SDAPCD RULE X-J STDS.OF PERF.FOR PETROLEUM REFINERIES
LAST REVISED 11/08/76
SUBPART J - Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries
(Delegation Effective 11-8-76)
RULE 260.100. APPLICABILITY AND DESIGNATION OF AFFECTED
FACILITY (Rev. Effective 1/12/79)
(a) The provisions of this subpart are applicable to the
following affected facilities in petroleum refineries: fluid
catalytic cracking unit catalyst regenerators, fluid catalytic
cracking unit incinerator-waste heat boilers, and fuel gas
combustion devices and all Claus sulfur recovery plants except
Claus plants of 20 long tons per day (LTD) or less associated
with a small petroleum refinery. The Claus sulfur recovery plant
need not be physically located within the boundaries of a
petroleum refinery to be an affected facility, provided it
processes gases produced within a petroleum refinery.
(b) Any fluid catalytic cracking unit catalyst regenerator
or fuel gas combustion device under Section (a) of this rule
which commences construction or modification after June 11, 1973,
or any Claus sulfur recovery plant under Section (a) of this rule
which commences construction or modification after October 4,
1976, is subject to the requirements of this subpart.
RULE 260.101. DEFINITIONS (Rev. Effective 5/1/81)
As used in this subpart, all terms not defined herein shall
have the meaning given them in Subpart A.
(a) "Petroleum Refinery" means any facility engaged in
producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel
oils, lubricants, or other products through distillation of
petroleum or through redistillation, cracking or reforming of
unfinished petroleum derivatives.
(b) "Petroleum" means the crude oil removed from the earth
and the oils derived from tar sands, shale, and coal.
(c) "Process Gas" means any gas generated by a petroleum
refinery process unit, except fuel gas and process upset gas as
defined in this rule.
(d) "Fuel Gas" means any gas which is generated by a
petroleum refinery and which is combusted. Fuel gas also
includes natural gas when the natural gas is combined and com-
busted in any proportion with a gas generated at a refinery.
Fuel gas does not include gases generated by catalytic cracking
unit, catalyst regenerators and fluid coking burners. (Effective
5/1/81)
(e) "Process Upset Gas" means any gas generated by a
petroleum refinery process unit as a result of startup, shutdown,
upset or malfunction.
(f) "Refinery Process Unit" means any segment of the
petroleum refinery in which a specific processing operation is
conducted.
(g) "Fuel Gas Combustion Device" means any equipment, such
as process heaters, boilers and flares used to combust fuel gas,
but does not include facilities in which gases are combusted to
produce sulfur or sulfuric acid.
(h) "Coke Burn-Off" means the coke removed from the surface
of the fluid catalytic cracking unit catalyst by combustion in
the catalyst regenerator. The rate of coke burn-off is
calculated by the formula specified in Rule 260.106.
(i) "Claus Sulfur Recovery Plant" means a process unit
which recovers sulfur from hydrogen sulfide by a vapor-phase
catalytic reaction of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.
(j) "Oxidation Control System" means an emission control
system which reduces emissions from sulfur recovery plants by
converting these emissions to sulfur dioxide.
(k) "Reduction Control System" means an emission control
system which reduces emissions from sulfur recovery plants by
converting these emissions to hydrogen sulfide.
(l) "Reduced Sulfur Compounds" means hydrogen sulfide
(H2S), cabonyl sulfide (COS) and carbon disulfide (CS2).
(m) "Small Petroleum Refinery" means a petroleum refinery
which has a crude oil processing capacity of 50,000 barrels per
stream day or less and which is owned or controlled by a refinery
with a total combined crude oil processing capacity of 137,500
barrels per stream day or less.
RULE 260.102. STANDARD FOR PARTICULATE MATTER
(Rev. Effect. 1/12/79)
(a) On and after the date on which the performance test
required to be conducted by Rule 260.8 is completed, no owner or
operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall
discharge or cause the discharge into the atmosphere from any
fluid catalytic cracking unit catalyst regenerator:
(1) Particulate matter in excess of 1.0 kg/1000 kg
(1.0 lb/1000 lb) of coke burn-off in the catalyst
regenerator.
(2) Gases exhibiting greater than 20 percent opacity,
except for 3 minutes in any one hour.
(b) Where the gases discharged by the fluid catalytic
cracking unit catalyst regenerator pass through an incinerator or
waste heat boiler in which auxiliary or supplemental liquid or
solid fossil fuels are burned, particulate matter in excess of
that permitted by Subsection (a)(1) of this rule may be emitted
to the atmosphere, except that the incremental rate of
particulate emissions shall not exceed 0.18 g/million Cal (0.10
lb/million Btu) of heat input attributable to such liquid or
solid fuel.
RULE 260.103. STANDARD FOR CARBON MONOXIDE
On and after the date on which the performance test required
to be conducted by Rule 260.8 is completed, no owner or operator
subject to the provisions of this subpart shall discharge or
cause the discharge into the atmosphere from the fluid catalytic
cracking unit catalyst regenerator any gases which contain carbon
monoxide in excess of 0.050 percent by volume.
RULE 260.104. STANDARD FOR SULFUR DIOXIDE (Rev. Effect.
1/12/79)
(a) On and after the date on which the performance test
required to be conducted by Rule 260.8 is completed, no owner or
operator subject to the provisions of this subpart shall burn in
any fuel gas combustion device, any fuel gas which contains H2S
in excess of 230 mg/dscm (0.10 gr/dscf), except as provided in
Section (b) of this rule. The combustion of process upset gas in
a flare, or the combustion in a flare of process gas or fuel gas
which is released to the flare as a result of relief valve
leakage, is exempt from this section .
(b) The owner or operator may elect to treat the gases
resulting from the combustion of fuel gas in a manner which
limits the release of SO2 emissions as effectively as compliance
with the requirements of Section (a) of this rule.
(c) No owner or operator shall discharge or cause the
discharge of any gases into the atmosphere from any Claus sulfur
recovery plant containing in excess of:
(i) 0.025 percent by volume of sulfur dioxide at
zero percent oxygen on a dry basis if emissions are
controlled by an oxidation control system, or a
reduction control system followed by incineration, or
(ii) 0.030 percent by volume of reduced sulfur
compounds and 0.0010 percent by volume of hydrogen
sulfide calculated as sulfur dioxide at zero percent
oxygen on a dry basis if emissions are controlled by a
reduction control system not followed by incineration.
RULE 260.105. EMISSION MONITORING
Monitoring requirements shall be those specified in Part 60,
Chapter I, Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 60.105.
RULE 260.106. TEST METHODS AND PROCEDURES
Performance tests shall be conducted as specified in Part
60, Chapter I, Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Section
60.106.