ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December 30,

1982

IN

THE

MATTER

OF:

SULFUR

DIOXIDE

EMISSION

)

R80—22

LIMITATIONS:

RULE 204

OF

CHAPTER

2

osed RuIes.

Second Notice,

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

I.

G.

Goodman):

Rule

204,

Sections

(a) through

(1)

of Sulfur Dioxide Stan-

dards and Limitations,

as contained in the Board~sChapter

2:

Air Pollution,

as amended and reorganized,

is hereby ordered to

Second

Notice.

Rule 204 now contains

Sections

(a) through

(o).

The proposed text

is

as follows:

Rule 204

Sulfur

aas~ai~

Limitations

(a)

Reserved.

(b)

Unchanged.

(c)

~

~

Existing Fuel Combustion

Sources with Actual Heat Input Less Than,

or Equal

to,

250

Million Btu Per Hour Located outside the Chicago,

St. Louis

(Illinois)

and Peoria Major Metropolitan Areas.

No person

shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur dioxide into the

atmosphere in any one—hour period from any existing fuel com-

bustion source with actual heat input less than, or equal

to,

250 million Btu per hour,

burning solid fuel exclusively,

located outside the Chicago,

St. Louis

(Illinois)

and Peoria

major metropolitan areas,

to exceed either of the following,

whichever such person determines shall apply:

f~+

(1)

6.8 pounds of

sulfur dioxide per million Btu of actual

heat input, provided such owner or operator complies

with all applicable provisions of Rule 204(e) (4), or

~

(2)

the emission limit provided by Rule 204(e).

4~++Q+(d) Existing Fuel Combustion

Sources with Actual

Heat

Input Greater than 250 Million Etu Per Hour Located

outside

the Chicago,

St.

Louis

(Illinois) and Peoria

Major Metropolitan Areas.

No person shall cause or

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2

allow the emission of

sulfur

dioxide into the atmosphere

in

any

one hour period from

any existing fuel combustion

source

with actual

heat input greater

than 250 million

Btu

per hour, burning solid fuel

exclusively,

located

outside the Chicago,

St. Louis

(Illinois) and Peoria

major metropolitan areas,

to exceed the

emission

limit

provided by Rule 204(e),

(e)

Unchanged except for internal references

at subparagraph

(4),

as

follows:

(4)

No owner or operator of

a

fuel

combustion emission

source whose sulfur

dioxide

emission limitation is

determined by Rule 204(c)+~++B+,

Rule 204(e)(l),

or

204(e)(2) shall cause or

allow

the total emissions

of sulfur dioxide into the

atmosphere

from all fuel

combustion emission sources

owned

or operated by such

person and located within

1 mile

radius

(1.6 Km.)

from

the center point of any such

fuel combustion source

to

exceed the level

of sulfur

dioxide emissions allowed

under the previous Rule 204

(effective

April

14,

1972

until December 14,

1978) without

first obtaining

a

new

operating permit from the

Agency.

(This previous

Rule

204 appears in its entirety in the

appendix

that

appears

at the end of Part II of this

Chapter.)

The

application

for a new operating permit shall

include

a

demonstration

that such total

emissions will

not

violate

any

applicable

PSD increment.

+~++A+(f)Exi

elCombustion

Sources

Located in the

Chicaao,

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

and Peg

or

Metropolitan Areas.

~g~~the

sero~idpd for

in

this subsection,

no

noh~lca~!~or

allow

the emission of sulfur

dioxide

into the

~

period from

anvexi~~in~elc

ornbusti on_source_burn4

sol

idfuel

exclusiv~)~yjocated

in

the Chicago,

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

~

areas to e

xce e

~

of

sulfur

dioxide~~llioa~sh

thermal unit

(Btu)

~lh~ti~p~ton

or after

*

(the effective

date

of this Rule).

(1)

Sources located

in

Kankakee or McHenr~Counties_shall

~ce~~.8ounds

of sul

fur

d~~rmiUion

Btu

~

(2)

~sti

ndustrialsourp~notg~g~uipped

with

flue

4esu1furization~terns

located

in the Peoria

~

area

s

hall

not

exceed 5~pp~pds

of sulfur dioxidg~er milli

*~34B+

Repea~e8~

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3

-H+

*B+

~

~

~

e5e—ef—aew—~he-emeof-~f—e3~e-±~e

~

~feffi—a~y

~

-±l~

~

~

~

~

~

-~e-e~eee~

~o~pe~-m~

~

~

~

Exemp~4onProcedure for Source Located in the Chica~p,

St.

