Market drivers:
An industrial customer is considered a major source of air toxic emissions if the facility emits 10 tons per year of any one — or 25 tons per year of any combination — of the 189 compounds listed in Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Compliance guidelines proceed according to an EPA schedule. Industries that are considered major emission sources need to install maximum achievable control technology (MACT) — control device or process modifications — in order to comply. Some 6,000 industrial facilities are currently in noncompliance. Gas-based control and pollution prevention technologies are available to these industrial customers and need to be promoted aggressively as compliance options.

Consortium program:
Twenty-one members joined this consortium to understand better the regulations that impact their customers and to promote the acceptance of gas-based control and pollution prevention technologies as viable compliance options. Consortium members received training on both the regulations and technologies, assistance in identifying major customers in their areas, and decision-analysis tools and vendor information to help their customers understand the options. An assessment of pollution prevention opportunities identified four gas technologies as deployment priorities: refrigeration / condensation, high-temperature dry thermal cleaning, convection ovens, and infrared burner systems. Showcase demonstrations are planned to highlight these technologies in anticipation of new source categories that will be designated in the year 2000 and beyond.

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