West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 45 - Air Quality › Title 45 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AIR QUALITY › Series 45-07 - To Prevent And Control Particulate Matter Air Pollution from Manufacturing Processes And Associated Operations › Section 45-7-3 - Emission of Smoke and/or Particulate Matter Prohibited and Standards of Measurement

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. No person
				shall cause, suffer, allow or permit emission of smoke and/or particulate
				matter into the open air from any process source operation which is greater
				than 20 percent opacity, except as noted in subsections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5,
				3.6, and 3.7.
3.2. The provisions
				of subsection 3.1 shall not apply to smoke and/or particulate matter emitted
				from any process source operation which is less than 40 percent opacity for any
				period or periods aggregating no more than 5 minutes in any 60 minute
				period.
3.3. Reserved.
3.4. New By-Product Coke Production Facility.
				No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the emission of smoke and/or
				particulate matter into the open air in excess of the following provisions from
				the operation of a new by-product coke production facility, other than a
				replacement by-product coke production facility that is constructed as per the
				provisions of subsection 3.3, that begins production after July 1, 1970:
3.4.1. Charging emissions from the charging
				of any 4 consecutive ovens shall not exceed an aggregate time of more than 60
				seconds.
3.4.2. Pushing emissions
				from pushing shall be vented into air pollution control equipment. The
				particulate matter emissions discharged from this air pollution control
				equipment shall not exceed a mass emission rate of 0.04 lb/ton of coal charged.
				The smoke and/or particulate matter emissions discharged from this air
				pollution control equipment and non-captured pushing emissions shall not exceed
				20% opacity.
3.4.3. Transport
				emissions from an enclosed quench car shall not exceed 20% opacity. Transport
				emissions from an open quench car shall not exceed 10% opacity.
3.4.4. Coke side sheds and similar structures
				used to capture pushing and/or quenching emissions shall be designed and
				operated so as to prevent the escape of smoke and/or particulate matter
				emissions from points other than the stack of the air pollution control
				equipment.
3.4.5. Coke oven topside
				emissions shall not exceed the following:
3.4.5.a. No more than 2% of the charging
				ports or charging port lids shall have smoke and/or particulate matter
				emissions excluding the last oven charged.
3.4.5.b. No more than 5% of the off take
				piping shall have smoke and/or particulate matter emissions.
3.4.5.c. No smoke and/or particulate matter
				emissions are permitted from the coke oven gas collector main or any other
				topside point, except as provided by paragraphs 3.4.5.a and 3.4.5.b.
3.4.6. No more than 8% of the door
				areas of operating coke ovens shall have door area emissions, excluding the
				door areas representing the last oven charged. Any battery affected by
				subsection 3.4 shall be constructed in a manner that will allow for the
				retrofitting of the battery with hooding to capture door emissions and air
				pollution control equipment designed to at least a 90% particulate control
				efficiency.
3.4.7. Quench towers
				shall employ, as a minimum, multiple row baffles and use make-up water not to
				exceed 800 milligrams per liter of total dissolved solids and 100 milligrams
				per liter of total suspended solids.
3.4.8. Smoke and/or particulate matter
				emissions from combustion stacks shall meet the requirements of subsections 3.1
				and 3.2 and shall not exceed a grain loading of 0.025 grains per dry standard
				cubic foot.
3.4.9. Good operating
				practices must be maintained to prevent the atmospheric entrainment of
				particulate matter resulting from the spillage or other deposition of
				coal/coke.