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 Title 40 - Protection of Environment
 Chapter I - Environmental Protection Agency
 SubChapter C - Air Programs
 Part 60 - Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
 Subpart Cb - Emissions Guidelines and Compliance Times for Large Municipal Waste Combustors That are Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994

  Table 3 to Subpart Cb of Part 60 - Municipal Waste Combustor Operating Guidelines  

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  • Table 3 to Subpart Cb of Part 60 - Municipal Waste Combustor Operating Guidelines

    Municipal waste combustor technology Carbon monoxide emissions levels (parts per million by volume)a Averaging time (hrs)b
    Mass burn waterwall 100 4
    Mass burn refractory 100 4
    Mass burn rotary refractory 100 24
    Mass burn rotary waterwall 250 24
    Modular starved air 50 4
    Modular excess air 50 4
    Refuse-derived fuel stoker 200 24
    Fluidized bed, mixed fuel (wood/refuse-derived fuel) 200 c 24
    Bubbling fluidized bed combustor 100 4
    Circulating fluidized bed combustor 100 4
    Pulverized coal/refuse-derived fuel mixed fuel-fired combustor 150 4
    Spreader stoker coal/refuse-derived fuel mixed fuel-fired combustor 200 24
    Semi-suspension refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/wet refuse-derived fuel process conversion 250 c 24
    Spreader stoker fixed floor refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/100 percent coal capable 250 c 24

    a Measured at the combustor outlet in conjunction with a measurement of oxygen concentration, corrected to 7 percent oxygen, dry basis. Calculated as an arithmetic average.

    b Averaging times are 4-hour or 24-hour block averages.

    c 24-hour block average, geometric mean.

    [71 FR 27334, May 10, 2006]