CSR 45-7-3. Emission of Smoke and/or Particulate Matter Prohibited and Standards of Measurement

§45-7-3. Emission of Smoke and/or Particulate Matter Prohibited and Standards of Measurement. 3.1. No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit emission of smoke and/or particulate matter into the open air from any process source operation which is greater than twenty (20) percent opacity, except as noted in subsections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. 3.2. The provisions of subsection 3.1 shall not apply to smoke and/or particulate matter emitted from any process source operation which is less than forty (40) percent opacity for any period or periods aggregating no more than five (5) minutes in any sixty (60) minute period. 3.3. Existing By-Product Coke Production Facility--No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the emission of smoke and/or particulate matter into the open air in excess of the following provisions from the operation of a by-product coke production facility in production on the effective date of this rule or a by-product coke production facility which is constructed as a replacement for a by-product coke production facility which shut down not more than three (3) years prior to the effective date of this rule: 3.3.a. Charging emissions from charging of any four consecutive ovens shall not exceed an aggregate time of more than one hundred (100) seconds. 3.3.b. Pushing emissions from pushing shall be vented into air pollution control equipment. Particulate matter emissions discharged from this air pollution control equipment shall not exceed a mass particulate rate as determined by the following formula: E=C.09 Where E = particulate matter emissions rate in pounds per push and C = actual charge of coal in tons per oven. 3.3.b.1. The smoke and/or particulate matter emissions discharged from this air pollution control equipment and noncaptured pushing emissions shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. 3.3.c. Transport emissions from an enclosed quench car shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. Transport emissions from an open quench car shall not exceed ten percent (10%) opacity except that batteries employing pushing emissions control systems that were constructed prior to July 1, 1982 and which do not involve enclosed quench cars during transport shall meet the provisions of subsections 3.1 and 3.2. 3.3.d. Coke side sheds and similar structures used to capture pushing emissions shall be designed and operated so as to prevent the escape of smoke and/or particulate matter from points other than the stack of the air pollution control equipment. 3.3.e. Coke oven topside emissions shall not exceed the following: 3.3.e.1. No more than two percent (2%) of the charging ports or charging port lids shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions excluding the last oven charged. 3.3.e.2. No more than ten percent (10%) of the off-take piping shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions. 3.3.e.3. No smoke and/or particulate matter emissions are permitted from the coke oven gas collector main or any other topside point except as provided by 3.3.e.1 or 3.3.e.2. 3.3.f. No more than ten percent (10%) of the door areas of operating coke ovens shall have door area emissions, excluding the door areas representing the last oven charged. 3.3.g. Quench towers shall employ as a minimum good baffle design with make-up water from the receiving stream, except that the blowdown from scrubbers of a pushing emission control system, dedicated to a specific battery, may be used as make-up water for the quench tower of that battery so long as suspended solids do not exceed two hundred (200) milligrams per liter. For batteries which this section applies the receiving stream shall be the Ohio River. 3.3.h. Smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from combustion stacks shall meet the requirements of subsections 3.1 and 3.2 and shall not exceed a concentration of 0.040 grains per dry standard cubic foot. 3.3.i. Good operating practices must be maintained to prevent the atmospheric entrainment of particulate matter resulting from the spillage or other deposition of coal and/or coke. 3.4. New By-Product Coke Production Facility--No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the emission of smoke and/or particulate matter into the open air in excess of the following provisions from the operation of a new by-product coke production facility, other than a replacement by-product coke production facility that is constructed as per the provisions of subsection 3.3, that begins production after July 1, 1970: 3.4.a. Charging emissions from the charging of any four (4) consecutive ovens shall not exceed an aggregate time of more than sixty (60) seconds. 3.4.b. Pushing emissions from pushing shall be vented into air pollution control equipment. The particulate matter emissions discharged from this air pollution control equipment shall not exceed a mass emission rate of 0.04 lb/ton of coal charged. The smoke and/or particulate matter emissions discharged from this air pollution control equipment and non-captured pushing emissions shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. 3.4.c. Transport emissions from an enclosed quench car shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. Transport emissions from an open quench car shall not exceed ten percent (10%) opacity. 