Mich. Admin. Code R. 336.1282 - Permit to install exemptions; furnaces, ovens, and heaters
Rule 282.
(1) This
rule does not apply if prohibited by
R
336.1278 and unless the requirements of
R
336.1278a have been met.
(2) The requirement of
R
336.1201(1) to obtain a permit to
install does not apply to any of the following:
(a) Any of the following processes or process
equipment which are electrically heated or which fire sweet gas fuel or no. 1
or no. 2 fuel oil at a maximum total heat input rate of not more than
10,000,000 Btu per hour:
(i) Furnaces for heat
treating or forging glass or metals, the use of that does not involve ammonia,
molten materials, oil-coated parts, or oil quenching.
(ii) Porcelain enameling furnaces or
porcelain enameling drying ovens.
(iii) Kilns for firing ceramic
ware.
(iv) Crucible furnaces, pot
furnaces, or induction melting and holding furnaces that have a capacity of
1,000 pounds or less each, in which sweating or distilling is not conducted and
in which fluxing is not conducted utilizing free chlorine, chloride or fluoride
derivatives, or ammonium compounds.
(v) Bakery ovens and confection cookers where
the products are edible and intended for human consumption.
(vi) Electric resistance melting and holding
furnaces that have a capacity of not more than 6,000 pounds per batch and
16,000 pounds per day, which melt only clean charge. Fluxing that results in
the emission of any hazardous air pollutant shall not occur in the
furnace.
(b)
Fuel-burning equipment which is used for space heating, service water heating,
electric power generation, oil and gas production or processing, or indirect
heating and which burns only the following fuels:
(i) Sweet natural gas, synthetic natural gas,
liquefied petroleum gas, or a combination thereof and the equipment has a rated
heat input capacity of not more than 50,000,000 Btu per hour.
(ii) No. 1 and no. 2 fuel oils, distillate
oil, the gaseous fuels specified in paragraph (i) of this subdivision, or a
combination thereof that contains not more than 0.40% sulfur by weight and the
equipment has a rated heat input capacity of not more than 20,000,000 Btu per
hour.
(iii) Wood, wood residue, or
wood waste that is not painted or treated with wood preservatives, which does
not contain more than 25% plywood, chipboard, particleboard, and other types of
manufactured wood boards, that is not contaminated with other waste materials,
and the equipment has a rated heat input capacity of not more than 6,000,000
Btu per hour.
(iv) Waste oil or
used oil fuels that are generated on the geographical site and the equipment
has a rated heat input capacity of not more than 500,000 Btu per
hour.
(c) Fuel-burning
and refuse-burning equipment used in connection with a structure that is
designed and used exclusively as a dwelling for not more than 3
families.
(d) All residential
cooking equipment.
(e) Equipment,
including smokehouses, at restaurants and other retail or institutional
establishments that is used for preparing food for human consumption.
(f) Blacksmith forges.
(g) Sour gas-burning equipment, if the actual
emission of sulfur dioxide does not exceed 1 pound per hour.
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