By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Tennessee environmental officials have concluded that US Nitrogen's steam generating boiler is operating in compliance with carbon monoxide emissions limits set in the company's operating permit.
In a letter sent this week to US Nitrogen's plant manager Dylan Charles, Bryan Parker of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said the test results recently submitted show compliance with the permit limits.
In the letter Parker also said the agency review showed that the procedures used in performing the tests met agency requirements.
The test for carbon monoxide emissions was performed at the same time as tests for other emissions, such as nitrous oxides. The Midway chemical firm hired an outside testing firm to perform the tests.
Parker noted that at the time of the test the steam boiler, which operates on natural gas, was operating at only 55.5 per cent of its maximum operating capacity.
"The division considers the operation of the boiler to be acceptable," Parker wrote in the two-page letter, adding that the division agrees that US Nitrogen "has demonstrated compliance with the carbon monoxide emisssions limits."
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