How is Control Device defined in a legal contract?
- Control Device means any equipment, including incinerators, carbon adsorbers, and condensers, that reduces the quantity of a pollutant that is emitted to the air by either destroying or securing the pollutant for subsequent recovery. Seen in 67 SEC filings
- Control Device means an equipment such as a fume incinerator, adsorber, absorber, scrubber, filter media, cyclone, electrostatic precipitator, or the like, used to destroy or remove air pollutants before emitting to the atmosphere. Seen in 29 SEC filings
- Control Device means any device or combination of devices specifically designed to recover or destroy Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) vapors received from the process vents. However, a recovery device that's an inherent part of a process like a condenser operating under specific conditions is not considered a control device. Seen in 21 SEC filings
- Control Device means any combustion device or recapture device. A recovery device is however not regarded as a control device. Seen in 19 SEC filings
- Control Device means an enclosed combustion device, vapor recovery system, or flare. However, a device that primarily recovers or captures solvents or other organics for use, reuse, or sale such as a primary condenser on a solvent recovery unit, does not qualify as a control device. Seen in 16 SEC filings
- Control Device means an equipment like an afterburner, adsorber, fabric filter or scrubber, that is used to prevent or remove an air contaminant from a contaminated exhaust stream. Seen in 13 SEC filings
Note: pulled this data out of the SEC EDGAR Database of 500,000 records from the past 22 years of filings. We regularly update this page as new filings and definitions come in.
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Which definition should you use?
π€ has combined and improved the above descriptions to create market-standard 'Genie definitions' below, with guidance on which documents and which industry to use for each.
Genie Definition 1
Control Device means equipment designed to destroy or remove emitted pollutants, including destruction devices and recapture devices excluding recovery devices.
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Relevant Circumstances
- Agreements involving processes producing emissions
- Agreements aimed at pollution control measures or equipment
- Documents defining or regulating industrial standards
- Processes for waste or emission management
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Genie Definition 2
Control Device means equipment specifically designed to recover or destroy Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) vapors from process vents, excluding inherent process parts.
Relevant Contract Types
Relevant Circumstances
- Chemical manufacturing processes
- Instances where VOC emission control measures required
- Contracts involving the use of VOC in the process
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