ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August 18,
1982
IN THE MATTER OF:
)
SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSION
)
R80—22
LIMITATIONS:
RULE 204
)
OF CHAPTER
2
)
Proposed Rules.
First Notice.
ORDER OF THE BOARD (by
I.
Goodman):
Rule 204, Sections
(a)
through
(h) of Sulfur Dioxide
Standards and Limitations, as contained in the Board’s Chapter
2:
Air Pollution,
as amended and reorganized,
is hereby ordered to
First Notice.
Rule 204 now contains Sections
(a) through
(k).
The proposed text is as follows:
Rule 204
Sulfur ~
Limitations
(a)
Unchanged.
(b)
Unchanged.
(c)
Sulfur Dioxide Emission Limitations for Existing Fuel
Combustion Emission Sources Burning Solid Fuel Exclusively.
+~++B+flJ.~
Existing Fuel Com-
bustion 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:
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(A)
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
204fe+
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or
(B)
the emission limit provided by Rule 204-fe+
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Existing Fuel Combustion Sources with Actual Heat
Input Greater than 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 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 2044e+~j.
+~++A3jflExisting Fuel Combustion Sources Located in the Chicago,
St.
Louis
(Illinois) and Peoria Major Metropolitan
Areas.
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otherwise provided for in this Rule,
no person shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur
dioxide into the atmosphere in any one hour period
from any existing fuel combustion source burning solid
fuel exclusively located in the Chicago,
St.
Louis
(Illinois) and Peoria major metropolitan areas to exceed
1.8 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million British thermal
unit
(Btu) of actual heat input on or after May-
7—~9~?
the effective date of this Rule.
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(4)
Exemption procedure for Source Located in the Chicago,
St. Louis
(Illinois) and Peoria Major Metropolitan
Areas,
Any owner or operator of an existing fuel
combustion emission source located in the Chicago,
St. Louis or Peoria major metropolitan areas may
petition the Board for approval of an alternate
emission rate specified in emissions of pounds of
sulfur dioxide per million Btu of actual heat input
for any such fuel combustion emission source, up to
a maximum of 6.8 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million
Btu of actual heat input.
Such person shall prove
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in an adjudicative hearing before the Board that the
proposed emission rate will not, under any foreseeable
operating conditions and potential meteorological
conditions cause or contribute to a violation of
any applicable Primary or Secondary Sulfur Dioxide
Ambient Air Quality Standard or of any applicable
PSD increment,
An emission rate approved pursuant
to this paragraph shall be a substitute for that
standard otherwise required by this Rule.
(A)
Every owner or operator of an existing fuel
combustion emission source so petitioni~jthe Board
for approval of an emission standard shall follow
the applicable procedures described in the_Proce~
dural Rules, Chapter
I of the Board’s Rules and
Regulations.
(B)
Any emission standard so approved shall be
included as a condition in operating permits
issued pursuant to Rule 103 of this Chaj~ter.
Any owner or operator of a fuel combustion
emission source who receives Board approval of
such an emission standard shall apply to the
Agency within 30 days of approval of such
standard for a revision of its operating permit
for such source.
(C)
No owner or operator of an existing fuel com-
bustion emission source
shall seek such an
exemption or comply with the emission standard
so granted by the use of dispersion enhancement
techniques referred to in Rule 204(1).
(5)
Specific Exceptions to Rule 204(c).
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Rule, no person shall
cause or allow the emission of sulfur dioxide into
the atmosphere in any one—hour period from any
existing fuel combustion sources burning solid fuel
exclusively
to exceed the limits below in pounds of
sulfur dioxide per million Btu of actuar heat input,
on
or after the effective date of this Rule.
(A)
Existing fuel combustion emission sources
located inlankakee
or McHenry Counties:
6.8 pounds.
(B)
Existing industrial fuel combustion emission
sources located
in the Peoria major metropolitan
area:
5,5 pounds.
(C)
Existing fuel combustion emission sources
equipped with flue gas desulfurization systems
as
of December
1,
1980,
located in:
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(j)
Peoria
County
Township
10
North,
Range
8,
East of the Third Principal Meridian:
1.8
pounds.
