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 214 - By-product Coke Oven Batteries › Section 214.11 - Test procedures

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  Coke pushing and transport, and waste heat (underfire) stack. Stack testing
				  procedures for determining compliance with the standards set forth in sections
				  214.4(a)
				 and
				  214.6(a) 
				  of this Part will be conducted in accordance with methods acceptable to the
				  commissioner. The methodology specified in appendix A of part 60 of title 40 of
				  the Code of Federal Regulations (see table 1, section
				  200.9  of this
				  Title) and all future technical revisions, additions or corrections made
				  thereto shall be considered acceptable, except where the commissioner has
				  required a specific method. If the control device cannot be tested in
				  accordance with those methods, appropriate test methods will be determined by
				  the commissioner in accordance with Part 202 of this Title. During each stack
				  test performed, simultaneous visible emission evaluations must be conducted and
				  a copy of the raw data sheets must be included with the test report. The report
				  must include actual sampling times to allow a comparison between the visible
				  emissions and the stack test results. During each stack test performed, the
				  source owner must provide access to production data and other parameters
				  necessary for determining compliance. During each run of a stack test, the
				  source to be tested will be operated at a production level at least as large as
				  the average production level during the three months prior to the first day of
				  testing. Unless modified below, compliance will be determined by averaging
				  three runs. Testing will be performed on a sufficient number of pushing and
				  transport operation cycles in order to achieve a minimum of a one-hour duration
				  test run.
(1) If a mobile evacuation and
				  emission control system is used, compliance will be determined by the use of a
				  pushing emissions test car. The car must be supplied by the source owner in
				  order to perform these tests and must contain the necessary duct extension to
				  perform the test.
(2) If a positive
				  pressure baghouse control system is used, any grating or other openings of the
				  baghouse compartments which may admit outside air into the baghouse must be
				  sealed during the sampling periods.
(3) If a modular baghouse is used and the
				  baghouse contains more than five stacks, the owner must perform one test run
				  per stack. Compliance will be determined by computing the mass emission rate,
				  in pounds per hour, for each stack and then summing each of these mass emission
				  rates. During all test runs, the production rate must be maintained within 10
				  percent of the mean rate for the entire sampling period.
(4) To determine compliance with the
				  pound-per-ton mass emission standard, the measured particulate concentration
				  will be multiplied by the volumetric flow rate at standard conditions (20°
				  Centigrade [C], 760 millimeters [mm]), measured at the sampling point, and
				  divided by the number of tons of coal charged to the ovens that were pushed
				  during the test.
(5) Pushing
				  emission control sheds.
(i) The sampling of a
				  push will begin with the initial movement of the ram pushing the coke out of
				  the oven. Sampling will end three minutes later unless the ram becomes stuck
				  before the coke is completely pushed out of the oven. If the ram does become
				  stuck in the oven, sampling will be discontinued during the time of no
				  significant emissions generation and will resume when the ram moves the coke
				  again. The sampling period for that push will end when three minutes of sample
				  have been collected.
(ii) A
				  sufficient number of visible emission observers will be used to observe all
				  sources of visible emissions during the mass emission test.