Pollution prevention assessment for a manufacturer of electrical load centers

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/125051· OSTI ID:125051

Jendrucko, R J; Thomas, T M ^[1]; Looby, G P ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Engineering Science and Mathematics
2. University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has funded a pilot project to assist small and medium-size manufacturers who want to minimize their generation of waste but who lack the expertise to do so. In an effort to assist these manufacturers Waste Minimization Assessment Centers (WMACs) were established at selected universities and procedures were adapted from the EPA Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment Manual. The WMAC team at the University of Tennessee performed an assessment at a plant that manufacturers electrical load centers. Raw materials, including coiled sheet steel and coiled copper strips, polystyrene pellets, and miscellaneous fasteners, are used in metal-working, injection molding, painting, and assembly operations. The team`s report, detailed findings and recommendations, indicated that a large quantity of waste overflow rinse water is generated and that significant cost savings could be achieved by installing valves that will allow operators to turn off the flow during periods of nonuse. This Research Brief was developed by the principal investigators and EPA`s National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, to announce key findings of an ongoing research project that is fully documented in a separate report of the same title available from University City Science Center.

• Research Organization: National Risk Management Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 125051
• Report Number(s): EPA--600/S-95/029; ON: DE96004037
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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MANUFACTURING
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE WATER
WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT