Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0085-0632
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2023-08-16T04:00Z

From: 
Jones, DonnaLee <Jones.Donnalee@epa.gov>
Sent:
Thursday, January 6, 2022 8:26 PM
To: 
David Ailor (dailor@accci.org) <dailor@accci.org>
Cc:
Raymond, Gabrielle <graymond@rti.org>
Subject: 
question about door deals

Hi. Another hopefully easily answered question. I ran across this old document that seemed very thorough and had the conclusions listed below. Would your members say that the recommendations were followed or accomplished in the many years that followed? If you have more recent reports, I'd be interested in seeing them.

Study of Concepts for Minimizing Emissions from Coke-Oven Door Seals. Prepared by Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, OH, for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Environmental Research Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. July 1975.

In 1974, a research project was performed by Batelle's Columbus laboratory to study concepts for minimizing emissions from coke-oven door seals. The study was funded jointly by the EPA and the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), and was monitored by the EPA. The major objective was to derive, originate, and evaluate practical concepts for significantly improved systems for retrofittable sealing of coke-oven doors. 

The recommendations included (1) the use of more-flexible and more heat-resistant metal door seals; (2) development of a more dimensionally stable door jambs for both new coke-oven batteries and replacement of some jambs at existing batteries; and (3) evaluating the performance of various sealants because using sealants of some variety between the door and the jamb surface has the potential for totally eliminating door emissions.

Regards,
Donna Lee Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Advisor, Metals Sector
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
Sector Policies and Programs Division / Metals & Inorganic Chemicals Group (D243-02)
Research Triangle Park, NC  27711  Tele:  (919)  541-5251  Fax  (919)  541-3207
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