PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer LP - NAP V Nitrous Oxide Abatement Project

Geismar, Louisiana

• AKA “Geismar Nitric Acid Plant”. This plant actively captures and processes sulfuric acid (SO2) and has the lowest emission total emissions rate in the country (first link page 13).
• This plant says with every 100 pounds they capture, 1.5 lbs will be emitted into the atmosphere.
•  “Acid Mist” means the pollutant sulfuric acid mist (how they measure pollutants coming from the processing plant). 
• There are two pollutants this project captures, pollutants from Nitrogenous fertilizers and Phosphatic fertilizers.
• EPA officials said the plant's modifications will prevent the annual release of 15 million pounds of hydrogen fluoride, a hazardous air pollutant that is a byproduct of phosphoric acid production. 

Hyundai Steel Waste Energy Project,

South Korea

• The Waste Energy Recovery Co-Generation Project is the first ever Verified Carbon Standard project in South Korea and consists of a 400 megawatt co-generation plant at Hyundai Steel. The Project essentially utilizes surplus waste gases to generate electricity and steam.
• In fact, the Project generates nearly three million megawatt hours of electricity and more than one million tons of steam to be used by both the plant and the local electric grid. The project utilizes surplus waste gasses produced by the plant to generate electricity. The waste gasses created by the plant are reused by the steel mill, and the rest are consumed by the project, creating a closed loop system before these gases can enter the atmosphere. Without the development and implementation of this project, the waste gasses would be emitted to the atmosphere after incineration.
• The main goal of this project has been to reduce environmental pollution from the plant and to meet the current environmental policies of South Korea. The company reduces power usage during its manufacturing process by producing power through the power general equipment using blast furnace top gas pressure, which generates power by recycling pressure of high pressure gas created from the blast furnace.
• The company also contributes to greenhouse gas reduction through the reduction of fossil fuel usage by not diffusing the saprophagous gas created from the manufacturing process but recycling it to reuse on the production process such as heating furnace and supplying it as fuel to the power plant to produce electricity, thus reducing LNG usage. In addition, the company continues to reduce LNG usage by introducing exhausted heat recovery system, which produces steam by recycling the heat waste created in the process.
• The Hyundai Steel Waste Energy Recovery Cogeneration Project utilizes surplus waste gases, including BFG (Blast Furnace Gas), COG (Coke Oven Gas), and LDG (Converter Gas), produced by steel to generate electricity.