Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0121-0019
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2003-08-22T04:00Z

Contact
Report
Date:
July
12,
2002
From:
Brenda
Shine
North
State
Engineering,
Inc.

To:
MON
Project
File
Subject:
Contact
Report
 
Mr.
Kent
Houser
SHEL
Manager
Air
Products
Corp
P.
O.
Box
12291
Wichita,
KS
67277
(
316)
522­
8181
Summary:
On
July
12
I
contacted
Mr.
Houser
regarding
follow
up
information
on
methanol­
containing
wastewater
streams
at
the
facility.
In
the
Section
114
information
request
filled
out
by
the
facility
in
June
of
1997,
four
methanolcontaining
wastewater
streams,
W02
through
W05
were
reported
as
being
generated,
managed
and
treated.
I
contacted
the
facility
to
verify
some
information
regarding
this
streams.
My
questions,
and
Mr.
Houser's
responses
are
presented
below.

1.
Are
the
processes
generating
these
streams
still
operating?

Yes,
the
processes
have
changed
so
that
the
wastewaters
generated
from
the
process
(
es)
has
a
much
lower
concentration
of
methanol
in
it,
at
approximately
1%
by
weight.
This
water
is
directly
deepwell
injected.
Regarding
the
prior
process,
Wastewater
used
to
be
more
concentrated
15
to
20
%
by
weight.
This
wastewater
was
hardpiped
to
steam
stripping
and
the
stripper
overheads
were
routed
to
a
flare
for
destruction.

2.
Were
any
other
HAP
contained
in
the
wastewater
streams?

No.

3.
Were
the
streams
hardpiped
to
treatment?
Contact
Report
Yes,
the
streams
were
hardpiped
to
the
stripping
operation.
The
sewers
prior
to
deepwell
injection
(
post
stripper)
have
some
open
sources.

4.
Are
the
processes
used
to
generate
the
wastewaters
batch
processes?
Yes,
the
processes
are
batch.