United Statrs        Effluent Guidelines Division EPA 440/1-79/0193
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           Document for
           Effluent Limitations
           Guidelines and
           Standards  FOR THE
           NONFERROUS  METALS
           MANUFACTURING

           Point Source Category

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              DRAFT DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT

                          for

           EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS GUIDELINES

                          and

          NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

                        for the

           MAJOR NONFERROUS METALS SEGMENT

                        Of the

NONFERROUS METALS MANUFACTURING POINT  SOURCE CATEGORY
                   Douglas M. Costle
                     Administrator
                     Swep T. Davis
         Deputy Assistant Administrator  for
             Water Planning and Standards

                  Robert B. Schaffer
       Director,  Effluent Guidelines  Division

              Patricia E. Williams, P.E.
         Project Officer, Nonferrous  Metals
                     September 1979
             Effluent Guidelines Division
        Office  of Water and Waste Management
        U.S.  Environmental Protection  Agency
                  Washington DC 20U60
                                   U.S. fcnvirerimtntai Protection Agency
                                   Region 5t Library (PL-12J)
                                   77 West Jackson Boulevird, 12th Floor
                                        , II  60604-3590

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                        TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section                                                      Page
I        CONCLUSIONS                                            1

II       RECOMMENDATIONS                                        3

III      INTRODUCTION                                           5

IV       SUBCATEGORIZATION                                     97

V        WASTE CHARACTERISTICS                                115

VI       SELECTION OF POLLUTANT PARAMETERS                    233

VII      CONTROL AND TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY                     287

VIII     COST, ENERGY AND NON-WATER QUALITY ASPECTS           361

IX       BEST PRACTICABLE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY        551
           AVAILABLE

X        ALTERNATIVES FOR BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY           567
           FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT DISCHARGERS

XI       ALTERNATIVES FOR NEW SOURCES                         597

XII      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                     603

XIII     REFERENCES                                           605
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                            SECTION I

                           CONCLUSIONS
This report presents the results of  a  study  to  determine  the
wastewater   characteristics   of   and   treatment  and  control
technologies applicable to the waste streams of nonferrous  metal
smelters  and  refineries.  To facilitate the study, the industry
was  divided  into  subcategories,  each  of  which  has  similar
wastewater  characteristics.   Cost  estimates  were prepared for
controlling and treating the wastewater to various levels.

EPA. made a preliminary  assessment  that  placed  all  nonferrous
metal subcategories into one of two segments.  The first segment,
covered  in  this report, includes all subcategories with a large
number  of  plants  that  discharge  wastewater  or   have   high
production rates.  These subcategories are listed below:


         Primary aluminum
         Secondary aluminum
         Primary columbium and tantalum salts
         Primary columbium and tantalum metal
         Primary copper smelters
         Primary copper refineries
         Secondary copper
         Primary lead smelters
         Primary lead refineries
         Secondary lead
         Secondary silver from photographic wastes
         Secondary silver from non-photographic wastes
         Primary tungsten salts  (APT)
         Primary tungsten metal
         Primary zinc
         Metallurgical acid plants

The  second  segment,  miscellaneous  metals,  includes all other
nonferrous metals.  Results of  this  study  indicate  that  some
plants   in   the   miscellaneous  metals  segment  do  discharge
wastewater; therefore, the EPA has begun a detailed study of that
segment.

The nonferrous  metals  industry  usually  treats  wastewater  to
remove  metals,  suspended  solids, and in some cases ammonia and
fluorides.  Metals and suspended solids frequently occur in  high
concentrations  in  raw wastewater.  Organic compounds are seldom
present in the wastewater at concentrations greater than 1  mg/1.
While   no   plant   specifically  attempts  removal  of  organic
compounds,  some  amounts  of  such  pollutants  may  be  removed

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incidentally
metals.
by  treatment  systems designed primarily to remove
The  removal  of  these  organic  pollutants  in   the   existing
wastewater  treatment  systems  varied  widely  and were found to
relate to specific treatment systems.

Treatment techniques are available to  reduce  potentially  toxic
compounds  in  wastewater to very low levels.  Some subcategories
can eliminate wastewater discharges by  recycle  and  reuse,  but
reverse  osmosis,  a fairly expensive process, may be required in
some instances to produce water of high enough quality to  permit
total  reuse or recycle.  All subcategories can reduce the volume
of wastewater discharged  by  partial  recycle  and  reuse  after
treatment by lime and settle.  The present wastewater regulations
generally  require  the control of some metals, suspended solids,
pH, and, in some cases, ammonia, fluorides and  oil  and  grease.
Industry frequently controls these pollutants by adjusting the pH
with  lime  followed  by  settling;  steam stripping is used when
necessary for ammonia removal.

Many treatment methods were evaluated during  this  study.   Lime
and  settle  is  effective for removing suspended solids, metals,
fluorides and  some  organic  compounds.   Sand  filtration  will
further   reduce  suspended  solids  and  metals  concentrations.
Activated alumina will remove additional  fluoride  and  arsenic.
Reverse  osmosis  will  remove  additional  metals  and dissolved
solids and produces very high  quality  water  that  permits  100
percent  recycle.   Activated  carbon  removes  organics and some
metals.  Ammonia  is  effectively  removed  by  steam  stripping.
Chlorination oxidizes cyanide to carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

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                           SECTION II

                         R ECOMMENDATIONS
The  Environmental Protection Agency will make recommendations as
part of proposed rule making.

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                           SECTION III

                          INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY

Section 301 (b)  of the Clean Water  Act  of  1977  (the  Act)   (33
U.S.C.  1251  et  seq.  P.L.  95-217)  requires the Environmental
Protection Agency (the Agency) to establish effluent  limitations
for  point  sources  which  will  result  in  reasonable  further
progress toward the goal of  eliminating  the  discharge  of  all
pollutants,  as  determined in accordance with regulations issued
by the Administrator pursuant to Section 304(b) of the Act.

On  April  8,  1974,  the  Administrator   promulgated   effluent
limitations  and  pretreatment standards for point sources within
the Nonferrous Metals Manufacturing Point Source Category for the
bauxite  refining,  primary  aluminum,  and  secondary   aluminum
subcategories;   on  February  27, 1975 he promulgated regulations
governing the primary copper  smelting  and  refining,  secondary
copper,  primary  lead,  and primary zinc subcategories.  Section
301 (d) of the  Act  authorizes  the  Agency  to  review  and,  if
necessary, revise effluent limitations within five years of their
original  promulgation.   Pursuant  to  this  authority,  and  in
conformance with a consent decree of the United  States  District
Court  for  the District of Columbia of June 8, 1976 and modified
March 9, 1979,  the Agency is required to evaluate the  wastewater
of  nonferrous  metal smelters and refineries for the presence of
priority pollutants  (organic chemicals and heavy metals) as  well
as other pollutants.

Alternatives  for effluent limitations published in this document
are based on the alternatives that can be used by EPA to set best
available  technology   economically   achievable    (BAT).    The
promulgated  limitations  must  be  met by existing point sources
within the nonferrous metals manufacturing category no later than
July 1, 198U.  The best available demonstrated control technology
will be  the  basis  for  revising  the  new  source  performance
standards  (NSPS).   The  pretreatment standards for existing and
new sources discharging to publicly owned treatment works  (POTW),
which take effect within one year of promulgation, will  also  be
based  on the results of this study and consider the treatability
of pollutants by POTW, or their interference with POTW.

