North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality › Article 33.1-24 - Hazardous Waste Management › Chapter 33.1-24-05 - 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 33.1-24-05-529 - 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
				  33.1-24-06-19. 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
				  33.1-24-02 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 33.1-24-02 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) 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
				  33.1-24-05-535 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
				  33.1-24-05-534 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.