Louis

(Illinois) and

Peoria ~jor

Metropplitan_Areas.

An~ner

or operator of an existing fuel combustion emis-

sion source located

in

the Chicago,

St. Louis

(~J~g4~J_~

Peor~~jor_metropolitanareas may petition the Board for

~pproval of an alternate emission rate ~pecified in

emis-

sions of pounds of sulfur

dioxide

per million Btuof actual

heat

input

for any such

fuel combustion emission spurc~_~

to a maximum of 6.8 pounds of sulfur_dioxide_per

miUion Btu

of

actual

heat input.

Such person shall prove in

anadjudi-

cative hearing before the Board that

the_proposed_emission

rate

will not,

under any

foreseeabl~~~J~gonditions

and

potential

meteorological

conditions

cause or contribute

to a

violation

of any applicable Primary or Second~~

Sulfur

Dioxide

Ambient

Air Quality

Standard

or of any

ap~icable

PSD increment.

An emission rate approved~ursuantto this

~

shall be a substitute

for that standard_otherwise

required by thi~_Rule.

(1)

Eve~owner or operator of an existing

fuel_combustion

emission

source so

petitionin~theBoard_fo~~pp~oval

of an emission standard shall

follow the

applicable

procedures described

in

35 Ill. Adm.

Code 106.

(2)

~y~miss

ion standard sg~pp~vedshal I be

included

as

a condition in operating

permits

issued

_p~~uant

to Rule 103 of this Ch~p~. Any~owneroroperator

of a fuel combustion emission source who receives

Board approval

of such an emission

standard

shall

apply to the Agency within 30 days_gf approval of

such standard for a revision of its operating permit

for

such source.

(3)

No

owner or operator of an existing fuel

combustion

emission source shall

seek

such

an

ex~~tion

or

cornp~y

with the emission standard so

granted by the use of

dispersion enhancement techniques referred

tom

Rule

204(o).

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4

+e++2+(h)

Sulfur Dioxide Emission

Limitations for Existing Fuel

Combination Emission Sources Burning Liquid Fuel B~i’~e~

Exclusively.

No person shall cause or allow the emission of

sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere

in any one—hour period

from any existing fuel combustion emission source, burning

liquid fuel exclusively:

*~+(1) to exceed 1.0 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu

of actual heat input when residual fuel oil is burned;

and,

+B+(2)

to exceed 0.3 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu

of actual heat input when distillate fuel oil

is burned.

+4+(i)

Sulfur Dioxide Emission Limitations

for

Fuel Combustion

Emission Sources Burning Combination of Fuels.

(1)

Except as provided in

Rule 204(i)(2),

no person shall

cause or allow the emission of sulfur dioxide into

the atmosphere in any one hour period from any fuel

combustion emission source burning simultaneously any

combination of solid,

liquid and gaseous fuels, to

exceed the allowable emission rate determined by the

following equation:

E

S5Hs

+

~

~~dr1d

+

where:

E

=

allowable sulfur dioxide emission rate,

in pounds per hour,

=

solid

fuel sulfur dioxide emission standard,

in pounds per million Btu, which is applicable,

=

distillate oil sulfur dioxide emission

—

standard:

0.3 pounds per mill~on Btu,

SR

=

in pounds per million Btu, which is applicable,

H5

=

actual heat input from solid

fuel,

Btu per hour,

=

actual heat input from distillate

fuel

oil,

million Btu per hour,

HR

=

actual heat input from residual

fuel oil,

where that portion of the actual heat input that

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5

1)

from the burning of gaseous fuels produced

by the gasification of solid

fuels shall be

included

in H5

2)

from the burning

of gaseous fuels produced

by the gasification of distillate

fuel oil

shall be included in Ed;

3)

from the burning of gaseous fuels produced

by the gasification of residual

fuel oil

4)

from the burning of gaseous fuels produced

by the gasification of any other liquid

fuel

shall be included

in ER;

and

5)

from the burning of by-product bases such as

those produced from

a blast furnace or

catalyst regeneration unit in a petroleum

refinery shall he

included

in HR.

