United States
 Environmental Protection
 Agency
 Industrial Environmental
 Research Laboratory
 Research Triangle Park NC 27711
 Research and Development
 EPA-600/S7-84-019 Aug. 1984
 Project  Summary
 Marketing  of  Byproduct  Gypsum
 from  Flue Gas  Desulfurization

 W.E. O'Brien, W.L Anders, R.L Dotson, and J.D. Veitch
  The 1985 marketing potential of
byproduct gypsum from utility flue gas
desulfurization (FGD) was evaluated for
the area east of the Rocky Mountains
using the calculated gypsum production
rates of  14 selected power plants. The
114 cement plants  and  52 wallboard
plants in the area were assumed to be the
potential market for FGD gypsum sales.
Assuming use  of an in-loop, forced-
oxidation, limestone FGD process,
results showed  that producing market-
able gypsum was less expensive than
disposal by chemical  fixation and
landfill for many power plants in the
area, including  all those used in the
study. With this savings to offset freight
costs, the power plants  could market
4.35 million ton/yr of gypsum (92% of
their production), filling 63% of the
cement plant requirements and 20% of
the wallboard plant requirements.
Cement plants are a geographically
disperse market available to most
power plants,  but able to absorb the
production of only a few power plants;
wallboard plants are a larger market
but, for them, power plant location is
a more  important marketing factor.
Other variations on the marketing model
indicated that: (1) drying and briquettirfg
had  little  effect on the  marketing
potential; (2) sales were  reduced 25%
when the savings in FGD cost were not
used to  offset  freight costs; and (3)
relocation of wallboard plants to sources
of byproduct gypsum appeared  eco-
nomically feasible in  some cases.

  This Project Summary was developed
by EPA's Industrial Environmental
Research Laboratory, Research Triangle
Park. NC. to announce key findings of
the research project that is fully docu-
mented in a separate report of the same
title (see Project Report ordering
information at back).

Introduction
  This study investigated the marketing
of byproduct gypsum as a more economical
means of operating flue gas desulfuriza-
tion (FGD) processes at utility power
plants. In the past few years, prospects
for marketing FGD gypsum have improved.
Simple and effective variations on low-
cost limestone FGD  processes that
incorporate forced oxidation to produce
gypsum  have been developed and have
become  economically competitive with
the  more conventional limestone process-
es  that  have  increasingly expensive
waste treatment costs. Forced oxidation
processes, now offered by several ven-
dors, are  being adopted by utilities seeking
to reduce waste treatment and handling
problems or, in some cases, to produce
marketable gypsum.
  Rapidly increasing transportation costs
have also improved the prospects for FGD
gypsum  because of the  nonuniform
distribution of natural  gypsum, which
sometimes requires the shipment of
natural gypsum or gypsum products over
long distances. FGD gypsum is one of the
better candidates among byproduct
gypsums for replacement of natural
gypsum  because  of its chemical and
physical properties. Wallboard is commer-
cially produced from FGD gypsum in
Japan and West Germany. It has also
been evaluated in several wallboard
manufacturing tests in the U.S. that were
reportedly successful,  an important
factor since wallboard manufacture has
the  most stringent quality requirements
and  is the largest use of gypsum. The
manufacture of Portland cement, which
contains  a small percentage of gypsum, is
the only other market that utilizes enough

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gypsum to support the marketing of FGD
gypsum.
  In 1981, about  19 million tons of
gypsum was used in the U.S.: 3.6 million
tons for  the  manufacture of portland
cement, 1.5 million tons in agriculture,
and  most of  the rest to  manufacture
wallboard and plaster products. About
11.5 million tons was produced at  70
mines in 22 states; the rest was imported.
  The  unusually large  import trade is
largely the result of  a  lack  of gypsum
deposits in the eastern U.S. It is more
economical to import gypsum by sea from
Canada than  to ship it  overland from
domestic mines,  a situation with impor-
tant implications for marketing byproduct
gypsum in the eastern U.S.
  In the 37  states east  of  the  Rocky
Mountains, the study  area of this investi-
gation, gypsum  deposits  occur in  the
inland  coastal plains from Arkansas to
eastern Texas,  in a broad belt from
western Texas into Iowa, and in the area
around the lower Great Lakes. Except for
a mine in southwestern Virginia, there
are no gypsum mines east of the Miss-
issippi River and south of the Ohio River.
In 1981, an estimated 8 million tons of
gypsum was produced at 36 mines in 12
of the 37 states. An additional 6.2 million
tons was  imported through 13 ports of
entry on the Eastern  Seaboard and Gulf
Coast.

