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a ___THEGAZETTEOF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS NOTIFICATION, New Delhi, the 18th March, 2008 G.S.R. 186(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by Sections 6 and 25 of the Environment Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), he Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, name } These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2008. They shall come info force on the date of their publicction in the Cificial Gazette. 2. Inthe Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986- " Schedule ~|, {c} for seal number 3, relating to "OIL REFINERY INDUSTRY’ ond sntiies relaiing thereto, the following seial number and entries shall be subslituted, namely- Ss. | Industry Parameter Standard No. 1. 2 3 a "3 Petroleum ol A ttlvent | Refinery Timiling valve for concentration (mg/l excep! for pH) - oH S035 Ole Grease 30 BODeden re COD Suspended folds Phenols Suprides CN Armenia oe TEN im cr exavelent) Crore 2 | 20. Benzene 21, Benzo (aj Fyrene Noles (] Concentration imits shall be complied with at the cutie. discharging efliuent [exclucing cischarge ftom sea water cooing systems) to receiving envionment (suitoce water (Law 30) Sra Ta: STE 7 z I 3 a Bodies, marine systems or suble sewers). In cose of pplication oF rected effivent drtectiy for inigation/horticulture purposes [with'n or ‘outside the premises of refinery}, make-up water for cooling systems, fire fighting. etc., the concentration limits shall clo be compies with at the outlet cefore faking ine effluent for such Goplication, However. ‘any use in the process such as use of sour water in desalter is ‘exC.Udad for the purpose of compliance. Ii] In case of cireulsting seawater cooling, the blow-cown from cooling systems shell be moritered for pH anc oll & grecse (ako hexavalent & total chromium, if chromote treatment is given to cadling water] and shall conform to the concentration limits for these porameters. In cose of reuse of treated effluent os cooing water moke-up, all the parameiess {cs applicable for treated effluent] shall bs moriloted and conform lo the prescribad stancards. {ii) In case of ones through cooling with seawater, Ine cll & glease conten’ in ine effluent from cootrg water shall not exceed I.0 mg/l Limiting concentration in mg/Nm®, unless sicted (Furnace, Boller and captive Power Plant) fuel Type | Existing Sulphur Dioxide (303) Oxides of trogen [NOx) Gas refineries 50 New Refinery/Furnace/ Boller 7 50. Liquia Sas 1700 350 250 250 Liquie 450) Parliculate Matfer (PM) Lquie 0 100 350 50 ‘Carbon Manone [co} Gar Lauie 150 200 00. 50 Nickel ang Vonadismn (NV) _ Hydrogen Sulphice |}25) in fuel gas Tiquie Liquid / gas 150 ‘Sulphur contentin quid fuel, weight Luis? gas fl Incose of mixed fuel (gas and liquid use. the limit shall be comeuted based’ ch heat supelied by aes andliguid tuels. [i] All the ‘umacesfooiters with heat input of 16 milion Kio calories/hour or more shall have continucus systems for | monitoring of $02 and NOs. Merual monitering for ail the emision parameters in such fumaces or holes shall be caried out once in “wo mantns Al the emission pararnslers in furnaces/tollers havi ‘eat ‘THEGAZFTTEOF INDIA:EXTRAORDINARY _,__[Par Sve. 34] 1 2 a a Tnpe less than 10 milion Kilo calories/naur will be monitored ‘once in three months, iv) In cose of continuous monitoring, one houtly average ‘concentration values shall be comelied with 98% of the lime: ino month, Any concentration valve obtained through manval monitoring, if exceeds the limiting concentration valve, shal be corsidered as non-complianes. (vy) Data on Nickel ard Vanadium content