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Show if J? i rnp t i i 4 the DAILY UTAH THE UNIVERSITY OF I'TAH VOLUME 87. NUMBER 149 FRIDAY, MAY 12. 1978 Kennecott official explains emission control system by LISA MICHELE HUNT Chronicle staff A 280 million emission control system operating at Kennecott Copper Co. was explained Thursday by C.A. Zeldon, Special Projects Manager. Zeldon spoke at a Hinckley Coffee and Politics session and detailed the pollution control s process the company has been using to achieve a two-third- reduction in emissions. "The Salt Lake Valley can't be helped much by anything we do, because Kennecott isn't the source of that pollution," Zeldon commented. "Automobiles cause that haze." Zeldon used slides to point out that the prevailing wind currents carry Kennecott's emissions further south than east across the valley, and that the only instance of pollution coming into Salt Lake is during the eastward movement of a cold front. "Our system is a good solution to a very serious problem," Zeldon stated while elaborating on the controls placed on the copper smelting process. The Kennecott official explained purification of the fugitive gases, elimination of particulate matter from emissions, and dust collection. He also pointed out the eight emission monitoring stations the company has installed around the valley. "When the government set the limit of .14 parts per million period, Kennecott studied their emissions," during a said Zeldon. "The Beach station found that we were violating this standard 40.7 percent of the time, and at another station 11.4 percent of the time." Presently Kennecott employs a complicated system of monitoring emissions, weather conditions and forecasts 24-ho- ur V through computers to keep the pollution well under violation. "We are now able to tell when conditions are such that we will near the violation point, and we shut down operations," said Zeldon. The Kennecott operation involves the use of two 400-fostacks, and four large fans force the emissions up a stack at 0 miles per hour, Zeldon said. approximately Low-levemissions from standard building operations are a large problem though, according to Zeldon. "These impact most heavily on ihe area directly around the smelter," ot 50-6- el he said. Zeldon mentioned the collection of particulate matter specifically, and estimated that approximately 30 tons per day are taken out of emissions and simply stored as waste. "VVe have to store it, it is not economically feasible to process it," he said. The pollution control devices required by the Clean Air Amendment have added 12 to 15 cents per pound to the cost of copper production, said Zeldon, but the major problem of copper producers is the growth of foreign producers. "The only concern foreign companies have is keeping their people employed, even if their rising production causes our prices to fall," Zeldon said. "They are not operating strictly, basis as we are in this country." on a profit-los- s Kennecott has stockpiled heavily in the past, and Zeldon said they would continue to do so. "This mine hasaverylong life expectancy, probably 30 years, if not longer," said Zeldon. He added that there was no cessation date planned for the open pit system, or a conversion to tunnels. V Kennecott official C. A. Zeldon E of ects Asp ! "" j - """" m twm r,.,,, foods were introduced variety of foreign and sampled by participants A at - the International forum. ...mm imi Jf:" t"Jtx-T-J-- J IH TTT - Office of Education travel Inexpensive ways of traveling to Europe and studying or working there were presented at a travel forum Thursday sponsored by the University International Office of Education. A film on Germany and a variety of foreign foods, as well as a collection of travel brochures, were also featured. "Even while living in Salt Lake City, which is a few thousand miles from either ocean, it is possible to get to Europe without being broke doing it," said Turid Lipman, Study Abroad advisor to the center. She identified two 1978 travel catalogs which offered discount charter and regular air flights for students, as well as other hints on saving transportation money. Pointing out that European trains are "clean, comfortable, and go everywhere," Lipman suggested that a student consider an Inter-rai- l pass, which allows for unlimited Two sociologists American family will be by two eminent family sociologistsFriday, at the University. Dr. Reuben L. Hill, Regent's Professor of Family Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. discussed A i ' 'i n ""'ii'i':' ii a, i!r?s"""") c """m,'m " will speak Friday at 8 p.m. in the Social and Behavioral Science Auditorium. He will discuss Carlfred B. Broderick, "Why Benie Loves His professor of sociology and Mother More Than Me," executive director of the relating his research on Marriage and Family interpersonal relationships within the family, based on Counseling Training Program at the University of variables such as power, Southern California, will communication, attitudes speak to family and and values. consumer studies educators Broderick has been a and professionals from member of the executive committee of the National throughout the state. The lectures are sponsored Council on Family Relaby the University Departions since 1965. tment of Family '" tions" at 1:30 p.m. in the Sill Home Living Center on campus. Hill is internationally known for his research on marriage and family phenomena. Broderick ty 4 .ill L and Consumer Studies and the Utah Council on Family Relations. Both lectures are open to the public. Hill will discuss "Kin Keeping in Three Genera Reservations for luncheon and dinner meals preceding each lecture may be made through the Department of Family Studies, and 581-771- 2 Consumer second-clas- s travel for one month throughout Europe, (excepting the country in which it is purchased.) She said an Inter-rai- l pass can be purchased after one's arrival in Europe, not before, as in the case of a Eurorail pass. Lipman said inexpensive accomodations are also possible in Europe, in the form of the Budget Accommodation System, such as the one offered in France, or Youth Hostel Accommodations, offered all over Europe. Anita Baker, director for the center, added that the youth hostels are run by the government, are "neat and clean," and cost about $3 a day. Information on jobs abroad and opportunities for farming in Norway or camping in Scandinavia are also available at the International Office of Education, which is located in building 41. News Briefs discuss families The opportunities and challenges facing the sate.. from the Associated Press BOSTON McDonald's says there is no evidence a widely used ingredient included in the sauce on its Big Mac hamburgers "is either dangerous or harmful." A spokesman for the giant hamburger chain responded after a letter from four Canadian doctors published in the New England Journal of Medicine said gum tragacanth, used as a thickening agent in the McDonald's sauce, can cause swelling, itching and shortness of breath in people who are allergic to it. JERUSALEM Jet fighters thundered over Israel Thursday as the Jewish state celebrated its 30th birthday with fireworks, picnics and a colorful parade of soldiers. "You are our hope for the future," Prime Minister Menachem Begin told 2,000 young soldiers and veterans of Israel's 1948 War of Independence, lined smartly up in a packed Jerusalem sports stadium. ROME Terrorists struck at an American multinational target Thursday, wounding the Italian manager of the Chemical Bank of New York in a street ambush in Milan. TOKYO China charged that 30 Sov iet troops penetrated 24 miles into northeast China, shooting and wounding residents in an incident aimed at creating tension on the disputed border. Moscow had no immediate comment. Weather if life wasn't difficult enough for the handicapped, this insensitive pile of branches parked in one of the slots. This particular offense appeared across from the Mineral Science Building. As Friday partly cloudy and fair; high 70, low 45 Saturday fair and warm with variable clouds; high 75, low 46 Sunday sunny and warmer; high 79, low 48 |