Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:140 - Existing by-product coke manufacturing plants

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				224.20-100,
				224.20-110,
				224.20-120
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
				Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
				prevention, abatement and control of air pollution. This administrative
				regulation provides for the control of emissions from existing by-product coke
				manufacturing plants.
Section 1.
			 Applicability. The provisions of this administrative regulation are applicable
			 to each affected facility commenced before the classification date defined
			 below.
Section 2. Definitions. As
			 used in this administrative regulation all terms not defined herein shall have
			 the meaning given them in
			 401 KAR
			 50:010 and
			 401 KAR
			 61:005.
(1)
			 "Affected facility" means a by-product coke oven battery.
(2) "Classification date" means April 9,
			 1972.
(3) "Coke oven battery" means
			 a number of slot-type coking chambers arranged side by side.
(4) "Charging" means the process of conveying
			 coal and dropping it into a coke oven through the charging holes or ports
			 located on top of the oven.
(5)
			 "Coking" means the destructive distillation of coal in the absence of
			 oxygen.
(6) "Coke" means a solid
			 form of carbon resulting from the destructive distillation of coal.
(7) "Coke oven" means a refractory lined,
			 heated, slot-type chamber in which coke is produced.
(8) "Chuck door" means the port for the
			 leveling bar.
(9) "Leveling bar"
			 means a structured steel bar pushed back and forth horizontally through the
			 chuck door and used to eliminate the peaks in the coal charged in the
			 oven.
(10) "Collecting main" means
			 the horizontal manifold connected to the standpipes used to conduct the
			 volatile materials to the by-products plant.
(11) "Larry car" means the apparatus used to
			 charge coal into an empty oven. It is also known as a charging car.
(12) "Pusher machine" means a large apparatus
			 which travels on rails alongside the battery and used to remove doors and push
			 coke from the ovens.
(13)
			 "Gooseneck" means a short curved cast iron refractory lined pipe that conveys
			 the volatiles from the standpipe to the collector main.
(14) "Standpipe" means a short vertical
			 refractory lined pipe which conducts volatiles from an oven through the
			 gooseneck to the collector main.
(15) "Quench" means the process whereby water
			 is used to cool the hot coke.
(16)
			 "Quenching car" means an apparatus used to convey hot coke to the quenching
			 tower. It is also known as a wharf car.
(17) "Charging period" means for larry car
			 charging systems, the period of time commencing when the first hopper gate is
			 opened and ending when the last topside port lid is replaced. The charging
			 period includes the period of time during which the port lid is reopened in
			 order to sweep spilled coal into the oven.
(18) "Total coke oven doors" means push and
			 coke side doors with the chuck doors considered to be part of the push side
			 doors.