PCS Phosphates - White Springs

Acid Plant Database November 7, 2014

Owner	PCS Phosphates White Springs Agricultural Chemicals, Inc.
Background	Part of Potash Corporation
Location	State Road 137, E of US 41 North of White Springs Hamilton County Florida
Website	www.potashcorp.com
Plant	Suwannee River/Swift Creek Complex
Plant	Plant C	Plant D	Plant E	Plant F
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Type of Plant	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning
Gas Source	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur
Plant Capacity	2300 STPD	2300 STPD	2500 STPD	2500 STPD
SA/DA	3/1 DA	3/1 DA	3/1 DA	3/1 DA
Emissions	SO₂: 4 lb/ton, 383.33 lb/h, 1679 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.15 lb/ton, 14.38 lb/h, 63 ton/a Opacity: < 10%	SO₂: 4 lb/ton, 383.33 lb/h, 1679 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.15 lb/ton, 14.38 lb/h, 63 ton/a Opacity: < 10%	SO₂: 4 lb/ton, 416.67 lb/h, 1820 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.15 lb/ton, 15.62 lb/h, 68.2 ton/a Opacity: < 10%	SO₂: 4 lb/ton, 416.67 lb/h, 1820 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.15 lb/ton, 15.62 lb/h, 68.2 ton/a Opacity: < 10%
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News	November 6, 2014 - Federal officials said Thursday they struck a deal with a fertilizer company that owns plants in White Springs and in two other states to spend about $50 million improving air-pollution controls.The settlement with the Canadian firm Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan was sparked by complaints that White Springs Agricultural Chemicals Inc. and two other subsidiaries in Louisiana and North Carolina violated the Clean Air Act at plants that made sulfuric acid.White Springs is in Hamilton County along the Suwannee River, just over an hour’s drive west of Jacksonville off Interstate 10. The area meets federal clean-air standards.The agreement “will ensure cleaner air for citizens across the Southeast and will send a strong signal to the industry that noncompliance has serious consequences,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Sam Hirsch from the Justice Department’s environmental division.In addition to the plant improvements, the settlement requires the plant owners to pay a $1.3 million fine.The deal was the largest agreement so far between the government and sulfuric acid producers, whose factories release sulfur dioxide in their emissions.“Large industrial facilities that break the law and pollute the air will be held accountable,” Cynthia Giles, an assistant administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration, said via email.Improvements on the pollution controls are expected to prevent release of 12,600 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions yearly at the plants, according to the EPA, as well as 430 tons of ammonia and 60 tons of nitrogen oxide.A suit the government filed Thursday in Louisiana said the plants operated for years without the “best available control technology.”About $14 million will be spent at White Springs on new controls for two plants, said company spokesman Mike Williams. He said the company disagreed with EPA’s complaint, but decided reaching the agreement matched the company’s sense of environmental stewardship. He said the White Springs plants met their permit standards.

MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum STPA - Short Ton per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption

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