Indiana Administrative Code
Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION
Article 8 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND RULES
Rule 19 - Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Process Vents in Batch Operations
Section 19-6 - Monitoring requirements
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-17-3-4; IC 13-17-3-11
Affected: IC 13-15; IC 13-17
Sec. 6.
(a) Every owner or operator using an incinerator to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to manufacturer's specifications, temperature monitoring devices with an accuracy of plus or minus one percent (1%) of the temperature being measured expressed in degrees Celsius or plus or minus one and eight-tenths percent (1.8%) of the temperature being measured expressed in degrees Fahrenheit, each equipped with a continuous recorder as follows:
(b) The owner or operator using a flare to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to manufacturer's specifications, a heat sensing device, such as an ultraviolet beam sensor or thermocouple, at the pilot light to indicate continuous presence of a flame.
(c) Every owner or operator using a scrubber to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to manufacturer's specifications:
(d) Every owner or operator using a condenser to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to manufacturer's specifications:
(e) Every owner or operator using a carbon adsorber to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to the manufacturer's specifications:
(f) Every owner or operator using a boiler or process heater with a design heat input capacity less than one hundred fifty million (150,000,000) Btu per hour that is to comply with section 3 of this rule shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate, according to the manufacturer's specifications, a temperature monitoring device in the firebox with an accuracy of plus or minus one percent (1%) of the temperature being measured expressed in degrees Celsius or plus or minus one and eight-tenths percent (1.8%) of the temperature being measured expressed in degrees Fahrenheit, equipped with a continuous recorder. Any boiler or process heater in which all process vent streams are introduced with primary fuel is exempt from this requirement.
(g) Every owner or operator of a process vent shall be permitted to monitor by an alternative method or may monitor parameters other than those listed in subsections (a) through (f), if approved by the commissioner and U.S. EPA in writing. The alternative method or parameters shall be contained in a permit pertaining to the process vent as federally enforceable permit conditions.