The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-04-18
TAKES WASTES
FROM RIVER
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waters OF one department as wash
waters in another, accomplishes a
naturalization Of one chemical with
another and at the same time reduces
the volume of wastes 10 sewer. The loss
OF So2 has through these measures been
reduced to low minimum. AS any cal.
cium or sodium sulphites pass of they
are speedily changed to sulphites. In
any case, sthese SUPPLIES and sulphates
are harmless TO all life in large dilution
like this.
Experiments of an exhaustive nature
have been, and are still being, made as
to the use of sodium carbonate MS base
for the making of sulphite liquors with
the idea of recovering the waste liquors
through incarceration, but up TO the
present time these experiments have
shown only negative results.
Experiments from the utilization of
the waste liquors from sulphite d.
gesters, for briquetting, as road binder,
as tanning agent, for alcohol, ETC., are
also being made but the subject is vast
and SO difficult that nothing of q
pratical, economic nature as yet has
been accomplished. You are informed
as to the vast amount of investigation
which has been devoted to this subject
in Germany and in this Country for
the purpose of saving this waste of
material. You may be sure that all
manufacturers, including ourselves,
will continue to work at this problem
until 1t is solved. Meantime, we know
that this lignose solution is entirely
sterile, insert and harmless to every
living thing. AS soon as a process for
utilizing the waste is foun l, the comp
any will spare no expense in establish
ing plant to take care of it also.
III The wastes from the Extract
Plant and from the Wood Room have
all been eliminated. The Wood Room
waste is utilized for fuel and all escape
to sewer from the Extract Plant had
been stopped by the use Of sum-pits
having no sewer connection, which can
only be discharged by means of siphons
connected to the liquor lines through
the teaching cells. Absolutely no ex.
tract waste is now escaping.
". The bleach sludge wastes will
be stopped by the proposed new Elec
trochemical Plant which is TO be in
stalled at Canton at cost of S75O,0O0
90 the plans for which are now under
way and which, if all goes well, will
be in the course of construction within
ninty days. This will give us supply
of chlorine, to take the place of bleach
ing powder, and eliminate this sludgt
entirely.
Summing up, we have already in
stalled or have on the way plans fol
taking care of, in the most thorough
manner known, all the so called
chemical wastes" viz; The soda, thu
black ASH" the So2 or sulphite, the
extra of wastes, and the bleach sludg,
wastes. The whole output of all these
never at any time wasted into thu
river; but, as an actual fact, the i'm
provements already installed ar
preventing one-haIf the total wastes a
this plant as compared with two year
ago. The Improvements now being in
stalled, are proposed to be erected II
the near future, will reduce the tota
wastes to One-fifth or less of what the,
originally were, leaving the lignos
solution the only remaining wastes t.
be cared for and this only represents
l theoretic loss to us, the manufacturer
e and no harm or hurt whatever to an,
one else.