Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 61 - Existing Source Standards › Section 401 KAR 61:011 - Existing municipal solid waste incinerators

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 standards of performance for existing municipal solid waste
				incinerators.
Section 1. Definitions.
			 As used in this administrative regulation, all terms not defined in this
			 section shall have the meaning given in
			 401 KAR
			 50:010.
(1) "Affected
			 facility" means each municipal solid waste incinerator unit for which
			 construction, modification, or reconstruction is commenced before December 20,
			 1989.
(2) "Municipal solid waste
			 incinerator" or "municipal solid waste incinerator unit" or "MSWI" or "MSWI
			 unit" means a device that combusts material, which if included in the waste
			 stream, would be municipal solid waste. This includes but is not limited to,
			 field-erected incinerators (with or without heat recovery), modular
			 incinerators (starved air or excess air), boilers (i.e., steam generating
			 units), and furnaces (whether suspension-fired, grate-fired, mass-fired, or
			 fluidized bed-fired).
(3)
			 "Afterburner" means an auxiliary burner for destroying unburned or partially
			 burned combustion gases after they have passed from the combustion
			 chamber.
(4) "Biologicals" means a
			 biological product used in the prevention or treatment of disease.
(5) "Bubbling fluidized bed incinerator"
			 means a fluidized bed incinerator in which the majority of the bed material
			 remains in the primary combustion zone.
(6) "Circulating fluidized bed incinerator"
			 means a fluidized bed incinerator in which the majority of the bed material is
			 carried out of the primary combustion zone and is transported back to the
			 primary zone through a recirculation loop.
(7) "Refuse-derived fuel co-fired
			 incinerator" or "RDF co-fired incinerator" means an incinerator that is
			 designed to fire refuse-derived fuel simultaneously with other fuels.
(8) "Commercial solid waste" means all types
			 of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
			 nonmanufacturing activities, excluding household and industrial wastes.
			 Commercial solid waste includes waste from medical facilities, schools, and
			 other institutions that is not medical waste.
(9) "Dioxin or furan" means total
			 tetra-through octa-chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and tetra-through
			 octa-chlorinated dibenzofurans.
(10) "Field-erected" means assembled from
			 components at a final site of operation.
(11) "Four (4) hour block average" means the
			 average of all hourly emission rates when the affected facility is operating
			 and combusting municipal solid waste measured over four (4) hour periods of
			 from 12 midnight to 4 a.m., 4 a.m. to 8 a.m., 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 12 noon to 4
			 p.m., 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., 8 p.m. to 12 midnight.
(12) "Hazardous waste" has the meaning given
			 it in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(13) "Household solid waste" means solid
			 waste, including garbage and trash generated by single and multiple family
			 residences, hotels, motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, and
			 recreational areas such as picnic areas, parks, and campgrounds.
(14) "Industrial waste" means a liquid,
			 gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from a process of industry,
			 manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, process, or recovery
			 of a natural resource.
(15) "Large
			 MSWI plant" means a MSWI plant with a MSWI plant capacity greater than 225
			 megagrams per day (250 tons per day) but less than or equal to 2,000 megagrams
			 per day (2,200 tons per day) of municipal solid waste.
(16) "Mass burn refractory incinerator" means
			 an incinerator that combusts waste in a refractory furnace.
(17) "Mass burn rotary waterwall incinerator"
			 means an incinerator that combusts waste in a cylindrical rotary waterwall
			 furnace.
(18) "Mass burn waterwall
			 incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts waste in a conventional
			 waterwall furnace.
