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POLLUTION PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR THE MINIMIZING OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES IN THE VCM-PVC INDUSTRY
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Randall*, P M. POLLUTION PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR THE MINIMIZING OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES IN THE VCM-PVC INDUSTRY. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy. Wiley InterScience, Silver Spring, MD, 13(4):269-277, (1994).
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In many U.S. companies, pollution prevention strategies coincide with economic interests. Typically a company strives to be the lowest-cost producer, to be competitive, and to reduce wastes. In this paper, the author reviews pollution prevention strategies in the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) - polyvinyl chloride (PVC) industry, the current process technology and the pollution prevention practices to minimize all types of waste. This paper includes a review of the balanced oxychlorination process, the high temperature chlorination process, new EDC cracking techniques, modified EDC reactor designs, new catalysts, new separation technologies, and other alternative low-waste process pathways and modifications.
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