An estimated 1,000 pounds of ethylene was released Friday at Dow's Freeport, Texas, site, the company said in a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, as per Platts.
The release occurred when workers were performing maintenance on the plant's Polyethylene 4 unit, the company told TCEQ. The incident lasted one minute.As per Dow, the maintenance was necessary to purge the reactor prior to restarting. It was unclear if the reactor had been restarted Monday or if any production had been lost as a result of the maintenance.
The Freeport facility has a total polyethylene capacity of 1.4 bln lbs, producing 445 mln lbs/year of low density polyethylene, 562 mln lbs/year of linear low density polyethylene and 410 mln lbs/year of high density polyethylene.
12-Nov-13 
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