Environmental Monitoring Plan for the Dow Syngas Project. Illinois No. 6 coal test results, July 1990. Volume 1. Technical summary and non-proprietary data

The Energy Security Act of 1980 established a program to provide financial assistance to private industry in the construction and operation of commercial-scale synthetic fuels plants. The Dow Syngas Project design has a high-temperature entrained-flow slagging type gasifier, which began operation in 1987. Dow agreed to comply with existing environmental regulations and to develop an Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMP) incorporating supplemental monitoring in areas of potential environmental and health concern, relative to synthetic fuels facilities. The two phases of monitoring in the EMP will test parameters of interest for air, water and solid waste and for establishing a data base of information useful in resolving environmental uncertainties relative to replication of synthetic fuels plants. First-time operation with a feedstock sulfur content over 1 percent sulfur is described. All EMP monitoring locations were evaluated. Results cover 1452 samples and 3666 analyses for air, water and solids