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Show Utah corporation announces brcc!rthrough in pollution control clous and base metals than ever possible with any other method. The method has proven so efficient that ore producers from as far away as Columbia, South America are shipping ore toSalt Lake City to take advantage of this technological breakthrough. The Salt Lake plant at 1817 Beck Street will be in full operation in the next few weeks, and will handle approximately ap-proximately 5 tons of concentrates con-centrates per day. A Utah public corporation is being considered for a federal grant to help finance fi-nance a technological breakthrough break-through in coal processing and coke desulfurization. Diamond West, which recently re-cently acquired AAA Heating Heat-ing and Air Conditioning -Salt Lake City, including its two UJS. Patents, has received written confirmation confir-mation from the United States Department of Commerce, Com-merce, National Bureau of Standards. After extensive evaluation the NBS has recommended re-commended the Department of Energy give governmental government-al support to the desulfurization desulfuri-zation Invention. The inventor of the patented pat-ented process, Douglas MacGregor, Salt Lake City, applied to the NBS for a five million dollar grant to construct a pilot plant. It Is now up to the Department De-partment of Energy for funding approval. Only 2 of literally thousands of requests re-quests for grants make it as far as MacGregor's patent. pat-ent. The following statements are from the NBS Final Technical Review. Coke Desulfurization is a process pro-cess whereby substantially as much organic sulfur as desired can be removed from coke made from high sulfur coal during the coking cycle. It has been run on a bench scale, and a theoretical analysis an-alysis Indicates the process should work substantially as claimed. It could also be used with petroleum coke. The process, If proven on a commercial scale could assist Utah energy and mineral development. Besides Be-sides helping existing industries in-dustries to meet EPA (Environmental (En-vironmental Protection Agency) air quality standards, stand-ards, it would eliminate problems pro-blems for such proposed projects as Intermountain Power Project and the alunite project near Milford. Mil-ford. The technology is unique, as use of sulfur to de-sulfurlze de-sulfurlze coke has not shown up in the patent literature. Several methods on desul-furizing desul-furizing coal are available, but none are known which parallel this technology. This process could have a significant favorable im -pact on air quality standards stand-ards in several industries if used by them. Therefore, There-fore, EPA may also have an Interest In this technology. tech-nology. The process appears to be technically valid and economically feasible. Widespread use of this process pro-cess would have several energy related benefits; the utilization of high sulfur coals not usable for making metallurgical grade and electrode grade cokes; the savings of considerable transportation energy by being be-ing able to use many local (high sulfur) coals; a cushion cush-ion against the inevitable depletion of present low sulfur sul-fur coal resources; and a considerable energy savings in the production of carbon disulfide.- Use of the process could also reduce costs in the manufacture of steel and aluminum, and could make a significant contribution to air quality. The investment required would have less than a one year payout. And the desulfurization step would be carried out at what is generally normal coking temperatures and during the normal coking cycle, thus not requiring significantly additional add-itional time or temperature (energy). This process ap- pears to be a significant contribution to the technology. tech-nology. Diamond West's Kinetic Minerals Division operates the other UJS. Patent an "Electrowinnlng Process" this approach results in a higher, more efficient recovery re-covery rate of refining pre- |