Marketing  Model
  The marketing model used in this study
was based on the premises that utilities
that use  FGD to  meet S02 emission
control requirements would  adopt FGD
gypsum production and marketing if this
were the lowest cost FGD option,  and
that cement and wallboard manufacturers
would use the byproduct gypsum if it cost
less than their natural  gypsum supply.
The study area  was limited to the  37
states east of the Rocky Mountains, and
sales were limited to cement and wall-
board plants. All of the costs, quantities',
power  plant conditions,  and  marketing
structures were projected to 1985 using
information available through mid-1982.


Gypsum Market
  The cement plant market consisted of
114 cement  plants  projected to be in
operation in  1985. The geographic
distribution of the plants is quite uniform
and bears little  relationship to natural
gypsum sources, as shown in Figure 1.
The total cement plant gypsum require-
ments were projected to be 3.42 million
ton/yr. The requirements  of most indi-
vidual plants ranged from  10,000 to
                                                       • Gypsum Mines
                                                       » Gypsum Import Points
                                                       • Cement Plants
Figure 1.
Locations of gypsum mines, gypsum import points, and cement plants in the 37
eastern states.
60,000 ton/yr; the average for all plants
was 30,000 ton/yr.
  The wallboard plant market consisted
of the 52 wallboard plants projected to be
in operation  in  1985.  The geographic
distribution  of  the plants is  almost
entirely related to sources of  gypsum,
either mines or import points, as shown
in Figure  2.  The total  wallboard plant
gypsum requirements were projected to
be 10.4 million ton/yr. Most wallboard
plants have requirements of 100,000 to
500,000 ton/yr, with an average of about
250,000 ton/yr. Since individual wall-
board plant requirements are proprietary
information, the requirements used in
this study were determined and verified
by indirect methods.

Power Plants
  To provide an accurate representation
of the production of FGD gypsum by
utilities, the fuel, operating conditions, and
emission regulations of 14 power plants
were  used to determine the gypsum
production rates and FGD costs used in
the marketing  model. Their locations,
relative  to cement and wallboard plants.
                             are shown in Figures 3 and 4, respective-
                             ly. These were screened from all coal-
                             fired power  plants in the study area with
                             boilers over  100 MW in size that were, or
                             are scheduled .to be, started up between
                             1960 and 1985 (104 power plants). The
                             14 power plants selected were  among
                             those best suited economically for use of
                             gypsum-producing FGD strategy. All 14
                             power plants were  calculated to have
                             lower FGD costs for a gypsum-producing
                             FGD process than for a waste-producing
                             FGD process. The  screening process
                             consisted of comparing computer-gen-
                             erated  costs of two  limestone FGD
                             systems based on the individual power
                             plant fuel, boiler design, and emission
                             regulations. One  FGD system  was  a
                             conventional limestone process produc-
                             ing  a high-sulfite  waste that was fixed
                             with fly ash  and lime and disposed of in a
                             landfill. The other was an adipic-acid-
                             enhanced limestone process  incorpora-
                             ting in-loop forced oxidation in which the
                             gypsum produced  was washed and
                             filtered  to  90% solids. The process
                             included stockpiling and loading facilities
                             for 85% of the gypsu m produced. Costs for

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                                                       * Gypsum Mines
                                                       • Gypsum Import Points
                                                       tWallboard Plants
Figure 2.
Locations of gypsum mines, gypsum import points, and wallboard plants in the
eastern 37 states.
                                                       • Cement Plant
                                                         Power Plant
 Figure 3.    Geographic relationship of study power plants to cement plants.
landfill disposal of the remaining gypsum
(representing off-quality production) and
all of the fly ash (to make disposal costs
comparable with the waste-producing
process) were  included. The cost differ-
ences, expressed as an "incremental
cost" in $/ton of gypsum, were used in
most of the evaluation as an  important
economic factor in the marketability of
the FGD gypsum. The incremental costs
was negative (i.e., the gypsum process was
less expensive) for the power plants used
in this  study.

