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Facility ID: 19605GNRLBSPRIN
Facility Name and Address: EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES READING SMELTER DIV SPRING VALLEY RD & NOLAN ST READING, PA 19605 Parent Company: EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES Industry: Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) (331492) Chemical: Lead compounds Reports: View TRI Facility profile report for this facility View TRI Form R submissions by this facility |
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Pollution Prevention Activities for Selected Chemical
Reporting Year | Section 8.10: Newly Implemented Source Reduction Activity | Section 8.10: Methods to Identify Activity | Section 8.11: Optional Pollution Prevention Information* |
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2019 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
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W13: Improved waste water procedures Source Reduction - Management Meetings between management and operators identified process parameters that needed to be better controlled. |
2018 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
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W13: Improved waste water procedures Source Reduction - Meetings between management and operators identified process parameters that needed to be better controlled. |
2017 |
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant of plastics recycling activities conducted on-site. Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - The company idled secondary lead smelting operations at this site in 2013. There were no lead recyclingoperations conducted in 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017. Remediation and RCRA closure commenced in 2017. |
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2016 |
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant of plastics recycling activities conducted on-site. Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - The company idled secondary lead smelting operations at this site in 2013. There were no lead recycling operations conducted in 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017. Remediation and RCRA closure commenced in 2017. |
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2015 |
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant to the site. Source reduction activities are not applicable. |
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2013 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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2012 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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2011 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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Other Environmental Practices - Upgraded filter clothes in baghouses for more effiecient dust removal. |
2010 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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Other Environmental Practices - Upgraded filter clothes for the facility's process #1 and ventilation #2 baghouses with higher efficiency clothes. |
2009 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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2009 | Other Environmental Practices - This facility of Distribution and Formation ceased operations as of June 7, 2010. The recycling division is still active and does their own Form R. We submit one for Jan - Jun, 2010 next year. | ||
2008 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
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Other Environmental Practices - As part of our ISO 14001 management programs, Exide has focused attention on maintaining programs which increase efficiency of our baghouse filter clothes, limiting the amount of metals which pass through our baghouses and into our scrubbing systems and resulting emission control sludge, which is disposed of in landfills. |
2007 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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2005 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
Source Reduction - The Smelter Operates 4 furnaces which emit metals and sulfur dioxide. Gases are cooled in a series of tubes. Then fabric filter baghouses are used to control metals particulate. Wet Scrubbers are then used to control sulfur dioxide (SO2). Emission Control Sludge (ECS) is generated from the scrubbing of SO2 with lime (CAOH) slurry, resulting in a gypsum (CASO4) sludge with some metals. We replaced all the filter bags in our baghouses cell by cell with a new bag design which has three rings throughout the length of the bags. The rings prevent the bags from collapsing, thereby reducing the chances of clogging and eventually tearring. This has led to increased baghouse efficiencies and a reduction of lead escaping the baghouses into the scrubbing system and being sent offsite in our ECS wastestream from 338,698 lbs in 2004 to 30,655 lbs. in 2005. This change also reduced all other metals, associated with our process, in the ECS. |
2000 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1999 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1998 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1998 |
Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
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1997 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W41: Increased purity or raw materials Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management |
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1997 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1996 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W41: Increased purity or raw materials Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management |
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1996 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1995 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1995 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
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1994 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
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1994 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management |
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1993 |
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other |
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1993 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
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1992 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
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1992 |
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other |