Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part V - Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials › Subpart 1 - Department of Environmental Quality-Hazardous Waste › Chapter 30 - Hazardous Waste Burned in Boilers and Industrial Furnaces › Section V-3009 - Standards to Control Organic Emissions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A boiler or industrial furnace burning hazardous waste
					 must be designed, constructed, and maintained so that, when operated in
					 accordance with operating requirements specified under LAC 33:V.3005.E, it will
					 meet the following standards.
A. DRE
				  Standard. A boiler or industrial furnace burning hazardous waste must meet the
				  destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) performance standard of LAC 33:V.3009.
1. General. A boiler or industrial furnace
				  burning hazardous waste must achieve a DRE of 99.99 percent for all organic
				  hazardous constituents in the waste feed. To demonstrate conformance with this
				  requirement, 99.99 percent DRE must be demonstrated during a trial burn for
				  each principal organic hazardous constituent (POHC) designated under LAC
				  33:V.3009.A in its permit for each waste feed. DRE is determined for each POHC
				  from the following equation.
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Win = mass feed rate of one POHC in
					 the hazardous waste fired to the boiler or industrial furnace
Wout = mass emission rate of the
					 same POHC present in stack gas prior to release to the atmosphere
2. Designation of POHCs. Principal
				  organic hazardous constituents (POHCs) are those compounds for which compliance
				  with the DRE requirements shall be demonstrated in a trial burn in conformance
				  with procedures prescribed in LAC 33:V.537. One or more POHCs will be specified
				  in the facility's permit for each waste feed to be burned. POHCs shall be
				  designated based on the degree of difficulty of destruction of the organic
				  constituents in the hazardous waste and on their concentrations or mass in the
				  waste feed, considering the results of hazardous waste analysis and trial burns
				  or alternative data submitted with Part II of the facility's permit
				  application. POHCs are most likely to be selected from among those compounds
				  listed in LAC 33:V.4901.G, Table 6 that are also present in the normal waste
				  feed. However, if the applicant demonstrates to the administrative authority's
				  satisfaction that a compound not listed in LAC 33:V.4901.G., Table 6 or not
				  present in the normal waste feed is a suitable indicator of compliance with the
				  DRE requirements of this Section, that compound may be designated as a POHC.
				  Such POHCs need not be toxic or organic compounds.
3. Dioxin-Listed Waste. A boiler or
				  industrial furnace burning hazardous waste containing (or derived from) EPA
				  Hazardous Waste Numbers F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, or F027 must achieve a
				  DRE of 99.9999 percent for each POHC designated (under Subparagraph A.1.b of
				  this Section) in its permit. This performance must be demonstrated on POHCs
				  that are more difficult to burn than tetra-, penta-, and
				  hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans. The DRE is determined for each
				  POHC from the equation in Paragraph A.1 of this Section. In addition, the owner
				  or operator of the boiler or industrial furnace must notify the Office of
				  Environmental Services of his intent to burn EPA Hazardous Waste Numbers F020,
				  F021, F022, F023, F026, or F027.
4.
				  Automatic Waiver of DRE Trial Burn. Owners and operators of boilers operated
				  under the special operating requirements provided by LAC 33:V.3021 are
				  considered to be in compliance with the DRE standard of LAC 33:V.3009.A.1 and
				  are exempt from the DRE trial burn.
5. Low Risk Waste. Owners and operators of
				  boilers or industrial furnaces that burn hazardous waste in compliance with the
				  requirements of LAC 33:V.3019.A are considered to be in compliance with the DRE
				  standard of LAC 33:V.3009.A.1 and are exempt from the DRE trial burn.