Gypsum  Costs
  Almost without exception,  wallboard
manufacturers control the source of their
gypsum  (rather than  purchase from
independent producers) whether domes-
tic or foreign.  The cost of gypsum is re-
garded as an opening cost passed on as a
portion of the total manufacturing costs.
Consequently, the cost of gypsum used
in wallboard manufacture is low. Cement
plants  more commonly purchase gypsum
from suppliers at a higher cost. The 1985
cost of domestic gypsum at the mine was
projected to be $8.20/ton for wallboard
plants and $15.607ton for cement plants.
The 1985  cost of imported gypsum for
wallboard was  projected to average
$15.15/ton at the  port of entry and
ranges from $10.50 to  $18.00/ton for
individual ports. The same port-of-entry
cost for cement plant gypsum, increased
by  estimated  brokerage fees, was pro-
jected  to average $19.71/ton  and range
from $18.00 to $21.00/ton.

Freight Costs
  Freight costs for both natural and FGD
gypsum are based on shipments by truck
as far as 250 miles and by railroad farther
than 250  miles. Truck  freight rates of
$1.30/ton were used as far as 10 miles,
and $0.13/ton-mile  for  farther than 10
miles,  based on a 23-ton load. Beyond
short distances, truck freight rates do not
differ greatly in terms of ton-miles, so no
adjustment for the distance shipped was
made. Railroad freight  rates decrease
with distance, however. The  railroad
freight rates used varied from $0.13 to
0.10/ton-mile between 250 and 500
miles.
  In contrast to those from bulk gypsum,
freight rates for wallboard differ consid-
erably for the  six railroad rate territories
in the  study area. For the evaluation of
wallboard  shipments, therefore, freight
rates based on rates developed by TVAfor
the various  intra-  and interterritory
shipments  were  used. These  differ by a
maximum  of  125%, depending  on  the
source and destination of the shipments.

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                                                       * Wallboard Plant
                                                       Jt Power Plant
Figure 4.    Geographic relationship of study power plants to wallboard plants.
Marketing Evaluations
  The primary evaluation consisted of a
determination of the extent to which the
FGD  gypsum  could  be  marketed  to
cement and wallboard plants as a lower
cost replacement of their natural gypsum
supplies. A delivered cost  of natural
gypsum was established for each cement
and wallboard plant. This served as the
basis for an "allowable cost" for delivered
FGD gypsum. If the FGD gypsum could be
delivered at a cost less than the allowable
cost,  it was regarded as successfully
replacing the natural  gypsum supply.
Several variations of  this model  were
evaluated. In most, the delivered cost  of
the FGD gypsum was based on the
premise that the  objective of producing
and marketing  FGD  gypsum  was  to
reduce FGD costs and that the savings in
using the gypsum-producing FGD process
could be used in part to ensure sale of the
gypsum,  thus making  use  of the lower-
cost process practical.
  The variations of this model evaluated
are summarized below. Also listed is a
different evaluation in which an  aspect of
the economic feasibility of manufacturing
wallboard at sources of FGD gypsum was
examined.
Marketing of as-produced gypsum
containing  10% water, with the
incremental cost offsetting the
freight costs and an allowable cost
equal to 90% of the cost of the
natural gypsum supply (to account for
possible resistance to  the  water
content). The individual  marketing
potential of each power plant (with-
out competition from other FGD
gypsum) and the marketing potential
of all 14 power plants when marketing
simultaneously were evaluated for
three marketing conditions:  sales
only to cement plants, sales only to
wallboard plants, and  sales to both
cement and wallboard  plants.
Marketing under all of the conditions
above but without  the incremental
cost offsetting freight costs. This
assumed that the gypsum-producing
FGD process had no cost advantage
over the waste-producing process. In
this case, freight costs alone deter-
mined the delivered cost of the FGD
gypsum.
Marketing of gypsum dried to a water
content of 2.5%, with the incremental
cost offsetting the freight costs and
an allowable cost equal to the cost of
    the natural gypsum supply. The cost
    of drying  was  added to the  FGD
    costs, reducing the  incremental
    costs by $4-6/ton, depending on the
    quantity dried. Only the marketing
    potential  of  all 14 power  plants
    marketing  simultaneously to both
    cement and wallboard plants  was
    evaluated.
  • Marketing of dried gypsum as above
    but with the portion of the gypsum
    sold  to cement  plants pressed into
    briquettes (to simulate natural lump
    gypsum). The briquetting costs were
    added to  the FGD costs, further
    reducing the incremental costs.
  • A different marketing model in which
    a stochastic array of distribution cen-
    ters  in wallboard marketing areas
    was used  to represent wallboard
    marketing  in the study area.  The
    freight costs of wallboard from exis-
    ting  wallboard plants and from the
    power plant  locations were com-
    pared to examine the economics of
    locating wallboard plants at sources
    of FGD gypsum.

