Pollution Control
Zinc Treatment
Question: Your March 2003, article, “Increased Floc,” prompted me to write regarding a similar problem we just started having.
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Question: Steve, in your March 2003 “Increased Floc” article, you responded to a reader’s question regarding increasing amount of floc in the wastewater pretreatment clarifier even though “nothing in our operations or chemistries has changed...” Chances are that something did indeed change, and detective work is needed to find the culprit.
Read MorePretreatment over Pretreatment
Question: We are considering forming an assembly and then painting it rather than painting the individual parts before assembling.
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Safe Exhaust Recirculation of Manned Spray Booths
How to keep the cost of pollution control from hurting you…
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Shining Up Bright Nickel Plating Baths
The chemistry in a bright-nickel-plating bath is not inexpensive. Waste treatment of nickel-plating wastes can be expensive. Meridian found a solution that not only lowered costs, but improved efficiency...
Read MoreTreatment for Free Bromine/Bromate
Question: I am the environmental manager for an anodizing/plating job shop.
Read MoreZinc-Cobalt Wastewater?
Question: One of our best customers has approached us to convert one of our acid zinc lines to zinc-cobalt.
Read MoreUnderstanding VOC Contents in Coatings
Question: I enjoy your specific, accurate responses to questions, even when the subject is out of our “field of view.” I’m the part-time environmental/safety manager for a small custom coater.
Read MoreCast Iron Surface Preparation
Question: We are a small manufacturer of air compressor pumps.
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