U.S. Steel to comply with latest order
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
U.S. Steel has confirmed that it will be able to comply with a revised Allegheny County Health Department enforcement order issued Tuesday for the Mon Valley Works.
In an email sent Friday, U.S. Steel spokeswoman Meghan Cox said the plant will be able to meet an April 15 deadline to have the desulfurization process at Clairton Coke Works up and running.
“We are on track to have the desulfurization process at the Clairton Plant operational by April 15, 2019, when 100 percent of the coke oven gas generated will be desulfurized,” Cox wrote. “This is one month ahead of our original estimated completion date of May 15.”
Desulfurization is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur-oxide emitting processes. Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas with a strong odor similar to a just-struck match, and is a respiratory irritant.
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