(ii)
Tazewell County, Township
26 North,
Range
4,
West of the Third Principal Meridian:
1.1 pounds.
(iii)
Tazewell County, Township 25 North,
Range
3,
West of the Third Principal Meridian:
1.8 pounds.
+e++~+(d)
Sulfur Dioxide Emission Limitations for Existing
Fuel Combination Emission Sources Burning Liquid Fuel
B~fI~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:
+A+
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.
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Sulfur
Dioxide
Emission
Limitations
for
Fuel
Combustion
Emission Sources Burning Combination of Fuels.
(1)
Except as provided
in Rule 204(e)(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
=
S5H5
+
~4
~
+
SRHR
where:
E
=
allowable sulfur dioxide emission rate,
in pounds per hour,
=
distillate oil sulfur dioxide emission
—
standard:
0.3 pounds per million Btu,
S~
=
solid
fuel
sulfur
dioxide emission standard,
in pounds per million Btu, which is applicable,
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S
=
residual oil sulfur dioxide emission standard,
R
in pounds per million Btu, which is applicable,
H5
=
actual heat input from solid
fuel,
in million
Btu per hour,
HR
=
actual heat input
from residual
fuel oil,
in
million Btu per hour,
Nd
=
actual heat input from distillate
fuel oil,
in
million Btu per hour, and where that portion
of the actual heat input that is derived:
1)
from the burning of gaseous
fuels produced
by the gasification 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
3)
from the burning of gaseous fuels produced
by the gasification of residual
fuel oil
shall be included in
4)
from the burning of gaseous fuels produced
by
the
gasification
of
any
other
liquid
fuel
shall be included in HR;
and
5)
from
the
burning
of
by—product
bases
such
as
those produced from a blast furnace or a
catalyst regeneration unit in a petroleum
refinery shall be 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 existing
fuel combustion emission sour
a
a steel mill located in the Chicago or St.
Louis
(Illinois)
major metropolitan areas burning any solid,
liquid or gaseous
fuel, or any combination thereof,
to exceed the allowable emission rate determined~y
the following equation:
E
=
5s~~s
+
SdHd
+
SRHR
+
SGHG
where:
E
=
allowable sulfur dioxide emission rate,
in
pounds per hour,
=
distillate oil sulfur dioxide emission standard:
—
0.3
pounds
per
million
Btu.
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S
=
solid
fuel
sulfur dioxide emission standard,
in
pounds per million Btu, which is applicable,
residual oil sulfur dioxide emission standard,
—
in
pounds
per
million
Btu,
which
is
applicable,
=
maximum by-product gas sulfur dioxide emissions,
—
in pounds per million Btu, which would result if
the
applicable
by—product
gas
which
was
burned,
had been burned alone at any time during the
12
months preceding the latest operation, on or
before
(the effective date of
this rule)
of an emission source using any by-
product gas.
H5
=
actual heat input
from solid fuel,
in million
—
Btu per hour,
=
actual heat input
from residual
fuel oil,
in
—
million Btu per hour,
=
actual heat input
from distillate fuel oil,
—
in million Btu per hour,
=
actual heat input from by-product gases,
such as
—
those produced from
a blast furnace or
a catalyst
regeneration unit in a petroleum refinery,
in
million Btu per hour, and where that portion of
the actual heat input that is derived:
1)
from the burning of gaseous fuels produced by
the gasification of solid fuels shall be included
in
HR.
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Existing
Fuel
Burning
Process
Emission
Source
The emissions from the burning of fuel at process emission
sources in the Chicago or St. Louis
(Illinois)
major metro-
politan areas
shall comply with applicable paragraphs
(a),
(b),
(c) or(d) of this Rule,
except as follows:
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Any fuel burning process emission source which, as of
March
1,
1982,
is in compliance with Rule 204(h)
but
not in compliance with an applicable paragraph 204(a),
(b),
(c), or
(e), shall not be subject to the applic-
able paragraph 204(a),
(b),
(C)
or
(e)
so long as
sulfur dioxide emissions in pounds per hour do not
exceed the maximum sulfur dioxide emissions in pounds
per hour emitted by the source during the 12 months
preceding March
1,
1982.