Nonferrous  metal  manufacturers  include   processors   of   ore
concentrates   (primary) and processors of scrap (secondary).   The
nonferrous metals industry is quite complex  and  the  production
process  for  a specific metal is dictated by the characteristics
of raw materials, market conditions, and economics of  by-product

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recovery,  as  well as the chemistry of the metals.  Some metals,
such  as  primary  aluminum,  are  produced  by  essentially  one
process,  while  others,  like  copper  and zinc, may be produced
either     pyrometallurgically     or     electrometallurgically.
Additionally,   by-products   and   co-products   are   important
considerations for some industries.  Many nonferrous  metals  are
co-products  or  by-products  of  the smelting or refining of the
base metals  (copper, lead, and zinc).  For example, all or almost
all of the domestic production of  arsenic,  rhenium,  palladium,
selenium and tellurium during 1975 was a by-product or co-product
of  copper.  About one-third of all domestic production of silver
and gold was a copper by- or co-product.  Copper itself is a  by-
product  of  lead,  zinc, silver and gold.  Other metals, such as
aluminum  and  tungsten,  are  produced  without  important   by-
products.    The   co-product  or  by-product  metals  leave  the
production facilities where they were generated in a  variety  of
forms   and  states  of  refinement,  i.e.  as  concentrates,  as
heterogeneously  unrefined  materials  in  the  form  of   slags,
drosses, slimes or sludges, or as refined or alloyed metals.

Base-metal residues are interchanged among copper, lead, and zinc
processors,  other metal-rich residues are shipped to centralized
processing   facilities  where  they are selectively extracted and
refined.  The production of co or  by-product  nonferrous  metals
generally involves relatively small operations.

The  industry  is  divided into subcategories in which all plants
within  a  subcategory  have  similar  production  processes  and
wastewater   sources, permitting uniform regulations to be set for
all plants within a subcategory.  A preliminary assessment by EPA
in early 1977 indicated that some 65 different types of metal are
produced  (counting primary production apart from secondary) at an
estimated total of  800  plants.   Since  many  of  these  metals
subcategories  are  small  (1 or 2 plants), and many were believed
not to discharge any wastewater, EPA concentrated its efforts  on
the  metals  subcategories  which  have   a fairly large number of
plants, and  discharge wastewater, or  those  subcategories  which
produce  one  of  the  metals  listed  in the consent decree and
discharge wastewater.  The metals  not  listed  below  are  being
covered under a second phase of this project.  Certain metals had
to  be  dropped from consideration.   (For example, primary nickel
was originally  believed  to  be  produced  by  only  one  plant.
Results  of  an  industry survey revealed another plant, and both
must be considered  for rulemaking).  The  metals included  in  the
first segment are considered in this report and listed below.

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         Primary aluminum
         Secondary aluminum
         Primary columbium and tantalum salts
         Primary columbium and tantalum metal
         Primary copper smelters
         Primary copper refineries
         Secondary copper
         Primary lead smelters
         Primary lead refineries
         Secondary lead
         Secondary silver from photographic wastes
         Secondary silver from non-photographic wastes
         Primary tungsten salts (APT)
         Primary tungsten metal
         Primary zinc
         Metallurgical acid plants

All  of  the  plants  in  the  first  segment  were contacted and
requested to complete a detailed data collection portfolio.   The
responses  confirmed  that each subcategory listed above contains
at least some plants that discharge process wastewater.

All of the plants in the  second  segment  (Table  III-1) ,  which
includes  all the other nonferrous metals, were also contacted as
part of this study to determine  whether  process  wastewater  is
discharged.   In  some  cases,  plants  do use process water, and
those subcategories are now being studied by the Agency.

METHODS USED IN THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF  ALTERNATIVES  FOR  EFFLUENT
LIMITATIONS GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE

The  alternatives  for  effluent  limitations  and  standards  of
performance  contained  in  this  document  were   developed   by
analyzing three pools of information:   the existing literature on
the   nonferrous   metals  industry  and  other  industries,  the
information submitted by all facilities responding to DCP's,  and
analysis   of   wastewater   samples  collected  from  46  plants
throughout the nation.  Responses to data  collection  portfolios
and analyses of wastewater samples were used to determine current
practices within the industry.  The practices of other industries
were evaluated by reviewing pertinent literature.

The  existing  literature  was  studied  to obtain information on
treatment  technologies  practiced  by  the   nonferrous   metals
industry  and  related  industries.  A portion of the information
sought was related to in-plant controls already in practice, such
as recycle.  Also, new treatment technologies were considered  in
this study.

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Historical  data (both concentration ranges and mass loadings)  on
pollutant parameters monitored as required  by  individual  state
agencies, were available from NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination   System)  Discharge  Monitoring  Reports.   Previous
development documents were also reviewed to become familiar  with
production   processes,   wastewater   origins,   and   treatment
technologies used.

The industry was surveyed by mailing a data collection  portfolio
(DCP)   to  all  companies known or believed to produce nonferrous
metals.  A. listing of the  companies  comprising  the  nonferrous
metals  industry   (as  classified  by  standard  industrial  code
numbers) was compiled by consulting trade  associations  and  the
U.S.  Bureau  of  Mines.   The  DCPs sought information about the
production processes, yearly production quantity, and  wastewater
treatment and control technologies.  Attention was also placed on
non-water  quality  aspects  such as sludge disposal methods, air
pollution control technologies, and energy consumption.

Producers of metals in the second segment  (Table III-1) were sent
abbreviated questionnaires to  develop  basic  information  about
production  of  that  metal.  These producers were asked only (a)
what metal they produced and  the  production  quantity;  (b)  if
water was used in the process;  (c) if wastewaters were discharged
from  the  process;  and   (d)  what  was the volume of wastewater
discharged.  The results of these surveys are included  in  Table
III-l.

If   the   questionnaires   were  not  returned,  information  on
production  processes,  sources  of  wastewater,  and   treatment
technology  at these plants was collected by telephone interview.
The information so gathered was validated by sending  a  copy  of
the information recorded to the party consulted.  The information
was assumed to be correct as recorded if no reply was received in
30  days.   In total, more than 95% of the industry was contacted
either by mail or by telephone.

The information gathered in the data  collection  portfolios  was
used  to  select  plants  for  wastewater  sampling.   Plants for
sampling were selected on the following bases:   good  wastewater
treatment,  representative  processes  and wastewater streams, or
other qualities which made it desirable for sampling.  Wastewater
samples were collected in two phases.  The  first  phase,  screen
sampling,  was to  identify which priority pollutants were present
in the wastewaters from production of the various  metals.   This
was done at 13 different plants.

The second phase of  sampling, verification, was used to determine
whether  the pollutants identified by screen sampling are present
throughout a subcategory, and if so, at what concentrations.

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One 72-hour or three 24-hour composite samples were collected and
analyzed in accord with the protocol established by the Agency in
1977 (1).  Some deviations from the  protocol  were  occasionally
necessary.  For instance, in some cases, automatic samplers could
not  be  used  because  the  process  being  sampled  was a batch
operation.  In such  cases,  a  manually  composited  sample  was
collected.

