Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS Chapter 224
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
prevention, abatement, and control of air pollution. This administrative
regulation is to provide standards of performance for new incinerators.
Section 1. Applicability. The provisions of
this administrative regulation shall apply to each affected facility which
means each incinerator commenced on or after the applicable classification date
defined below.
Section 2.
Definitions. As used in this administrative regulation, all terms not defined
herein shall have the meaning given them in
401 KAR
50:010.
(1)
"Incinerator" means any furnace used in the process of burning waste for the
purpose of reducing the volume of the waste by removing combustible
matter.
(2) "Day" means twenty-four
(24) hours.
(3) "Auxiliary fuel"
means a substance burned in an incinerator to supply additional heat to attain
temperature sufficiently high to dry and ignite waste material and to maintain
ignition of the waste material.
(4)
"Classification date" means:
(a) August 17,
1971 for incinerators with a charging rate of more than fifty (50)
tons/day;
(b) April 9, 1972 for
incinerators with a charging rate of fifty (50) tons/day or less, subject to
Section 3(2)(b) of this administrative regulation; and
(c) June 6, 1979 for incinerators with a
charging rate of fifty (50) tons/day or less subject to Section 3(2)(a) of this
administrative regulation.
Section 3. Standards for Particulate Matter.
(1) No owner or operator of any affected
facility shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the emission produced by the
incineration of any substance to have greater than twenty (20) percent
opacity.
(2)
(a) No owner or operator of an affected
facility of 500 lb/hr up to and including forty-five (45) metric tons per day
charging rate (fifty (50) tons/day) commenced on or after June 6, 1979 shall
cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from any affected facility any gases
which contain par-ticulate matter in excess of 0.23 g/dscm (one-tenth (0.1)
gr/dscf) corrected to twelve (12) percent carbon dioxide excluding the
contribution of carbon dioxide from auxiliary fuel.
(b) No owner or operator of an affected
facility of 500 lb/hr up to and including forty-five (45) metric tons per day
charging rate (fifty (50) tons/day) commenced on or after April 9, 1972 but
before June 6, 1979 shall cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from any
affected facility any gases with contain particulate matter in excess of 0.45
g/dscm (two-tenths (0.2) gr/dscf) corrected to twelve (12) percent carbon
dioxide excluding the contribution of carbon dioxide from auxiliary
fuel.
(3) On and after
the date on which the performance test required to be conducted by
401 KAR 59:005
is completed, no owner or operator of an affected facility of more than
forty-five (45) metric tons per day charging rate (fifty (50) tons/day) shall
cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from any affected facility any gases
which contain particulate matter in excess of 0.18 g/dscm (0.08 gr/dscf)
corrected to twelve (12) percent carbon dioxide excluding the contribution of
carbon dioxide from auxiliary fuel.
Section 4. Monitoring of Operations. The
owner or operator of an affected facility of more than forty-five (45) metric
tons per day charging rate (fifty (50) tons per day) shall record the daily
charging rates and hours of operation.
Section
5. Nameplate. All affected facilities shall have a nameplate
installed in a conspicuous place on the unit giving the manufacturer's name,
model number, rated capacity, and the types of waste material for which the
unit is designed.
Section 6. Test
Methods and Procedures.
(1) The reference
methods as defined in Appendix A of 40 C.F.R. 60, filed by reference in
401 KAR
50:015, except as provided for in
401 KAR 50:045,
shall be used to determine compliance with the standards prescribed in Section
3 of this administrative regulation as follows:
(a) Reference Method 5 for the concentration
of particulate matter and the associated moisture content;
(b) Reference Method 1 for sample and
velocity traverses;
(c) Reference
Method 2 for velocity and volumetric flow rate;
(d) Reference Method 3 for gas analysis and
calculation of excess air, using the integrated sample technique; and
(e) Reference Method 9 for visible
emissions.
(2) The
sampling time for each run shall be at least sixty (60) minutes and the minimum
sample volume shall be 0.85 dscm (thirty (30.0) dscf) except that smaller
sampling times or sample volumes, when necessitated by process variables or
other factors, may be approved by the cabinet.