3.4.d. Coke side sheds and similar structures used to capture pushing and/or quenching emissions shall be designed and operated so as to prevent the escape of smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from points other than the stack of the air pollution control equipment. 3.4.e. Coke oven topside emissions shall not exceed the following: 3.4.e.1. No more than two percent (2%) of the charging ports or charging port lids shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions excluding the last oven charged. 3.4.e.2. No more than five percent (5%) of the offtake piping shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions. 3.4.e.3. No smoke and/or particulate matter emissions are permitted from the coke oven gas collector main or any other topside point, except as provided by 3.4.e.1 and 3.4.e.2. 3.4.f. No more than eight percent (8%) of the door areas of operating coke ovens shall have door area emissions, excluding the door areas representing the last oven charged. Any battery affected by subsection 3.4 shall be constructed in a manner that will allow for the retrofitting of the battery with hooding to capture door emissions and air pollution control equipment designed to at least a ninety percent (90%) particulate control efficiency. 3.4.g. Quench towers shall employ, as a minimum, multiple row baffles and use make-up water not to exceed eight hundred (800) milligrams per liter of total dissolved solids and one hundred (100) milligrams per liter of total suspended solids. 3.4.h. Smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from combustion stacks shall meet the requirements of subsections 3.1 and 3.2 and shall not exceed a grain loading of 0.025 grains per dry standard cubic foot. 3.4.i. Good operating practices must be maintained to prevent the atmospheric entrainment of particulate matter resulting from the spillage or other deposition of coal/coke. 3.5. Non-Recovery Coke Production Facility-No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the emission of smoke and/or particulate matter into the open air in excess of the following provisions from the operation of a non-recovery coke production facility: 3.5.a. Charging emissions from charging of any five (5) consecutive ovens shall not exceed an aggregate time of more than fifty (50) seconds. 3.5.b. No more than two percent (2%) of the coal charging ports shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions. 3.5.c. No more than two percent (2%) of the coke oven doors shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions excluding the ovens being charged and/or pushed. 3.5.d. Pushing emissions shall be vented to air pollution control equipment. The particulate matter emissions from this air pollution control equipment shall not exceed a mass emission rate as determined by the following formula: E=C.09 Where E = particulate emission rate in pounds per push and C = actual charge of coal in tons per oven. 3.5.d.1. The smoke and/or particulate matter emissions discharged from the air pollution control equipment and non-captured pushing emissions shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. 3.5.e. Transport emissions from an enclosed quench car shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity. Transport emissions from an open quench car shall not exceed ten percent (10%) opacity. 3.5.f. Coke side sheds and similar structures used to capture pushing and/or quenching emissions, shall be designed and operated so as to prevent the escape of smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from points other than the stack of the air pollution control equipment. 3.5.g. Quench towers shall employ as a minimum, multiple row baffles and use make-up water not to exceed eight hundred (800) milligrams per liter of total dissolved solids and one hundred (100) milligrams per liter of total suspended solids. 3.5.h. Smoke and/or particulate matter from the combustion stack shall meet the requirements of subsections 3.1 and 3.2. The particulate matter emissions rate from combustion stacks shall not be greater than 0.060 grains per dry standard cubic foot or 1.0 lb/ton of coal charged, whichever is most restrictive. 3.5.i. Good operating practices must be maintained to prevent the atmospheric entrainment of particulate matter resulting from the spillage or other deposition of coal and/or coke. 3.6. Basic Oxygen Roof and Blast Furnace Cast House Roof Monitors--The provisions of subsections 3.1 or 3.2 shall not apply to smoke and/or particulate matter emitted from the roof monitor(s) of a basic oxygen process or from a blast furnace cast house. The following provisions will apply: 3.6.a. Visible emissions from a basic oxygen process roof monitor shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity except for a period or periods aggregating no more than three (3) minutes in any sixty (60) minute period where the average opacity for the aggregated period shall not exceed forty percent (40%) opacity. 3.6.b. Visible emissions from a blast furnace cast house shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) opacity except for a period or periods aggregating no more than five (5) minutes in any sixty (60) minute period where the average opacity for the aggregated period shall not exceed forty percent (40%) opacity. 3.7. No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit visible emissions from any storage structure(s) associated with any manufacturing process(es) that pursuant to subsection 5.1 is required to have a full enclosure and be equipped with a particulate matter control device.