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Show Air pollution control devices explained at March UCWLC meet The "Utah County Women's Legislative Council met Thursday Thurs-day morning at -the Bldred Center in Provo to hear a talk on the problems of air pollution pollu-tion in Utah by Boyd C. Erick-son, Erick-son, senior pollution control engineer at Geneva Steel Co. Mr. Erickson was introduced by Mrs. Fred V. Jackman, health chairman. The speaker narrated graphically picturesque pictur-esque slides shown by Art Hol-liman. Hol-liman. U. S. Steel in last 15 years, has spent $200 million for air and water pollution control and Geneva had a share of this, he said. One dollar of every ev-ery $25 spent goes for this purpose. One hundred sixty-tive cars of raw materials per day are processed at Geneva, but dust created in handling is kept to a minimum. Fifteen tons of coal produces 10 tons of coke, with five tons of volatile material ma-terial removed. By-pro duct plant processes 70 million cubic feet of coke oven gas per day. It requires one ton of iron, two tons ore, 600 pounds of limestone lime-stone and five tons of air to produce a ton of steel. One hundred million cubic feet of gas is discharged and one-quarter million pounds of dust caught per day. He illustrated 10 methods of capturing gasses and dust particles par-ticles before they can be released re-leased into the air. One billion cubic feet of gas per day is cleaned at the plant. Steam use proved too costly and damaging to the equipment, equip-ment, but wet scrubbers proved prov-ed efficient and maintenance is reduced with a minimum of discharge of pollutents. Eight electrostatic percipitators are now in operation, and there are test stations all over the valley, val-ley, in the plant, and into Salt Lake valley. There is still a significant problem in the coke area, and all the steel companies in America are attempting to solve this problem. Geneva Steel is one of the cleanest in the country, for an integrated plant. Its aim is to keep its pollution at a minimum and use technology as it becomes available. avail-able. Mrs. Frank Jones gave a state legislative report concerning concern-ing higher education in Utah. She quoted Attorney Peter W. Billings, chairman of the committee com-mittee on higher education as stating that a graduate degree will soon be as necessary as a college degreee is now. |