Indiana Administrative Code › Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION › Article 8 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND RULES › Rule 11 - Wood Furniture Coatings › Section 11-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-17-3-4
Affected: IC 13-12
Sec. 2.
The following definitions apply throughout this rule:
(1) "Adhesive" means any chemical substance
				that is applied for the purpose of bonding two (2) surfaces together other than
				by mechanical means.
(2)
				"Alternative method" means any method of sampling and analyzing for an air
				pollutant that is not a reference or equivalent method but that has been
				demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner and the U.S. EPA to, in
				specific cases, produce results adequate for a determination of
				compliance.
(3) "As-applied" means
				the VOC and solids content of the finishing material that is actually used for
				coating the substrate. It includes the contribution of materials used for
				in-house dilution of the finishing material.
(4) "Basecoat" means a coat of colored
				material, usually opaque, that is applied before graining inks, glazing coats,
				or other opaque finishing materials and is usually topcoated for
				protection.
(5) "Capture device"
				means a hood, enclosed room, floor sweep, or other means of collecting solvent
				emissions or other pollutants into a duct. The pollutant can be directed to a
				pollution control device such as an incinerator or carbon adsorber.
(6) "Capture efficiency" means the fraction
				of all organic vapors generated by a process that are directed to and captured
				by a control device.
(7) "Cleaning
				operations" means operations that use an organic solvent to remove coating
				materials from equipment used in wood furniture manufacturing
				operations.
(8) "Commissioner"
				means the commissioner of the Indiana department of environmental management,
				or the commissioner's duly authorized representative.
(9) "Continuous coater" means a finishing
				system that continuously applies finishing materials onto furniture parts
				moving along a conveyor system. Finishing materials that are not transferred to
				the part are recycled to the finishing material reservoir. Several types of
				application methods can be used with a continuous coater, including spraying,
				curtain coating, roll coating, dip coating, and flow coating.
(10) "Control device" means any equipment,
				including, but not limited to, incinerators, carbon adsorbers, and condensers,
				that reduces the quantity of a pollutant that is emitted to the air. The device
				may destroy or secure the pollutant for subsequent recovery.
(11) "Conventional air spray" means a spray
				coating method that atomizes the coating by mixing it with compressed air at an
				air pressure greater than ten (10) pounds per square inch (psi) (gauge) at the
				point of atomization. Airless and air assisted airless spray technologies are
				not conventional air spray because the coating is not atomized by mixing it
				with compressed air.
(12) "Day"
				means a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours beginning at midnight
				local time, or beginning at a time consistent with a facility's operating
				schedule.
(13) "Department" means
				the Indiana department of environmental management.
(14) "Enamel" means a coat of colored
				material, usually opaque, that is applied as a protective topcoat over a
				basecoat, primer, or a previously applied enamel coat. In some cases, another
				finishing material may be applied as a topcoat over the enamel.
(15) "Equipment leak" means emissions of
				volatile organic compounds from pumps, valves, flanges, or other equipment used
				to transfer or apply finishing materials or organic solvents.
(16) "Equivalent method" means any method of
				sampling and analyzing for an air pollutant that has been demonstrated to the
				satisfaction of the commissioner and the U.S. EPA to have a consistent and
				quantitatively known relationship to the reference method under specific
				conditions.
(17) "Final touch-up
				and repair" means the application of finishing materials after completion of
				the finishing operation to cover minor imperfections.
(18) "Finishing application station" means
				the part of a finishing operation where the finishing material is applied, such
				as a spray booth.
(19) "Finishing
				material" means a coating other than an adhesive. For the wood furniture
				manufacturing industry, such materials include, but are not limited to, the
				following:
(A) Basecoats.
(B) Stains.
(C) Washcoats.
(D) Sealers.
(E) Topcoats.
(F) Enamels.