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• Non-Attainment Area = 25 tons per year (t/y)
• Severe Non-Attainment Area = 10 tons per year (t/y)
As such, a facility must look at ALL of their air pollution sources, combine the total
and if it exceeds the limits stated above, they are NOW considered a large
source. With this large source designation comes extensive data gathering and
reporting and it also triggers other federal and state regulations.
Once designated as a Title V facility, each source must propose what methods it
will do to control and monitor emissions. The acceptance of each proposal
depends upon the local and/or state requirements. The sources have a variety of
ways to monitor their emissions. They may use f-factors and fuel calculation; to
temperature or other parametric monitoring; to measuring flue gas with either
portable analyzers, stack testing trailers, or CEMS. The authorities wish is to
have real flue gas measurements and portable analyzers provide a very good
means to collect true, accurate and less costly data.
Title V regulations, including the Compliance Assurance Monitoring (CAM) and
Periodic Monitoring (PM) are the driving force in targeting these smaller sources.
CAM and PM were developed to address all the sources not previously identified
through the other programs.
Fundamental Change in Compliance
A fundamental regulatory change has recently taken place. Historically, sources
only needed to be in compliance during their stack test (generally tested once
every 1 or 5 years). Now, sources are required to be in compliance 100% of the
time. The proof of compliance is now the responsibility of the source and not the
one-time emission (stack) test.
A company officer is now legally responsible for his facility’s air quality
compliance. The regulatory enforcement agencies have the authority to issue
civil fines and/or take criminal action if compliance is not met. These two new
concepts of continuous compliance and enforcement authority provide the
incentive to comply with the regulations. This opens a whole new market for
portable analyzers.
Trends for Portable analyzers
The step to testing smaller sources provided a good reason to utilize another analyzer
technology, namely electrochemical sensors. They provide accurate data, are
more cost effective, and are widely available. Portable electrochemical analyzers
are now accepted at the federal, state, and local levels for monitoring emissions.
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