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A Pollution Prevention Committee G. A. COLLINS, JR. Supervisor of Operations The Texas Company Lawrenceville Works Lawrenceville, Illinois The Lawrenceville Works is one of the Texas Company's modern oil refineries located at Lawrenceville, Illinois, along the Embarrass River. Lawrenceville extends along the west bank of the Embarrass and is nine miles west of Vincennes, Indiana, and the Wabash River. The refinery borders the southeast city limits of Lawrenceville and extends approximately one and one-quarter miles along the west bank of the river. The Embarrass empties into the Wabash River about nine miles south of Lawrenceville. Like all small streams, the Embarrass is quickly affected by each rainfall and the volume and quality of its water changes often. There is some aquatic life in the stream even though it carries some industrial wastes and raw sewage in the lower stretch. The refinery processes some 45,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily and the water needed for the operations is pumped from the Embarrass River. Operations in the plant include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, thermal cracking, fluid catalytic cracking, thermal reforming, polymerization, naphtha and middle distillate treating, asphalt manufacture, and high pressure steam generation. Most of the water pumped from the river is used as boiler feed water for the steam generators or as make-up for evaporation losses from the cooling towers. The raw river water is treated before it is used. The waste waters from the refinery pass through gravity type oil separators before they are returned to the river, and some of the waste water is treated to remove undesirable compounds before it is returned to the river. Stream pollution was at one time commonly thought of as something that mainly endangered public health. However, in recent years, public interest and governmental regulatory agencies have directed their attention toward the effects industrial wastes have on the water users on the rivers and toward ways and means of reducing the amount of these wastes in the rivers. An example of the interest that the State regulatory agency has shown is evidenced by the survey work they performed at the plant in
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC195307 |
Title | Pollution prevention committee |
Author | Collins, G. A. |
Date of Original | 1953 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the eighth Industrial Waste Conference |
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Extent of Original | p. 59-63 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
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Transcript | A Pollution Prevention Committee G. A. COLLINS, JR. Supervisor of Operations The Texas Company Lawrenceville Works Lawrenceville, Illinois The Lawrenceville Works is one of the Texas Company's modern oil refineries located at Lawrenceville, Illinois, along the Embarrass River. Lawrenceville extends along the west bank of the Embarrass and is nine miles west of Vincennes, Indiana, and the Wabash River. The refinery borders the southeast city limits of Lawrenceville and extends approximately one and one-quarter miles along the west bank of the river. The Embarrass empties into the Wabash River about nine miles south of Lawrenceville. Like all small streams, the Embarrass is quickly affected by each rainfall and the volume and quality of its water changes often. There is some aquatic life in the stream even though it carries some industrial wastes and raw sewage in the lower stretch. The refinery processes some 45,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily and the water needed for the operations is pumped from the Embarrass River. Operations in the plant include crude distillation, vacuum distillation, thermal cracking, fluid catalytic cracking, thermal reforming, polymerization, naphtha and middle distillate treating, asphalt manufacture, and high pressure steam generation. Most of the water pumped from the river is used as boiler feed water for the steam generators or as make-up for evaporation losses from the cooling towers. The raw river water is treated before it is used. The waste waters from the refinery pass through gravity type oil separators before they are returned to the river, and some of the waste water is treated to remove undesirable compounds before it is returned to the river. Stream pollution was at one time commonly thought of as something that mainly endangered public health. However, in recent years, public interest and governmental regulatory agencies have directed their attention toward the effects industrial wastes have on the water users on the rivers and toward ways and means of reducing the amount of these wastes in the rivers. An example of the interest that the State regulatory agency has shown is evidenced by the survey work they performed at the plant in |
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