(2)

No person shall cause or allow the emission of

sulfur

dioxide into the atmosphere

in any one hour

period

from any existin~fuel combustion emission source at

a steel mill located

in the Chicago or St.

Louis

(Illinois)

major metropolitan areas

burning

ar~y

solid,

liquid or gaseous

fuel,

or any combination

thereof,

to exceed the allowable emission rate_determined~

the following equation:

E

+

SdHd

+

SR~~R

+

where:

E

=

allowable sulfur dioxide emission

rate,

pounds per hour,

=

solid

fuel sulfur dioxide emission standard,

in

—

pounds per million Bt~

which

is

applicable,

=

distillate oil sulfur dioxide emission standard:

—

0.3 pounds

per

million Btu.

=

residual oil sulfur dioxide emission standard,

—

in pounds per million Btu,

which

~

=

maximum by—product gas s~~u~_dxide emissionsL

—

in pounds per million Btu,whichwoul~~_~

the applicable

~

had been burned alone at

a~timeduring~thel2

months preceding the latest operation~onor

before

(the effective date

of this

rule)_of

an

emission source using any

by~p~oduc~as.

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6

=

actual

heat input

from

solid

fuel, in million

—

Btu per hour,

=

actual heat

in~ut

from distillate fuel oil,

—

in_million_Btu_per hour,

=

actual heat i~ut

from residual

fuel oil,

in

—

million Btu ,p~r

hour,

=

actual heat_~nput

from

by-product gases, such as

—

those ~roduced from a blast furna~~~n

Btu per hour,

and

where that portion of the actual

heat inp~t

that is derived:

1)

from the

burning of gaseous fuels produced

by the ~~~ication

of solid fuels shall be

included in

2)

from the burning of gaseous fuels produced

by the gasification of distillate

fuel

oil

shall be included in Hd

3)

from

the burning of gaseous

fu~~p~oduced

by the g~sificationof residual

fuel oil

shall

be included

in

H~and

4)

from the burni~of gaseous fue~~2.duced

~y the gasification of an~other liquid

fuel

shall_be

included inH.~.

jjj

Fuel Burnin9

Process

fli~issionSource

The emissions from the burning of

fuel at existing process

emission sources shall comply with applicable paragraphs

(a) through

(i)

of this Rule, _e~geptas follows:

(1)

Slab reheat furnaces with fuel burning capacities

in

excess of 650 million Btu per hour and burning any

residual

fuel

shall not be subject to the applicable

~ragraph

204(a) through

(i)

so long as the total

sulfur dioxide emissions resulting from the burning

of residual

fuel oil

in all such furnaces at any

one steel mill do not exceed 730 pounds per hour.

(2)

No person shall cause

or allow the emissions of

sulfur into the atmosphere

in any one hour period

from burning tea leaves as

fuel to exceed 0.70 pounds

of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of actual heat_input.

(3)

Lime kilns

(Standard Industrial Code 32) are not

subject to limitations

for sulfur dioxide emission.

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7

+~+*~+(k)Sulfur Dioxide

aa~s-a~ Emission Limitations for

Process

fA+

Except

as further provided by this_Rule, pafa~a~h

re—~947no person shall cause or allow the emission

of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere from any process

emission source to exceed 2000 ppm.

(1)

The following process emission sources are not

suj~j~ct

to the 2000 pp~

standard:

(A~

ap~y—~sProcesses designed

to remove sulfur com-

pounds from the flue gases of fuel combustion

(B)~

app~y—~eExisting processes designed to remove

sulfur compounds

from the flue gases of petroleum

~

~y—~o

Existing hydrogen sulfide flares

(i)

Said flares are operative on existing batch

type processes;

and

(ii)

The hydrogen sulfide emissions being flared

are not,

as of September

11,

1975, passed

through existing processes designed to remove

sulfur compounds from the flue bases as pro-

vided in subparagraph *B+(B)

above; and

(iii)

The emission of sulfur dioxide into the atmos-

phere

pounds per hour and 3500 pounds per eight

hour period;

and

(iv)

Provided,

however, that if emission controls

for said flares become economically reason-

able and technically feasible the owner!

operator of such hydrogen sulfide flares

shall install such controls.

