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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 9. Environment |
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Agency 5. State Air Pollution Control Board |
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Chapter 40. Existing Stationary Sources |
Section 1060. Definitions
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A. For the purpose of these regulations and subsequent amendments or any orders issued by the board, the words or terms shall have the meanings given them in subsection C of this section.
B. As used in this article, all terms not defined here shall have the meanings given them in 9VAC5 Chapter 10 (9VAC5-10-10 et seq.), unless otherwise required by context.
C. Terms defined.
"Charging" means the process by which coal is introduced into a coke oven beginning when coal enters the oven and ending when the door is closed.
"Coking" means the process by which coal is converted to coke by means of destructive distillation using heat.
"Pushing" means the process by which coke is removed from a coke oven, including the period marked by the time when the doors are first removed from a coke oven until quench water is applied to the hot coke.
"Quenching" means the process by which the combustion of hot coke is stopped by application of water or any other procedure achieving the same affect.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR120-04-0902, eff. January 1, 1985.