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Bank Of America Investment The electricity that powers your home comes with a hidden cost: pollution. Nuclear power plants produce high-level atomic waste and coal-, oil-, and gas-fired power plants all release pollution into the air.

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Banking Investment Amendments to the federal Clean Air Act in 1990 required B.L. England and 110 other power plants to sharply reduce their sulfur dioxide emissions.

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Investment Solution Strategic So in 1995, a "flue gas desulfurization scrubber" became operational on B.L. England Unit 2, the largest of two coal-burning and one gas-fired boilers at the 447-megawatt facility.

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Investment Banking Services The scrubber cut sulfur dioxide emissions at Unit 2 from 17,150 tons in 1990 to 1,083 tons last year, a 94 percent reduction, said Andrew Shawl, the plant's environmental coordinator.

Bank Investment Those cuts are responsible for the bulk of a 53 percent cut in sulfur dioxide emissions facilitywide over the past decade, Shawl said.

Alternative Investment It wasn't cheap. The scrubber cost about $85 million to build and requires five people to run.

Online Investment Services The process begins with limestone, which is dumped by the truckload at the plant and stored in a silo. The limestone is ground to a powder and mixed with water, forming a thick slurry.

Accompany Essential Investment The limestone slurry is piped to the 10-story absorber, a round building concealed in a boxy structure at the foot of the plant's towering smokestack.

Investment Company The slurry is sprayed in tiny droplets from the top of the absorber directly into the path of the plant's smoky emissions.

Investment Management Solution Calcium in the limestone bonds with the sulfur dioxide, forming gypsum crystals, said Eric Adolfsen, operations and maintenance manager. The slurry falls to the ground and is piped to a centrifuge, where the gypsum crystals are separated out. Plant operators monitoring the slurry from a control room know to add fresh slurry when the mixture gets too acidic.

Investment Management Services The gypsum is dried in a kind of washing machine. One-ton batches of gypsum are spun at 800 rotations per minute, effectively removing the water.

Guide Investment Stock The wastewater is treated with chemicals and discharged into Great Egg Harbor Bay.

Investment Manual Solution The gypsum initially was sold to a wallboard manufacturer, but Conectiv now sells it to cement makers as an additive.

Investment Stock Gypsum keeps concrete from drying too quickly.

Essential Investment Solution The air-pollution scrubbers produce about 37,000 tons of gypsum per year, turning a hidden cost into a concrete benefit.

Citicorp Investment Services By Jack Kaskey
The Press of Atlantic City - 12/14/2001

Topic: Air Pollution

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