Section 128-1-013 - Boiler"Boiler" means an enclosed device using controlled flame combustion and having the following characteristics:
013.01 The unit must have physical provisions for recovering and exporting thermal energy in the form of steam, heated fluids, or heated gases; and013.02 The unit's combustion chamber and primary energy recovery section(s) must be of integral design. To be of integral design, the combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery section(s) (such as waterwalls and superheaters) must be physically formed into one manufactured or assembled unit. A unit in which the combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery section(s) are joined only by ducts or connections carrying flue gas is not integrally designed; however, secondary energy recovery equipment (such as economizers or air preheaters) need not be physically formed into the same unit as the combustion chamber and the primary energy recovery section. The following units are not precluded from being boilers solely because they are not of integral design: process heaters (units that transfer energy directly to a process stream), and fluidized bed combustion units; and013.03 While in operation, the unit must maintain a thermal energy recovery efficiency of at least 60 percent, calculated in terms of the recovered energy compared with the thermal value of the fuel; and013.04 The unit must export and utilize at least 75 percent of the recovered energy, calculated on an annual basis. In this calculation, no credit shall be given for recovered heat used internally in the same unit. (Examples of internal use are the preheating of fuel or combustion air, and the driving of induced or forced draft fans or feedwater pumps); or013.05 The unit is one which tine Director has determined, on a case-by-case basis, to be a boiler, after considering tine standards in Chapter 5, 002.128 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 013
Amended effective 7/6/2016.