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CHAPTER 271 – SULFUR COMPOUNDS LIMITATIONS
271.01   Emission of Sulfur Oxides from Fuel-Burning Equipment
271.02   Emission of Sulfur Compounds from Process Equipment
Cross-reference:
   Emission defined, CO 251.25
   Exemptions, CO Ch. 261
   Fuel-burning equipment defined, CO 251.28
   Process equipment defined, CO 251.50
§ 271.01 Emission of Sulfur Oxides from Fuel-Burning Equipment
   (a)   Except as otherwise specified in this section, no person shall cause or permit emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack in excess of the rates specified below.
      (1)   For fossil fuel-fired steam generating units between ten (10.0) and three hundred fifty(350) x ten (10) BTU’s per hour total rated capacity of heat input, the emission rate in pounds in sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU actual heat input shall be calculated by the following equation:
         EL = 7.014Q - 0.3014
         where Q is the total rated capacity of heat input in million (1,000,000) BTU per hour and EL is the allowable emission rate in pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU actual heat input.
      (2)   For fossil fuel-fired units equal to or greater than three hundred fifty million (350,000,000) BTU per hour total rated capacity, one and two-tenths (1.20) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input.
      (3)   The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company or any subsequent owner or operator of the Lake Shore Power Plant located in Cleveland shall not cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack at the Lake Shore Plant in excess of the following rates:
         A.   One and three-tenths (1.30) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input from unit no. 18;
         B.   One and nine-tenths (1.90) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input for units 91 through 94.
      (4)   The City of Cleveland or any subsequent owner or operator of the Division Pumping Station located at Cleveland shall not cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack at the Division Pumping Station in excess of four and two- tenths (4.20) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input.
      (5)   No present or subsequent owner or operator of the fossil fuel-fired steam generating units listed herein shall cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to the identified boilers in excess of one (1.00) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input:
 
Company
Boiler Identification
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., Hamilton Ave. Steam Plant
All
Republic Steel
234, 1, 2, A, B and C
Jones and Laughlin Steel
30
 
      (6)   No present or subsequent owner or operator of the fossil fuel-fired steam generating units listed herein shall cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to the identified boilers in excess of five-tenths (0.50) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input:
 
Company
Boiler Identification
Jones and Laughlin Steel
22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35
United States Steel Cuyahoga-Lorain Works
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
DuPont
18
Harshaw Chemical
7 and 8
Standard Oil of Ohio
7, 9 and 10
 
      (7)   The Hupp Company or any subsequent owner or operator of Hupp facilities in Cleveland shall not cause or permit emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to boilers 1 through 3 at this facility in excess of three and five-tenths (3.50) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input.
      (8)   No present or subsequent owner or operator of the Medical Center located in Cleveland shall cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to boilers 3 through 8 at the Medical Center in excess of four and six-tenths (4.60) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input.
      (9)   The General Motors Corporation or any subsequent owner or operator of the Fisher Body Plant at Cleveland shall not cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to boiler 7, 8 and 9 at this facility in excess of two and one-tenth (2.10) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU of actual heat input.
   (b)   Nothing in subsection (a) hereof shall prohibit the use of fuel in fuel-burning equipment with a sulfur content greater than the maximum amount permitted by this section, provided that the fuel-burning equipment is equipped with such control apparatus as to continually prevent the emission of any sulfur oxides in amounts greater than those that would be emitted from the burning in the same fuel-burning equipment without such control apparatus of fuel containing the maximum amount of sulfur by weight that is permitted in subsection (a) hereof.
   (c)   The percentage by weight of sulfur in the fuel shall be determined in accordance with the methods of the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM).
   (d)   For the purpose of this section all emissions of sulfur oxides shall be expressed as concentrations of sulfur dioxide.
(Ord. No. 857-A-76. Passed 6-27-77, eff. 6-30-77)
§ 271.02 Emission of Sulfur Compounds from Process Equipment
   (a)   In addition to the requirements of Section 277.08, except as otherwise specified in this section, no person shall cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack in excess of six (6.00) pounds of sulfur dioxide per ton of actual process weight input.
   (b)   No owner or operator, unless otherwise specified in this section, shall cause or permit the combustion to by-product coke oven gas from any stack containing a total sulfur content expressed as hydrogen sulfide in excess of one hundred seventy (170) grains of hydrogen sulfide per one hundred (100) dry standard cubic feet of coke oven gas or the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack in excess of eighty-six hundredths (0.86) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU actual heat input. Fuel-burning equipment subject to Section 271.01 (a)(1) and (2) are not subject to this limitation.
   (c)   The Republic Steel Corporation or any subsequent owner or operator of Republic Steel facilities located in Cleveland shall not cause or permit the combustion of by-product coke oven gas at the basic oxygen furnace shop, open hearth shop, blast furnaces 1, 4 and 5, foundry, P-Anneals 1-4, and car thaw 1-1 through 1-4, containing a total sulfur content expressed as hydrogen sulfide in excess of two hundred forty (240) grains of hydrogen sulfide per one hundred (100) dry standard cubic feet of coke oven gas or the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack at the above facilities in excess of one and two-tenths (1.20) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU actual heat input.
   (d)   The Republic Steel Corporation or any subsequent owner or operator of the Republic Steel facilities located in Cleveland shall not cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide from any stack attached to the sinter plant at this facility in excess of zero (0.00) pounds of sulfur dioxide per million (1,000,000) BTU actual heat input.
   (e)   The DuPont Company or any subsequent owner or operator of the DuPont Company sulfuric acid production units at Cleveland shall not cause or permit the emission of sulfur dioxide in excess of ten (10.0) pounds of sulfur dioxider per ton of one hundred percent (100%) sulfuric acid production.
(Ord. No. 857-A-76. Passed 6-27-77, eff. 6-30-77)