Main TitleState of the Art (SOTA) Manual for the Gas Industry
PublisherState of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Quality Permitting Program
Date Created1997-07-01
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical) Country: United States State: New Jersey County: NA
Subject (Topical)air; air pollution; contamination; environmental law; pollution intervention; chemicals; SOTA; performance limits; pollution prevention; emission reduction; air pollution control; glass industry
DescriptionThese State of the Art (SOTA) performance levels apply to new glass manufacturing furnaces. SOTA for modified or reconstructed furnaces must be demonstrated by a case-by-case determination. These SOTA levels apply to the following segments of the glass industry: soda lime recipe glass (including commercial container glass, specialty container glass, flat glass, and pressed and blown glass); borosilicate recipe glass (including pressed and blown glass); and wool fiberglass (insulation materials used in the fiber industry. As promulgated in the New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.2C, and as set forth in the implementing regulations of the Air Pollution Control Act (N.J.A.C. 7:27-8 and N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.35), newly constructed, reconstructed, or modified equipment and control apparatus is required to incorporate advances in the art of air pollution control developed for the kind and amount of air contaminant emitted by the applicant's equipment or control apparatus. The Air Pollution Control Act of New Jersey directed the Department to publish technical manuals that would include performance levels with respect to air pollution control, to be used by some permit applicants for demonstrating advances in the art of air pollution control. 'Advances in the art of air pollution control' is commonly referred to as 'State-of-the-Art' or SOTA. SOTA generally includes performance limits that are based on air pollution control technology, pollution prevention methods, and process modifications or substitutions that will provide the greatest emission reductions that are technologically and economically feasible. There are 17 SOTA manuals included in this series. They cover the following topics: volatile organic storage tanks; transfer operations; petroleum refineries; asphalt plants; chemical and pharmaceutical processing and manufacturing industries; degreasers and other solvent based metal surface cleaners; surface coating operations; commercial sterilizers and fumigators using ethylene oxide; municipal wastewater/sludge handling and treatment systems; non-hazardous onsite remediation processes; bakery ovens; broilers; internal combustion engines; stationary gas turbines; glass industry; paint, ink, and adhesive manufacturing industries; graphic arts industry.
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