Discussion of Results
  In  contrast to most  byproduct FGD
processes, the gypsum process used in this
study  was less  expensive than  the
alternate waste-producing process for
many power plants, a result of advances
in forced-oxidation limestone FGD tech-
nology, the improved handling properties
of gypsum, and the reduced disposal
costs  resulting from  marketing  the
gypsum.  The  lower  cost of the gypsum
process greatly enhanced the marketabil-
ity of the gypsum. Conditions that favored
the adoption  of a  gypsum  marketing
strategy were a  high flue gas SO2Content
and high SOa removal rates—typified by
boilers with stringent  emission limits
that burn high-sulfur coal. FGD process-
es incorporating fixation and landfill were
generally more economical  for  boilers
with  less-stringent emission limits or
that burned lower-sulfur coal.

Market Characteristics
  The cost of gypsum to cement plants
averaged about twice that to wallboard
plants. There were also wide  differences
in gypsum costs  among different  geo-
graphical areas. These differences were
an important factor in the marketability of
the  FGD gypsum.  The  inland  trans-
Mississippi and Great Lakes areas had the
lowest gypsum costs, the  Eastern Sea-
board and  Gulf Coast had higher costs,
and the Appalachian area had the highest
costs. In general, using incremental cost
to offset freight costs, gypsum could be

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marketed to cement plants as far away as
500 miles, with little  difference in
marketability between power plants in
different areas. Gypsum could be marketed
to wallboard  plants  under the  same
conditions as far away as 250 miles, with
the longer distances representing power
plants  with access to wallboard plants
with higher gypsum costs.

Marketing Model  Results
  A summary of the gypsum marketing
model and study results is shown in Table
1. Without competition, each power plant
could market all of its product to cement
plants. Together,  all plants could  reach
almost the entire cement plant market.
However, the cement plant market has a
limited capacity to absorb FGD gypsum;
10  power  plants  typical  of  those  used
in this  study could  supply the entire
cement plant market. This is evident in
the marketing  model of  the 14 power
plants marketing simultaneously: gypsum
was marketed to 95 cement plants,
supplying 83%  of  the total cement plant
requirement, but  only 4 power plants
could market all of their production, 2 had