In  accord with the protocol, tubing blanks were collected in the
field by passing approximately one gallon of  organic-free  water
through  new  tubing  just  before  samples  are collected.  This
procedure was followed  for  screen  sampling.   However,  during
verification,  tubing  blanks were collected in the laboratory by
passing three gallons of organic-free water through  segments  of
tubing  in a 72-hour period.  This latter procedure parallels the
collection of wastewater samples.   A  representative  length  of
tubing  was cut and stored from each roll of tubing before use in
the field, thus duplicating sampling  conditions  between  tubing
blanks and actual wastewater samples.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NONFERROUS METALS INDUSTRY

The  nonferrous  metals industry encompasses the primary smelting
and  refining   of   nonferrous   metals   (Standard   Industrial
Classification   (SIC)  Number 333) and the secondary smelting and
refining of nonferrous metals, (SIC Number  334) .   The  industry
does  not  include  the  mining  and beneficiation of metal ores;
rolling, drawing, or extruding metals; or scrap metal  collection
and preliminary grading.

Industry  production  figures  (2)   (Table  III-2)   show that the
aluminum, copper, lead and zinc producers dominate the  industry.
The  history of various parts of the industry can be found in the
previous development documents prepared by the Agency  for  those
subcategories (3 through 8).

The nonferrous metals industry can be classified into three broad
groups.   The  first group includes plants that discharge process
wastewater directly to  navigable  waters  (direct  dischargers).
The   second   group   contains  plants  that  discharge  process
wastewater to publicly owned  treatment  works   (POTW)   (indirect
dischargers).   The third group contains plants that discharge no
process wastewater pollutants.

Of 296 plant responses to the  detailed  industry  survey  (Table
III-3) ,  86  plants  (30 percent)  are direct dischargers, while 65
plants  (20 percent) are indirect dischargers.   Water  management
techniques  of  145  plants   (50  percent)  that do not discharge
process wastewater were examined to determine if  the  technology
could  be  transferred to other segments of the industry.  Figure

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III-l shows the locations of the major nonferrous metals industry
plants.

DESCRIPTION OF METALS  SUBCATEGORIES  IN  THE  NONFERROUS  METALS
INDUSTRY

This  section describes the subcategories included in this study.
Subcategories for which regulations have  been  promulgated,  and
are reviewed in this document, are briefly summarized in terms of
raw  materials  and  production  processes.   More  comprehensive
descriptions of the production processes  can  be  found  in  the
previous   development   documents    (3   through  8)  for  these
industries.

Primary Aluminum

Raw Materials.  The  principal  raw  materials  used  in  primary
aluminum  reduction are alumina, petroleum coke, pitch, cryolite,
and  aluminum  fluoride.   Alumina  is  the  product  of  bauxite
refining.

Manufacturing  Process.   Aluminum metal is produced from alumina
in electrolytic cells by the Hall-Heroult process  (Figure III-2).
A potline consists of a row of electrolytic  cells   (pots).   The
pots  are  made  of  cast  iron  lined with carbon and contain an
electrolyte of cryolite, calcium fluoride, and aluminum fluoride.
Alumina is added to the  pots  periodically  and  the  electrical
current  causes  the  reduction  of  alumina  to  aluminum metal.
Aluminum is removed as it accumulates on the bottom of the pot.

The negatively charged carbon pot lining is called  the  cathode.
The molten aluminum collects in it and becomes the actual cathode
or  negative  pole  of  the  cell.   The positive pole, or anode,
consists of carbon in the form of petroleum coke and pitch.   The
anodes are oxidized in the process, producing CO and CO2-

Anodes  are  of  two  types:  prebaked and Soderberg.  Both begin
with the preparation of a paste of  pitch,  coke  and  other  raw
materials  at  an  anode paste plant.  paste preparation includes
crushing, screening, calcining, grinding and mixing and  requires
dust  control  facilities.   Pitch  handling presents special air
pollution problems.  If it is handled as  a  solid,  it  produces
significant   amounts  of  dust.   If  it  is  melted  by  steam,
electricity, or heat transferred through a separate medium  (i.e.,
hydrocarbon oils, or glycols),  toxic  or  flammable  hydrocarbon
vapors must be controlled.

In  the  Soderberg  process,  the  anode  paste  is  used  in the
electrolytic cell without further processing.  The paste bakes or
graphitizes in the heat of the electrolyte bath.  Replacement  of
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the  Soderberg anode is continuous:  as the anode oxidizes at its
tip, paste is added at the top.  Two configurations exist in  the
aluminum  industry  using  the Soderberg process.  The HSS system
uses horizontal pins to support the  anode  body  while  the  VSS
system  uses vertical studs or pins.  In the horizontal Soderberg
process, adjusting the holding pins is made from the side of  the
pot while the vertical Soderberg process adjusts the pins on top.
Since  the paste is added from above, complete hooding of the VSS
cell is not possible, and more fumes may be added to the  potroom
than with other types of anodes.

Prebaked  anodes  are pressed, baked, and graphitized at an anode
bake  plant.   Prebaked  anodes  that  become  too  short  to  be
effective are replaced and the spent anode may be recycled.

Anode  preparation  and  baking  releases  particulates, tars and
oils, and hydrocarbons to the air.   Paste  plant  air  pollution
control  usually  consists of baghouse removal of dust, sometimes
in conjunction with an ESP, although at 4 plants wet methods  are
employed.   Anode  bake  plant  air  pollution control may be wet
scrubbing or alumina adsorption.  Electrostatic precipitators are
also  used,  but  have  reportedly  experienced  arcing  problems
associated with tars and oils.  The resulting wastewater contains
tars  and  oils,  particulates, sulfur compounds, fuel combustion
products, and possibly fluorides.

The potline cells emit gases  containing  particulates,  fluorine
compounds,  SOX»  COX, tars and oils.  Emissions can be collected
and  treated  by  wet  or  dry  processes.    Activated   alumina
adsorption  is  the  most  common  dry process; wet scrubbers and
electrostatic precipitators  are  also  used.   The  alumina  dry
scrubbers allow recycle of the fluoride back to the cell.

Effective  hooding   (easier  on  prebake cells)  may eliminate the
need for secondary  air  pollution  control,  i.e.,  potroom  air
scrubbing.   The  Soderberg  configuration  may  prevent complete
hooding of the cell,  resulting  in  emissions  to  the  potroom,
although  prebake  anode  pot lines also use secondary scrubbing.
All secondary or potroom emission control is by wet systems.

Recycling or disposal of spent anodes and carbon cell-liners also
generate wastes.  Fluoride from the cryolite and alumina bath  in
the  electrolytic  cells  adheres to spent prebaked anodes; thus,
recycling processes may result in fluorine compounds in the  flue
gases at the anode bake plant.

Disposal  of  carbon  potliners   (cathodes)  may include cryolite
recovery or, more  commonly,  disposal  on  land  at  the  plant.
Cathode  reprocessing  and  runoff  waters  are likely to contain
fluorides and cyanides.
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Molten aluminum, which collects in the bottom of the electrolytic
pots, is tapped and conveyed to holding furnaces  for  subsequent
degassing  and  alloying.   Degassing  is  performed by injecting
chlorine gas (sometimes with nitrogen and  carbon  dioxide)   into
the  molten metal to remove hydrogen.  The addition of gas to the
melt also mixes the aluminum to  assure  that  added  alloys  are
distributed evenly in the molten aluminum.

Casting  is  the  final  step at most reduction plants.  Pigs and
sows are cast in conventional  molds,  while  direct  chill  (DC)
casting  may  be  used  for  other shapes.  In DC casting, molten
aluminum is poured into a bottomless water-cooled mold, and after
surface solidification, slips through the  mold  and  drops  down
through  a  series  of water sprays into a water filled pit where
solidification is completed.

