Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
Title 128 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 1 - GENERAL
Section 128-1-073 - Industrial furnace

Universal Citation: 128 NE Admin Rules and Regs ch 1 § 073

Current through September 17, 2024

"Industrial furnace" means any of the following enclosed devices that are integral components of manufacturing processes and that use thermal treatment to accomplish recovery of materials or energy, including:

073.01 Cement kilns;

073.02 Lime kilns;

073.03 Aggregate kilns;

073.04 Phosphate kilns;

073.05 Coke ovens;

073.06 Blast furnaces;

073.07 Smelting, melting and refining furnaces (including pyrometallurgical devices such as cupolas, reverberator furnaces, sintering machine, roasters, and foundry furnaces);

073.08 Titanium dioxide chloride process oxidation reactors;

073.09 Methane reforming furnaces;

073.10 Pulping liquor recovery furnaces;

073.11 Combustion devices used in the recovery of sulfur values from spent sulfuric acid;

073.12 Halogen acid furnaces (HAFs) for the production of acid from halogenated hazardous waste generated by chemical production facilities where the furnace is located on the site of a chemical production facility, the acid product has a halogen acid content of at least 3%, the acid product is used in a manufacturing process, and, except for hazardous waste burned as fuel, hazardous waste fed to the furnace has a minimum halogen content of 20% as-generated;

073.13 Such other devices as the Council may, after notice and comment, add to this list on the basis of one or more of the following factors:

073.13A The design and use of the device primarily to accomplish recovery of material products;

073.13B The use of the device to burn or reduce raw materials to make a material product;

073.13C The use of the device to burn or reduce secondary materials as effective substitutes for raw materials, in processes using raw materials as principal feedstocks;

073.13D The use of the device to burn or reduce secondary materials as ingredients in an industrial process to make a material product;

073.13E The use of the device in common industrial practice to produce a material product; and

073.13F Other factors, as appropriate.

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