Table 1.    Summary of Gypsum Marketing Results
                                         no sales, and only 60% of the total power
                                         plant production was marketed.
                                           Without competition  all  power plants
                                         also had  sales to wallboard plants, but
                                         only 11 could market all of their produc-
                                         tion.  In contrast to  the cement plant
                                         market, only a portion  of the  wallboard
                                         plant market could be reached; the power
                                         plants could market to only 20 of the 52
                                         wallboard  plants  in  the study area
                                         because of the shorter economical trans-
                                         portation  distance.  With the  14 power
                                         plants  marketing simultaneously to
                                         wallboard plants,  12 power plants  had
                                         sales to 17 wallboard plants, and 6 were
                                         to market all of their production. Compe-
                                         tition was less important in limiting sales,
                                         but location was more important than in
                                         the cement plant market.
                                          With incremental cost off setting freight
                                         costs and the 14 power plants  marketing
                                         simultaneously to both cement and wall-
                                         board  plants, the  results  were largely
                                         additive,  compared  to the individual
                                         markets; 4.35 million ton/yr of  gypsum
                                         was marketed to 79 cement plants and 14
                                         wallboard plants at a savings of $110 mil-
                                         lion/yr. Twelve plants marketed all of
                                           Sales with incremental cost, kton*/yr
their production,  and  only one  had
insignificant sales. The sales met 63% of
the cement plant requirements and 20%
of the wallboard plant requirements, with
both volume and savings divided almost
equally between the markets.
  Without the incremental cost to offset
freight costs,  sales to distant cement
plants and wallboard plants  were sub-
stantially reduced. Without competition
only about half of the power plants were
able to market all of their production to
either the cement plant market alone or
the wallboard  plant market alone. In the
combined market, 3.23 million ton/yr of
gypsum was  marketed to 52 cement
plants and  10 wallboard plants at a
savings of $30 million/yr.  All power
plants had sales, and seven marketed all
of their production. The primary effect of
the elimination of incremental cost was
to eliminate the more distant markets,
particularly in  the cement plant market.
Location became much more important in
marketing success since proximity to a
wallboard plant was necessary to market
all of the production of most of the power
plants.
     Sales without incremental cost, kton'/yr
Power plant location
County, State
(Gypsum production/"
Pleasants. WV
(307 kton/yr)
Coshocton, OH
(483 kton/yr)
Monroe, Ml
(7OO kton/yr)
Boone, KY
(197 kton/yr)
Trimble, KY
(166 kton/yr)
Jefferson. KY
(577 kton/yr)
Muhlenberg, KY
(544 kton/yr)
Pike. IN
(254 kton/yr)
Sullivan. IN
(282 kton/yr)
Randolph, MO
(363 kton/yr)
Atascosa, TX
(222 kton/yr)
Hillsborough. FL
1160 kton/yr)
Putnam. FL
(271 kton/yr)
Duval. FL
(182 kton/yr)
Total (4.708 kton/yr)
% of total market
Incremental
cost, $/ton
-19

-20

-18

-13

-23

-24

-18

-20

-21

-16

-22

-20

-26

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Ce/Tnf"' Wan£nt*d Cement and wallboard plants
only
292

483

357

None

53

206

165

None

235

363

222

160

242

60

2.838
83
only
None

128

700

None

85

163

170

254

282

170

153

160

271

182

2.718
25
Cement
307

355

156

29

81

334

186

None

80

302

222

89

28

None

2.169
63
Wallboard
None

128

544

None

85

243

170

254

202

61

None

71

243

182

2.183
20
Total
307

483

700

29

166

577

356

254

282

363

222

• 160

271

182

4.352
31
Dried*
307

483

700

None

166

577

444

254

282

363

222

160

271

182

4.411
31
Cement Wallboard
Dried and plants plants
briquetteo" only only
307

483

700

None

166

577

356

254

282

363

222

160

271

182

4.323
30
108

162

156

32

51

53

243

32

too

273

222

89

None

63

1.584
46
None

128

452

None

None

None

170

254

282

None

None

160

271

182

1.899
18
Cement and wallboard plants
Cement
108

162

156

32

51

53

271

32

54

273

222

89

None

None

1.503
44
Wallboard
None

128

452

None

None

None

170

222

228

None

None

71

271

182

1,724
16
Total
108

290

608

32

51

53

441

254

282

273

222

16O

271

182

3.227
23
* All gypsum quantities are dry weight, 100% gypsum Except as noted, all sales are as-produced gypsum containing 1O% water, and the allowable cost is 90% of the cost of
 the natural gypsum supply
"Sales of gypsum (dried to 2 5% water) to cement and wallboard plants with an allowable cost equal to the cost of the natural gypsum supply.
c Sates of gypsum (dried to 2 5% water) to wallboard plants and dried and briquetted gypsum to cement plants with an allowable cost equal to the cost of the natural gypsum
 supply

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  Drying the gypsum produced had little
effect on sales or total savings. Drying
reduced freight costs, which for the more
distant  markets sometimes offset the
drying  costs. Similarly, briquetting the
dried gypsum sold to cement plants had
little effect on sales volume although it
reduced the savings.


