New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 2 - AIR QUALITY (STATEWIDE) › Part 50 - OIL AND GAS SECTOR - OZONE PRECURSOR POLLUTANTS › Section 20.2.50.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
In addition to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC -
				  Definitions, as used in this Part, the following definitions apply.
A.
Definitions beginning with the
				letter
"A"
:
"Auto-igniter"
means a device that
				automatically attempts to relight the pilot flame of a control device in order
				to combust VOC emissions, or a device that will automatically attempt to
				combust the VOC emission stream.
B.
Definitions beginning with the letter
"B": "Bleed
				rate"
means the rate in standard cubic feet per hour at which gas is
				continuously vented from a pneumatic controller.
C.
Definitions beginning with the
				letter
"C":
(1)
"Calendar year"
means a year beginning January 1 and ending
				December 31.
(2)
"Centrifugal
				compressor"
means a machine used for raising the pressure of natural gas
				by drawing in low-pressure natural gas and discharging significantly
				higher-pressure natural gas by means of a mechanical rotating vane or impeller.
				A screw, sliding vane, and liquid ring compressor is not a centrifugal
				compressor.
(3)
"Closed vent
				system"
means a system that is designed, operated, and maintained to
				route the VOC emissions from a source or process to a process stream or control
				device with no loss of VOC emissions to the atmosphere during
				operation.
(4)
"Commencement
				of operation"
means for an oil and natural gas well site, the date any
				permanent production equipment is in use and product is consistently flowing to
				a sales line, gathering line or storage vessel from the first producing well at
				the stationary source, but no later than the end of well completion
				operation.
(5)
"Component"
means a pump seal, flange, pressure relief device
				(including thief hatch or other opening on a storage vessel), connector or
				valve that contains or contacts a process stream with hydrocarbons, except for
				components where process streams consist solely of glycol, amine, produced
				water, or methanol.
(6)
"Connector"
means flanged, screwed, or other joined fittings used
				to connect pipeline segments, tubing, pipe components (such as elbows,
				reducers, "T's" or valves) to each other; or a pipeline to a piece of
				equipment; or an instrument to a pipe, tube, or piece of equipment. A common
				connector is a flange. Joined fittings welded completely around the
				circumference of the interface are not considered connectors for the purpose of
				this Part.
(7)
"Construction"
means fabrication, erection, or installation of a
				stationary source, including but not limited to temporary installations and
				portable stationary sources, but does not include relocations or like-kind
				replacements of existing equipment.
(8)
"Control device"
means air
				pollution control equipment or emission reduction technologies that thermally
				combust, chemically convert, or otherwise destroy or recover air contaminants.
				Examples of control devices may include but are not limited to open flares,
				enclosed combustion devices (ECDs), thermal oxidizers (TOs), vapor recovery
				units (VRUs), fuel cells, condensers, catalytic converters (oxidative,
				selective, and non-selective), or other emission reduction equipment. A control
				device may also include any other air pollution control equipment or emission
				reduction technologies approved by the department to comply with emission
				standards in this Part. A VRU or other equipment used primarily as process
				equipment is not considered a control device.