Feasibility of Combining Emissions Trading with Air Pollution Fee System of VOCs

• Main Authors: Lee, Chia-Chung, 李家中
• Other Authors: Bai, Hsun-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62545751624114115408

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 工學院碩士在職專班永續環境科技組 === 98 === In Taiwan, the environmental loading is growing with the growth of economics. With the promotion of various air pollution control strategies by Taiwan EPA, the air quality is getting better for most of the criteria air pollutants, but the O3 concentration in the ambient air is continuously increasing. The VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) is one of the most important O3 precursors, therefore the reduction of VOCs is a key issue to reduce the O3 ambient concentration. From Jan. 01, 2007, the Taiwan EPA has levied air pollution fee for VOCs so that all the VOCs emitting factories can reduce their VOCs emissions. This study proposed a policy that combines air pollution fee and emissions trading. Hsin-chu city was selected to be the case study area. The installation cost and the operation & maintaining cost functions of prior investments on the best available technology for the VOCs air pollution control device in Taiwan semiconductor and opto-electronic factories were established. And the feasibility of the combined policy of emissions trading and air pollution fee was evaluated and compared with that of the present air pollution fee policy. The results showed that the reduction potential of combined system is more than the current employing air pollution fee policy and it could reduce the investment costs of the factories. Under this combined system, the government expense of air pollution will be decreased. But it has high incentive for the polluters to reduce VOCs emissions, therefore it is concluded that the combined policy of emissions trading and the air pollution policy has a potential to be applied in the future.