25 Pa. Code § 129.17

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 25, June 22, 2024

Section 129.17 - Kraft pulp mills

(a) A person may not cause or permit the emission into the outdoor atmosphere of total reduced sulfur from kraft pulp mills in excess of the quantities in the following table:

PPM (VOLUME) DRY	CONDITION
Recovery furnace-old design (without welded wall or membrane wall construction or emission-control designed air systems)	20	12 hour average-correctedto 8% oxygen by volume.
Recovery furnace-new design (with both welded wall ormembrane wall constructionor emission-control designedair systems)	5	12 hour average-correctedto 8% oxygen by volume.
Lime kiln (a rotary or fluosolidunit used to calcine calciumcarbonate into calcium oxide)	20	Never to be exceeded-corrected to 10% oxygen by volume.
Digester systems (continuous orbatch process for cooking woodchips in sodium hydroxide andsodium sulfide to producecellulosic material)	5	Never to be exceeded.
Multiple effect evaporator system (vapor heads, heating elements,hot wells, condensers andassociated equipment used toconcentrate spent pulp mill cooking liquid)	5	Never to be exceeded.
Smelt dissolving tank (the vesselused to produce an aqueoussolution from the molten mixturedischarged from the floor of arecovery furnace)	20	Never to be exceeded.

(b) Total reduced sulfur emissions shall be monitored continuously at recovery furnaces, digester systems and multiple effect evaporator systems unless emissions are incinerated at 1,200°F for .5 seconds or incinerated to provide equivalent total reduced sulfur control.

(1) Monitors, installation, operation, maintenance and reporting shall be as prescribed in Chapter 139 (relating to sampling and testing).

(2) TRS monitoring systems installed under this section shall meet the minimum data availability requirements in Chapter 139 Subchapter C (relating to requirements for source monitoring for stationary sources).

(3) The Department may use the data from the monitoring systems or from an alternate monitoring system to determine compliance with subsection (a).

(4) Source owners and operators shall achieve compliance with these monitoring provisions by May 7, 1991.

(c) Compliance with subsection (a) shall be achieved in accordance with the following schedule:

ACTIVITY	MONTHS AFTER MAY 7, 1988
	EXISTING SOURCES	RECOVERY FURNACE (NEW SOURCE)
Submit for Department approvala plan for achieving compliance	6	6
Submit for Department approvala plan of necessary equipment	12	24
Issue purchase orders	24	36
Achieve compliance	36	72

25 Pa. Code § 129.17

The provisions of this § 129.17 adopted May 6, 1988, effective 5/7/1988, 18 Pa.B. 2102; amended October 26, 1990, effective 10/27/1990, 20 Pa.B. 5416; amended August 2, 1991, effective 8/3/1991, 21 Pa.B. 3406.

The provisions of this § 129.17 issued under section 5 of the Air Pollution Control Act (35 P.S. § 4005).