Industry Profile.  Figure III-3 shows  the  location  of  the  30
primary aluminum reduction plants operating in the United States.
Another  primary  aluminum plant is on a stand-by basis.  Because
considerable amounts of electrical energy are required to produce
aluminum, most primary aluminum plants are located  near  sources
of  abundant  and  inexpensive  hydroelectric  power, such as the
Pacific Northwest and the Tennessee River Valley  (TVA).

Of the 30 reduction plants shown in Table III-4, about 70 percent
 (22 plants) were built in the last 30 years.  The  average  plant
age  is  between  20  and  30 years.  From the data summarized in
Table III-5, 26 plants (85%) produce less than 200,000  tons  per
year.   Median  production  is in the 100,000 to 150,000 tons per
year range.

Twenty-seven plants are direct dischargers.  The other three  are
at zero discharge.  Table III-6 summarizes, by type of discharge,
the type of wastewater treatment at primary aluminum plants.  The
Best Practical Treatment  (BPT) is defined in Table III-6, adapted
from  the  previous development document  (3) .  From the table, it
can be seen that 18 plants  (60 percent)  provide  BPT  or  better
treatment.  Of the remaining 12 plants  (40 percent) not providing
BPT or better treatment, one-fourth have no treatment.

The  vast  majority  of  the  30  plants  are  in  areas  of  net
precipitation  (Figure III-4).  Thus, the use of solar evaporation
ponds may be precluded.  Table III-7 shows, by type of discharge,
the  number  of  plants  using  specific  chemicals  or  physical
treatment processes to treat wastewater at present.  The majority
of the plants use lime and sedimentation.  A few plants use other
types  of  chemical  agents  and/or  physical  processes to treat
wastewaters.
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Table III-8 indicates the production processes used  by  aluminum
reduction plants.

Secondary Aluminum

The  following  is  a  brief  summary  of  the  raw materials and
processes  used  in  the  secondary   production   of   aluminum.
Historical  highlights  and  a  more  detailed  and comprehensive
description  of  the  processes  can  be  found  in   the   first
development document for secondary aluminum
Raw  Materials.   Nearly all of the raw materials utilized by the
secondary aluminum industry are  scrap  aluminum  purchased  from
scrap  dealers  or  industrial  plants.  The scrap may be divided
into five  classifications:  new  clipping,  forgings  and  other
solids;  borings  and  turnings; residues; old casting and sheet;
and high iron.

New clippings, forgings, and  other  solids  originate  from  the
aircraft  industry,  aluminum  formers, and manufacturing plants.
Borings and turnings come  mainly  from  machining  of  castings,
rods,  and forgings.  Residues consist of waste dross, skimmings,
and slags from operations at primary reduction plants,  secondary
smelting operations, casting plants, and others.  Old casting and
sheet  come  from  various  sources  such  as  automobile  parts,
household items and dismantled airplanes.  High  iron  originates
from iron scrap and requires special treatment before smelting.

Manufacturing  Process.   The  varied nature of the raw materials
used in the secondary aluminum  industry  requires  two  distinct
operations: presmelting and smelting.

The  presmelting  process  varies  with  the  raw  material being
handled.  Additionally, the degree to which the industry prepares
and segregates scrap differs from plant to plant.  New  clippings
and  forgings  require  little  preparation  other  than sorting;
however, they are often  contaminated  with  cutting  oils.   The
materials  are  usually  crushed  and  dried  to remove the oils.
After drying, the scrap  is  screened  and  iron  is  removed  by
magnetic separators.

Furnace  residues,  e.g., dross, slag, and skimmings, have a high
impurity content and either wet or  dry  processes  are  used  to
remove  these  impurities.  The dry process consists of crushing,
screening, and iron removal by  magnetic  separation.   Baghouses
are usually used to control the dust created by this process, but
wet  scrubbers  are  sometimes  used.   The  wet process includes
washing, screening, drying,  and  magnetic  separation  of  iron.
Fine   particles,   dissolved  salts,  and  under size  screenings
characterize the resultant wastewater.
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Scrap sheet and casting preparation is a  dry  process  that  can
vary  from no presmelting treatment to screening and iron removal
by magnetic separation.  High-iron scrap must undergo presmelting
treatment for iron removal ranging  from  crushing  and  magnetic
separation  to  iron  removal  by a sweating furnace.  A sweating
furnace is a sloped furnace in which molten aluminum  flows  down
the  slope,  leaving  iron and other residuals.  The offgases are
usually passed through an afterburner before release.

The smelting  of  secondary  aluminum,  shown  in  Figure  III-5,
consists of six steps:  Charging scrap into the furnace, addition
of fluxing agents, addition of alloying agents, mixing, demagging
or degassing, and skimming,  some plants also process residues to
recover  a high aluminum fraction for smelting and a low aluminum
fraction that is used as a ingot topping by steel manufacturers.

Charging of scrap into the furnace can be a batch  process  or  a
continuous  process.   Each  smelting  cycle, called a heat, will
vary in length depending on the type of  process.   This  process
generates  fumes  and smoke depending on the quality of the scrap
used.

The addition of a flux forms a semi-solid  barrier  on  the  melt
that  optimizes  oxidation  of metal by gas adsorption.  The flux
also  facilitates  impurity  removal  by   physical   separation.
Chloride  or  fluoride  salts  of  sodium, potassium, calcium, or
cryolite are usually used as fluxes.  The amount of flux added is
proportional to the surface area of the charged scrap.

Alloying agents  are  added  depending  on  the  specified  alloy
content  of  the product.  Copper, silicon, manganese, magnesium,
and zinc may  be  added  as  required,  usually  in  scrap  form.
Minimal fumes are generated in this process.

Mixing  the  furnace  contents  is  necessary  to  assure uniform
composition of the metal and the  fluxing  and  alloying  agents.
Mixing  may be by injecting nitrogen gas or a mixture of nitrogen
and chlorine.  Injecting nitrogen gas  causes  negligible  fuming
but the nitrogen and chlorine mix does generate fumes.

Magnesium  removal   (demagging) is achieved by adding chlorine or
aluminum  fluoride.   Volatile  aluminum   chloride   fumes   are
generated  when  demagging  agents  are  added, and the extent of
their formation is dependent upon residual magnesium in the melt.
Air pollution control is  required  to  remove  these  fumes  and
wastewater is generated when wet scrubbing is used.

The  semi-solid  flux or slag, with its associated impurities, is
skimmed  from  the  molten  aluminum   following   demagging   or
degassing.   The  cooled slag is stored for shipment to a residue
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processor, recycled, or discarded.  Contamination of runoff water
with soluble salts can occur if open storage is used.

The product  line(s)  of  each  smelter  can  be  categorized  as
specification  alloy  ingots,  billets,  hot  metal, notched bar,
shot,  and  hardeners.   Specification  alloy  ingots,  used   by
foundries  for  casting,  are  the most important products of the
secondary aluminum industry.  Cooling can  be  done  with  either
contact  or  noncontact  cooling  water,  and air cooling is also
used.  Plants employing contact  cooling  water  recycle  systems
generate   intermittent   discharges    (accompanied  with  sludge
removal).   Billets,  manufactured  for  use  in  the   extrusion
industry,  are  cooled  with  noncontact  water that is recycled.
Sometimes the molten metal  is  poured  directly  into  preheated
crucibles  and  then  shipped  while  still in a molten form.  No
water is used.  Notched  bar  is  used  in  the  iron  and  steel
industry  as  a deoxidant.  Notched bar molds may be air or water
cooled with either contact or noncontact water.  Aluminum shot is
also used as a deoxidant in the steel industry.  Molten metal  is
poured  into  a  vibrating feeder, where droplets of molten metal
are formed through perforated openings.  The droplets are  cooled
in  a  quench  tank.   Water  is  generally recycled and periodic
sludge removal is required.

