hazardous air pollutants emission Articles
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Facing the New Emission Standards for Hydrochloric Acid Pickling
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a new regulation to reduce hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from facilities that pickle carbon steel using hydrochloric acid (HCl) solution as well as from associated HCl regeneration plants. This regulation, the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Steel Pickling – HCl Process Facilities and HCl Acid ...
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Achieving Air Pollution Control With Catalytic Or Thermal Oxidizers
As the full effect of the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments passed by Congress in 1990 continue to impact today's industry, many manufacturing operations have become subject to stricter local, State and Federal clean air regulations. Both VOC (volatile organic compound) and HAP (hazardous air pollutant) emissions are strictly regulated since they lead to the formation of ground level ozone ...
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Achieving Air Pollution Control with Catalytic or Thermal Oxidizers
As the full effect of 1990’s Federal Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments continue to impact today’s industry, many manufacturing operations have become subject to stricter local, state and federal clean air regulations. Both VOC (volatile organic compound) and HAP (hazardous air pollutant) emissions are strictly regulated since they lead to the formation of ground-level ozone (or smog). The CAA ...
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Biosolids Dryer Emission Control - Case Study
Colt has completed multiple Biosolids dryer projects, achieving unmatched performance and reliability. In order to handle this very demanding application, Colt engineers started with a clean sheet of paper, and designed the RTO with features that address the problems plaguing the dryer industry. Colt's Dallas based Air Quality Control Group received an order for a 3 chamber MAXIM™ RTO ...
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`Facing the New Emission Standards for Hydrochloric Acid Pickling,` presented at the SUR
Introduction Under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), U.S. EPA is required to regulate sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Primarily, HAP emissions are regulated through National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs), which are codified under Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 63. NESHAPs address HAP emissions from a particular process, such as ...
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The Wait Is Over; The New Boiler MACT Is Here
The Wait Is Over; The New Boiler MACT Is Here April 29, 2010 was a busy day for U.S. EPA and marked the culmination of months and years of background effort and planning related to air toxic emissions from boilers. U.S. EPA has released pre-publication versions of four (4) proposed rules on their website that, when finalized, will impact thousands of facilities. The proposed rules are all ...
By All4 Inc.
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`The Advantages & Drawbacks of the EPA`s Coating & Composites Coordinated Rule Development,` presented at the 2000 SUR
Introduction Under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), the U.S. EPA is required to regulate sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Primarily, HAP emissions are regulated through National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs), which are codified under Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)Part63. NESHAPs address HAP emissions from a particular process or ...
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QUADRANT SR Thermal Oxidizer & the chemical industry - Case study
Chemical processing facilities across the country are facing ever tightening restrictions for volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. These emissions can be generated from such points as process vents, storage tanks, fugitive releases, among others…. To achieve compliance with Clean Air Act Amendments, facilities may have to apply maximum achievable ...
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Widespread Applicability and Energy Assessment highlight the Proposed New Boiler MACT Rules
As we reported in last month’s 4 The Record, April 29, 2010 was a busy day for U.S. EPA and marked the culmination of years of background effort and planning related to air toxic emissions from boilers. U.S. EPA has proposed four (4) rules that, when finalized, will impact thousands of facilities. Two (2) of these rules are intended to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from boilers ...
By All4 Inc.
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Air Pollution Control Specs
As the full effect of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments continue to impact today’s industry, many companies will be required to install new or additional air pollution control equipment. With more than 25 years of proven success in a variety of industries, catalytic and thermal oxidation has become a popular method for controlling volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air ...
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Concentrator - Plant Reduces Utility Expenses with New Emission Control System - Case Study
The steadily increasing natural gas prices near the end of 2004 were becoming a substantial operating cost burden on a facility producing automotive paint and coatings and developing coating products. The major consumers of natural gas at this facility were the main system of boilers which supplied steam energy throughout the facility and two Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs) which controlled ...
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Plant reduces utility expenses with new emission control system - Case Study
The steadily increasing natural gas prices near the end of 2004 were becoming a substantial operating cost burden on a facility producing automolive painl and coatings and developing coating products. The major consumers of natural gas at this facility were the main system of boilers which supplied steam energy throughout ihe facility and two Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs) which controlled ...
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Enhanced LDAR in the chemical industry
As a result of recent leak detection and repair (LDAR) audits and the associated issues (as described in the Winter 2009 issue of Environmental Quarterly), EPA is initiating enhanced LDAR programs as part of the most recent consent decrees.1 The enhanced LDAR programs for chemical facilities are more stringent than the enhanced LDAR previously required for the petroleum refining industry. ...
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Strategy for Complying with Air Pollution Control Regulations in the Chemical Industry
Untitled Document The Clean Air Act (CAA) was originally passed by the United States Congress in 1970 and subsequently revised in 1977 for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. In 1990, then-President George Bush signed the Clean Air Act Amendments. The far-reaching impacts of the 1990 amendments added significantly to the regulatory challenges ...
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LDAR deficiencies lead to enhanced requirements
Leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs are required as part of the standards established in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 60 (NSPS), 40 CFR 61 (NESHAP), 40 CFR 63 (MACT), and 40 CFR 264 (Hazardous Waste Handling). An LDAR program is a facility’s system of procedures used to locate and repair leaking components (e.g., valves, pumps, connectors, compressors, and agitators) to ...
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Boiler mact - what the new emissions limits on industrial boilers mean for you
Generically known as “Boiler MACT”, the new possible industrial boiler limits directly address emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) from industrial boilers and indirectly address the way that industrial sources operate their boilers. This white paper explains how Boiler MACT affects you and how to maintain operating flexibility while addressing compliance issues. The most ...
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Legal lookout: Court sides with EPA on MACT
On June 6, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) petition for review of EPA's 2006 national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry (SOCMI). Background The NRDC challenged EPA's residual-risk rulemaking and their periodic review of emission ...
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The Usual Suspects - U.S. EPA 2011 - 2013 Enforcement Initiatives
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has announced its 2011 through 2013 National Enforcement Initiatives to handle national environmental and public health problems. For air pollution, the initiatives include addressing air pollution from the usual suspects: the largest sources of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide. This includes continued recent enforcement ...
By All4 Inc.
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The Reality and Implications of SSM and NESHAPs
In this edition of ALL4's 4 The Record newsletter, The Reality and Implications of SSM and NESHAPs, Roy R., Eric S., and Mark W. discuss the recent changes to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) rule and how that applies to facilities. The article takes you through what NESHAPs means for compliance during operational periods outside of normal operations, ...
By All4 Inc.
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The impact of urban areas on the deposition of air toxics to adjacent surface waters: A mass budget of PCBs in Lake Michigan in 1994
The impact of urban air toxics on the proximate water bodies was investigated as part of the AEOLOS Project (Atmospheric Exchange Over Lakes and Oceans). The hypothesis of this project was that emissions of hazardous air pollutants into the coastal urban atmosphere increased atmospheric depositional fluxes to proximate Great Waters. Areas of major field and modeling campaigns were located in ...
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