Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 415.08 - RACT requirements for coking operations

(1) This section applies to all coking operations.

(2) Visible emissions from charging procedures shall be limited by the application of RACT. RACT includes:

(a) The use and maintenance of suitable jumper pipes and leveling bar smoke boots,

(b) The use and maintenance of suitable seals on larry car drop sleeves and leveling bar smoke boots,

(c) The use and maintenance of a steam aspiration system which provides maximum safe levels of negative pressure on the oven chamber during the charging operation, and

(d) The completion of each charging procedure, including sweeping excess coal into the oven just charged, as quickly as possible.

(3) Fugitive emissions from pushing operations shall be captured by a traveling hood and controlled to not more than 0.080 pounds of particulate matter per 1000 pounds of exhaust gas. Any emissions escaping capture may not exceed 20% opacity for each pushing operation, as determined by the average of 6 consecutive observations made at 15 second intervals.

(4) There may be no visible emissions from 90% of the doors of all coke ovens in use; 95% of all coke oven charging port lids on ovens in use; and 90% of all offtake piping on ovens in use, except those open for charging, pushing, cleaning and maintenance as determined by a one pass observation.

(5) Quench towers for the application of water on hot coke shall be equipped with grit arrestors or equivalent equipment approved by the department. Water used in quenching may not include coke by-product plant effluent, and total dissolved solids in make-up quenching water shall be less than 750 milligrams per liter.

(6) Coke oven combustion stacks may not emit more than 0.10 pounds of particulate matter per 1000 pounds of exhaust gas or have visible emissions greater than 20% opacity.

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Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 415.08

Renum. from NR 154.11(7) and am. Register, September, 1986, No. 369, eff. 10-1-86; am. (3) and (5), Register, May, 1992, No. 437, eff. 6-1-92; am. (1), Register, December, 1995, No. 480, eff. 1-1-96.