TRI Pollution Prevention Report for NORIT AMERICAS INC and Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)

Facility ID: 74362TCHMN6THHU

Facility Name and Address:
NORIT AMERICAS INC
1432 6TH ST MAIP
PRYOR, OK 74361

Parent Company: CABOT CORP

Industry: All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (325998)
Chemical: Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)

Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical

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Waste Management Comparison - 2016

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*
2019		Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.	Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - No known technology for reduction.
2016			Other Environmental Practices - Alternatives for pollution control are being reviewed.
2014			Other Environmental Practices - HCL emissions from bulk storage tank and regeneration process are controlled by wet scrubbers.
2013			Other Environmental Practices - HCl emissions from the bulk liquid storage tank and the spent activated carbon regeneration process are controlled by wet scrubbers.
2012			Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Wet scrubbing is currently employed on liquid HCl bulk storage and carbon regeneration units (see "treated" amounts). However, source reduction on the virgin activated carbon units is being evaluated in conjunction with PSD objectives (i.e., possible controls for SO2 would concurrently remove HCl).
2010	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)	Source Reduction - Changed recipe for batch process involving hydrochloric acid resultng in a decreased unit consumption of acid while maintaining product quality.
2008			Other Environmental Practices - Norit has been actively pursing the options of internal recycling of spent acid or off-site acid purification by a 3rd party vendor. A decision to move forward with one of the options is anticipated for 2009 with implementation in 2010.

*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.

TRI Pollution Prevention Glossary

The Waste Management Hierarchy

The waste management hierarchy established by the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) guides waste generators toward the best options for managing wastes. The preferred option is to prevent pollution at its source, but for waste that is generated, the preferred management methods are recycling, followed by burning for energy recovery, treatment and, as a last resort, disposing of the waste.

Source Reduction includes activities that eliminate or reduce the generation of chemical waste.
Recycling includes the recovery of a toxic chemical in waste for reuse.
Energy Recovery includes the combustion of toxic chemicals in waste to generate heat or electricity.
Treatment includes the destruction of a toxic chemical in waste.
Disposal or Other Releases includes toxic chemical quantities entering the environment.

The PPA requires facilities to provide the following details about each chemical they report to TRI:

A breakdown of production-related waste managed. This includes all amounts of the chemical released directly to the environment or otherwise managed as waste, other than waste generated by one-time events not associated with normal production processes (e.g., fires or remedial actions).
A production ratio or activity index to provide context for reported toxic chemical quantities. For example, if a chemical is used in the manufacture of refrigerators, the production index would track the number of refrigerators produced and could be used to help gauge how much of the chemical is being released per unit of production.
Any newly implemented source reduction activities, reported using "W-codes" (e.g., "W41: Increased purity of raw materials")

Facilities may also provide optional Pollution Prevention Information describing their source reduction, recycling, or pollution control activities.