Section R. 336.1282 - Permit to install exemptions; furnaces, ovens, and heatersRule 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.(g) Sour gas-burning equipment, if the actual emission of sulfur dioxide does not exceed 1 pound per hour.Mich. Admin. Code R. 336.1282
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