(D)

Sodium Aluminum sulfate manufacturinrocess

emission sources in the

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

major

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8

(E)

Sodium sulfite manufacturing process emission

sources

in the St~Louis

(lUinois) m~jprmetro-

~narea.

(F) §~~dar lead smelt~_~gp~ssemission_sources

~

çhicaoor

St.

Louis

(Ii

1

inois)

maj,~or

~~iit~_are~.

(G)

Glas~~~jn

furnaces

in

the Chic~g~

or_St.

Louis

(Illinois) major metropolitan areas.

(H)

Glass heat treatin~with_sulfur

dioxide

in

the

St.

Louis

(Illinois) ma

~litan_area.

(2)

~

shall cause or allow the

emission of

sulfur

dioxide into the ~

sion

source in the St. Louis

(Illinois) major metro—

~~ar~rem~su1

fur

_!~und~Tf6rn

~~~f~troleum

and petrochemical_j~ocesses

to exceed

~j~ounds

of sulfur dioxide pon_~ulfur

recovered.

(3)

~2~~on

shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur

dioxide into the atm

re_from_an~sulfuric acid

manufacturinq

roce

ss

intheC~_of_çjç~p

to

exceed

500 ppm.

+B+(4)

~

~

No

person

shall

cause

or allow the emission

of

sulfur

dioxide

into the atmosphere from any new sulfuric acid

manufacturing plant to

exceed 4.0 pounds of sulfur

dioxide

per

ton of acid produced.

4~++~+j~j

Sulfuric Acid Mist

4a~4~—a~

Limitations

+A+(l)

No

person shall

cause or allow the

emission of sul-

furic acid mist into the atmosphere

from

any

process

emission source to exceed 0,15 pounds

of acid

mist

per

ton of acid manufactured.

+B3(2)

With

the exception of Re94+f++~++A+-a~ fuel com-

bustion

sources and acid manufactuj~g~g~

no person using

sulfuric

acid

shall

cause

or allow the emission of sul-

furic acid and/or sulfur trioxide from all other similar

emission

sources

at

a plant or premises to exceed:

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9

(i)

0.10 pound

in

any one hour period for sulfuric

acid usage less

than 1,300 tons per year

(100

percent acid basis);

(ii)

0.50 pound per ton of acid used for sulfuric acid

usage greater than or equal to 1,300 tons per year

(100 percent acid basis),

*~+(m)

Measurement

Methods

Unchanged except

for an internal reference

in subparagraph

3,

(3)

Solid Fuel Averaging Measurement

If low sulfur

fuel

is used to comply with subparagraphs

(a)

-f~+7—+e+—a~—f~+

throu~h (i)

of this Rule 204, the

applicable fuel

sulfur

dioxide standard shall be met by

a two month average

of daily

samples with

95 percent of

the samples being

no

greater than 20 percent above the

average.

A.S,T.M. procedures shall

be used

for solid

fuel sampling

sulfur

*~*(n)Compliance Dates

Every owner or operator

of

an emission source subject to

Rule 204 shall comply with the standards and limits thereof

in accordance with the dates shown

in the table below:

TABLE OF COMPLIANCE DATES

Rule

Type of Source

Compliance Dato

2O4*a+—ai~

New

fuel

combustion emission

April

14,

1972

~4(b)

sources.

~

May-~87

-~9Th

S-be

~

204(c)+~++B+

Existing sources outside the Chicago,

St. Louis

(Illinois) and Peoria MMA’s

with actual

heat input less

than, or

equal

to,

25Q million Btu per hour

(a)

Sources determining that the

December 14,

1978

6.8

lbs/MMMBTtJ

standard shall

app

1 y

(b)

Sources determining that

See Rule 204(e)

Rule 204(e)

shall apply

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Rule

Type

of

204fe.~~++?+(d)Existing

sources

outside

the

Chicago,

St.

Louis

and

Peoria

MMA’s

with

actual

heat

input

greater

than

250

million

Etu

per

hour

Compliance

DaLe

