30 Tex. Admin. Code § 111.124 - Burning Hazardous Waste Fuels in Commercial Combustion Facilities
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the burning of hazardous waste as fuel for energy recovery in any facility that accepts hazardous waste as fuel from off-site sources which involves a commercial transaction or a change in ownership of the waste and is not regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency at 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 264 or 265, Subpart O, unless the following requirements are met.
(1) Particulate
emissions shall not exceed 0.18 gram per dry standard cubic meter or 0.08 grain
per dry standard cubic foot, to include particulate matter caught by impinger
train, when corrected for 7.0% oxygen in the stack gas according to the formula
specified in §
111.121(1) of
this title (relating to Single-, Dual-, and Multiple-Chamber
Incinerators).
(2) Hydrogen
chloride (HCl) emissions greater than 1.8 kilograms (four pounds) per hour
shall be controlled with a minimum removal efficiency of 95%.
(3) Destruction and removal efficiency (DRE)
shall be at least 99.99% for each principal organic hazardous constituent
(POHC) in each waste feed. The POHCs shall be selected according to the method
at 40 CFR Part 264.342 and shall be approved in advance by the executive
director. DRE shall be determined using the following formula.
(4) The
facility shall perform a trial burn according to the requirements listed at 40
CFR Part 270.62 to determine compliance with paragraphs (1)-(3) of this
section. The operating conditions and waste feed composition during a trial
burn demonstrating compliance with the requirements of paragraphs (1)-(3) of
this section shall be maintained as limits for subsequent operation for the
facility. Substitution of new hazardous waste constituents and increases in the
concentration of any hazardous waste constituent compared to the conditions
existing during the trial burn will require retesting, unless such change or
substitution has received written approval from the executive director. The
operating limits shall be monitored continuously and shall include the
following:
(A) maximum carbon monoxide level
in the exhaust gas of the combustion device;
(B) minimum oxygen level in the exhaust gas
of the combustion device;
(C)
maximum waste feed rate to the combustion device;
(D) minimum combustion temperature;
(E) an appropriate indicator of combustion
gas velocity;
(F) maximum total
hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas of the combustion device; and
(G) any other operating limit determined
necessary by the executive director to ensure that the requirements of
paragraphs (1)-(3) of this section are met.
(5) The facility shall not burn any
chlorinated hazardous waste or hazardous waste containing any of the following
metals, unless the executive director has established an enforceable emission
limit designed to protect public health for each metal and for toxic products
of incomplete combustion.
(6) The
facility shall maintain an automatic waste feed cutoff system which shall
activate if the facility is not operating within the limits determined in
accordance with paragraph (4) of this section and shall remain activated until
the facility is operating within the limits determined in accordance with
paragraph (4) of this section.
(7)
During start-up or shutdown of the facility, hazardous waste fuels must not be
fed into the combustion zone unless the facility is operating within the limits
determined in accordance with paragraph (4) of this section.
(8) Fugitive emissions from the combustion
zone shall be controlled by maintaining the combustion zone pressure lower than
atmospheric pressure or by keeping the combustion zone totally sealed to
prevent fugitive emissions.
(9)
Compliance with the requirements of paragraphs (1)-(4) and (6)-(8) of this
section shall be as soon as practicable, but no later than December 31, 1991.
Compliance with paragraph (5) shall be as soon as practicable, but no later
than July 31, 1992. This paragraph applies to facilities burning hazardous
waste as fuel prior to the effective date of this section. Facilities permitted
after that date will be subject to compliance dates specified by
permit.
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