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Can the Hazardous Air Pollutants in the Trona Cloud be Economically Reduced, or Eliminated?. “Left Click” to Next Slide. Yes!!!. “Left Click” to Next Slide. While Soda Ash Production Will Continue to be a Major Contributor of the Greenhouse Gas CO 2 …. “Left Click” to Next Slide.
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Can the Hazardous Air Pollutants in the Trona Cloud be Economically Reduced, or Eliminated? “Left Click” to Next Slide
Yes!!! “Left Click” to Next Slide
While Soda Ash Production Will Continue to be a Major Contributor of the Greenhouse Gas CO2… “Left Click” to Next Slide
While Soda Ash Production Will Continue to be a Major Contributor of the Greenhouse Gas CO2… …the Cancer Producing Hazardous Air Pollutants Can be Economically Eliminated. “Left Click” to Next Slide
There are Many Paths to Soda Ash Production. “Left Click” to Next Slide
There are Many Paths to Soda Ash Production. Many Processes in Use Today Would Eliminate the Trona Cloud Hazardous Air Pollutants if They Were Utilized in Southwest Wyoming… “Left Click” to Next Slide
This is How it is Done... “Left Click” to Next Slide
Trona + Oil Shale HEAT Soda Ash The older technology, used in Wyoming today, simply heats trona and oil shale to convert the trona into soda ash (Na2Co3)
HAPs + CO2 + H2O Poisonous Benzene Cloud Trona + Oil Shale HEAT Soda Ash This “dirty” process also cooks millions of tons of oil shale each year, boiling the oil shale products into the atmosphere....
HAPs + CO2 + H2O Poisonous Benzene Cloud Trona + Oil Shale HEAT Soda Ash ..oil shale particulate products are also released....
Newer technologies, use less energy to heat limestone (CaC03), which is used over-and-over again, to chemically convert trona into soda ash… CaO Trona + Oil Shale Limestone (CaCO3) HEAT Soda Ash + Liquid / Solid Waste CaCO3
Newer technologies do not heat oil shale, use less energy, and release less CO2……a greenhouse gas… CO2 Non-Poisonous Greenhouse Gas CaO Trona + Oil Shale Limestone (CaCO3) HEAT Soda Ash + Liquid / Solid Waste CaCO3
HAPs + CO2 + H2O Poisonous Benzene Cloud Trona + Oil Shale HEAT Soda Ash Wyoming’s Process Green Process CO2 Non-Poisonous Greenhouse Gas CaO Trona + Oil Shale Limestone (CaCO3) HEAT Soda Ash + Liquid / Solid Waste CaCO3
Can the Hazardous Air Pollutants in the Trona Cloud be Economically Reduced, or Eliminated?