Industry Profile.  A summary of treatment  technologies  employed
by  the secondary aluminum industry is given in Table III-9.   BPT
effluent limitations are based on the production process employed
by the secondary aluminum smelter.  For those direct  dischargers
that  only produce wastewater by contact cooling of aluminum, the
BPT effluent limitation is no discharge of process wastes, as  is
the  case for direct dischargers which employ A1F3 as a demagging
agent.   BPT  for  direct  dischargers  which   employ   chlorine
demagging   is   pH   adjustment   and  settling.   Those  direct
dischargers  which  generate  process   wastewater   from   dross
processing  also  require  a  BPT  treatment  corresponding to pH
adjustment and settling.

Of  the  63  plants  examined,  eight   (13  percent)  are  direct
dischargers.   Of  these  eight,  two provide no treatment.  Four
plants provide coagulation and solids separation  (Level B).

Sixteen  (25 percent) of  the. 63  secondary  aluminum  facilities
examined   are   indirect   dischargers.    The  existing  source
pretreatment technologies are as follows:  contact cooling  water
(oil  skimming),  demagging  scrubber wastewater  (neutralization)
and dross processing wastewater  (neutralization).  Twelve of  the
16  indirect  dischargers provide no treatment  (see Table III-9).
Three  of  the  indirect  dischargers  treat  process  wastes  by
coagulation   and   solids   separation.   Thirty-nine  secondary
aluminum plants  (62 percent of those surveyed)  do  not  discharge
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process  wastewater.   All  of  these  plants  meet  BPT effluent
limitations.

A summary of the processes employed  by  the  secondary  aluminum
industry  is  presented in Table 111-10.  Figure III-6 shows that
most plants are located in the eastern  U.S.  and  are  in  urban
areas.

The  vast  majority  of  the  63 secondary aluminum plants are in
areas of net precipitation.  This may preclude the use  of  solar
evaporation ponds.

Table  III-ll  shows,  by type of discharge, the number of plants
using certain chemicals or physical treatment processes to  treat
wastewater at present.  The majority of the plants do not use any
type of treatment process since most plants use dry processes.

The  average  age of the 63 secondary aluminum smelting plants is
20 to 25 years (Table 111-13).  This fact reflects  the  relative
youthfulness of this industry.  From the summarized data in Table
111-12,  H2  plants   (67  percent)  produce under 30,000 tons per
year.  Median production is in the 5,000 to 10,000  tons-per-year
range.

Primary Columbium and Tantalum

While  chemists  refer  to  element  number  41  as "niobium", in
American metallurgy it is known as  "columbium",  and  this  name
will be used in this report.

Raw Materials.  Raw materials for the production of columbium and
tantalum  salts  are  ore  concentrates  and  slags.   Columbite,
tantalite, and pyrochlore are the principal minerals.   Columbium
and  tantalum  are  commonly found together.  Ferrocolumbium ores
are also processed.  Slags associated with foreign tin production
are the major source of these materials.  Columbium and  tantalum
metals  are  produced  by  the reduction of purified salts.  Some
plants produce both columbium  and  tantalum  salts  and  further
refine this material to the metal.

Manufacturing  Process.   The  processes  used at a columbium and
tantalum production facility depend largely upon the raw material
used and the final product of the plant.  Three types  of  plants
are  found:   producers of metals and salts from concentrates and
slags; producers of only purified  salts  from  concentrates  and
slags; and producers of metals from purified salts.

Initial  processing  of  ore  concentrates  and slags consists of
leaching with  hydrofluoric  acid  to   solubilize  columbium  and
tantalum   salts.    In  addition,  other  metal  impurities  are
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solubilized and require removal.  Solvent extraction is the  most
common  purification  technique,  while ion exchange is sometimes
used.  Frequently, methyl  isobutyl  ketone  (MIBK)   is  used  to
preferentially  extract  columbium  and  tantalum  from  solution
(Figure III-8).  The laden solvent is then stripped  of  tantalum
oxide  by deionized water.  Following hydrofluoric acid addition,
the solvent is stripped again, yielding a columbium-laden stream.
The separate solutions are chemically treated to precipitate pure
salts of columbium and tantalum.  An alternate  technique  is  to
recover  columbium  and  tantalum salts directly from the organic
solvent as solids.  The columbium is further processed by  drying
and  calcining to yield pure Cb2O5.  Tantalum may be precipitated
by   ammonia   addition   to   produce   Ta20s,   or    potassium
fluorotantalate  may be produced by addition of hydrofluoric acid
and potassium fluoride.

A number of methods exist for  the  reduction  of  columbium  and
tantalum    salts   to   metal.    Reduction   methods   include:
aluminothermic reduction, sodium reduction, carbon reduction, and
electrolysis.

Aluminothermic  reduction  may  be  used  on  purified  salts  of
columbium  and  tantalum or on ferrocolumbium ores, which require
no prior processing.  The salt or ore  is  mixed  with  aluminum,
potassium  chlorate,  and  magnesium.   Ignition  of this mixture
catalyzes an exothermic reaction  leading  to  the  reduction  of
columbium  and  tantalum while aluminum is oxidized.  The reduced
metal is separated from the overlying slag after cooling.

Sodium reduction entails charging alternating layers of  tantalum
salts  with layers of sodium under heat and pressure.  The layers
are capped with sodium chloride  during  the  ensuing  exothermic
reaction  to  prevent oxidation of the reduced metal.  The metal-
containing material is crushed and treated magnetically to remove
iron after cooling.  The tantalum is further purified by leaching
with water and then again with nitric or hydrochloric acid.

A high-purity columbium can  be  produced  by  carbon  reduction.
Reduction  of  columbium  salt  is  attained  by  a dry two-stage
process.  Partial reduction of Cb2os with carbon yields columbium
carbide.   The  columbium  carbide  and  Cb2Os  react   at   high
temperature yielding pure columbium and carbon dioxide.

Electrolytic  reduction of tantalum, using fused-salt techniques,
has been commercially used.  Commonly, K2TaF7 is electrolyzed  to
yield tantalum metal.

Due  to  the  high  reactivity of tantalum and columbium, special
techniques must be used to further purify and work the metal into
the desired form.  These processes include: compaction and direct
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resistance  heating  in  a  vacuum  furnace,  cold-crucible   arc
melting,  and electron beam melting.  Vacuum furnace sintering is
used to purify and compact the metal simultaneously.  The rate of
heating is controlled while the  metal  undergoes  hydrogenation,
leaching  with  nitric  acid,  and several pressing and sintering
steps.  Electron beam and arc  melting  methods,  both  performed
under  a  vacuum,  also  serve  the  purpose  of purification and
compaction of the metal.

Industry Profile.  Most of the plants were built in  the  20-year
period  just  after World War II  (Table Ill-It).  Data on the age
of the remaining two plants  were  not  available.   The  average
plant  age is about 20 years.  Average plant production is around
450 tons per year range, as shown in Table 111-15.

