Demonstration of alternatives for vapor degreasers

Conference · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:111464

Menke, D; Sawhney, R ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

The {open_quotes}Cleaner Technology Demonstrations for the 33/50 Chemicals{close_quotes} is a cooperative agreement project between the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies and the U.S. EPA. Though originally designed to support the 33/50 Program, the results of this RREL-funded research will have a broad range of applications within industry and offer pollution prevention benefits beyond the 33/50 goals. The overall objective of this project is to evaluate substitutes of the 33/50 chemicals in order to encourage reductions in their use and release within specified priority use clusters. Priority use clusters, identified in the {open_quotes}Product Side of Pollution Prevention: Evaluating Safe Substitutes for the 33/50 Chemicals{close_quotes} report, are products and/or processes that consume a significant fraction of the 33/50 chemicals. The first evaluation, presented here, focused on the metal and parts degreasing priority use cluster and specifically substitutes for solvent degreasing processes that eliminate the use of the chlorinated degreasing solvent dichloromethane, tetrachloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, and trichloroethylene. In this study the Center for Clean Products worked directly with an industry partner to demonstrate substitute feasibility and to gain actual industrial information. Calsonic Manufacturing Corporation (CMC) is aggressively pursuing less polluting alternatives to solvent degreasing and agreed to participate as the Center`s industrial partner to demonstrate solvent degreasing substitutes. CMC manufactures automotive parts included heaters, blowers, cooling units, motor fans, radiators, auxiliary oil coolers, and exhaust systems. Over the past four years, CMC had evaluated and implemented a number of environmental improvements to completely eliminate 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA) from their degreasing processes.

• OSTI ID: 111464
• Report Number(s): CONF-9504110--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
CLEANING
GREASES
LIQUID WASTES
LUBRICANTS
MATERIAL SUBSTITUTION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
WASTE MANAGEMENT