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Dow Corning has invested $50 million in state-of-the-art equipment to help
reduce emissions at its Midland, Mich, U.S. site. The new equipment – a recycle
system from Integrated Environmental Technologies, LLC, plus a thermal oxidizer
designed by Dow Corning – is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20
percent and total emissions by 75 percent.
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The recycle system is the first commercial
application of plasma-based waste processing by the chemical industry in the
United States. It uses plasma gasification to separate manufacturing waste into
two parts, which are then recycled into a raw material and a synthetic
gas.
The thermal oxidizer will reduce air emissions from the site, and produce steam
for process heating using the recovered synthetic gas as well as vent emissions
from our facility. This will generate a significant portion of the site’s steam
when fully operational, decreasing its consumption of natural gas by 400
billion BTUs (British Thermal Units) per year – the equivalent of heating more
than 3,500 homes over the Michigan winter.. |
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