Environment (Protection) Third Amendment Rules, 2023

The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released Environment (Protection) Third Amendment Rules 2023.

These new rules are for the revision of emission standards of particulate matter (PM) and SO2 for Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) units. In the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, in Schedule-l, after serial number 116 in which these standards are mentioned is substituted by the new standards for the Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) units as per the below table.

S. No.	Industry	Parameter	Standards
“117	Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) units		Emission Concentration (mg/Nm3)	Emission Load (kg per tonne of CPC)
			Production capacity up to 150 TPD
		PM	150	0.7
		SO2	300	1.4
			Production capacity more than 150 TPD
		PM	50	0.23
		SO2	300	1.4

Notes .-

Minimum stack height (in meter) shall be calculated as following-

H=14Q0.3 (where Q is SO2 emission rate in kg/hr), or
H=74Q0.27 (where Q is PM emission rate in tonne/hr), whichever is more.
Provided that the stack height shall not be less than thirty meters.

The Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) units shall install continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) for PM and SO2. CO monitoring by CEMS and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) testing shall be conducted quarterly to have better process control.”

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Download – Environment (Protection) Third Amendment Rules, 2023

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