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40 CFR Table 3 to Subpart WWWW of Part 60: Table 3 to Subpart WWWW of Part 60—Model Rule—Emission Limits for Existing Large Municipal Waste Combustors

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  1. Title 40—Protection of Environment
  2. CHAPTER I—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
  3. SUBCHAPTER C—AIR PROGRAMS
  4. PART 60—STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES
  5. Subpart WWWW—Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Large Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before January 23, 2024

For the air pollutant . . . For this combustor type . . . You must meet this emission limit, corrected to 7 percent oxygen a . . .

Particulate matter All 20 mg/dscm.

Opacity All 10 percent opacity (6-minute block average).

Cadmium All 10 ug/dscm.

Lead All 68 ug/dscm.

Mercury All 50 ug/dscm or 85 percent reduction by weight.

Sulfur dioxide All 22 parts per million by volume dry basis or 75 percent reduction by weight or volume (daily 24-hr geometric average).

Nitrogen oxide b Mass burn waterwall 205 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hr arithmetic average).

Mass burn rotary 150 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hr arithmetic average).

Refuse-derived fuel stoker 160 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hr arithmetic average).

Refuse-derived fuel spreader stoker and semi-suspension 160 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hr arithmetic average).

Refuse-derived fuel fluidized bed 180 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hr arithmetic average).

Hydrogen chloride All 10 parts per million by volume dry basis or 96 percent reduction by weight or volume.

Dioxins/furans All 14 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass).

a CEMS data during warmup, startup, and shutdown, as defined in this subpart, are not corrected to 7 percent oxygen and are used as measured.

b Existing mass burn waterwall units equipped with air-to-air heat exchanger flue gas reheat in advance of a selective catalytic reduction control device are subject to a 50 parts per million by volume dry basis emission limit.

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