuals

Estimates of emissions of NPI-listed substances to air, water and land should be reported for each substance that triggers a threshold. The reporting list and detailed information on thresholds are contained in the NPI guide. In general, there are four types of emission estimation technique (EET) that may be used to estimate emissions from a facility.

The four types described in the NPI guide are:

• sampling or direct measurement
• mass balance
• fuel analysis or other engineering calculations
• emission factors