18 AAC 50.050. Incinerator emission standards

(a) Visibility through the exhaust effluent of an incinerator, including an air curtain incinerator, may not be reduced by visible emissions, excluding condensed water vapor, by more than 20 percent averaged over any six consecutive minutes.

(b) Particulate matter emissions from an incinerator may not exceed the particulate matter standard listed for that incinerator in Table 4 in this subsection.

Table 4 Particulate Matter Standards for Incinerators Incinerator Particulate Matter Standard Rated capacity less than 1000 pounds per hour No limit Rated capacity greater than or 0.15 grains per cubic foot of equal to 1000 but less than 2000 of exhaust gas corrected to 12 pounds per hour percent CO 2 and standard conditions, averaged over three hours Rated capacity greater than or 0.08 grains per cubic foot of equal to 2000 pounds per hour exhaust gas corrected to 12 percent CO 2 and standard conditions, averaged over three hours An incinerator that burns waste 0.65 grams per kilogram of dry containing more than 10 percent sludge input wastewater treatment plant sludge by dry weight from a municipal wastewater treatment plant that serves 10,000 or more persons

History: Eff. 1/18/97, Register 141; am 5/3/2002, Register 162

Authority: Sec. 30, ch. 74,

SLA 1993

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