Location of Wallboard Plants at
Power Plant Gypsum Sources

  Locating wallboard plants at power
plant sources of gypsum  is appreciably
more complicated and hypothetical than
marketing gypsum  in  the conventional
marketing  structure evaluated in the
foregoing studies. It  depends on, for
example, not only the  economics of the
gypsum supply but also the economics of
marketing the finished product,  which
need not be a part of a gypsum marketing
study. Only one aspect of the potential for
relocation of wallboard plants to  power
plant gypsum sources was investigated in
this study: the freight costs for wallboard
from power plants to marketing areas
were compared with those from existing
wallboard plant locations to the same
marketing areas. This was accomplished
by developing a model using the 14 power
plants  and a system of 43 hypothetical
regional wallboard distribution centers,
shown in Figure 5.

  The  model results, shown in Table 2,
indicate that in some cases the manufac-
ture of wallboard at power plant locations
has the potential for substantial  reduc-
tions in freight costs.  About half of the
total power plant  production could be
used to manufacture wallboard competi-
tive with wallboard from existing wall-
board plant locations. In most cases, the
power plant wallboard replaced wall-
board  from distant  wallboard  plants,
either because there were no wallboard
plants  in the marketing area or because
the local supply was inadequate. The re-
sults  appear  to indicate a moderate
economic  potential for the relocation of
wallboard plants, but it is apparent that
they were influenced by the power plant
locations—which in some cases were not
particularly well  suited to  serve as
gypsum sources in areas without natural
gypsum deposits (note, in Figure 4, the
absence of gypsum producing  power
plants  in the inland Southeast). Nor do
the results indicate the full potential for
wallboard plant relocation since they do
not reflect the possible additional advan-
tages  of a  more economical gypsum
supply.
                                                       * Wallboard plants

                                                         Power plants
                                                         Distribution centers
Figure 5.
Geographic relationship of existing wallboard and power plants to regional
distribution centers.
Conclusions
  Advanced limestone  FGD gypsum-
producing processes are economically
competitive with processes that produce
a chemically fixed waste. These processes
have enhanced the prospects for marketing
FGD gypsum,  because the  gypsum
process does  not necessarily  require
sales revenue, to  make  it economically
competitive with other FGD processes for
which  waste disposal is difficult and
expensive.  The  sales  revenue—and
savings from the use of the gypsum
process itself in some cases—can be an
added economic inducement to  gypsum
marketing or  used in  part to offset
marketing costs.
  The only gypsum markets capable of
supporting a general production of FGD
gypsum are the  port land cement and
wallboard industries. The 114  cement
plants east of the Rocky Mountains could
consume  the  production of about 10
power plants typical of those used in this
study, and the 52 wallboard plants in the
same area could consume the production
of about 32 similar power plants. With the
FGD cost savings offsetting freight costs,
gypsum could  be marketed to cement
                             plants within a radius of about 500 miles
                             and to wallboard plants within a radius of
                             about 250 miles.
                               All of the marketing model evaluations
                             in this study can be regarded as success-
                             ful.  With the FGD cost savings offsetting
                             freight costs  and without direct competi-
                             tion, all the power plants could market all
                             their production. With all power plants
                             marketing simultaneously, all but two of
                             the  power plants were able to market all
                             of their production in spite of extensive
                             competition.  Drying and briquetting had
                             little effect on the marketability of  the
                             gypsum.  Without FGD cost savings
                             offsetting freight costs, total sales were
                             reduced by about  25%  and savings by
                             about 75%, but seven power plants were
                             able to market all of their production. As
                             an  alternate to marketing to existing
                             wallboard plants, relocation of wallboard
                             plants to sources of power plant gypsum
                             would, in some cases, reduce the costs of
                             shipping wallboard to marketing areas.
                               Without competition from other power
                             plants, most of the power plants in  the
                             study area for which a gypsum process is
                             more economical than a waste-producing
                             process could successfully market to

