Friday, February 12, 2021

US Nitrogen Submits Revised Emissions Data

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Tennessee environmental regulators say they are satisfied with revised emissions data submitted by US Nitrogen, following the detection of a calculation error in a prior submission.
In a letter sent today to Dylan Charles, US Nitrogen's plant manager, Bryan Parker of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said the corrected data on emissions from the nitric acid plant showed there had been no excess nitrous oxide emissions.
Parker said the new data showed the erroneous calculation was made in the first quarter of 2019 and it caused only a slight deviation in the emissions calculation.
The data covered emissions data from the third quarter of 2017 to the last quarter of 2020. "The division considers the calculation error was inadvertent," Parker wrote.
When the error was first discovered TDEC officials had expressed concerns that there may have been excess emissions.
The Greene County chemical firm produces liquid ammonium nitrate for use in the production of explosives by its parent company, Ohio based Austin Powder.
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