in the ppm) shall be reported. Nickel ond Vanadium in the liquid vel shall be monitered at least once in six months if liquid fuel source & qualily are not changed. In case of changes, measurement 's necessary after every change. [Foc Regen- Umiting concentration in mg/Nm, unless erator} stoted Existing refineries New Refinery hydro ‘Orher than | /FCC processed | yao ‘Commissioned FeCfeed | processed FCC feed Sulshur Dioxide 50 1700 | 800 (fer hyro- (802) oracessed ised) 850 (for other _ feed! Onides oF | «0 350 Nitogen [NOW Particulate 100 109 50 Matter [Px) Carbon 200) 300 Monoxide (CO} : Nickel and 2 3 2 Veradium (Nie) | Cpacity, % w 30 30 hates ain part feed Is hydro-processed, the emission values shall be ca‘culaled propott'onal to the feed rates of unkreated ond treated feeds. (i) FOC regenerators shal neve continuous systems for monitoring of $> ard NOs, One hourly overage concenialion values shall Se complied with 98% of tre time in ¢ month, in .2 of continuous monitoring. Menual monitoring for a the: emission Saramete's shall be carried cul ones in lwo ments. (er its 30] er TT : TTT a i) Sulphur recovery units having capacity above 20 zones Per doy shall have continuous sysiens for ranilering of SO: Manual monitoring for cll the emission porameters shal Se caried oul ence ina month. (i) Data on sulphur Dioxide emissions {mg/Nir?) shall be ‘epatled regulary, (ii) Sulphur recovery efficiency shall be calcuistes on menthly basis, using quantily of sulphur in the feed to SRU ane quantity of sulshur recovered, 7 2 3 4 Ti) Any concenlrafien value oblained through “manual moritoring, it exceeds the liming concenration valve, shall be | considered asner-complarce. | (i) Cats on Sulphur (weight in %). Nickel (PPM) ond Vanadium (PPM) content in tne teed to FCC snol se veported regularly . | IV} Umit of Corben Monoxide emissions sneil'be comelied with except during annual shut dewn of CO boiler for statutory maint ee 1 Far Bil New SRU or Refinery | sopecty Commissioned & Sulphur Abava 20 v7 WS {Sulphur recovery. % a Recovery /HS, Ts 10 uns (SRU)) | meni suphur | 5.20, % % recovery. % Supa |S 4 3 recovery. % | Oxides of All capacity 350 20 ! Nitrogen (Now, magiNin® - Carbon Alleanaciy | 18 109 | Monovidie | (co, | mam | Noes 8 “TIE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY. [Paerll—$ec. 340] ¢ - Fugitive Emission Storage of Volatile Liquids : General Petroleum Pracucts (1) Storage tanks with copacily between 4 to 75m? and total vapour Pressure (TV?) ‘of more than 10 kpa shoud have Fixed Roc! Tank (FRT) with pressure valve vent, [2] Storage tanks with the casac'ty between 7§ 10 500 m and tolal vapour Pressure [IVP] of 10 to 76 kpa should have Internal Floating Root Tank (IFRI) or Exlerna’ Floating Root Tank (EFRT} or Fixed Roof Tank with vapour control or vaoour bolencing system. (3) Storage tanks with the copacity of mere than 500 m* and total vapeur Pressure [IVP] of 10 to 76 kpa should nove intemal Floating Roof Tank or extemal Ficating Roof Tank or Fixed! Root Tank with vapour contral system. (4) “The tonks with the copecity of more than 75 m* and total vapour Pressure(TVP) of more than 78 kpa should nove Fixed Root Tank with vapour control system. (5) Requirement for seals in Floating Reo* Tanks: () (9) PRT and EFRT shal be provided wilh double seals with minimum vapour recovery of 96%. (b) Primary seal shall be liquid or shoe mounted for EFRT ond vapdur mourtod for |FRT. Moximum seol gap width wit se 4 cm and maximum aep area will be 209 msm of tank diameter. {c} Secondary secl shall be rim mounted. Maximum seal gap width will be 13 cm and maximum gop area will be 20 cm’sm of tank diameter. (g] Matericl of