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 dairy product manufacturing.

EET MANUAL: Dairy Product Manufacturing

HANDBOOK: Dairy Product Manufacturing

ANZSIC CODES:

212 Dairy Product Manufacturing
2121 Milk and Cream Processing
2122 Ice Cream Manufacturing
2129 Dairy Product Manufacturing (not elsewhere classified)

The ANZSIC codes above refer to the following activities:

Milk and Cream Processing:
This class consists of facilities mainly engaged in filtering, and chilling fresh liquid whole milk or cream, or manufacturing, bottling or cartoning pasteurised liquid whole milk, flavoured liquid whole or skim milk, liquid skim milk, liquid standardised milk, cream, sour cream, cultured butter milk, or yoghurt.

Ice Cream Manufacturing:
This class consists of facilities mainly engaged in manufacturing ice cream or frozen confectionery.

Dairy Product Manufacturing:
This class consists of facilities mainly engaged in manufacturing butter, cheese, condensed, concentrated or evaporated milk, milk powder, and dairy products not elsewhere classified.

First published in June 1999
National Pollutant Inventory
Environment Australia

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 at the front of this Industry Handbook. 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