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Subpart T — Standards of Performance for the Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: Wet - Process Phosphoric Acid Plants § 60.200 Applicability and designation of affected facility. (a) The affected facility to which the provisions of this subpart apply is each wet

- process phosphoric acid plant having a design capacity of more than 15 tons of equivalent P 2 O 5 feed per calendar day. For the purpose of this subpart, the affected facility includes any com bination of: reactors, filters, evaporators, and hot wells. (b) Any facility under paragraph (a) of this section that commences construction or modification after October 22, 1974, is subject to the requirements of this subpart. § 60.201 Definitions.
As us ed in this subpart, all terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the Act and in subpart A of this part. (a) Wet

- process phosphoric acid plant means any facility manufacturing phosphoric acid by reacting phosphate rock and acid. A wet

- process phosphoric acid plant includes, but is not limited to: reactors, filters, evaporators, hot wells, clarifiers, and defluorination systems. (b) Total fluorides means elemental fluorine and all fluoride compounds as measured by reference methods speci fied in § 60.204, or equivalent or alternative methods.P age 2 of 7

(c) Equivalent P 2 O 5 feed means the quantity of phosphorus, expressed as phosphorus pentoxide, fed to the process. § 60.202 Standard for fluorides. (a) On and after the date on which the performance t est required to be conducted by § 60.8 is completed, no owner or operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall cause to be discharged into the atmosphere from any affected facility any gases which contain total fluorides in excess of 10.0 g/Mg

o f equivalent P 2 O 5 feed (0.020 lb/ton). § 60.203 Monitoring of operations. (a) The owner or operator of any wet

- process phosphoric acid plant subject to the provisions of this subpart shall install, calibrate, maintain, and operate a monitoring device whic h can be used to determine the mass flow of phosphorus

bearing feed material to the process. The monitoring device shall have an accuracy of ±5 percent over its operating range. (b) The owner or operator of any wet

- process phosphoric acid plant shall maint ain a daily record of equivalent P 2 O 5 feed by first determining the total mass rate in Mg/hr of phosphorus bearing feed using a monitoring device for measuring mass flowrate which meets the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section and then by proceedi ng according to § 60.204(b)(3). (c) The owner or operator of any wet

- process phosphoric acid subject to the provisions of this part shall install,P age 3 of 7

calibrate, maintain, and operate a monitoring device which continuously measures and permanently records the total pressure drop across the process scrubbing system absorber . The monitoring device shall have an accuracy of ±5 percent over its operating range. (d) Any facility under § 60.2 00 ( a ) that commences construction, modification or reconstruction after [ date of publication of the final rule i n t he Federal Register ] is subject to the requirements of this paragraph instead of the requirements in paragraph (c) of this section
. If an absorber is used to comply with § 6 0
. 202, then the owner or operator shall

c ontinuously monitor pressure drop through the absorber and meet the requirements specified in paragraphs (d) ( 1 ) through (d) ( 4 ) of this section. (1) The owner or operator shall i nstall, calibrate, maintain, and operate a continuous monitoring system (CMS) that continuously measures and permanently records the pressure at the gas stream inlet and outlet of the absorber. T he pressure at the gas stream inlet of the absorber may be measured using amperage on the blower if a correlation between pressure and amperage is established
. (2) The CMS must have an accuracy of ± 5 percent over the normal range measured or 0.12 kilopascals (0.5 inches of water column), whichever is greater.P age 4 of 7

(3) The owner or operator shall establish an a llowable range for the pressure drop through the absorber. The allowable range is ±20 percent of the arithmetic average of the three test runs conducted during the performance test required in § 60.8. The Administrator retains the right to reduce the ±20 p ercent adjustment to the baseline average values of operating ranges in those instances where performance test results indicate that a source's level of emissions is near the value of an applicable emissions standard
. However, the adjustment must not be re duced to less than ±10 percent under any instance. (4) The owner or operator shall demonstrate continuous compliance by maintaining the daily average pressure drop through the absorber to within the allowable range established in paragraph (d)(3) of this s ection. The daily average pressure drop through the absorber for each operating day shall be calculated using the data recorded by the monitoring system. If the emissions unit operation is continuous, the operating day is a 24

- hour period. If the emissions unit operation is not continuous, the operating day is the total number of hours of control device operation per 24

- hour period. Valid data points must be available for 75 percent of the operating hours in an operating day to compute the daily average. § 60.204 Test methods and procedures.P age 5 of 7

(a) In conducting the performance tests required in § 60.8, the owner or operator shall use as reference methods and procedures the test methods in appendix A of this part or other methods and procedures as specified in this section, except as provided in § 60.8(b). (b) The owner or operator shall determine compliance with the total fluorides standard in § 60.202 as follows: (1) The emission rate (E) of total fluorides shall be computed for each run using the following equation:

where:

E = e mission rate of total fluorides, g/Mg (lb/ton) of

equivalent P 2 O 5 feed. C si = concentration of total fluorides from emission point

“i,” mg/dscm (gr/dscf). Q sdi = volumetric flow rate of effluent gas from emission

point “i,” dscm/ hr (dscf/hr). N = number of emission points associated with the

affected facility. P = equivalent P 2 O 5 feed rate, Mg/hr (ton/hr). K = conversion factor, 1000 mg/g (7,000 gr/lb). (2) Method 13A or 13B shall be used to determine the total fluorides concentra tion (C si ) and volumetric flow rate (Q sdi ) of the effluent gas from each of the emission points. The sampling time and sample volume for each run shall be at least 60 minutes and 0.85 dscm (30 dscf).P age 6 of 7

(3) The equivalent P 2 O 5 feed rate (P) shall be computed for each run using the following equation:
P=M p R p where:

M p = total mass flow rate of phosphorus

- bearing feed,

Mg/hr (ton/hr). R p = P 2 O 5 content, decimal fraction. (i) The accountability system of § 60.203(a) shall be used to determine the mass flow r ate (M p ) of the phosphorus

- bearing feed. (ii) The Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) Method 9 (incorporated by reference

— see § 60.17) shall be used to determine the P 2 O 5 content (R p ) of the feed. § 60.205 Recordkeeping. Any facility under § 60.200(a) that commences construction, modification or reconstruction after [ date of publication of the final rule in the Federal Register ] is subject to the requirements of this section. You must maintain the records identified as specified in § 60.7(f) and in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section. All records required by this subpart must be maintained on site for at least 5 years. (a) Records of the daily average pressure drop through the absorber.P age 7 of 7

(b) Records of deviations. A deviation is determined to have occurred when the monitoring data or lack of monitoring data result in any one of the criteria specified in paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section being met. (1) A deviation occurs when the daily average value of a monitored operating paramet er is less than the minimum pressure drop, or greater than the maximum pressure drop established in § 60.203(d)(3). (2) A deviation occurs when the monitoring data are not available for at least 75 percent of the operating hours in a day.