Chemicals Manufacturing: GLRPPR Sector Resources

News: Spread Of Ecolabels Vexes Cleaning Product Makers

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:41:39 GMT

Cleaning products companies aren't fond of the seals, lists, and guides but they participate in them nonetheless.

Resource: The Bohning Company, Ltd. : A RETAP Success Story

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:32:49 GMT

The Bohning Company sells many products ranging from archery and golf equipment to Christmas tree colorant. The company is one of the largest employers in Missaukee County, employing 40 full-time employees and approximately 15 temporary employees. Some of the temporary employees include local high school and college interns.

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Resource: MacDermid Incorporated

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:30:20 GMT

MacDermid is a producer of about 600 different specialty chemicals for chemical treatment, surface preparation, and finishing of metals, plastics and other materials. They do this in a 110,000 square foot plant with about 40 employees. Over three years, the company was able to reduce the cost of producing chemicals by almost 50%.

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News: Why California is leading the way on chemical policy reform

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:58:18 GMT

California is in the last stages of promulgating groundbreaking regulations that will require manufacturers to seek safer alternatives to potentially harmful chemicals in consumer products. These regulations come after four years of animated discussion and unprecedented input, extending to thousands of comments submitted by a broad range of stakeholders.

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News: 5 ways the Safe Chemicals Act can benefit business

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:51 GMT

The Safe Chemicals Act, sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), champions the protection of consumers from the hazards of household products. While many public interest groups have hailed this legislation as an unambiguous win for consumers and a punishment for Big Chemical, the Safe Chemicals Act would actually benefit businesses in the long run by inspiring greater public confidence and by rewarding sustainability innovators.

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News: 4 steps for companies on the path to chemical safety

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:45:17 GMT

Using best practices from HP and other companies, BizNGO's newly-released publication gives businesses guidance on how to get on the road towards safer chemicals.

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Resource: Principles for Safer Chemicals

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:44:43 GMT

Demand for products made from greener chemicals is growing rapidly. Consumers, investors and governments want chemicals that have low to no toxicity and degrade into innocuous substances in the environment. Leading businesses are seeking to capture these emerging market opportunities by redesigning their products and catalyzing change in their supply chains. To advance an economy where the production and use of chemicals are healthy for humans, as well as for our global environment and its non-human inhabitants, responsible companies and their supply chains should adopt and implement these four guiding principles for chemicals policy.

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Resource: BLOOM Client Case Studies

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:10:54 GMT

Categorized by industry sector. Every two-page case study includes a summary of the pollution prevention assessment process and findings, and a table of pollution prevention solutions, environmental benefits and related cost savings.

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Resource: Advanced Energy and Water Recovery Technology from Low Grade Waste Heat

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:17:26 GMT

The project has developed a nanoporous membrane based water vapor separation technology that can be used for recovering energy and water from low-temperature industrial waste gas streams with high moisture contents. This kind of exhaust stream is widely present in many industrial processes including the forest products and paper industry, food industry, chemical industry, cement industry, metal industry, and petroleum industry. The technology can recover not only the sensible heat but also high-purity water along with its considerable latent heat. Waste heats from such streams are considered very difficult to recover by conventional technology because of poor heat transfer performance of heat-exchanger type equipment at low temperature and moisture-related corrosion issues. During the one-year Concept Definition stage of the project, the goal was to prove the concept and technology in the laboratory and identify any issues that need to be addressed in future development of this technology. In this project, computational modeling and simulation have been conducted to investigate the performance of a nanoporous material based technology, transport membrane condenser (TMC), for waste heat and water recovery from low grade industrial flue gases. A series of theoretical and computational analyses have provided insight and support in advanced TMC design and experiments. Experimental study revealed condensation and convection through the porous membrane bundle was greatly improved over an impermeable tube bundle, because of the membrane capillary condensation mechanism and the continuous evacuation of the condensate film or droplets through the membrane pores. Convection Nusselt number in flue gas side for the porous membrane tube bundle is 50% to 80% higher than those for the impermeable stainless steel tube bundle. The condensation rates for the porous membrane tube bundle also increase 60% to 80%. Parametric study for the porous membrane tube bundle heat transfer performance was also done, which shows this heat transfer enhancement approach works well in a wide parameters range for typical flue gas conditions. Better understanding of condensing heat transfer mechanism for porous membrane heat transfer surfaces, shows higher condensation and heat transfer rates than non-permeable tubes, due to existence of the porous membrane walls. Laboratory testing has documented increased TMC performance with increased exhaust gas moisture content levels, which has exponentially increased potential markets for the product. The TMC technology can uniquely enhance waste heat recovery in tandem with water vapor recovery for many other industrial processes such as drying, wet and dry scrubber exhaust gases, dewatering, and water chilling. A new metallic substrate membrane tube development and molded TMC part fabrication method, provides an economical way to expand this technology for scaled up applications with less than 3 year payback expectation. A detailed market study shows a broad application area for this advanced waste heat and water recovery technology. A commercialization partner has been lined up to expand this technology to this big market. This research work led to new findings on the TMC working mechanism to improve its performance, better scale up design approaches, and economical part fabrication methods. Field evaluation work needs to be done to verify the TMC real world performance, and get acceptance from the industry, and pave the way for our commercial partner to put it into a much larger waste heat and waste water recovery market. This project is addressing the priority areas specified for DOE Industrial Technologies Program's (ITP's): Energy Intensive Processes (EIP) Portfolio - Waste Heat Minimization and Recovery platform.

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Resource: Inherently Safer Technology Gaps Analysis Study

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:08:02 GMT

This project consisted of an analysis of the current state of knowledge for improving safety regarding toxic industrial chemicals, including an examination of current and state-of-the-art techniques and technologies capable of increasing safety and security This project consisted of an analysis of the current state of knowledge for improving safety regarding toxic industrial chemicals, including an examination of current and state-of-the-art techniques and technologies capable of increasing safety and security in production, transportation, storage, and use of hazardous chemicals. The primary goal was to improve national security through improved safety by providing a foundation for a comprehensive evaluation of the current state of knowledge surrounding the source and production methods of the "Release - Toxic" chemicals in DHS CFATS Appendix A list of chemicals of interest. Additionally, this project assisted in the data gathering and development of the CSAC IST Metrics. This involved an in-depth effort to understand specific chemical processes followed by a conceptual effort to redefine the Chemical Release Reduction Modifier that was included in the original Index. involved an in-depth effort to understand specific chemical processes followed by a conceptual effort to redefine the Chemical Release Reduction Modifier that was included in the original Index.

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