New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 27 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL › Subchapter 11 - INCINERATORS › Section 7:27-11.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Auxiliary fuel" means fuel other than waste materials used to attain temperatures sufficiently high to dry and ignite waste materials, to maintain ignition, or to effect complete combustion of combustible solids, vapors and gases.
"Common incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn waste materials of Types 0, 1, 2 and 3 only, in all capacities not exceeding 2,000 pounds per hour of waste material input.
"Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant.
"Department" means the State Department of Environmental Protection.
"Existing incinerator" means an incinerator purchased, acquired or used before the effective date of this subchapter.
"Incinerator" means any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying, reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance including but not limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, trade waste, debris or scrap or a facility for cremating human or animal remains.
"Liquid particles" means particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and which upon collection tend to coalesce and create uniform homogeneous films upon the surface of the collecting media.
"Multiple chamber incinerator" means an incinerator with two or more refractory-lined combustion chambers in series physically separated by refractory walls, interconnected by gas passages, and employing adequate design parameters necessary for maximum combustion of the waste materials.
"Municipal incinerator" means an incinerator owned or operated by government or by a person who provides incinerator service to government or others, and designed and used to burn waste materials of any and all types, 0 to 6 inclusive.
"New incinerator" means an incinerator purchased or constructed after the effective date of this Subchapter.
"Particles" means any material, except uncombined water, which exists in a finely divided form as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
"Pathological waste incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn Type 4 waste materials, primarily human and animal remains, in all burning capacities. Crematoriums are included in this category.
"Ringelmann smoke chart" means the "Ringelmann Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke" published by the United States Bureau of Mines or any chart, recorder, indicator or device for the measurement of smoke density which is approved by the Department as the equivalent of the Ringelmann Scale.
"Single flue-fed incinerator" means an incinerator provided with a single flue which serves as both the charging chute and the flue to transport products of combustion to the atmosphere.
"Smoke" means and includes small gas-borne and air-borne particles arising from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
"Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
"Special incinerator" means a municipal, pathological waste, or trade waste incinerator of any burning capacity, or any incinerator with a burning capacity in excess of 2,000 pounds per hour.
"Standard conditions" means 70 degrees Fahrenheit and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 psia or 760 mm Hg).
"Trade waste incinerator" means an incinerator designed and used to burn waste material primarily of Types 5 and 6, either separately or together with waste materials of Types 0, 1, and 3.
"Type 0 waste" means trash, a mixture of highly combustible waste such as paper, cardboard, cartons, wood boxes and combustible floor sweepings, containing approximately ten per cent moisture and five per cent incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately 8,500 British Thermal Units per pound as fired, and deriving from commercial and industrial activities. The mixtures contain up to ten per cent by weight of plastic bags, coated paper, laminated paper, treated corrugated cardboard, oily rags and plastic or rubber scraps.
"Type 1 waste" means rubbish, a mixture of combustible waste such as paper, cardboard cartons, wood scraps, foliage and combustible floor sweepings, containing approximately 25 per cent moisture and ten per cent incombustible solids and having a heating value of approximately 6500 British Thermal Units per pound as fired, and deriving from domestic, commercial and industrial activities. The mixture contains up to 20 per cent by weight of restaurant or cafeteria waste, but contains little or no treated paper, plastic or rubber wastes.
"Type 2 waste" means refuse, consisting of an approximately even mixture of rubbish and garbage by weight, containing up to 50 per cent moisture and approximately seven per cent incombustible solids, and having a heating value of approximately 4300 British Thermal Units per pound as fired, and commonly deriving from apartment and residential occupancy.
"Type 3 waste" means garbage, consisting of animal and vegetable wastes containing up to 70 per cent moisture and up to five per cent incombustible solids and having a heating value of approximately 2500 British Thermal Units per pound as fired and deriving from restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals, markets, and like installations.
"Type 4 waste" means human and animal remains, consisting of carcasses, organs and solid organic wastes from hospitals, laboratories, abattoirs, animal pounds, and similar sources, consisting of up to 85 per cent moisture and approximately five per cent incombustible solids and having a heating value of approximately 1,000 British Thermal Units per pound as fired.
"Type 5 waste" means by-product waste, gaseous, liquid or semi-liquid, such as tar, paints, solvents, sludge, fumes, and so forth, from industrial operations.
"Type 6 waste" means solid by-product waste, such as rubber, plastics, wood waste and so forth, from industrial operations.