New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 27 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL › Subchapter 6 - CONTROL AND PROHIBITION OF PARTICLES FROM MANUFACTURING PROCESSES › Section 7:27-6.1 - 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.
"Air contaminant" means solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases which are discharged into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Control apparatus" means any device which prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant.
"Cullett" means broken, waste or recycled glass.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.
"Dilution gas" means air or as from any source whatsoever added to the source gas emitted from a source operation.
"Equipment" means any device capable of causing the emission of an air contaminant into the open air, and any stack, chimney, conduit, flue, duct, vent or similar device connected or attached to, or serving the equipment. This shall include equipment in which the preponderance of the air contaminants emitted is caused by the manufacturing process.
"Fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous materials used to produce useful heat by burning.
"Glass" means a hard amorphous inorganic substance made by fusing silicates and sometimes borates and phosphates with certain basic oxides.
"Glass manufacturing furnace" means equipment using energy in the form of intense heat for the production of glass.
"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.
"Indirect heat exchanger" means equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred by conduction through a heat-conducting material to a substance being heated, so that the latter is not contacted by, and adds nothing to, the products of combustion.
"Isokinetic" means a method for sampling air contaminants from the gas stream in a stack or chimney in such a manner that the gas stream enters a sampling probe in the same direction and at the same velocity as the gas stream in a stack or chimney.
"Lead glass" means a glass produced from the fusion of silica, alkali and lead oxide, and characterized by a high index of refraction, high light dispersion, high electrical resistance and high density.
"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.
"Manufacturing process" means any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial, manufacturing or processing factors, methods or forms, including but not limited to furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills, dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators, filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters, towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers or absorbers.
"Maximum allowable emission rate" means the maximum amount of an air contaminant which may be emitted into the outdoor air at any instant in time or during any prescribed interval of time.
"Opacity" means the property of a substance which renders it partially or wholly obstructive to the transmission of visible light, expressed as the percentage to which the light is obstructed.
"Particles" means any material, except uncombined water, which exists as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
"Performance test principle" means a concept of measurement as required for determining compliance with a specific standard for the emission of air contaminants.
"Potential emission rate" means the mass rate of air contaminants emitted or to be emitted through a stack or chimney into the outdoor air, exclusive of any type of control apparatus.
"Process weight" means the total weight of all materials introduced into a source operation, excluding liquid or gaseous fuel, uncombined water and air.
"Refuse" means rubbish, garbage, trade waste and plant life.
"Sampling train" means a combination of entrapment devices, instruments and auxiliary apparatus arranged in a prescribed sequence to selectively separate and collect samples of specified air contaminants.
"Solid particles" means particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
"Source gas" means air or gases passed through or generated by a source operation and discharged from the source operation.
"Source operation" means any manufacturing process or any identifiable part thereof emitting an air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through one or more stacks or chimneys.
"Stack or chimney" means a flue, conduit or opening designed and constructed for the purpose of emitting air contaminants into the outdoor air.
"Standard conditions" means or shall be 70 degrees Fahrenheit and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 psia or 760 mm Hg).