Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Bethlehem Steel announces plans to control coke oven air and water pollution

Journal Article · · JAPCA, the International Journal of Air Pollution Control and Hazardous Waste Management; (USA)
OSTI ID:7161013

Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Maryland Department of the Environment have announced an agreement under which Bethlehem will spend an estimated $92-million at its Sparrows Points, Md., plant for technologically-advanced controls to further reduce air and water pollution, mainly from the plant's coke ovens. The two major systems include one to treat by-product coke oven gas and chemicals, and another to upgrade existing pushing emission controls on two older coke oven batteries. One of the new systems will replace most of the existing equipment that cleans gas and treats chemicals created by the coking process at the plant's three coke oven batteries. Because this system has the potential to greatly reduce sulfur dioxide and other pollutants, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in September announced that its installation qualified for funding as part of the nationwide Innovative Clean Coal Technology Program.

OSTI ID:
7161013
Journal Information:
JAPCA, the International Journal of Air Pollution Control and Hazardous Waste Management; (USA), Journal Name: JAPCA, the International Journal of Air Pollution Control and Hazardous Waste Management; (USA) Vol. 39:8; ISSN JIJME; ISSN 0894-0630
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English