[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 28]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR424.40]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 424_FERROALLOY MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents

 

   Subpart D_Covered Calcium Carbide Furnaces With Wet Air Pollution 

                       Control Devices Subcategory

 

Sec.  424.40  Applicability; description of the covered calcium carbide 

furnaces with wet air pollution control devices subcategory.



    Source: 40 FR 8035, Feb. 24, 1975, unless otherwise noted.





    The provisions of this subpart are applicable to discharges 

resulting from the production of calcium carbide in covered electric 

furnaces which use wet air pollution control devices. This subcategory 

includes those electric furnaces of such construction or configuration 

(known as covered, closed, sealed, semi-covered or semi-closed furnaces) 

that the furnace off-gases are not burned prior to collection and 

cleaning, and which off-gases are cleaned after collection in a wet air 

pollution control device such as a scrubber, ';wet' baghouse, etc. This 

subcategory does not include noncontact cooling water or those furnaces 

which utilize dry dust collection techniques, such as dry baghouses.