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(2)
No person shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur
into the atmosphere in any one hour period from
b~irningtea leaves as
fuel
in the St.
Louis major
metropolitan area 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 limitation for sulfur dioxide emission.
fe3(g) Fuel Combustion Emission Sources Located outside of the
chicago, St.
Louis
(Illinois) and Peoria Major Metropolitan
Areas.
Unchanged.
+?++~+(h)Sulfur Dioxide
aa~4s-a~Emission Limitations for
Process Emission Sources.
4A+
Except as further provided by this Rule, pa~agfaph
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no 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 su~j~ç~
to the 2000 ppm standard:
app~y—~eProcesses designed to remove sulfur com-
pounds from the flue gases of fuel combustion
emission
sources.
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~y—~e
Existing processes designed to remove
sulfur compounds from the flue gases of petroleum
and petrochemical processes.
app~y-~eExisting hydrogen sulfide flares at a
chemical manufacturing plant provided:
(1)
Said flares are operative on existing batch
type processes; and
(ii)
The hydrogen sulfide emissions being flared
are not, as of the effective date of this
rule, passed through existing processes
designed to remove sulfur compounds from the
flue bases as provided in subparagraph +93(A)
above; and
(iii)
The emission of sulfur dioxide into the atmos-
phere from said flares does not exceed 500
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pounds
per
hour
and
3500
pounds
per
eight
hour
period;
and
(iv)
Provided, however, that is 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 manufacturing process
emission sources
in the
St. Louis
(Illinois)
major metropolitan area.
(E)
Sodium sulfite manufacturing process emission
sources
in the St.
Louis
(Illinois) major metro-
politan area.
(F)
Secondary lead smelting process emission sources
in the Chicago or St. Louis
(Illinois)
major
metropolitan areas.
(G)
Glass melting furnaces in the Chicago or St.
Louis
(Illinois) major metropolitan areas.
(H)
Glass heat treating with sulfur dioxide in the
St. Louis
(Illinois) major metropolitan area.
(2)
No person shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur
dioxide into the atmosphere from any new process emis-
sion source in the St.
Louis
(Illinois) major metro-
politan area designed to remove sulfur compounds from
the flue gases
of petroleum and petrochemical processes
to exceed
14 pounds of sulfur dioxide per ton of sulfur
recovered.
(3)
No person shall cause or allow the emission of sulfur
—
dioxlde into the atmosphere
from any sulfuric ãcid
manufacturing process
in the City of Chicago to exceed
500 ppm.
4B+(4)
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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.
f?44~3(i)
Sulfuric Acid Mist ~
a~4s—ai~Limitations
3M
No person shall cause or allow the emission of sul-
furic acid mist into the atmosphere from any process
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emission source to exceed 0.15 pounds of acid mist
per ton of acid manufactured.
4B+(2)
With the exception of Re-4+?++~++A+-a~ fuel com-
bustion sources and acid manufacturing, 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:
(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).
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Measurement Methods
Unchanged.
+Ift(k)
Compliance Dates
Unchanged.
+~+(1)
Dispersion Enhancement Techniques
No owner or operator of an existing fuel combustion
emission source shall comply with the emission standard
of Rule 2044e3 ~j(l),
Rule 204+e3j9~(2),e~Rule 204+e+
~gj(3) or Rule 204
(c)(4) by the use of dispersion
ë~Iiancementtechniques.
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 engi-
neering practice necessary to prevent downwash or
fumigation conditions, stack diameter, exit gas velocity
or exit gas temperature, except as provided by Section
123 of the Clean Air Act and Regulations promulgated
thereunder.
Flue gas may be reheated where air pollu-
tion 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 SO ORDERED.
Board Chairman Dumelle concurred.
I,
Christan L.
Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
Control Boa~,hereby certify that the above Order was adopted
on the
)~
day of
_______________,
1982 by a vote of
~
L
Christan L. ~offett~,
Illinois Pollution Control Board
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