(19) "Medical
			 waste" means:
(a) Cultures and stocks of
			 infectious agents, including specimen cultures collected from medical and
			 pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from
			 research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of
			 biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and
			 devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures;
(b) Waste human blood and blood products such
			 as serum, plasma, and other blood components;
(c) Pathological wastes, such as tissues,
			 organs, body parts, and body fluids that are removed during surgery and
			 autopsy;
(d) All discarded sharps,
			 including but not limited to hypodermic needles, syringes, Pasteur pipettes,
			 broken glass, scalpels, scalpel blades, glass vials, etc., used in patient
			 care, embalming, autopsy, or which have come into contact with infectious
			 agents during use in medical, research, or industrial laboratories;
(e) Carcasses and body parts of animals that
			 were exposed to pathogens in research, in the production of biologicals, or in
			 the in vivo testing of pharmaceuticals; and
(f) Other wastes as may be designated by a
			 permit issued by the Division for Air Quality.
(20) "Modular excess air incinerator" means
			 an incinerator that combusts waste and that is not field-erected and has
			 multiple combustion chambers, all of which are designed to operate at
			 conditions with combustion air amounts in excess of theoretical air
			 requirements.
(21) "Modular starved
			 air incinerator" means an incinerator that combusts waste and that is not
			 field-erected and has multiple combustion chambers in which the primary
			 combustion chamber is designed to operate at substoichiometric
			 conditions.
(22) "Multiple-chamber
			 incinerator" means an incinerator consisting of at least two (2) refractory
			 lined combustion chambers (primary and secondary) in series, physically
			 separated by refractory walls, interconnected by gas passage ports or
			 ducts.
(23) "Municipal solid waste"
			 or "MSW" means household solid waste and commercial solid waste. Medical waste
			 shall not be considered to be MSW, but may be regulated by other administrative
			 regulations of the Division for Air Quality, including but not limited to
			 401 KAR
			 61:013, or Title 401, Chapter 63.
(24) "Particulate matter" means total
			 particulate matter emitted from MSWI units.
(25) "Refuse-derived fuel" or "RDF" means a
			 type of MSW produced by processing MSW through shredding and size
			 classification. This shall include all classes of RDF including low density
			 fluff RDF through densified RDF fuel pellets.
(26) "RDF spreader stoker" means a steam
			 generating unit that combusts RDF in a semisus-pension firing mode using
			 air-fed distributors.
(27)
			 "Regional MSWI plant" means a MSWI plant with a MSWI plant capacity greater
			 than 2,000 megagrams per day (2,200 tons per day) of MSW.
(28) "Small MSWI plant" means a MSWI plant
			 with a MSWI plant capacity of greater than 500 lb per hr but less than or equal
			 to 225 megagrams per day (250 tons per day) of MSW.
(29) "Solid waste" has the meaning given it
			 in
			 KRS
			 224.01-010.
(30) "MSWI acid gases" means sulfur dioxide
			 and hydrogen chloride gases emitted from MSWI units.
(31) "MSWI metals" means condensible metals
			 emitted from MSWI units. For the purpose of this administrative regulation,
			 particular matter shall serve as a surrogate for the measurement and control of
			 MSWI metals.
(32) "MSWI organics"
			 means organic compounds emitted from MSWI units and includes dioxins or furans.
			 For the purpose of this administrative regulation, dioxin or furan shall serve
			 as a surrogate for the measurement and control of MSWI organics.
(33) "MSWI plant" means one (1) or more MSWI
			 units at the same location for which construction, modification, or
			 reconstruction is commenced before December 20, 1989.
(34) "MSWI plant capacity" means the
			 aggregate MSWI unit capacity of all MSWI units at a MSWI plant for which
			 construction, modification, or reconstruction is commenced before December 20,
			 1989.
(35) "MSWI unit capacity"
			 means the maximum designed charging rate of the waste for an individual MSWI
			 unit.
(36) "Uncontrolled hydrogen
			 chloride emission rate" means the hydrogen chloride emission rate that would
			 occur from combustion of solid waste in the absence of hydrogen chloride
			 emissions control.
(37)
			 "Uncontrolled sulfur dioxide emission rate" means the sulfur dioxide emission
			 rate that would occur from combustion of solid waste in the absence of sulfur
			 dioxide emissions control.