Illinois Administrative Code
Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part 218 - ORGANIC MATERIAL EMISSION STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS FOR THE CHICAGO AREA
Subpart S - RUBBER AND MISCELLANEOUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS
Section 218.462 - Green Tire Spraying Operations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024

The owner or operator of a green tire spraying operation at a pneumatic rubber tire manufacturing source shall:

a) Install and operate:

1) A capture system with a minimum capture efficiency of 90 percent by weight of VOM; and

2) A control device that meets the requirements of one of the following:
A) A carbon adsorption system designed and operated in a manner such that there is at least 90 percent removal of VOM by weight from the gases ducted to the control device;

B) An afterburning system that oxidizes at least 90 percent of the captured nonmethane VOM (measured as total combustible carbon) to carbon dioxide and water; or

C) An alternative VOM emission reduction system demonstrated to have at least a 90 percent overall reduction efficiency and approved by the Agency and approved by the USEPA as a SIP revision.

b) Substitute for the normal solvent-based mold release compound water-based sprays containing:

1) No more than five percent by volume of VOM as applied for the inside of tires;

2) No more than ten percent by volume of VOM as applied for the outside of tires.

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