Terre Haute, Indiana

The 1990 Amendments to the U.S. Clean Air Act require a 50% reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions by the year 2000. Electric power stations are beheved to be the source of 70% of all sulfur dioxide emissions (see Power generation). As of the mid-1990s, no utiUties were recovering commercial quantities of elemental sulfur ia the United States. Two projects had been aimounced Tampa Electric Company s plan to recover 75,000—90,000 metric tons of sulfuric acid (25,000—30,000 metric tons sulfur equivalent) aimuaHy at its power plant ia Polk County, Elorida, and a full-scale sulfur recovery system to be iastaHed at PSl Energy s Wabash River generating station ia Terre Haute, Indiana. Completed ia 1995, the Terre Haute plant should recover about 14,000 t/yr of elemental sulfur. 

A similar design has been developed using a 161 MW plant by The Dow Chemical Company in its Plaquemine, Louisiana location. Destec, Inc. is a power subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and has joined with PubHc Service Of Indiana to build a new 230 MW plant near Terre Haute, Indiana. Operation is projected for 1995 (95). 

Oldshue, J. Y., Proc. Bioeng. Symp., Rose Polytechnic Inst., Terre Haute, Indiana, May, 1953. 

DHEW. 1964. The air pollution situation in Terre Haute, Indiana with special reference to the hydrogen sulfide incident of May-June, 1964. Washington DC U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Division of Air Pollution. NTIS publication no. PB227486. 

Ethyl maleate from Commercial Solvents Corporation, Terre Haute, Indiana, was distilled before use. Ethyl fumarate can be used also, but the yield of product is lower since a much greater proportion of high-boiling compounds is obtained. Aldehydes do not undergo free-radical addition to maleic anhydride under these conditions. 

The nitroethane was obtained from Commercial Solvents Corporation, Terre Haute, Indiana, as a 90% pure product. The amount used is a 10% excess based on its nitroethane content. The chief contaminant is 2-nitropropane, which does not interfere in the reaction. 

Glas-Col Apparatus Co., 711, Hulman Street, PO Box 2128, Terre Haute, Indiana, 47802, USA. 

Current address IMC Corporation, Terre Haute, Indiana... 

Current address Exxon Chemicals, Linden, New Jersey 2 Current address IMC Corporation, Terre Haute, Indiana... 

John M. Allen Department of Chemistry, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A. 

Hydrogen sulfide was released intermittently from an industrial source in the City of Terre Haute, Indiana, over a period of 2 months. Ambient air concentrations were reported to range from 0.002 to 8 ppm ( 0.0028-11 mg m ). Twenty-seven residents complained of nausea, headache, shortness of breath, sleep disturbance, and throat and eye irritation during this time. 

W6. Womick, R. C., Premixing Micro-ingredients. Charles Pfizer Lecture Series No. 4, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1956. 

One year later, the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer discovered a related structure - christened oxytetracycline (Terramycin) - from Streptomyces rimosus. Interestingly, this was found in a soil sample located near their factory in Terre Haute, Indiana. The parent structure - tetracycline - was then obtained by chemical removal of the chlorine atom (an element only rarely found in terrestrial organisms but common in natural products from marine organisms) from chlortetracycline. This third antibacterial agent was subequently found naturally as a constituent of both Streptomyces aureofaciens and Streptomyces viridifaciens. The structures of chlortetracycline were established by R.B. Woodward in 1952 and that of oxytetracycline by Pfizer scientists (in collaboration with RBW) in 1952. 

The Americans chose an old heavy water plant in Indiana as the site on which they would begin manufacturing V X. It was situated at Newport, a few miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana, where the Allies had been planning to mass produce the anthrax bombs to be used in the Second World War. From the outside, the new factory at Newport looked unexceptional, its main characteristic being a ten storey tower where the forty miles of pipes involved in the process culminated in the final production of VX. In a lower building the oily liquid was loaded into rockets, shells and bombs. 

In late 1972 the three companies announced plans to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of the citrate process. The prime objective was to generate hard engineering and economic data. Basically, Peabody was to fabricate and assemble a skid-mounted 2000 SCFM unit to McKee s design specifications with Pfizer providing chemical expertise, citric acid, and initial host operation of the unit on the power plant in their Terre Haute, Indiana plant site. Since June 1973, when the Terre Haute unit... 

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