part_subject: "STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES (CONTINUED)"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "CCC—Standards of Performance for Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units"
section_number: "60.2245"
section_subject: "What is an air curtain incinerator?"
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 60.2245"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Part 60 (§ 60.500 to end of part 60 sections)"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)An ACI operates by forcefully projecting a curtain of air across an open chamber or open pit in which combustion occurs. Incinerators of this type can be constructed above or below ground and with or without refractory walls and floor. Air curtain incinerators are not to be confused with conventional combustion devices with enclosed fireboxes and controlled air technology such as mass burn, modular, and fluidized bed combustors.
(b)Air curtain incinerators that burn only the materials listed in paragraphs (b)(1) through (3) of this section are only required to meet the requirements under § 60.2242 and under “Air Curtain Incinerators” (§§ 60.2245 through 60.2260):