The Proposed Plant

Plant Equipment Summary

4 Flare stacks (towers)

• 3 Flares from the Reactor, which will burn purge gas and will burn the reactor gases in case of a shutdown

• 1 Loading Flare to burn tank emissions while loading diesel, naptha and ammonia

Pipelines

• One pipeline to deliver water from the Ohio River (about 20 miles) to the plant

• One pipeline to discharge waste water back into the Ohio (about 20 miles)

Coal Unloading, Storage & Preparation

• Rail car dump, capable of handling 100 rail cars of coal (5000 tons of coal per hour)

• 4 coal stockpiles, each 100 feet tall

• Coal milling and drying unit, this will pulverize the coal

Adding Chemicals and Mixing the Feed to the Reactor

• Sodium Sulfide (Na2S) unloading and silo for storage

• 3 Mixing tanks/drums for preparation of slurry to the reactor

Main Reactor (the Veba Combi Cracking, or VCC, Unit)

• High-Pressure Liquid- and Gas- Phase Hydrocrackers

• “Residue” solidification unit (1124 tons per day of waste). Shipped out by railcar, truck or bulk containers.

Production of Sulfur from (Poisonous) Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)

• 2 Sulfur Recovery Plants

• Amine Regeneration Unit

• Ammonia Stripper

Storage Tanks

• 4 Diesel product tanks, plus diesel fuel tank

• 2 Naptha product tanks

• 12 Pressurized ammonia tanks

• “Slop” tank, amine tank, sour water tank, sulfuric acid tank, caustic tank, water tanks

Loading Product

• Rail car loading capable of 8 railcars simultaneously at 2500 gpm each (20,000 gpm total) for diesel and naptha

• Rail car loading for anhydrous ammonia

• Rail car loading for molten sulfur

• Rail car loading for “residue”

• Truck loading for “residue”

Additional Equipment

• 2 Sulfur “Recovery” Plants

• 2 Molten Sulfur Pits

• 2 Diesel Generators (to run in event of power failure)

• Hydrogen Production Unit

• Ammonia (NH3) Recovery Plant

• Water Supply and Treatment Plant

• Waste Water Treatment Plant (discharge either to Ohio River or Little Pigeon Creek)

Plant Inputs, Outputs, and Intermediate Chemicals

Inputs

• Illinois Number 6 coal: delivered by 100 car unit trains. Unloading will be up to 5000 tons per hour.

• Water from the Ohio River: at a rate of 1.8 million gallons per day, via a pipeline yet to be constructed

• Sodium Sulfide (Na2S): delivered by rail car. When exposed to moist air, Na2S and its hydrates emit hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs.

• Methyl diethanolamine (MDEA): used to separate poisonous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the gas produced in the reforming process and send it to another plant for conversion to sulfur.

Outputs

• Diesel fuel: the energy needed to produce this fuel from this plant is almost the same as the energy contained in the product

• Naptha: flammable, known to cause skin and airway irritation and cancer

• Sulfur: smells like rotten eggs, will be stored on site

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2): a major cause of global warming

• Ammonia: will be stored on-site then shipped out

• “Residue” Pellets: created from the coal waste, to processed and shipped…where?

• Waste water: at a rate of over 1 million gallons per day, to be carried to the Ohio River via a pipeline yet to be constructed

Internally-Produced Chemicals

• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S): a deadly toxin which the U.S. government considers a high priority chemical threat, both industrially and as a potential weapon of mass destruction by terrorists

• Ammonia: classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States, subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, or use it in significant quantities

• Sulfur Dioxide (SO2): A major air pollutant and has significant impacts upon human health

• Carbon Monoxide (CO): A toxic pollutant