ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June 28, 1973

SWIFT EDIBLE OIL COMPANY,

Petitioner,

V.

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PCB 73—168

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

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Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Seaman):

Petitioner filed

its

request for variance with this Board

on April 26, 1973. Petitioner’s Champaign, Champaign County

facility processes soybeans, marketing feeds and soybean oil.

After drying, the soybeans are cracked, classified and flaked

before passing through a hexane oil extractor. Petitioner’s

request for variance concerns its white flake cooler. This

item is a rotary kiln cooler.

This cooler is handling desolventized, solvent extracted

soybean flakes at an average rate of 7,500 lbs/hr, using

5,800 fm of ambient air to cool the flakes to an acceptable

storage temperature. The existing control equipment is a high

efficiency cyclone (Carter—Day HV

51).

The emission from

this cyclone is 10 lbs/hr. The allowable emission is 9.9

lbs/hr. The emission is particulate matter composed completely

of soy dust.

Petitioner proposes to replace this cyclone with a high

energy centrifugal separator which will have an emission of

1 lb/hr, putting this source well within the limitations of

Pollution Control Board Regulations, Chapter 2: Part II,

Rule 203(a). Petitioner expects to have this new equipment

fully operational by December 15, 1973. The variance request

is to cover the time necessary to purchase and install the

new collection system.

Although the current violation is only slightly over the

allowance, the installation of this new equipment will

siqnificantly reduce emissions and also allow Petitioner to

recapture a valuable product. The Agency has received no

adverse comment from the public concerning this variance.

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This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and

conclusions of law of the Board.

IT IS THE ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that

Petitioner, Swift Edible Oil Company, be granted a variance

to operate its white flake cooler until December 15, 1973

subject to the following conditions:

1. Petitioner shall submit progress reports to the

Agency, in writing, on August 1, 1973, October 1, 1973, and

December 1, 1973, indicating progress toward completion of

the collection device on the white flake cooler; and

2. Petitioner shall notify the Agency, in writing, upon

completion of the project.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, certify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted by

the Board on the ‘~dayof

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1973, by a vote of

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