Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-1-1-4; IC 13-7-2-10; IC 13-7-7
Affected: IC 13-1-1-1; IC 13-1-1-4; IC 13-7-1-1; IC
13-7-7-2
Sec. 2.
(a)
Precarbonization emissions requirements shall be as follows:
(1) Particulate emissions from
precarbonization towers shall be limited by the emission limitations determined
under 326 IAC 6.5 or 326 IAC 6.8.
(2) Visible emissions from any
precarbonization unit shall comply with the requirements set forth in 326 IAC
5-1.
(b) Visible
emissions from the charging system, including any open charge port, offtake
system, mobile jumper pipe, or larry car shall be limited as follows:
(1) On and after July 1, 1979, such emissions
shall not be visible for more than a cumulative total of two hundred (200)
seconds during five (5) consecutive charging periods.
(2) On and after July 1, 1980, such emissions
shall not be visible for more than a cumulative total of one hundred
seventy-five (175) seconds during five (5) consecutive charging
periods.
(3) On and after July 1,
1981, such emissions shall not be visible for more than a cumulative total of
one hundred fifty (150) seconds during five (5) consecutive charging
periods.
(4) On and after July 1,
1982, such emissions shall not be visible for more than a cumulative total of
one hundred twenty-five (125) seconds during five (5) consecutive charging
periods.
(5) One (1) charge out of
twenty (20) consecutive charges shall be exempt from the total seconds of
charging emissions using the procedures set forth in section 4(a) of this
rule.
(c) Charge port
lid emissions requirements shall be as follows:
(1) On and after July 1, 1979, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than ten percent (10%) of the total
charge port lids on any coke oven battery.
(2) On and after July 1, 1980, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than seven percent (7%) of the total
charge port lids on any coke oven battery.
(3) On and after July 1, 1981, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than five percent (5%) of the total
charge port lids on any coke oven battery.
(4) On and after July 1, 1982, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than three percent (3%) of the total
charge port lids on any coke oven battery.
(d) Offtake piping emissions requirements
shall be as follows:
(1) On and after July 1,
1979, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than thirty percent
(30%) of the total offtake piping on any coke oven battery.
(2) On and after July 1, 1980, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the
total offtake piping on any coke oven battery.
(3) On and after July 1, 1981, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than twenty percent (20%) of the total
offtake piping on any coke oven battery.
(4) On and after July 1, 1982, no visible
emissions shall be permitted from more than ten percent (10%) of the total
offtake piping on any coke oven battery.
(5) On and after December 10, 1993, no
visible emissions shall be permitted from more than five percent (5%) of the
total offtake piping on any coke oven battery within Lake County.
(e) Gas collector main emissions
requirements shall be as follows:
(1) On and
after July 1, 1979, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than
eight (8) points on the gas collector main, excluding the connection with the
standpipes.
(2) On and after July
1, 1980, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than six (6) points
on the gas collector main, excluding the connection with the
standpipes.
(3) On and after July
1, 1981, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than five (5) points
on the gas collector main, excluding the connection with the
standpipes.
(4) On and after July
1, 1982, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than three (3)
points on the gas collector main, excluding the connection with the
standpipes.
(5) On and after
December 10, 1993, no visible emissions shall be permitted from the gas
collector main on any coke oven battery within Lake County.
(f) Oven door emissions
requirements shall be as follows:
(1) On and
after July 1, 1979, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the total coke oven doors, plus four (4) doors, on
any coke oven battery.
(2) On and
after July 1, 1980, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than
twenty percent (20%) of the total coke oven doors, plus four (4) doors, on any
coke oven battery.
(3) On and after
July 1, 1981, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than fifteen
percent (15%) of the total coke oven doors, plus four (4) doors, on any coke
oven battery.
(4) On and after July
1, 1982, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than ten percent
(10%) of the total coke oven doors, plus four (4) doors, on any coke oven
battery.
(5) On and after December
10, 1993, no visible emissions shall be permitted from more than ten percent
(10%) of the observed coke oven doors on any coke oven battery within Lake
County.
(g) Pushing
emissions requirements shall be as follows:
(1) All coke oven batteries shall be equipped
with a device capable of capturing and collecting coke-side particulate matter
such that the effluent gas emissions contain no more than four-hundredths
(0.04) gram per two (2.0) kilogram of coke pushed.
(2) Such device shall be designed and
operated in compliance with an operating permit to collect ninety percent (90%)
of the pushing emissions. If the construction and design of the device have
been approved by the commissioner by granting the permit, the device, if
operated properly in compliance with the permit conditions, will be assumed to
be collecting ninety percent (90%) of the pushing emissions. The permit shall
be submitted to U.S. EPA as a SIP revision.
(h) Quenching emissions requirements shall be
as follows:
(1) Quench towers serving existing
coke oven batteries for which construction commenced prior to June 19, 1979,
shall not have visible emissions from the quenching of coke with the direct
application of water to hot coke unless quenching is conducted under a tower
equipped with efficient baffles to impede the release of particulates into the
atmosphere. Efficient baffles are baffles taking the form of slats, louvers,
screens, or other impediments placed in a configuration within a quench tower
to force a change of direction and reduction of velocity of the steam plume to
aid in the reduction of particulate matter emitted.
(2) The quench water makeup must contain a
total dissolved solids content of no more than one thousand five hundred
(1,500) milligrams per liter. If an individual facility or source is required
to comply with conflicting Indiana water pollution control requirements, the
commissioner may revise quenching requirements of this subsection on a
case-by-case basis. Prior to granting or denying such a revision, the
commissioner shall consider the following factors:
(A) The total estimated particulate emissions
from the quenching operation of the facility or source at the time the petition
is filed.
(B) The amount of
reduction in particulate emissions which would be realized if the source were
required to comply with the requirements of this subsection.
(C) The net increase in pollutant loadings to
any receiving waters which would result from measures needed to comply with
this subsection.
(D) The net
overall environmental effect of requiring the facility or source to comply with
this subsection.
(E) The costs
which will necessarily be incurred by the facility or source to comply with
this subsection.
(i) Underfire particulate and sulfur dioxide
emissions requirements shall be as follows:
(1) Particulate and sulfur dioxide emissions
from underfire stacks shall be limited by the emission limitations determined
under 326 IAC 6.5 or 326 IAC 6.8, 326 IAC 6-2, and 326 IAC 7-1.1,
respectively.
(2) Visible emissions
from any underfire stack shall comply with 326 IAC 5-1.