Multi-Sector Air Pollutants Regulations — 5
Rated capacity at least 10.5 GJ/h 5 (1) This Part applies in respect of a pre-existing, transitional or modern boiler or heater located in a regulated facility that is used or designed to combust gaseous fossil fuel and that has a rated capacity of at least 10.5 GJ/h. Regulated facilities (2) The following are the regulated facilities: (a) oil and gas facilities; (b) oil sands facilities; (c) chemicals facilities; (d) nitrogen-based fertilizer facilities; (e) pulp and paper facilities; (f) base metals facilities; (g) potash facilities; (h) alumina facilities and aluminum facilities; (i) power plants; (j) iron, steel and ilmenite facilities; (k) iron ore pelletizing facilities; and (l) cement manufacturing facilities. Excluded boilers and heaters (3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), this Part does not apply in respect of the following types of boiler or heater: (a) a heater that is used to dry, bake or calcinate materials, including a kiln as defined in section 101 and an anode-baking furnace; (b) a heater that is used in any process to chemically transform ore or intermediate products into bulk metallic products; (c) a coke oven battery; (d) a heater or boiler that is designed to combust coke oven gas; (e) a blast furnace stove; (f) a heater or boiler that is designed to combust blast furnace gas; (g) an ethylene cracker; (h) a steam methane reformer; (i) a reheat furnace; (j) a boiler or heater that is used only for activities that are subsequent to the hot rolling of steel into basic shapes at an iron, steel and ilmenite facility; (k) a chemical recovery boiler; (l) a biomass boiler or biomass heater; (m) a heat-recovery steam generator; (n) a boiler that combusts exhaust gases that arise from the partial combustion of coke in a vessel integrated with a fluid coking unit; and (o) a boiler or heater that is used only in the start-up of a facility or process and operated for fewer than 500 hours in each previous year of its operation. Percentage of input energy (4) For the purpose of paragraph (3)(l), the percentage of the input energy in a biomass boiler’s or biomass heater’s combustion chamber resulting from the introduction of biomass is to be determined, for a given hour while the boiler or heater is in a steady state, by the formula E bio /(E bio + E cng + E gff + E o + E s ) × 100 where E bio is the input energy resulting from the introduction of biomass for the given hour, determined by the formula Q bio × HHV bio where Q bio is the quantity of the biomass combusted during the given hour, as measured by a flow meter on the input, expressed in kl for liquid biomass and in t for solid biomass, and HHV bio is the higher heating value of the biomass combusted during the given hour, expressed in GJ/kl for liquid biomass and in GJ/t for solid biomass, being (a) the higher heating value determined in accordance with any of the required HHV methods set out in section 22 that apply, or (b) the default higher heating value set out in column 2 of the applicable table to Schedule 3 for the type of fuel set out in column 1; E cng is the input energy resulting from the introduction of commercial grade natural gas for the given hour, determined by the formula Q cng × HHV cng where Q cng is the quantity of the commercial grade natural gas combusted during the given hour, as measured by a flow meter on the input, expressed in standard m 3 , and HHV cng is the higher heating value of the commercial grade natural gas combusted during the given hour, expressed in GJ/standard m 3 , being (a) the higher heating value determined in accordance with any of the required HHV methods set out in section 22 that apply, or (b) 0.03793; E gff is the input energy resulting from the introduction of gaseous fossil fuel, other than commercial grade natural gas, for the given hour, determined by the formula Q gff × HHV gff where Q gff is the quantity of the gaseous fossil fuel, other than commercial grade natural gas, combusted during the given hour, as me