Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 45-7-2 - Definitions2.1. "Air Pollution", "statutory air pollution" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in W. Va. Code §22-5-2.2.2. "Air Pollution Control Equipment" means any equipment used for collecting or converting smoke and/or particulate matter for the purpose of preventing or reducing emission of these materials into the open air.2.3. "Alternative Emission Limitation" means an emission limitation that applies to a source during some but not all periods of normal operation (e.g., applies only during a specifically defined mode of operation such as startup or shutdown). An alternative emission limitation is a component of a continuously applicable emission limitation, and it may take the form of a control measure such as a design, equipment, work practice or operational standard (whether or not numerical).2.4. "Blowing Tap" means any tap associated with ferroalloy submerged arc furnace in which an evolution of gas forces or projects jets of flame or metal sparks beyond the ladle, runner or collection hood.2.5. "By-Product Coke Production Facility" means the production of coke by the destructive distillation of coal in recovery type ovens in which gaseous and liquid distillates are separated and recovered as by-products, and includes any on-site coal preparation, charging, coking, coke pushing, hot coke transfer, coke quenching, coke handling and the separation and preparation of distillates.2.6. "Charging Emissions" means any smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from one or more charging ports, space between charging port rings and oven refractory, drop sleeves, larry car hoppers or emissions from any devices used for the capture and cleaning of emissions resulting from charging operations, but shall not include emissions resulting from the temporary removal of a charging port lid for the purpose of sweeping coal spillage into the oven just charged after all lids have been seated over the charging ports following removal of the larry car.2.7. "Charging Operation" means any operation or procedure by which coal is introduced into a coke oven. For coke oven batteries employing larry cars, the charging operation shall begin when the gate(s) on the larry car coal hopper is (are) opened or the mechanical feeders start the flow of coal into the first charging port(s) until the oven is completely charged and the last charging port lid is seated.2.8. "Charging Port" means any opening through which coal is, or may be, introduced into a coke oven, whether or not such opening is regularly used for that purpose.2.9. "Chemical Change" means, for the purpose of this rule, any change in a substance which does change the properties of the substance and by which a new substance is formed.2.10. "Coke Battery Topside" means the top of the coke battery including, but not necessarily limited to, charging ports, charging port lids, inspection lids, refractory ceiling, offtake piping and the coke oven gas collector main.2.11. "Door Area" means the vertical face of a coke oven between two adjacent buckstays.2.12. "Door Area Emissions" means any smoke and/or particulate matter emissions from any door area including, but not limited to, emissions from the door, chuck door, door seal, jamb or refractory.2.13. "Duplicate Source Operation" means any combination of 2 or more individual source operations of any size that have the same nomenclature, either formerly adopted and/or commonly sanctioned by usage such as, but not limited to, two or more rotary driers, basic oxygen furnaces or electric arc furnaces contained in the same plant.2.14. "Ferroalloy Electric Submerged Arc Furnace" means any furnace used in production of ferroalloys wherein electrical energy is converted to heat energy by transmission of current between electrodes partially submerged in the furnace charge.2.15. "Fuel" means any form of combustible matter (solid, liquid, vapor or gas) that is used as a source of heat.2.16. "Fugitive Particulate Matter" means any and all particulate matter which, if not confined, would be emitted directly into the open air from points other than a stack outlet.2.17. "Furnace Charge" means any material introduced into a ferroalloy electric submerged arc furnace, and may consist of, but is not limited to, ores, slag, carbonaceous material and limestone.2.18. "Maintenance Operation" means maintenance activities that have zero process weight rate and that are not defined as a manufacturing process.2.19. "Malfunction" means a sudden and unavoidable breakdown of process or control equipment.2.20. "Manufacturing Process" means any action, operation or treatment, embracing chemical, industrial or manufacturing efforts, and employing, for example, heat treating furnaces, by-product coke plants, core-baking ovens, mixing kettles, cupolas, blast furnaces, open hearth furnaces, heating and reheating furnaces, puddling furnaces, sintering plants, electric steel furnaces, ferrous and non-ferrous foundries, kilns, stills, driers, crushers, grinders, roasters, and equipment used in connection therewith and all other methods or forms of manufacturing or processing that may emit smoke, particulate matter or gaseous matter.2.21. "Non-Recovery Coke Production Facility" means the destructive distillation of coal in which the gaseous and liquid distillates are separated from coal, but not recovered as by-products, and includes any on-site coal preparation, charging, coking, coke pushing, hot coke transfer, coke quenching and coke handling.2.22. "Offtake Piping" means the piping that transports gaseous by-products of the coking cycle from an oven to the coke oven gas collector main, such as standpipes, standpipe caps, goosenecks and slipjoints.2.23. "Opacity" means the degree to which emissions reduce the transmission of light and obscure the view of an object in the background.2.24. "Oxygen Lancing" shall mean the burning open of a taphole to remove slag or product from the taphole associated with operations of a ferroalloy electric submerged arc furnace.2.25. "Particulate Matter" means any material, except uncombined water, that exists in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid.2.26 "Person" means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including the state of West Virginia or any other state, the United States of America, any municipal, statutory, public or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country, and any firm, partnership or association of whatever nature.2.27. "Physical Change" means, for the purpose of this rule, any change in a substance which does not change the properties of the substance. Such changes include but are not limited to crushing, grinding, drying, change of state and sizing.2.28. "Plant" means and includes all equipment, grounds, source operations and any manufacturing processes utilized in an integral complex.2.29. "Poling" shall mean pushing a log timer into the furnace taphole to clear slag from the furnace tapping channel associated with operation of a ferroalloy electric submerged arc furnace.2.30. "Potential To Emit", for the purpose of subsections 10.5 and 10.6, means the maximum capacity of a source, on an hourly and annual basis, to emit any air pollutant(s) under its physical and operational design, prior to any air pollution control equipment.2.31. "Process Weight" means that total weight of all materials introduced into a source operation, excluding solid, liquid and gaseous fuels used solely as fuels, and excluding all process and combustion air.2.32. "Process Weight Rate" means a rate established as follows:2.32.1. For continuous or long-run steady-state source operations, the total process weight for the entire period of continuous operation or for a typical portion thereof, divided by the number of hours of such period or portion thereof.2.32.2. For cyclical or batch unit operations, or unit processes, the total process weight for a period that covers a complete operation or an integral number of cycles, divided by the hours of actual process operation during such a period.2.32.3. Where the nature of any process or operation or the design of any equipment is such as to permit more than one interpretation of this definition, the interpretation that results in the minimum value for allowable emission shall apply.2.33. "Pushing Emissions" means any smoke and/or particulate matter emissions resulting from the pushing operation.2.34. "Pushing Operation" means the removal of coke from a coke oven and shall begin when the coke mass starts to move and shall continue until the coke transfer car enters the quenching station.2.35. "Quenching Emissions" means any smoke and/or particulate matter emissions resulting from the quenching operation.2.36. "Quenching Operation" means the process by which the combustion of hot coke is stopped by application of water or any other procedure achieving the same effect.2.37. "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection or such other person to whom the Secretary has delegated authority or duties pursuant to W.Va. Code §§22-1-6 or 22-1-8.2.38. "Shutdown" means the cessation of operation of a source subject to this rule for any reason, unless otherwise defined in a permit creating an alternative emission limitation.2.39. "Smoke" means small gasborne and airborne particulate matter emitted in sufficient numbers to be visible.2.40. "Source Operation" means the last operation in a manufacturing process preceding the emission of air contaminants which operation:2.40.1. Results in the separation of air contaminants from the process materials or in the conversion of the process materials into air contaminants; and2.40.2. Is not an air pollution abatement operation.2.41. "Source Operation Type" means a categorization established as follows: 2.41.1. Type 'a' means any manufacturing process source operation involving glass melting, calcination or physical change except as noted in Type 'c' below.2.41.2. Type 'b' means any metallurgical manufacturing process source operation. Gray iron cupolas located in the counties of Brooke, Hancock, Ohio, Marshall and Kanawha; and the Magisterial Districts of Valley (Fayette County), Scott and Pocatalico (Putnam County), Tygart (Wood County) and Union and Winfield (Marion County west of I-79) shall be classified as Type 'b' source operations.2.41.3. Type 'c' means any wet cement manufacturing process source operation which is used for the primary purpose of calcination. Gray iron cupolas located in the areas of the state other than those defined in subsection 2.39.b shall be classified as Type 'c' source operations.2.41.4. Type 'd' means any manufacturing process source operation in which materials of any origin undergo a chemical change, and this chemical change results in the emission of particulate matter to the atmosphere, unless otherwise classified.2.41.5. Where the nature of any process or operation or the design of any equipment is such as to permit more than one interpretation of source operation type, the interpretation of the Secretary shall apply.2.42. "Stack", for the purpose of this rule, means, but is not limited to, any duct, control equipment exhaust or similar apparatus, which is designed to vent gases containing particulate matter into the open air.2.43. "Standard Conditions" means, for the purposes of this rule, a temperature of 68 degrees F and a pressure of 29.92 inches of mercury column.2.44. "Startup" means the setting in operation of a source subject to this rule for any reason, unless otherwise defined in a permit creating an alternative emission limitation.2.45. "Tapping" means the removal of product and slag from a ferroalloy electric submerged arc furnace under normal operating conditions, such as removal of metal under normal pressure and movement by gravity down the spout into a ladle.2.46. "Topside Emissions" means any smoke and/or or particulate matter emissions or both from one or more points on the topside of a coke oven battery excluding charging emissions.2.47. "Transport Emissions" means any smoke and/or or particulate matter emissions which are emitted once the transport of the hot coke begins during the pushing operation and continues until the coke transfer car enters the quenching station.2.48. Other words and phrases used in this rule, unless otherwise indicated, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in W. Va. Code §22-5-1, et seq..