2018 Advanced Foundry Environmental Air Seminar

Sunday, October 7, 2018
8:20 – 8:30 a.m.
Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements

Juliette Garesché, Sr. EHS Tech. Dir. AFS | IL
8:30 – 11:40 a.m.
Emission Estimation | Emission Estimation - Exercise 1

Jeet Radia, McWane Inc. | AL
Jim Schifo, Keramida Inc. | IN

  • Purposes for Emission Inventories
  • Foundry Sources & Pollutants
  • Emission Estimation Techniques & Tools
  • Emission Factors: Sources, Reliability,  & Errors Variability        
  • Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Tom Rarick, ERM | IN
Break into groups to calculate emissions for a foundry. If class demographics warrant, there will be both an iron/steel foundry example and a non-ferrous foundry example. The focus of the groups will be on calculation methods and factors, not regulatory concepts. Each group will present their solutions to the entire class.
 
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch Speaker

Speaker TBA
1:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Compliance Demonstration | Compliance Demonstration - Exercise 2

Bryant Esch, Waupaca Foundry Inc. | WI
Dan Plant, Metal Technologies Inc. | IN
Greg Kramer, ME Global Inc. | MN

  • Source Testing    
  • Compliance Monitoring
  • Title V Compliance Certification    
  • MACT Compliance     
  • Compliance Management in a Changing Environment    

Bryant Esch, Dan Plant, & Greg Kramer
Return to your assigned group. Using stack test results, determine if facility is within their permit limits and/or MACT rule requirements. Completing semiannual monitoring and annual compliance reports/certifications. Audit your facility relative to its permit and compliance requirements. Discuss the results of your exercise with the class.
 
Monday, October 8, 2018
8 – 11:30 a.m.
Permitting | Permitting - Exercise #3

Tom Rarick, ERM | IN
Craig Schmeisser, Covia | MI
Kathy Moore, Keramida Inc. | IN

  • Construction Permitting
  • State Permitting
  • NSR/PSD Permitting
  • Permitting Strategies and Avoidance (NSR/PSD, MACT)    
  • Operating Permits (including Title 5)

Tom Rarick

Return to groups formed during prior day’s sessions. Each group will determine the level of permitting required for the sources inventoried in the previous exercise. Modified emission units will be introduced. Determinations will be investigated as to whether and how the modification could avoid a higher-level permit review using a “synthetic minor” approach or by utilization of an alternative PSD applicability approach. Each group will discuss their solutions with the class.
 
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Regulatory Requirements

Tom Rarick

  • Federal Regulations Impacting the Foundry Industry
  • State Regulations Impacting the Foundry Industry
  • NESHAPs (MACT & GACT) Affecting the Foundry Industry
  • Climate Change Legislation and Regulations
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Practical Control Technologies

Michael Johnson, BHA/Parker Hannifin Corp. | KS    

  • Practical Aspects of Control System Design/Selection
  • Common Foundry Emissions Control Systems                                                  
  • Control System Integration with Process
  • Control Device Troubleshooting
3:30 – 4 p.m.
Wrap-Up

Course ends no later than 4 p.m.