Figure III-9 depicts  the  geographic  locations  of  the  plants
comprising  the  columbium-tantalum subcategory of the nonferrous
industry.  The plants are scattered, with half the plants located
in the New England area and the rest in the Midwest or the  West.
Comparing  this figure to Figures III-H and III-9 shows that only
the plant in Oklahoma is in an  area  of  net  evaporation.   The
other plants are in net precipitation areas.

From  Table  111-16, it can be seen that all the plants discharge
wastewater.   This  table  summarizes  the  level  of   treatment
achieved  by all plants in the columbium-tantalum industry at the
present time.

Table 111-17 shows, by type of discharge, the  number  of  plants
using  given  chemical  or  physical treatment processes to treat
process wastewater streams at present.  As noted, most plants use
lime and sedimentation as treatment.  Only a  limited  number  of
other  treatment  processes are presently employed.  Table I11-18
lists the  major  production  processes  presently  used  in  the
columbium-tantalum industry.

Primary Copper

Raw  Materials   (Smelting).   Although  there are about 160 known
copper minerals, only about a dozen  of  these  are  commercially
important.   The  most important  copper ores in the United States
are:  chalcopyrite, chalcocite, covellite, bornite, cuprite,  and
malachite.  These minerals are either sulfide ores or oxide ores.
In  Michigan's  upper  peninsula,  however,  native  copper  is a
significant ore  mineral  associated  with  covellite,  a  copper
sulfide.

Manufacturing  Process   (Smelting).   Primary copper smelters use
one  of  two  main  process  schemes:   roasting,  smelting,  and
converting;  or  simply  smelting and converting  (Figure 111-10).
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Smelters that process numerous types of  ore  concentrates  often
use  roasting  as  well as smelting, while those that process ore
concentrates of uniform consistency may not require the  roasting
step.  Roasting can be done with either a multiple-hearth roaster
or a more modern fluid-bed roaster.  Roasting reduces the content
of  sulfur  and  other  impurities in the feed prior to smelting.
Smelting may be done with either a reverberatory  furnace  or  an
electric  furnace.  The end product, a molten copper-iron-suIfide
material called matte, is sent to a  converter,  while  the  slag
which  contains  impurities  is skimmed off as waste material for
disposal.

In the converting step, air is introduced into the  molten  bath,
and the iron-sulfide component of the matte is oxidized to sulfur
dioxide and iron oxide.  The sulfur dioxide is carried off in the
exhaust  air  stream  and  the  iron  oxide  further  reacts with
silicate, added as a fluxing agent, to form  iron-silicate  slag.
The  slag,  which  contains  significant  amounts  of  copper, is
recycled to the smelting step.  The converter product  is  called
blister  copper.   Blister copper, containing various impurities,
including precious metals, is usually cast into anodes  and  sent
to  electrolytic refining for purification.  Fire refining, which
is a pyrometallurgical method, produces only a  small  percentage
of the refined copper produced in the United States.

Fire  refining  is  done  in  either  a reverberatory or a rotary
furnace.  Compressed air is introduced beneath the molten  copper
to  oxidize  part  of  the  copper to cuprous oxide.  The cuprous
oxide reacts with sulfur and heavy metals to form sulfur  dioxide
and  metal  oxides.   Sulfur  dioxide  escapes to the air exhaust
system while metal oxides are  collected  in  the  slag  that  is
removed  from the furnace by mechanical raking.  Cuprous oxide in
the molten material is reduced to metallic copper by adding  coke
or  by "poling" after slag removal.  In the poling process, green
hardwood poles are inserted beneath the molten bath.  To  prevent
reoxidation,  the  bath is then covered with sand and charcoal to
prevent the entry of air.  Fire-refined  copper  is  either  cast
into anodes or other final products.

Large  amounts  of air pollutants, principally sulfur dioxide and
particulate matter, are generated during  the  smelting  process.
Particulates   are  generated  in  the  roasting,  smelting,  and
converting of ore concentrates.  In some  plants,  the  off-gases
from  primary  smelting operations pass through a boiler for heat
recovery and then pass through  a  low-velocity  flue  device  to
precipitate    heavier   particles.    The   smaller   fume-sized
particulates are usually removed by  electrostatic  precipitators
(ESP); multiclones or baghouses are also used by some plants.
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Control  of  sulfur  dioxide offgases usually follows particulate
removal.  Several schemes exist for  recovery  of  sulfur  oxides
from  off-gases:   a single or double contact sulfuric acid plant
or dimethylaniline  (DMA)   system.   Further  particulate  removal
from  the  gas  streams  is  performed before they enter the acid
plant by passing the gas streams through an  open  and/or  packed
scrubbing tower.  The gas is then passed through an electrostatic
precipitator  to  remove remaining particulate matter and S02 and
is dried of moisture before being  converted  to  sulfuric  acid.
The  final gas stream, called tail gas, which contains a high SO2
concentration, is normally passed through a  sulfuric  acid  mist
precipitator  for additional SO2 recovery.  The DMA system uses a
three-tray absorbing tower where sulfur oxide chemically combines
with the DMA solution.  The SO2-laden DMA solution is then passed
through a stripper to  remove  SO2-   The  concentrated  S02  gas
stream  is  compressed  into  liquefied SO2 solution as the final
product.  The depleted DMA solution is recirculated to the  first
tray of the absorbing tower for reuse.

Raw Materials (Refining) .  The principal raw material used is the
blister copper produced by copper smelters.

Manufacturing   Process    (Refining).    Electrolytic   refining,
illustrated in Figure III-11, uses many electrolytic baths with a
series of cathodes and anodes.   The  cathodes,  called  "starter
sheets,"  are  thin sheets of electrolytically refined copper.  A
dilute solution of sulfuric acid and copper sulfate  is  used  as
the  electrolyte.   The  electrolytic  reaction  results  in  the
deposit of  copper  on  the  cathode  sheet  and  releases  anode
impurities  that  precipitate  in  the  electrolyte.  The refined
copper cathodes are rinsed, and  may  be  melted,  and  cast  for
transport  as  a  final  product.   Impurities and soluble copper
oxides become concentrated in the electrolyte.  Spent electrolyte
is bled off and replaced with fresh electrolyte to  maintain  the
proper  concentrations  of  copper  and  impurities.   Single- or
double-stage liberator cells are used to remove copper  from  the
laden  electrolyte  by  electrolytically  depositing  copper on a
cathode.  As the copper concentration of the electrolyte drops to
a low level, arsine  (AsH3) is evolved at the anode and hooding of
the final stage of  liberator  cells  is  required  to  eliminate
employee  exposure  to  the toxic gas.  The decopperized solution
may be recycled, used as a leaching solution,  or  collected  for
final disposal.

Insoluble  slimes  are generated during the electrolytic refining
process.   These  slimes  may  contain  economically  significant
amounts  of  copper, selenium, tellurium, lead, silver, and other
precious metals.  These slimes are usually  processed  off  site,
but may be treated on site for by-product recovery.  The slime is
first screened and washed with sulfuric acid for copper recovery.
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The  resulting  slime  cake is sent to a Dore furnace for fusion.
The first slag formed in the Dore furnace is skimmed off and sent
to a lead smelter for lead recovery.  Selenium and tellurium  are
fluxed  into  a  soda  slag  when soda ash and sodium nitrate are
added.  The soda slag is dissolved and filtered and  the  residue
is  recycled to the Dore furnace.  The tellurium-bearing filtrate
is acidified to a pH of about 5.5 to precipitate tellurium  oxide
(TeO2) which is further reduced, purified as tellurium, and cast.
The selenium-bearing filtrate is acidified with sulfuric acid and
treated with sulfur to precipitate metallic selenium.

