New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter III - AIR RESOURCES › Subchapter A - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR CONTAMINATION AND AIR POLLUTION › Part 223 - Petroleum Refineries › Section 223.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) For the purpose
				  of this Part, the general definitions of Part 200 of this Title shall
				  apply.
(b) For the purpose of this
				  Part, the following definitions will also apply:
(1) Afterburner. A catalytic and/or thermal
				  combustion device used to control air contaminant emissions.
(2) Coke burn-off. The coke removed from the
				  surface of the fluid catalytic cracking unit catalyst by combustion in the
				  catalyst regenerator.
(3)
				  Component. Any piece of equipment which has the potential to leak volatile
				  organic compounds when tested in the manner described in section
				  223.10(c) 
				  of this Part. These include, but are not limited to, pump seals, compressor
				  seals, seal oil degassing vents, pipeline valves, flanges and other
				  connections, pressure relief devices, process drains, and open-ended pipes.
				  Excluded from these are valves which are not externally regulated.
(4) Fuel gas. Gas generated at a petroleum
				  refinery or any gas generated by a refinery process unit, which is combusted
				  separately or in any combination with any type of natural gas. Fuel gas does
				  not include gases generated by catalytic cracking unit catalyst regenerators
				  and fluid coking burners.
(5) Fuel
				  gas combustion device. Any equipment, such as process heaters, boilers and
				  flares, used to combust fuel gas, except facilities in which gases are
				  combusted to produce sulfur or sulfuric acid.
(6) Gas service. Any equipment which
				  processes, transfers or contains a volatile organic compound or mixture of
				  volatile organic compounds in the gaseous phase.
(7) Hot well. The collection container for
				  condensed volatile organic compounds.
(8) Light petroleum compound. A petroleum
				  derivative for which the temperature at 10 percent recovery is lower than
				  205° C when tested in accordance with ASTM D86, Standard Method for
				  Distillation of Petroleum Products.
(9) Liquid service. Any equipment which
				  processes, transfers or contains a volatile organic compound or mixture of
				  volatile organic compounds in the liquid phase.
(10) Noncondensate vapors. Gases removed from
				  process units by a vacuum producing system. As used in this Part, the term
				  applies to the portion of volatile organic compounds which have not become
				  liquid in condensers.
(11)
				  Petroleum. The oil removed from the earth and the oil derived from tar sands,
				  shale and coal.
(12) Petroleum
				  refinery. Any facility engaged in producing gasoline, aromatics, kerosene,
				  distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, asphalt, or other
				  products through distillation of petroleum or through redistillation, cracking,
				  rearrangement or reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives.
(13) Process gas. Any gas generated by a
				  petroleum refinery process unit, except fuel gas and process upset gas as
				  defined in this section.
(14)
				  Process unit turnaround. The process of shutdown, inspection, repair and
				  start-up of reactors, fractionators, or other process units.
(15) Process upset gas. Any gas generated by
				  a petroleum refinery process unit as a result of a start-up, shut-down, upset
				  or malfunction.
(16) Refinery
				  process unit. A set of components which are a part of a basic process
				  operation, such as distillation, hydrotreating, cracking or reforming of
				  hydrocarbons.
(17) Vacuum producing
				  systems. Equipment used to produce and maintain a vacuum in petroleum refinery
				  process equipment as steam ejectors which contact condensers or surface
				  condensers and mechanical vacuum pumps.
(18) Valves not externally regulated. Valves
				  that have no external controls, such as in-line check valves.
(19) Wastewater separators. Equipment used to
				  separate oils and water from locations downstream of process drains.