Word: mercaptan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret is an afterburner developed by the Blu-Surf Division of Hayes-Albion Co. of Jackson, Mich., and installed on a stack of the S.D. Warren Co., a paper mill whose emissions have long irritated Muskegon residents. Paper mills smell because they emit sulfide and methyl-mercaptan gases. Instead of venting those gases into the air, the destinking system sends them into a special furnace fed by pressurized air and natural gas. The fumes are then forced through a flame that burns at 1350° F., which is the oxidation point of the sulfides and mercaptans. The resultant oxides...