North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33-24-05 - Standards for Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities and for the Management of Specific Hazardous Wastes and Specific Types of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities › BOILERS AND INDUSTRIAL FURNACES › Section 33-24-05-529 - Standards to control organic emissions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1.
Destruction and removal efficiency standard
a. General. Except as provided in subdivision
				  c, a boiler or industrial furnace burning hazardous waste must achieve a
				  destruction and removal efficiency of 99.99 percent for all organic hazardous
				  constituents in the waste feed. To demonstrate conformance with this
				  requirement, 99.99 percent destruction and removal efficiency must be
				  demonstrated during a trial burn for each principal organic hazardous
				  constituent designated (under subdivision b) in its permit for each waste feed.
				  Destruction and removal efficiency is determined for each principal organic
				  hazardous constituent from the following equation:
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where:
Win = Mass feed rate of one
					 principal organic hazardous constituent in the hazardous waste fired to the
					 boiler or industrial furnace; and
Wout = Mass emission rate of the
					 same principal organic hazardous constituent present in stack gas prior to
					 release to the atmosphere.
b. Designation of principal organic hazardous
				  constituents. Principal organic hazardous constituents are those compounds for
				  which compliance with the destruction and removal efficiency requirements shall
				  be demonstrated in a trial burn in conformance with procedures prescribed in
				  subsection 4 of section
				  33-24-06-19. One or more principal
				  organic hazardous constituents shall be designated by the department for each
				  waste feed to be burned. Principal organic hazardous constituents shall be
				  designated based on the degree of difficulty of destruction of the organic
				  constituents in the waste and on their concentrations or mass in the waste feed
				  considering the results of waste analyses submitted with part B of the permit
				  application. Principal organic hazardous constituents are most likely to be
				  selected from among those compounds listed in appendix V of 33-24-02 that are
				  also present in the normal waste feed. However, if the applicant demonstrates
				  to the department's satisfaction that a compound not listed in appendix V of
				  33-24-02 or not present in the normal waste feed is a suitable indicator of
				  compliance with the destruction and removal efficiency requirements, that
				  compound may be designated as a principal organic hazardous constituent. Such
				  principal organic hazardous constituents need not be toxic or organic
				  compounds.
c. Dioxin-listed waste. A
				  boiler or industrial furnace burning hazardous waste containing (or derived
				  from) hazardous waste numbers F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, or F027 must
				  achieve a destruction and removal efficiency of 99.9999 percent for each
				  principal organic hazardous constituent designated (under subdivision b of
				  subsection 1) in its permit. This performance must be demonstrated on principal
				  organic hazardous constituents that are more difficult to burn than tetra-,
				  penta-, and hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans. Destruction and
				  removal efficiency is determined for each principal organic hazardous
				  constituent from the equation in subdivision a. In addition, the owner or
				  operator of the boiler or industrial furnace must notify the department of
				  intent to burn hazardous waste numbers F020, F021, F022, F023, F026, or F027.
d. Automatic waiver of destruction
				  and removal efficiency trial burn. Owners and operators of boilers operated
				  under the special operating requirements provided by section
				  33-24-05-535 are considered to be
				  in compliance with the destruction and removal efficiency standard of
				  subdivision a and are exempt from the destruction and removal efficiency trial
				  burn.
e. Low risk waste. Owners and
				  operators of boilers or industrial furnaces that burn hazardous waste in
				  compliance with the requirements of subsection 1 of section
				  33-24-05-534 are considered to be
				  in compliance with the destruction and removal efficiency standard of
				  subdivision a and are exempt from the destruction and removal efficiency trial
				  burn.