Regulations Limiting Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Natural Gas-fired Generation of Electricity — 2
Definitions 2 (1) The following definitions apply in these Regulations. Act means the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 . ( Loi ) API means the American Petroleum Institute. ( API ) ASTM means ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials. ( ASTM ) auditor means a person who (a) is independent of the responsible person that is to be audited; and (b) has knowledge of and has experience with respect to (i) the certification, operation and relative accuracy test audit of continuous emission monitoring systems, and (ii) quality assurance and quality control procedures in relation to those systems. ( vérificateur ) authorized official means (a) in respect of a responsible person that is a corporation, an officer of the corporation who is authorized to act on its behalf; (b) in respect of a responsible person that is an individual, that individual or an individual who is authorized to act on that individual’s behalf; and (c) in respect of a responsible person that is another entity, a person authorized to act on that other entity’s behalf. ( agent autorisé ) biomass means a fuel that consists only of non-fossilized, biodegradable organic material that originates from plants or animals but does not originate from a geological formation, and includes gases and liquids that are recovered from the decomposition of organic waste. ( biomasse ) boiler unit means a unit that consists of at least one boiler but does not have a combustion engine. ( groupe chaudière ) capacity means (a) in the case of a unit, the maximum continuous rating (the maximum net power that can be continuously sustained by the unit without the use of duct burners, at standard conditions), expressed in MW, as most recently reported to a provincial authority of competent jurisdiction or to the electric system operator in the province where the unit is located; and (b) in the case of a combustion engine, the manufacturer provided capacity, expressed in MW. ( capacité ) combustion engine means an engine, other than an engine that is self-propelled or designed to be propelled while performing its function, that (a) operates according to the Brayton thermodynamic cycle and combusts natural gas to produce a net amount of motive power; or (b) combusts natural gas and uses reciprocating motion to convert thermal energy into mechanical work. ( moteur à combustion ) combustion engine unit means a unit that consists of at least one combustion engine and, if applicable, a heat recovery system, but does not have a boiler. ( groupe moteur à combustion ) continuous emission monitoring system or CEMS means equipment for the sampling, conditioning and analyzing of emissions from a given source and the recording of data related to those emissions. ( système de mesure et d’enregistrement en continu des émissions ou SMECE ) facility means all buildings, other structures and equipment, whether the equipment is stationary or not, that are located on a single site or adjacent sites and that are operated as a single integrated site. ( installation ) fossil fuel means a fuel other than biomass. ( combustible fossile ) heat recovery system means equipment, other than a boiler, that extracts heat from a combustion engine’s exhaust gases in order to generate steam or hot water. ( système de récupération de la chaleur ) heat to electricity ratio means, in respect of a unit, the total useful thermal energy production in a calendar year, expressed in GWh, divided by the total gross electricity generation in that calendar year, expressed in GWh. ( rapport chaleur-électricité ) natural gas means a mixture of hydrocarbons — such as methane, ethane or propane — that is in a gaseous state at standard conditions and that is composed of at least 70% methane by volume or that has a higher heating value that is not less than 35 MJ/standard m 3 and not more than 41 MJ/standard m 3 . It excludes landfill gas, digester gas, gas from wastewater treatment systems,