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cement plants,  regardless of the power
plant location,  and  some could market
successfully to wallboard plants,  al-
though power plant location would be a
factor in marketing to wallboard plants.
  In a competitive situation with several
power plants marketing  FGD gypsum,
competition  would limit sales in  some
cases. The  cement plant marketing
structure would be quite fluid, subject to
the  activities of other,  often  distant,
power plants. Competition  in the wall-
board plant market  would  be  more
localized and, in some cases, less severe
because of the large gypsum requirements
of wallboard plants and the tendency in
some cases for wallboard plants  to be
clustered at sources of gypsum, creating
very large localized gypsum requirements.
  FGD gypsum marketing differs from the
marketing of other FGD byproducts such
as sulfur and sulfuric acid. For example,
gypsum-producing FGD processes do not
depend on   sales  revenue  for  their
economic  justification.  In many cases,
simple removal  of the gypsum at no cost
is sufficient to justify  adoption of the
process; in some cases, the savings in
FGD costs by  adopting a gypsum-pro-
ducing process  could be used to supple-
ment freight  costs, thus enhancing the
marketability of the gypsum. On the other
hand, other  FGD byproduct processes
usually involved much  higher costs, to
the point that sales revenue is an integral
and  important factor in their economics,
making them more vulnerable to market
conditions.  However, even  widespread
adoption of  byproduct processes that
produce sulfur  and  sulfuric acid would
supply only a  small portion of the market
requirements. This is in contrast to the
situation which could exist  by a similar
adoption  of  gypsum processes. In this
case the  FGD  gypsum supply would
saturate the market (exceed the market
requirements) and would result in intense
competition.
rower plant location
County, State (Gypsum production)
Pleasants. WV
(307 kton/yr)
Coshocton, OH
(483 kton/yr)
Monroe, Ml
(700 kton/yr)
Boone, KY
(197 kton/yr)
uypsur
kton/yr
203
483
94
None
n equivalent snippea
Distribution center
Pittsburgh, PA
Roanoke, VA
Charleston. SC
Pittsburgh, PA
Columbus, OH
Detroit, Ml

Freight Savings,
$1000/yr
2,415
4.629
489

Jefferson. KY
(577 kton/yr)
Muhlenberg. KY
(544 kton/yr)
Pike. IN
(254 kton/yr)
-Sullivan. IN
(282 Kton/ys}
Randolph, MO
(363 kton/yr)
Atascosa, TX
(222 kton/yr)
Hillsborough, FL
(160 kton/yr)
Putnam. FL
(271 kton/yr)
Duval, FL
(182 kton/yr)
Total (4.708 kton/yr)
135
207
None
148
275
222
160
271
None
2,198
Louisville, KY
Knoxville, KY
Nashville, TN
Birmingham, AL

Chicago, IL
St. Louis, MO
Springfield, MO
San Antonio, TX
Tampa, FL
Tampa, FL
Miami, FL

1,020
3,748

385
1.926
5.484
3.536
884

24.516
W. E. O'Brien, W. L. Anders, R. L. Dotson. andJ. D. Veitch are with TVA's Office of
  Power, Muscle Shoals. AL 35660.
Julian W. Jones is the EPA Project Officer (see below).
The complete report, entitled "Marketing of Byproduct Gypsum from Flue Gas
  Desulfurization," (Order No. PB 84-215 805; Cost: $16.00, subject to change)
  will be available only from:
        National Technical Information Service
        5285 Port Royal Road                  ~~
        Springfield. VA 22161
        Telephone: 703-487-4650
The EPA Project Officer can be contacted at:
        Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory
        U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
        Research Triangle Park. NC 27711
 *U9SeO:  1984-759-102-10651

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