seo! ang corstuction shall ensure high performance anc dutebiity. [il Fixed Reof Tanks shal hove vopour contral efficiency of 95% anc vapour balancing efficiency of 99%. (ii) Inspectign and maintenance of storage tonks shell 5e carried cut under sire! control. For the inspection, AP! RP $75 may be adopted. Inservice inspection with regard seal gap shoud be caried out ‘once in every six months and repair to be implemented in short ime. In future, possicllty of ansteom recat of both seas shall be examined, Storage of Volatile Liquids: Benzene Storage (1) FRT with vapour to incineratién with 99.9% of removal efficiency for volatile organic com pourds (YO) shall be proviced. 2) IFRI/EFRT with couble seal, emission-teducing root fitting and fited with fixed roof with vopour removal efficiency of at leas! 97% shall be provided, (ara 30) MA: TTT Solvents for Lube-Base Oil production (Furfural, NMP, MEK, Toluene and MIBK) IFRT with double seals and inert gas blanketing with vapour removal etficiéncy of at least 97% shal be provided. [Emission control for Road lank tuce/ Rail fank wagon leading Loading of | Gaseline ond Naphtha Volatile | {i) VOC reduction, % (99.5 Products [i] Emission, emmy? ij Benzene: { VOC reduction. % fi) 99.99 i) Enrission, mg/m? {iy 20 Toluene/Xyiene: {i) VOC reduction, % fi) 99.98 | {i Emission, mg/m i130 Note: (i) Itsholbe applicable for Gasoline, Nophiha, Banzene, Toluene and Xylene loading, {i Road tank Truck shall have Botiom Isading ond Rall tank wagon shall have To submerged loading, (i) Annuct leak testing for vapeur colection snell ee lent Standards for Equipment Leaks 1] Approach: Approach for controling fugitive emissions from equipment leaks shall nave procer sslection, insialation and maintenance of nendscking or leck-tight eguiement. Following initial testing after commissioning, the meniterng tor leak, detection is to be carried out os a permanent on-going Lesk Detection and Repair [LDAR) crogramme. Finally detected leaks cre to be repaired within allowable lime frame, (2) Components to be Covered: Components that sholl be covered under LDAR progiamme include {i} Block valves; {i) Control valves; fii) Pump seals: {iv) Compressor seals: [¥| Pressure reliel vaives; |vi) Flanges — Heol Exchangers: (vil Flanges ~ Piping: (vii) Connectors ~ Piping: x} pen ended lines; ond [x) Sampling connections. Equipment and line sizes more thon 1.875 cm or % inch are 10 be coverec. (3) Applicabiity: LOAR programme would be applicable to components (given at 2 ebove) for following procucts/comaounds: (il hydrocarbon gases: [il Light liquid with vapour pressure @ 20°C > 1.0 KPa; and (i) Heavy liould with vapour pressure ® 20°C. beiween 0.31010 kPa (4) While LDA wil not be opplicabie for heavy liquids with vapour pressure <0. kPa, it will be desirable to check for liquid drisping as indication of leak. (5]__ Definition of leak: 4 leak ’s defined as the detection of VOC concentration more than the values (in 9pm) specified below at the emission source using © hydrocarben nolyzer according to meosurement protocol [US =PA - 452/R-95-017, 1995 Protocol for equipment leak emission estimates may be referred to: (6) "7 (e) 9) (10) THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [Paws UL Sec.36)] ‘Component General Hydrocarbon (ppm) | Benzene (ppm) Til 31 Dec. wer. January [Tl 31" Dec. | wat 2008 01, 2009 2008 Jonvay G1, 2009 Pump/Compressor | 10000 | 5000 3500. 