Operational Air Emission Rates
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unitii.docxCourse Textbook
Godish, T., Davis, W. T., & Fu, J. S. (2015). Air quality (5th ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Our course project will be to develop a document titled A Permit By Rule (PBR) Application for an Interior Surface Coating Facility that will serve as a simulation of our work as a contract environmental engineer to a small vehicle body shop located in the state of Texas.
The Scenario:
You have been contracted with a vehicle body repair shop named Texas Car Body Repairs, USA to engineer and write a state (Texas) air permit application for a carefully designed interior lining (painting) facility. According to Texas state laws and EPA laws, the facility must have an air permit before construction begins. Once the facility is completed, the construction air permit will then become the operational air permit for the facility. As a result, your client wants the air permit application to automatically align the interior surface coating facility into operational compliance with state and federal air quality laws. Consequently, it is extremely important for you to write the air permit application to meet the air permit criteria using the state guidance document and considering the equipment and chemicals already planned for the facility operations.
Your client has presented you with the following specifications regarding the facility operations plan:
The client has designed an interior coating spray painting system that allows the interior of a vehicle to be coated (such as for new vehicles, or vehicles being restored after fire damage or other catastrophic interior damage). The operations will involve a stripped-down vehicle body being brought into the facility’s shop. The shop is a steel building with a finished concrete floor and a paint booth for each vehicle. The vehicle will be placed in the spray booth. The booth will be opened at one end of the booth for makeup air. The exhaust air will flow through an exhaust chamber at the other end of the vehicle (see Cross-Draft Automotive Spray Booth in Appendix F of the TCEQ Regulatory Guidance Document). For each vehicle, once the liner application operations are completed the forced curing (drying) operations will immediately commence.
Instructions:
Unit IV Mini Project
As a continuation of our course project due in Unit VIII, A Permit By Rule (PBR) Application for an Interior Surface Coating Facility, complete the next section, “Operational Air Emission Rates,” of your proposal by following the instructions carefully, and then submit your continued draft for grading.
Instructions
1. Closely read the Required Reading assignment from your textbook, the TCEQ (2011) document, and the Unit Lesson in the Study Guide.
2. Open your proposal draft from Unit III and make any improvements to your draft using your professor’s feedback from the Unit III project assignment.
3. Open the Unit IV Study Guide, read the Unit IV Lesson, then review the calculations demonstrated and explained regarding emission rate calculations and “potential to emit” statistical model calculations for our scenario.
4. Make your Unit IV work your third level 1 heading titled “Operational Air Emission Rates.” Describe and demonstrate (illustrate) the calculations for the following for this section of your project: (a) calculating maximum hourly and annual emission rates, (b) emission rate averaged over a five-hour period, and (c) potential to emit.
You are required to describe and demonstrate the “Operational Air Emission Rates” in a minimum one-page, double-spaced document.