At  the  Dore  furnace,  after  removal  of the soda slag, air is
introduced into the metal pool to oxidize  any  remaining  copper
and  the  copper oxide is skimmed off with the newly formed slag.
The residual metal (Dore metal) is cast into anodes which may  be
processed  on-site  or  sold  to other refineries for recovery of
silver, gold, and other precious metals.

Recovery of precious metals from Dore entails  both  electrolytic
refining  and  cementation  of waste electrolyte evolved from the
refining process.  The Dore anodes are  electrolytically  refined
in  a  nitrate  solution  and silver is produced at the cathodes.
The waste electrolyte is subjected to cementation for silver  and
copper  recovery by adding copper to displace soluble silver,  and
by adding iron to precipitate residual soluble copper.  The  gold
and   precious   metals   bearing   slimes  produced  during  the
electrolytic refining of silver are melted, cast into anodes  and
electrolytically   refined   into   gold.    Small  quantities   of
particulates are also generated  from  slime  recovery  furnaces.
Slime  recovery  furnaces  generally  employ either electrostatic
precipitators  or  wet  scrubbers  for  air  pollution   control.
Precious  metals   (platinum,  etc.)  are  produced  from the gold
electrolyte slime.

Industry Profile.  The primary copper industry, consisting of   23
plants  depicted  in  Figure  111-12,  consists  of  two distinct
operations:   smelting  and  refining.   In   some   cases   both
operations  are  found  at  or  near  the  same site.  As a rule,
however,  smelters  are  located  near  copper  mines,   in   the
Southwest,  and  refineries  are  found  near  either smelters or
maritime centers, e.g., the northeastern seaboard.

Of the plants considered in' the  primary  copper  subcategories.
Table 111-19 shows 23 plants.  Table 111-19 shows the average age
of  the  plants  to be around 40 years.  As seen in Table III-20,
the average plant production is around 100,000 tons per year.

As shown in Figure 111-12  and  Table  111-21,  only  35  percent
(eight)  of  the  23 plants discharge wastewater.  Fifteen are at
zero  discharge  of  pollutants,   and  there  are  no   indirect
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dischargers.   Table III-21 summarizes, by type of discharge, the
level of wastewater treatment at plants  in  the  primary  copper
industry.   The  present  BPT  regulation  is  zero discharge for
smelters and refineries in areas of net evaporation.   In  months
of  net precipitation, discharge of a volume no more than the net
monthly precipitation is allowed.  For stand-alone refineries  in
areas  of  net  precipitation,  a  discharge  is  allowed.  These
regulations are presently being reconsidered.  Eight  of  the  23
plants  are  direct dischargers, two of which are in areas of net
evaporation.  Of the  eight  direct  dischargers,  three  do  not
presently  employ  any wastewater treatment, while three are at a
level   of   treatment   exceeding   chemical   coagulation   and
sedimentation.   Table  III-22  shows,  by type of discharge, the
number of plants using a given  chemical  or  physical  treatment
process  to  treat  process wastewater.  Many plants add lime and
then  settle.   An  even  greater  number  of  plants  use  solar
evaporation ponds, mostly in the Southwest.

Table  III-23 summarizes the production processes used at primary
copper plants.

Secondary Copper

Raw  Materials.   Industrial  copper-bearing   scrap,   discarded
consumer  items,  and melting and refining residues are the basic
raw  materials  used  by  the  secondary  copper  industry.   The
National  Association  of  Secondary Materials Industries  (NASMI)
classifies these materials into HH designations.  They  can  also
be  grouped  into three broad categories: low grade, intermediate
grade, and high  grade.   Low  grade  scrap  consists  of  highly
contaminated  waste products, including slags, drosses, skimmings
and other industrial residues.  Intermediate  grade  scrap  forms
the  bulk  of the materials processed.  These are mostly brass or
bronze alloys of different composition in a variety of forms  and
sizes.  High grade scrap is basically pure copper.

The  wide variety of the raw materials requires several different
methods to prepare and process them.  The finished  products  may
vary   from   low   quality   black   copper   to   high  quality
electrolytically-refined  copper.   Additionally,   some   plants
merely  warehouse  and sell some of these materials after minimum
processing,  e.g.,  large  railroad  journal  boxes  are  cut  to
crucible size and sold directly to foundries.

Manufacturing  Process.  As dictated by the type of raw materials
and the desired end product, the manufacturing process  (as  shown
in   Figure   111-13)  consists  of  three  distinct  operations:
pretreatment of scrap,  smelting,  and  refining.   Most  plants,
however, do not go beyond the smelting process.
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Pretreatment  of  scrap—First,  the materials are segregated for
pretreatment as they arrive at the  plant.   The  composition  of
each  lot  is  known  in  most  cases.  The materials usually are
presorted by secondary material dealers or  shipped  directly  by
foundries  and  metal  shops.  Low grade copper-bearing scrap, in
many  cases  generated  in-house,  e.g.,  slag,  skimmings,   and
drosses,  is generally broken up with jackhammers and the smaller
pieces are fragmented in a ball mill.   The  milled  material  is
then  wet-classified in vibrating tables to recover small copper-
rich granules or copper concentrates.   Very  fine  particles  of
metal,  soil,  and  other impurities are carried away by water to
settling basins and eventually removed as sludge when the  basins
undergo   periodic  cleaning.   The  recovered  granules  may  be
pelletized, briguetted, or simply mixed with the melt to  produce
alloys.    These   concentrates   may   also   be  melted,  after
briguetting, in cupola or blast furnaces to produce black copper.
The gangue or depleted slag, which may contain up to five percent
copper, is added in small proportions to  the  heats  charged  to
produce copper-based alloys.

Intermediate  grade  scrap  is  used  mostly to produce brass and
bronze alloys, and the pretreatment  processes  employed  are  as
varied  as  the  specifications of the raw materials.  While some
materials reguire little or no treatment,  some  may  undergo  as
many as four steps.  Most materials require, as a minimum, one of
the  following:   stripping, burning, drying, sweating or sawing.
Sweated and  sawed  materials  usually  do  not  reguire  further
treatment   prior   to  smelting.   Stripped,  burned,  or  dried
materials  normally  undergo  shredding  followed   by   magnetic
separation.   Then the materials, depending on their size, may be
briguetted or baled for easy handling.

Other processes not shown in Figure 111-13 include classification
by manual or mechanical means.  Hand-sized  homogenous  materials
are  usually  separated manually.  Air classification may also be
done following shredding to remove lightweight contaminants.

High grade materials require only drying and baling or sawing  as
pretreatment to produce either blister copper or refined copper.