2000 Vaives/ianges | 10000 3000 2000" 1000 ‘Oiner components | 16000 3000 | 2000 1000 In cdaition, any component observed to be leaking by sight, sound or smell, regordies: of concentraticn (iauid dripping, visible vapor \eak) or presence of bubbles using socp solution should be can: idered as leck. ‘Monitoring Requirements and Repair Schedule: Folowing frequency of monitoring of leaks ond schedule for repcir of leaks shall be folowed: ci iponent Frequency of monitoring Repair schedule Quarlelly [semiannual aiier Iwo consecutive petiods with « and ennuat petiods with < 2% leaks) Repair wil be started wi working doys and in 5 shal be. 2% leaks | comploted within 1S warking ater § | days after detection of leak for general hydrocarbons. In case with visiole leccks Pump seals Quarter of benzene, ‘he leak shall be Compressor seak | Quarrery Gilended “immediately for | Pressure refer Quarry repoir. devices Pressure reer Wilkin 24 hours devices (airer | venting} Heal Exchangers | Quarter Process drains | Annually ‘Components that | Annually cre dificult to monitor a Pumpseaiswith | Immediately Tmmediaiely visible licuid ripping eat Any companent | Immediately immediately ‘Any component otter repoit/replacement Within five days The percentage leaking components should nal be more than 2% for eny group of comporents, monitored exci pumps/compressors, it should be jing pumps/compressors. In less thon 10% of the total umps/compressors or Ihe pumps ane compressors, whichover is greater case number of of Emission inventory: Refinery shell prepare on inventory of equipment components in the plant, Aller the instrumental components will be colcuiated us measurement of lecks, emission from the siratifies: emission factors (USEPA) or any other supetior factors. The tota fugitive emission wil be established Monitoring: Following types of monitaring methods may be jusiclousy employed for detection of leaks: i) Instrumental method of measurement of lecks: fi) Audio, visual and olfactory (AVO} leck deleclion; and (il] Soap bubSle method. (ora aes 3) Se TT: AST 21 (11) Data on ime of measurement and concentration valve for leak detection: time of repair of leak: ond time af measurement & concentration value after repair of leak should be documented for all the components. (12), Pressure relist ond blow down sysiems should discharge fo a vapour collection and recovery system or to flare. [13) Open-ended lines should be closed by a blind flange or plugged. (14) Totally closed-loop should be used in all routine samples (15) Low emission packing should be used for valves. (14) .High integrity seating materials should be used for flanges. D. Emission Standards for VOC from Wastewater Collection and Treatment (1) Allcontaminated ond odorous wostewater streams shall be handled in closed systems from the source fo the primary treatment stages cikwaler separctor ond equalzation tanks) (2) The collection system shall be covered wilh water seals (raps) oy sawers and drains ‘ang gas tight covers on junction boxes, (8) Ob-water separcioss and equalization tanks shall be provided with fleating/tixed covers. The off-gas genercted shall be lreaied to remove af least 90% of VOC and eliminate dour. The system design shall ensure safety (prevention of formation of explosive mixture, possible detonation and reduce che impact) by cilution with Gicfinert gas, installing LEL detector inctuding control devices, seal drums, detanation mestors, efc. The system shall be designed and opercied for safe maintenance of the collection nd crimary tractment systoms [4] Wastewater from cromatics plants {benzene ond xylene plonts} shell Se treated to remove benzene & fotcl aromatics to c level of 10, 20 ppm respectively before discharge 10 effluent irealment system without dllution, ” (6) Serial number 35, relating fo ‘oll refineries (sulphur oxide) and entries releting thereto shal be omitted: (i) inSchedule VI. in Port c, (a) serial number 1 reloting fo ‘Oil Refinery Indusiry' and entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shail be suostiiu'ed, namely * Petroleum Oil Refinery [Parameter | Standard Al | 2 ‘Quantum limitin Kg/ 1,000 fone of crude proc af 1. O1& Grease 7 20 2. BODseen. 