New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter III - AIR RESOURCES
Subchapter A - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR CONTAMINATION AND AIR POLLUTION
Part 223 - Petroleum Refineries
Section 223.7 - Volatile organic compound emissions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Any person subject to this section is required to submit to the commissioner by June 1, 1982 or such later date as determined by an order of the commissioner such evidence as may be required by the commissioner to show compliance with the provisions of this section.
(b) All noncondensable vapors from any vacuum-producing system shall be piped to a firebox or afterburner, or compressed and added to refinery fuel gas. All hot wells associated with contact condensers shall be covered and the vapors shall be treated with an afterburner.
(c) All forebays and separator sections which recover 200 gallons per day or more of volatile organic compounds shall be designed to prevent the escape of volatile organic compounds.
(d) During process unit turnaround, processing units shall be depressurized down to 5 psig and the volatile organic compounds shall be vented to a vapor recovery system or to the fuel gas system, or flared.
(e) Alternate methods for controlling the emission of volatile organic compounds may be acceptable if the source owner can show to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the methods utilized constitute reasonably available control technology.
