Pollution Control
Pipe Glue, Revisited
I’ve contacted several plumbing suppliers and none of them were able to assist me in finding the glue you recommended for CPVC pipe or the pipe tape. We are seeing exactly what you were talking about on a leaky pipe containing caustic or alkaline solutions and would love to put them to rest.
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We make HCL drops out of our line and need to pump the spent acid to a holding tank. What is the best type of pump for this?
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"Saving Bob" Video A Winner At Bright Design Challenge
The Metal Finishing Association of Southern California has released a new short animation video promoting the use of plating, produced by one of its winners at its recent Bright Design Challenge” in Pasadena, Calif.
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A Conversation With ... David Wentworth, Paint Pockets
David Wentworth is the VP of Marketing for Paint Pockets, the single-stage overspray arrestor company in Omaha, Neb.
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Q: Best type of polymer for a baking enamel?
Carl Izzo has the answer to this question and many others
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Plating: Trivalent Chromium Reduction
Reader has question on trying to reduce the trivalent chrome in a hexavalent chrome tank.
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Chevy Sonic Gets Eco-Friendly Paint Job
Thanks to this system, as well as other recent shop enhancements designed to minimize energy use and paint-solvent emissions, Orion Assembly’s paint facility will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 80,000 metric tons each year at full production, cut solvent emissions by about 108,000 lbs. annually, slice $40 of manufacturing costs from each vehicle and use 50 percent less process energy per vehicle—all while being heated by natural and landfill gas instead of more emissions-intensive coal-fired boilers.
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Where is the Pipe Glue?
I have contacted several plumbing suppliers around me, and none of them were able to assist me in finding the glue that you recommended for CPVC pipe or the pipe tape. We are seeing exactly what you were talking about on leaky pipe containing caustic or alkaline solutions and would love to put them to rest.
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