2° _ 60 3. COD so 4. Suspended Sords 3.0 5. Phenols O14 6. Sulphides: 02 7_CN 0.08 - &._Ammonig as N. 80) TKN 6 10, P 12 1. Gi Hexavaent) 0.04 Cr ffotel 0. 13. Pb 004 ‘THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY. [Pane See! 34] Poramet Standard 1 7 2 < ‘Quantum limit in Ke/1,000 tonne of crude processed 14.4 P = 0.004 15.in 20 | 16. Ni Od _ 17.Cu 0.4 18. OB 19. Benzene, 7 0.04 | 20. Benzo (a) — Pyrene 0.08) Notes (i) Quantum limits shall be agplicable for discharge of total effluent (process ettluent cocling weter blow down Inclusing sea cooling water blow down, warnings, etc.) to recelving environment (excluding drect oppiication on iand tor inigarion/norticuture: purposes within *he premises of refinery). [ij In orcier to measure the quantity of effluent |separctely for discharge *0 receiving environment, appiicction for irigation/horicuture purpose: within the premises of refinery & low-down cf coaing systems), aperopriate low measuring devices (eg. Yenoich, flaw mete’s| shall be provided with, fii) Quantum of pollutants shall be colculcted on the basis of deily average of concentration values (o7e 24-hourly composite somple or average of three grab samples, os the case may be}, average flow of.effivent dusing the cay ond crude throughput copecty etthe refinery.” i (iv) Umit for quently of efffuent dischcigéd {excluding biow-cown from seawater cooling] shell he 409 m°/1000 tonne of crude processed. However, for refineries located in high rain tall area, limit of quaniily of effluent only during rainy cays shal be 700 1000 tenne of crude pro: UF. No, Q-15017/15/2007-CPW] R. K. VAISH, Jt. Secy. Note : - The principal rules were published’ in the Gazette of India vide number S.0. 844 (E) 19" November, 1986 and subsequently amended vide S.0. 433 (E) dated 18" April, 1987, S.0. 64 (E) dated 18" January, 1988, 5.0. 3 (E) dated 3" January, 1989, 5.0. 190 (E) dated 15" March, 1989, G.S.R. 913 (E) dated the 24" October, 1989, S.0. 12 (E) Gated the 8" January, 1990, G.S.R. 742 (E) dated the 30” August, 1990, 5.0. 23 (E) dated the 16” January, 1991, G.S.R. 93 (E) dated the 21" February, 1991 G.S.R. 95 (E) dated the 12" February, 1992, G.S.R. 329 (E) cated the 13" March, 1992, G.S.R. 475 (E) dated the 5" May, 1992 G.S.R. 797 (E) dated the 1" October, 1992, G.S.R. 386 (E) dated the 28" April, 1993, g.s.r. 422 (e) dated the 19 May, 1993, G.S.R. 801 (E) dated the 31° December, 1993, G.S.R. 176 (E) dated the 3" April, 1996, G.S.R. 631 (E) dated the 31° October, 1997, G.S.R. 504 (E) dated the 20" August, 1998, G.S.R. 7 (E) dated the 2" January, 1999, G.S.R. 682 (F) dated the 5° October, 1999, G.S.R. 742 (E) dated the 25" September, 2000, G.S.R. 72 (E) dated the 6" February, 2001, G.5.R. 54 (E) dated the 22" January, 2002, G.5.R. 371 (E) dated the 17° May, 2002, G.S.R. 489 (E) dated the 9” July, 2002, S.0. 1088 (E) dated the 11” October, 2002 and G.S.R. 849 (E) dated the 30” December, 2002, G'S.R. 520 (E) dated 1" July, 2003, G.S.R. 92 (E) dated 29” January, 2004, G.S.R. 448 (E) dated 12” July, 2004, Corrigenda G.S.R. 520 (E) dated 12° August, 2004, G.S.R, 272 (E) dated 5” May, 2005, G.S.R. 315 (E) dated 16" May, 2005, G.S.R. 546 (E) dated 30 August, 2005, G.S.R. 46 (E) dated 3” February, 2006, G.S.R. 464 (E) dated 7" August, 2006 , G.S.R. 586 (E) dated 29" August, 2007 and G.S.R. 704 (E) dated 12" November, 2007. 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