Comments on: Howard County residents raise concerns about chemical company’s plans for pilot plastics recycling plant https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/howard-county-residents-raise-concerns-about-chemical-companys-plans-for-pilot-plastics-recycling-plant/ YOUR WORLD BENEATH THE SURFACE. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rene Maldonado https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/howard-county-residents-raise-concerns-about-chemical-companys-plans-for-pilot-plastics-recycling-plant/#comment-185839 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:12:01 +0000 https://baltimorefishbowl.com/?p=196252#comment-185839 What Grace calls an “electric flameless oxidizer” is also called an “incinerator.”  They claim it reduces emissions by 99.9999%, but use just a 99% emissions control value in their MDE application.  What they call VOCs or “non-condensable gases” represent two thirds, yes two thirds, of the original polymer feedstock.  All of that goes to the incinerator, where it is burned on the way out to the atmosphere.  It can be concluded that two thirds of the original polymer feedstock ends up getting burned in the incinerator, it just goes through a gasification step first. 

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