Speaker:  Kris Turschmid, Dames & Moore

Date: ***TUESDAY*** February 8, 2000

Social Hour: 6:00 p.m.

Dinner: 7:00 p.m.

Presentation: 8:00 p.m.

Location:  Bartalameo's Ristorante

100 S. King St, Seattle

Directions:

The restaurant is immediately north of the Kingdome on the corner of First & King.

Menu/Cost:                 $25.00

(1) Grilled Halibut or 

(2) Tortelini Gorgonzola with sauteed chicken breast, sundried tomatoes and pine nuts. 

Both menu items served with a tossed green salad, fresh vegetables, Chef's accompaniments, & Macrina bread.

NOTE: 1. Please pay by check made out to Puget Sound Section AIChE, or bring exact change.

2. Make reservations by calling 206-623-8632 or e-mail asiallen@aol.com by Friday noon Feb 4.

If you e-mail, include: Name, tel #, if you are a AIChE member, your menu selection and field trip attendance, etc, In the Subject Box please enter: "AIChE Reservation".

3. You can cancel by noon of the day before the meeting. Dinner reservations "no-shows" will be billed !!

 

The methods taken to eliminate fugitive odors and ammonia from a manufacturing facility will be discussed. The plant produced styrene/butadiene and polyvinyl acrylate polymers. Effluent from equipment cleanup was pretreated in a precipitation and solids separation process prior to combining with other streams. The combined stream was directed to an aerated lagoon prior to discharge to the city sewer. One of the streams was a distillation condensate containing unreacted monomers and ammonia identified as the primary source of ammonia discharge as well as total hydrocarbons emitted to the atmosphere as a result of aeration and stripping.

At the time, plant management was considering three seemingly unrelated projects: 1) elimination of ammonia discharge, 2) elimination of hydrocarbon emissions, and 3) generating additional steam. The projects were addressed as a single project that included enhanced phase separation and a steam-stripping column for treatment of the distillation condensate and a two-stage thermal oxidizer with recovery boiler for treatment of the gaseous emissions. The new system eliminated all complaints of odorous emissions and also eliminated problems with ammonia discharge.

Speaker Background

Kris Turschmid, P.E., is a Senior Engineer with Dames and Moore, Seattle, with expertise in the areas of process engineering and design of pollution control facilities. He has a Master of Science in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Krakow, Poland. He is a registered professional engineer in five states. He has performed process engineering and design on projects related to air and water pollution control, hazardous waste management, chemical process design, energy conversion, and resource recovery. He has project management, planning, and permitting experience.

Prior to joining Dames and Moore, Mr. Turschmid was president of a medium-sized environmental engineering company engaged in the design of water, wastewater, and air pollution control facilities for governmental and industrial clients.

Meeting Arranged by:  Noushin Arab, Puget Sound Section Vice Chair

Reservations:  contact Association Services (see below)

NOTE:

1. Please pay by check made out to Puget Sound Section AIChE, or bring exact

change.

2. Make reservations by calling 206-623-8632 or e-mail asiallen@aol.com by

noon of the meeting day. If you e-mail, include: Name, tel #, AIChE member,

menu

selection and field trip attendance, etc, In Subject Box please: “AIChE

Reservation”.

3. You can cancel by calling by noon of the day of the meeting. Dinner

reservations “no-shows” will be billed !!