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PetroMAS Engineering: Air
Emissions & Wastewater Management
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| Clients |
ITC,
PetroUnited,
Stinnes, TACB |
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| Location |
Gulf Coast of U.S.A. |
| Program |
Emissions
estimating software, studies and treatment designs |
| Duration |
1975 - 1982 |
| Scope |
Environ. Audits, Petrochem. Waste-water
Treatment System Designs, developed software to inventory storage
emissions |
| Role |
Process Engineer, worked under
Jerry Roach P.E.
(now deceased) |
| Tasks |
Environmental Audits
- Under contract to the State of Texas Air
Control Board, did analyses of point emissions from aluminum
pot-lines, kraft paper mills, fertilizer plants. Compared fence-line
calculated emissions to field data, mass balances on point sources.
- Performed annual environmental audits for
ILTA clients, advising them of best practice opportunities to
improve.
Wastewater Treatment
- Petrochemical storage wastewaters vary
significantly in their composition as different product tanks are
washed out. Developed biological treatment systems characterized by
long retention for slow-degradation kinetics, choice of activated
sludge or trickle filter, and bull-rushes in channel ditches for
polishing heavy metals.
Emissions Inventories
- in BASIC (pre-PC days) developed
point-source emission calculation software based on EPA "TANKS" and
"AP-42", including summary tabulating emissions for all products.
Capability to quickly change identity of stored products, and
re-compute entire emissions inventory total.
Texas Air Control Board Study
- Formal report for TACB
quantifying emissions compliance at fenceline from calculating
process vents of aluminum pot-lines, wood pulp Kraft mills and
fertilizer sulfuric acid units.
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