Green Tire Spraying Operations

Section 215 Section 215.462  Green Tire Spraying Operations The owner or operator of a green tire spraying operation at a pneumatic rubber tire manufacturing facility shall: a)         Install and operate: 1)         A capture system with a minimum capture efficiency of 90 percent by weight of volatile organic material; and 2)         A control device that meets the requirements of one of the following: A)        A carbon adsorption system designed and operated in a manner such that there is at least 90 percent removal of volatile organic material by weight from the bases ducted to the control device; B)        An afterburning system that oxidizes at least 90 percent of the captured non-methane volatile organic material (measured as total combustible carbon) to carbon dioxide and water; or C)        An alternative volatile organic material emission reduction system demonstrated to have at least a 90 percent overall reduction efficiency and approved by the Agency. b)         Substitute for the normal solvent-based mold release compound water-based sprays containing: 1)         No more than five percent by volume of volatile organic material as applied for the inside of tires; 2)         No more than ten percent by volume of volatile organic material as applied for the outside of tires.