
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Clean Air (Emission of Grit and Dust from Furnaces) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1971.
2 

(1) In these regulations—
 “indirect heating appliance” means a heating appliance in which the combustion gases are not in contact with the material being heated;
 “multiflue chimney” means a chimney structure which for the whole or the greater part of its vertical length carries separate flues from more than one furnace; and
 “schedule 1 furnace” and “schedule 2 furnace” mean respectively a furnace described in schedule 1 and a furnace described in schedule 2 to these regulations, being in either case a furnace to which section 2 of the Clean Air Act 1968 applies.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
The provisions of these regulations shall not apply until 1st January 1978 to any furnace which has been installed, or the installation of which has been begun, or an agreement for the purchase or installation of which has been entered into, before the commencement of these regulations.
4 

(1) The quantities of grit and dust which may be emitted during any period from the chimney of a schedule 1 furnace or a schedule 2 furnace with a heat output or input which is within the highest and lowest values specified in column (1) of the relevant schedule shall not exceed the quantities prescribed by that schedule.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, where a chimney serves more than one furnace—
(a) if it is a multiflue chimney, each flue shall be taken as a separate chimney serving a separate furnace; and
(b) in any other case, it shall be taken as a single chimney serving a single furnace with a heat output or input equivalent to the aggregate of the heat outputs or inputs of the furnaces concerned;and for these purposes any part of the emission which derives from a furnace to which these regulations do not apply shall be disregarded.
(3) The provisions of the next following paragraph shall have effect for applying the foregoing provisions to cases where the rating of a schedule 1 furnace or the heat input of a schedule 2 furnace is a value intermediate between two adjacent values in column (1) of the table in that schedule.
(4) In a case described in the preceding paragraph, the prescribed quantities in respect of the chimney of the furnace shall be arrived at as follows:—
(a) by interpolating the intermediate value into column (1) of the table between the two adjacent values (in this paragraph called “the two values”);
(b) by calculating the interval between the lower of the two values and the intermediate value as a proportion of the interval between the two values, carried to two places of decimals; and then
(c) by interpolating a figure, likewise carried to two places of decimals, into column (2) or (3), as the case may be, against the intermediate value at the same proportionate interval between the quantities prescribed in that column against the two values.
5 
These regulations shall apply to a furnace in respect of any period of standard operation, that is to say, any period during which the furnace is operating—
(a) at or close to the loading to which it is subject for the greater part of its working time or
(b) at any higher loading to which it is regularly subject for a limited time (whether or not that loading exceeds its Maximum Continuous Rating or designated heat input).
6 
These regulations shall not apply to any incinerator, that is to say, to any appliance used to burn refuse or waste matter, whether solid or liquid, and whether or not the resulting heat is used for any purpose.
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for the Environment
1st February 1971
SCHEDULE 1
1 
The expression “schedule 1 furnace” means a furnace of—
(a) a boiler or
(b) an indirect heating appliance in which the material heated is a gas or liquid; and where any such furnace falls also within the definition of “schedule 2 furnace”, it shall be treated for the purposes of these regulations as a schedule 1 furnace.
2 
The quantities of grit and dust which may be emitted from the chimney of a schedule 1 furnace shall be ascertained by reference to heat output, designated by Maximum Continuous Rating of the boiler or appliance in pounds of steam per hour (from and at 100°C. (212°F)) or in thousands of British thermal units per hour.
3 

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 below, the quantities of grit and dust, in pounds per hour, which may be emitted by the chimney of a schedule 1 furnace the heat output of which is within the highest and lowest values specified in column (1) of the following table shall not exceed—
(a) if the furnace burns solid matter, the quantities prescribed in column (2) against the value representing the output of that furnace or
(b) if the furnace burns liquid matter, the quantities prescribed in column (3) against that value.

Maximum Continuous Rating in pounds of steam per hour (from and at 100°C. (212°F.)) or in thousands of British thermal units per hour Maximum permitted quantities of grit and dust in pounds per hour
 Furnaces burning solid matter Furnaces burning liquid matter
(1) (2) (3)
825 1.10 0.25
1,000 1.33 0.28
2,000 2.67 0.56
3,000 4.00 0.84
4,000 5.33 1.12
5,000 6.67 1.4
7,500 8.50 2.1
10,000 10.00 2.8
15,000 13.33 4.2
20,000 16.67 5.6
25,000 20.0 7.0
30,000 23.4 8.4
40,000 30 11.2
50,000 37 12.5
100,000 66 18
150,000 94 24
200,000 122 29
250,000 149 36
300,000 172 41
350,000 195 45
400,000 217 50
450,000 239 54.5
475,000 250 57
4 
In the case of a schedule 1 furnace which burns solid matter, the prescribed quantities may not contain more than the following proportion of particles exceeding 76 microns in diameter, that is to say—
(a) 33% where the Maximum Continuous Rating does not exceed 16,800 pounds per hour of steam or 16,800,000 British thermal units per hour or
(b) 20% in any other case.
SCHEDULE 2
1 
Subject to the provisions of paragraph 1 of schedule 1 above, the expression “schedule 2 furnace” means a furnace—
(a) of an indirect heating appliance or
(b) in which the combustion gases are in contact with the material being heated, but that material does not itself contribute to the grit and dust in the combustion gases.
2 
The quantities of grit and dust which may be emitted from the chimney of a schedule 2 furnace shall be ascertained by reference to the designated heat input, expressed as British thermal units per hour.
3 
Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 below, the quantities of grit and dust, in pounds per hour, which may be emitted by the chimney of a schedule 2 furnace the heat input of which is within the highest and lowest values specified in column (1) of the following table shall not exceed—
(a) if the furnace burns solid matter, the quantities prescribed in column (2) against the value representing the heat input of that furnace or
(b) if the furnace burns liquid matter, the quantities prescribed in column (3) against that value.

Heat input in millions of British thermal units per hour Maximum permitted quantities of grit and dust in pounds per hour
 Furnaces burning solid matter Furnaces burning liquid matter
(1) (2) (3)
1.25 1.1 0.28
2.5 2.1 0.55
5.0 4.3 1.1
7.5 6.8 1.7
10 7.6 2.2
15 9.7 3.3
20 11.9 4.4
25 14.1 5.5
30 16.3 6.6
35 18.4 7.7
40 20.6 8.8
45 22.8 9.8
50 25 10.9
100 45 16
200 90 26
300 132 35
400 175 44
500 218 54
575 250 57
4 
In the case of a schedule 2 furnace which burns solid matter, the prescribed quantities may not contain more than the following proportion of particles exceeding 76 microns in diameter, that is to say—
(a) 33% where the designed heat input of the furnace does not exceed 25 million British thermal units or
(b) 20% in any other case.