07.05.2026
Filtrabit technology has been selected for further evaluation by the European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation Emissions (INCITE) platform for its potential impact on low-carbon steelmaking and industrial dust management.
Filtrabit technology has been selected for further evaluation by the European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation Emissions (INCITE) platform for its potential impact on low-carbon steelmaking and industrial dust management.
INCITE evaluates innovative emerging technologies contributing to decarbonisation, depollution, resource efficiency, and circularity across Europe. As part of their evaluation, INCITE considers technology, processes and management techniques for their potential adoption to minimize environmental impacts.
Filtrabit’s flow-dynamic dust separation technology is currently designated by INCITE as a candidate for BAT (Best Available Techniques) for dust-generating industrial installations. While not yet officially designated as a Best Available Technique, it is deemed technically feasible and economically viable for industrial application, as identified through studies.123 The development of the technology was originally funded in part by the EU Horizon 2020 project.
Environmental benefits of flow-dynamic dust separation technology are significant in three distinct areas: mitigation of particulate pollution, lowering net CO2 emissions, and conserving water.
The modular units effectively capture both fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM10+) particles within a single system, drastically reducing local particulate pollution.
The technology also enables the immediate recovery and reuse of raw materials before they enter centralized waste streams. By reducing the reliance on virgin resources, this process significantly lowers net CO2 emissions.
The system achieves these results through an entirely dry process, eliminating industrial water consumption altogether. The implications are enormous in areas like mining, where immense quantities of water are used to suppress dust particles, often leading to toxic compounds seeping into the ground and surrounding bodies of water.
BAT designations also take into account economical viability. Filtrabit offers its technology on an operating lease model, shifting the financial burden from a capital investment to a service-based operating expense.
This financial flexibility and faster adoption, combined with a circular economy approach that recovers high-value raw materials into side streams, transforms environmental compliance from a pure cost into a resource-recovery strategy that is often outright profitable.
Best Available Techniques (BAT) is a crucial classification for the EU’s current and upcoming regulation for industrial emissions. Compared to the term Best Available Technology (BAT) used by some other regulators, the EU’s approach takes into account more operational aspects:
‘techniques’ include both the technologies used and the way in which they are designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned;
‘available’ means developed on a scale which allows implementation in the relevant industrial sector, under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the costs and advantages, whether or not the techniques are used or produced inside the Union, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the operator;
‘best’ means most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment as a whole, including human health and climate protection.4
The European Union regulates industrial emissions on a per-industry basis through BREFs and BAT Conclusions.
BREFs, or BAT Reference Documents, are EU-certified manuals that outline the best available methods for protecting the environment within a specific industrial sector.
BAT Conclusions, to be found at the end of BREFs, are legally binding performance targets. If the BAT Conclusion says a modern plant can achieve a certain emission level, the local government must use that level to set its permit limits.
Especially relevant BREF industry categorizations for flow-dynamic dust separation technology include:
“This BREF covers the extraction of ores on an industrial scale including on-site treatment operations, such as comminution, size control, beneficiation and upgrading. The ores concerned are bauxite, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, lithium, manganese, nickel, palladium, platinum, tin, tungsten and zinc.”5
“This BREF covers the processes involved in the production of iron and steel in an integrated works as well as the production of steel in electric arc furnace steelworks. The main operations covered are:
“This BREF covers the techniques for the production of both primary and secondary non-ferrous metals. In particular, eight groups of metals with similar production methods are dealt with in more detail in the document:
This regulatory approach by the EU is the result of multi-disciplinary collaboration aimed to better align legislation with real-world feasibility. Named after the Spanish city where the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is headquartered, the Sevilla Process is used as a term to describe the BAT-focused regulatory process.
In the Sevilla Process, the EU is working together with both industry and NGOs to reduce pollution from over 52,000 large industrial plants in Europe. In the end, it’s the EU member states that vote on the conclusions that will become binding EU-wide environmental legislation.
For more information on the European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation Emissions (INCITE), please visit their website.
About Filtrabit
Filtrabit is a Finnish manufacturer of innovative industrial dust extraction systems, built around intelligent dust separation elements that leverage the principles of flow dynamics, allowing for immediate reuse of recovered raw materials.
