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PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT CHANGES FOR CLEANER PRODUCTION IN FEDERAL FACILITIES
Citation:
Jones*, L G., C H. Darvin*, AND E. Hill. PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT CHANGES FOR CLEANER PRODUCTION IN FEDERAL FACILITIES. Presented at AWMA Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 6/18-22/2000.
Description:
The paper discusses process and equipment changes for cleaner production in federal facilities. During the 1990s, DoD and EPA conducted joint research and development, aimed at reducing the discharge of hazardous and toxic pollutants from military production and maintenance facilities. Two significant manufacturing processes that have received a great deal of attention in these joint efforts are surface cleaning and coating. Both tend to produce multimedia pollution, including water, solid waste, and air pollution. Major research has been conducted to reduce or eliminate the multimedia discharges from these industrial processes. Pollution control has not only a technology component but also an economic component which must be considered when developing viable and efficient pollutant reduction technologies. Both the technology and the economic issues drive the application and acceptance of a given technology concept.