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 provides for the control of emissions from new kraft (sulfate) pulp
mills.
Section 1. Applicability. The
provisions of this administrative regulation shall apply to each affected
facility which:
(1) Is associated with a kraft
(sulfate) pulp mill;
(2) Is not
subject to another standard of performance within this chapter with respect to
particu-lates or total reduced sulfur;
(3) Commenced on or after the classification
date defined below but before September 24, 1976.
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) "Total
reduced sulfur (TRS)" means all reduced sulfur compounds including but not
limited to hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, and dimethyl
disulfide expressed in terms of hydrogen sulfide.
(2) "Classification date" means April 9,
1972.
Section 3. Standard
for Particulate Matter. No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit
particu-late emissions from the following affected facilities in excess of:
(1) Recovery furnace: two and three-tenths
(2.3) pounds per ton of equivalent unbleached dried pulp produced;
(2) Lime kilns: one (1.0) pound per ton of
equivalent unbleached air dried pulp produced;
(3) Dissolving smelt tanks: five-tenths (0.5)
pounds per ton of equivalent unbleached air dried pulp produced;
(4) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or
permit visible emissions in excess of thirty-five (35) percent
opacity.
Section 4.
Standard for Total Reduced Sulfur (TRS).
(1)
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit total reduced sulfur emissions
from the recovery furnace of any kraft (sulfate) pulp mill in excess of an exit
stack gas concentration of fifteen (15) parts per million by volume expressed
as an arithmetic average over any consecutive twenty-four (24) hour
period.
(2) No person shall cause,
suffer, allow, or permit total reduced sulfur emissions from the recovery
furnace of any kraft (sulfate) pulp mill in excess of an exit stack gas
concentration of forty (40) parts per million by volume for more than sixty
(60) total minutes in any twenty-four (24) hour period.
(3) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or
permit the emission of various noncondensable gas streams from digester relief,
blow tank relief, evaporator hot wells, or multiple effect evaporators
containing total reduced sulfur in any affected facility unless treated by
thermal oxidation or an equivalent method with ninety-eight (98) percent
efficiency.
(4) Control of other
points of emission of total reduced sulfur, shall be considered on an
individual basis as determined by the cabinet.
Section 5. Test Methods and Procedures.
Except as provided in
401 KAR 50:045,
performance tests used to demonstrate compliance with Sections 3 and 4 of this
administrative regulation shall be conducted according to the following
methods, filed by reference in
401 KAR
50:015:
(1) Reference
Method 5 for the emission rates of particulate matter and the associated
moisture content.
(2) Reference
Method 1 for sample and velocity traverses.
(3) Reference Method 2 for velocity and
volumetric flow rate.
(4) Reference
Method 3 for gas analysis.
(5)
Reference Method 9 for visible emissions.
(6) Reference Method 16 for the concentration
of TRS. All concentrations of TRS from the lime kiln and recovery furnace that
are measured as required by this subsection shall be corrected to ten (10)
percent by volume oxygen and eight (8) percent by volume oxygen, respectively,
when the oxygen concentrations exceed these values.
(7) Reference Method 17 (in-stack filtration)
may be used as an alternative method for Reference Method 5 provided that a
constant value of 0.009 g/dscm (0.004 gr/dscf) is added to the results of
Reference Method 17 and the stack temperature is no greater than 205°C.
(400°F).
(8) For particulate
tests, the sampling time for each run shall be at least sixty (60) minutes and
the sampling rate shall be at least 0.85 dscm/hr (0.53 dscf/hr) except that
shorter sampling times, when necessitated by process variables or other
factors, may be approved by the cabinet. Water shall be used as the clean up
solvent instead of acetone in the sample recovery procedure outlined in
Reference Method 5 or 17.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
224.10-100
