Facility detail

KETJEN PASADENA PLANT

2500 N SOUTH ST, PASADENA, TX, 77503

Parent company: ALBEMARLE CORP

Carcinogen PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Ethylene Aluminum (fume or dust) Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) n-Hexane Dichloromethane Total (lbs)
2024 43,785 13,724 19,612 7,745 — 96,865
2023 49,766 16,002 16,070 7,236 — 102,111
2022 55,574 15,875 16,419 7,283 — 106,262
2021 45,594 14,928 14,015 7,305 — 92,337
2020 49,124 2,353 11,862 2,400 — 75,513
2019 41,086 869 12,271 4,977 — 70,590
2018 52,705 18,030 13,908 6,843 — 102,921
2017 58,919 3,027 10,949 6,979 — 89,006
2016 23,300 3,005 11,600 6,310 — 59,890
2015 36,000 22,250 8,900 14,710 — 95,965
2014 41,500 22,250 7,550 15,110 — 98,660
2013 32,500 21,005 22,005 11,240 — 99,129
2012 40,600 22,005 17,500 6,015 — 104,239
2011 27,720 19,425 15,987 3,088 — 83,052
2010 33,076 22,864 13,839 5,549 — 95,315
2009 33,085 18,013 7,871 7,097 — 81,583
2008 36,344 20,362 11,366 8,700 — 97,066
2007 49,442 23,293 9,162 8,483 — 110,176
2006 25,075 22,936 15,945 6,773 — 89,474
2005 26,635 31,370 16,765 15,917 — 112,785
2004 26,487 29,405 19,654 6,392 — 95,620
2003 22,544 27,200 16,758 7,369 — 90,755
2002 29,321 13,223 11,443 5,016 — 76,348
2001 30,723 19,681 15,565 3,757 — 81,560
2000 29,269 24,435 29,547 7,448 27,826 136,089
1999 26,079 23,063 17,467 6,092 5,980 96,716
1998 21,027 22,970 17,467 4,550 10,141 93,403
1997 12,630 21,366 17,467 2,527 7,708 75,681
1996 16,197 21,360 17,467 4,665 21,839 97,024
1995 313,264 19,220 13,786 3,821 35,196 433,673
1994 212,390 19,080 15,184 — 28,788 395,536

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