(3) If a wet scrubber is used, the gas
analysis sample shall reflect flue gas conditions after the scrubber, allowing
for carbon dioxide absorption by sampling the gas on the scrubber inlet and
outlet sides according to either the procedure under paragraphs (a) through (f)
of this subsection or the procedure under Section 7 of this administrative
regulation.
(a) The inlet site shall be
selected according to Reference Method 1 or as specified by the
cabinet.
(b) The outlet sampling
site shall be the same as for the particulate matter measurement.
(c) Randomly select nine (9) sampling points
within the cross section at both the inlet and outlet sampling sites. Use the
first set of three (3) for the first run, the second set for the second run,
and the third set for the third run.
(d) Simultaneously with each particulate
matter run, extract and analyze for carbon dioxide an integrated gas sample
traversing the three (3) sample points and sampling at each point for equal
increments of time. Conduct the runs at both inlet and outlet sampling
sites.
(e) Measure the volumetric
flow rate at the inlet during each particulate matter run using the full number
of traverse points. For the inlet make two (2) full velocity traverses
approximately one (1) hour apart during each run and average the results. The
outlet volumetric flow rate may be determined from the particulate matter
run.
(f) Calculate the adjusted
carbon dioxide percentage using the equation in Appendix A of this
administrative regulation.
Section 7. Alternatively, the following
procedures may be substituted for the procedures under Section 6(3)(d), (e) and
(f) of this administrative regulation.
(1)
Simultaneously with each particulate matter run, extract and analyze for carbon
dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen an integrated gas sample traversing the three (3)
sample points and sampling for equal increments of time at each point. Conduct
the runs at both the inlet and outlet sampling sites.
(2) After completing the analysis of the gas
sample, calculate the percentage of excess air for both the inlet and outlet
sampling sites.
(3) Calculate the
adjusted carbon dioxide percentage using the equation in Appendix B of this
administrative regulation.
(4)
Particulate matter emissions, expressed in g/dscm, shall be corrected to twelve
(12) percent carbon dioxide by using the formula in Appendix C of this
administrative regulation.
Section
8. Appendix A. Calculation for Adjusted Carbon Dioxide Percentage
for Incinerators.
CALCULATION FOR ADJUSTED CARBON DIOXIDE PERCENTAGE FOR
INCINERATORS
%CO2A = % CO2D
(Qi/Qo) where:
%CO2A is the adjusted carbon dioxide
percentage which removes the effect of carbon dioxide absorption and dilution
air.
%CO2D is the percentage of carbon
dioxide measured before the scrubber, dry basis.
Qi is the volumetric flow rate before
the scrubber average of two (2) runs, dscf/min, and
Qo is the volumetric flow rate after the
scrubber, dscf/min.
Section
9. Appendix B. Calculation for Adjusted Carbon Dioxide Percentage
Incinerator, Alternate Procedure.
CALCULATION FOR ADJUSTED CARBON DIOXIDE PERCENTAGE INCINERATOR,
ALTERNATE PROCEDURE
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where:
%CO2A is the adjusted outlet carbon
dioxide percentage,
%CO2D is the percentage of carbon
dioxide measured before the scrubber, dry basis,
%EAi is the percentage of excess air at
the inlet, and
%EAo is the percentage of excess air at
the outlet.
Section 10.
Appendix C. Particulate Emissions Correction Calculation for Incinerators,
Alternate Procedure.
PARTICULATE EMISSIONS CORRECTION CALCULATION FOR INCINERATORS,
ALTERNATE PROCEDURE
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where:
C12 is the concentration of particulate
matter corrected to twelve (12) percent carbon dioxide,
Cp is the concentration of particulate
matter and,
%CO2 is the percentage of measured
carbon dioxide or when applicable, the adjusted outlet carbon dioxide
percentage as determined by Appendix B to this administrative regulation.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
224.10-100