Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: May 16, 2024
Appendix - 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 waterwall1004
Mass burn refractory1004
Mass burn rotary refractory10024
Mass burn rotary waterwall25024
Modular starved air504
Modular excess air504
Refuse-derived fuel stoker20024
Fluidized bed, mixed fuel (wood/refuse-derived fuel)200 c 24
Bubbling fluidized bed combustor1004
Circulating fluidized bed combustor1004
Pulverized coal/refuse-derived fuel mixed fuel-fired combustor1504
Spreader stoker coal/refuse-derived fuel mixed fuel-fired combustor20024
Semi-suspension refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/wet refuse-derived fuel process conversion250 c 24
Spreader stoker fixed floor refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/100 percent coal capable250 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]
authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401
source: 36 FR 24877, Dec. 23, 1971, unless otherwise noted.