Beeemèe~47~-~9~?

See

Rule

204(e)

?sM-seeee-~—MMA~s—e~ef

fee-yea~s-af~e~

~he~-?h±ea~e7—S

-bet ±s—4~~~e±e+

Bea~4-9f~e~

8-Peef~a-ee~p1yg-wh-Pe~e~

~94fe+~f~+4E3

?±ft~—se~ifees-~-Peef~

9eeem~er

-981~

204(e)

(1)

Fuel

combustion

sources

located

outside

Chicago,

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

and

Peoria

MMA’s

which

obtain

an

alternate emission rate

(a)

If source is

in compliance

with the previous Rule 204(e)

(effective april

14,

1972

until December 14,

1978)

prior to December 14,

1978

Date

of

commcnce-~

ment

of

monito:cing

and

modeling

pur-

suant

to

204(e)

(3)

(C)

204(f)

204(g)

(b)

If

source

is

not

in

com-

pliance with the previous

Rule

204(e)

(effective

from

April

14,

1972

until

December

14,

1978)

prior

to

December

14,

1978

Existing sources

in the

Chica~g~

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

or

Peoria

MMA’s

burning

solid

fuel

exclusiv~~

Existing

sources

in

the

Chicago,

St.

Louis

(Illinois)

or Peoria MMA’s

burning

solid

fuel

exclusively

which

obtain

an

alternate

emission

rate

204(h)

Existing sources burning liquid

fuel

204(i)

Combination

of

fuels

sources

at

a

steel

mill

Combination

of

fuels

sources

at

a

steel mill

Date

of

approval

of

standard

Effective da~

of R80—22

Date of aj~r

oval

of

standard

~1_~L

_42~

~p~i114,

1972

Effective

date

of

R80—22

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11

Rule

type

of Source

Compliance

Date

204(j)

Fuel burning

process

emission

sources

Effective date

of R80—22

2044?+(k)(l)

Process

emission

sources

jjç~)

Existing sources

December 31,

1973

New sources

December

14,

1978

204(k) (1~)-

L’!!

Process emission sources

Effective

date

of R80—22

204(k)

(2),

(3)

New

sources

in

the St. Louis

Effective date

(Illinois) MMA designed

to

remove

of R80—22

sulfur co~oundsfrom the flue

gases of petroleum and

petro-

chemical

processes and sulfuric

acid manufacturing processes

in

the City of

Chicago.

204(1)

Sources

having

emissions of sulfuric

acid mist

Existing sources

December

31, 1973

New sources

December

14,

1972

+4+(o) Dispersion Enhancement ~rechniques

No

owner

or

operator

of an existing fuel

combustion

emission

source shall comply with the emission standard of Rule 204(e)

(I),

Rule

204(e)(2),

Rule

204(e)(3), or Rule

204

(g)

by

the

use

of

dispersion enhancement techniques,

For

the

purpose

of

this

rule,

dispersion

enhancement

techniques

shall

include,

but

not

be

limited

to,

an

intermittent

control

system

or

an

increase

of:

stack

height

in

excess

of

good

engineering

practice

necessary

to

prevent

downwash

or

fumigation

condi-

tions,

stack

diameter,

exit

gas

velocity

or

exit

gas

tem-

perature,

except

as

provided

by

Section

123

of

the

Clean

Air

Act and Regulations promulgated thereunder.

Flue gas

may

he

reheated

where

air

pollution

control

equipment

results

in

a

reduction

of

flue

gas

temperature,

provided

that

the

degree

of

reheat

does

not

exceed

the

temperature

drop

across

such

air

pollution

control

equipment.

IT

IS

SO

ORDERED,

Chairman

3,

Dumelle

and

Board

Member

N.

Werner

concurred.

I,

Christan

L.

Moffett,

Clerk

of

the

Illinois

Pollution

Control Bo?rd, hereby certify that the

above

Order

was

a~pted

on

the

?o

~

day

of

~,~jct

,

1982

by

a

vote

of

~(

_________________—

Christan L.

MofA!

,

Clerk~

Illinois Pollut’

-

Control

Board

!~ft~9A9