Size  reduction  processes  are  used  to remove impurities or to
improve handling operations.  Milling of slags  and  other  large
solids  is  done  in  ball  mills.   This is a dry operation that
creates moderate amounts of dust.  Shredding of bulky  materials,
done  with  mechanical  shredders or hammer mills, is required to
remove iron or light organic contaminants.  This is  also  a  dry
operation  which  produces  moderate  to  high  amounts  of dust.
Sawing  of  huge  solids  is  required   to   improve   handling.
Considerable  metal  dust is produced, but this dust is recovered
and briquetted for later use.
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Primary contaminant removal processes include stripping, burning,
drying, and sweating.  Electrical cable  and  similar  items  are
either  stripped  or  burned  to remove insulation, sheathing, or
imbedded plastics from copper-bearing  materials.   Stripping  is
usually  done with automatic machines, but hand stripping is also
done.   In  either  case,  this  process   produces   significant
quantities  of  solid  waste  in  the form of plastics, paper, or
textiles.  Sometimes the  contaminants  are  burned  away.   This
method  produces  emissions  that  may  contain potentially toxic
organics along with the combustion products and it is a source of
wastewater if wet scrubbing is practiced.

Borings, turnings, and  similar  industrial  wastes  are  usually
contaminated  with  cutting oils or grease.  The contaminants are
typically removed by heat-drying in rotary  kilns  equipped  with
afterburners  to  treat the hydrocarbons released by the process.
Sulphur oxides and chlorides, if present, are not removed by  the
afterburner  and  further  air pollution control may be required.
Scrap solids with low melting points, such as radiators,  journal
bearings,  and  lead-sheathed  cables, are sometimes treated in a
sweating furnace to remove and recover by-products, e.g., solder,
lead, and babbitt.  Sweating is done in a  sloped  furnace  where
metals  of  low  melting point, such as copper, flow downward and
are collected.  Sweating may also be done in pots with alloys, in
rotary kilns,  or  in  reverberatory  furnaces.   Wastewater  may
result from the control of associated air emissions.

Secondary  contaminant  removal includes classification of copper
concentrates from milled  slags,  air  classification  to  remove
lightweight  solids,  and  magnetic  separation  of  iron.  These
processes produce, respectively, sludge, solid  waste  and  dust,
and iron as solid waste.  Pelletizing, briquetting and baling are
compacting  processes  required  to improve handling of granular-
size or  bulky  materials.   Slag  granules,  turnings,  borings,
shredded  scrap,  etc.,  are  usually  briquetted.  Radiators and
other hollow materials are sometimes baled in hydraulic presses.

Smelting Process—The initial smelting step consists of  charging
low  grade  scrap  into  a  blast or cupola furnace.  While blast
furnaces are used to reduce copper oxides and  melt  the  charge,
cupola furnaces are generally used only to melt the charge.  Both
furnaces  are  charged  with  coke,  metal,  slag, and flux.  The
material is fired with an air blast introduced into the bottom of
the furnace.  Air pollution  equipment  is  required  to  control
emissions  with  significant  wastewater  being  generated if wet
scrubbers are used.  The products of the blast furnace are copper
matte and slag, while the product of the cupola furnace is called
black copper.  Other specialty  furnaces,  such  as  crucible  or
induction   furnaces,   are  sometimes  used  for  special  alloy
production or precious metal recovery.  Although sizeable amounts
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of noncontact cooling water are used in induction  furnaces,  the
waste  is  not  contaminated  and  is usually recycled.  Crucible
furnaces use no water.  Black copper and copper matte are usually
processed further in  the  molten  state,  but  black  copper  is
occasionally  cast  into molds or shot before further processing.
Molds are usually air cooled, while shot is quenched,  generating
wastewater.

The  second smelting step consists of refining, or alloying, pre-
melted low grade materials and/or  intermediate  and  high  grade
scrap.   Black  copper may be combined with intermediate and high
grade copper to produce either blister  copper  anodes  or  fire-
refined  copper  ingots  and  billets.  Intermediate grade scrap,
with or without low grade pretreated scrap, is  used  to  produce
brass, bronze or other copper-based alloys.  Refining or alloying
is  done  in  reverberatory  or  rotary  furnaces.  Reverberatory
furnaces are box-shaped while rotary furnaces  are  barrel-shaped
and rotate either 180 or 360 degrees.  The methodology of further
refining  or alloying varies with the scrap charged, the finished
product,  equipment  available,   and   individual   manufacturer
preference.   Generally  the  process  begins by charging the mix
into the furnace as air or oxygen is introduced into  the  bottom
of  the  furnace  to  oxidize  impurities.   Addition  of a flux,
usually sodium borate,  aids  in  collecting  impurities  on  the
surface  of the melt.  These impurities are skimmed from the melt
and allowed to cool, thus forming what is  known  as  slag.   The
slag,  which  contains  economically  significant  quantities  of
copper and other recoverable metals, is usually  reprocessed  in-
house.    Occasionally,  however,  the  slag  is  sold  to  other
smelters.  When the  melt  has  attained  the  degree  of  purity
required  by  the  product  specifications, the metal is cast and
cooled.  Cooling of castings may  be  done  by  air,  contact  or
noncontact cooling water.

In  the  refining  of  brass and bronze, metal fluxing agents are
added to degasify and alloy the reverberatory or  rotary  furnace
melt.  When the melt meets specifications, the brass or bronze is
cooled to the proper temperature before casting into ingots.  The
molds are cooled with water sprays or by partial immersion of the
mold  in  water.   These cooling waters are usually recycled, and
produce  infrequent  wastewater  discharges  during  cleaning  or
sludge removal.

Blister  copper may be further fire-refined in-house or cast into
anodes for electrolytic refining.  If cast into anodes, they  are
formed  in  a  circular  mold-conveying  system or conveyor.  The
anodes may be air cooled, spray cooled, or cooled  by  noncontact
cooling  water.   Before use, the molds may be coated with a mold
release agent such as calcium phosphate.  Contact  cooling  water
may be a source of wastewater, but it is usually recycled.
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When the melt is to be fire-refined, aeration is continued in the
reverberatory  or  rotary  furnace  until  all the impurities are
concentrated in the slag.  The slag is removed from the  melt,  a
layer  of  charcoal  or  coke  is added, and green wood poles are
inserted  into  the  melt.   The  green  wood  emits  gases  that
deoxidize  the  melt.   The  purified copper is cast into various
shapes, including billets, cakes, slabs, wire bar, wire rod,   and
ingot anodes.  Wire bars and ingots are cooled and water quenched
when  solidified.   Wastewater  discharge  usually  results  from
guenching.  Other forms are cooled  with  noncontact  or  contact
cooling water that is recycled.

A few secondary copper facilities practice electrolytic refining.
Copper anodes are alternated with refined copper "starter sheets"
in  the  electrolytic  cell.   Pure  copper  is  deposited on the
starter sheets which serve as the  cathode  in  the  electrolytic
reaction.  The starter sheets, with deposited cathode copper, are
periodically  removed.   The  electrolyte, a solution of sulfuric
acid and copper sulfate, is washed from the cathode copper.

Cathode copper may be melted in either a reverberatory or a shaft
furnace.  The reverberatory furnace may serve only  to  melt  the
copper  or may further refine the copper  (fire refining using the
reverberatory furnace has been discussed previously).  The  shaft
furnace  is  similar  to  the  cupola  furnace discussed earlier.
Poling in a small reverberatory holding furnace is used to reduce
the melt to pure copper before casting when the shaft furnace  is
employed.   Particulates may be controlled by wet or dry methods.
Casting of electrolytically refined  copper  is  essentially  the
same as for fire-refined copper.

A  bleed stream of the electrolyte is used to maintain copper and
nickel  concentrations  at  acceptable  limits.   Recovering  the
copper  values  from  the bleed stream is essentially the same as
the electrolytic refining process except that a lead  cathode  is
used.   The  spent electrolyte may be concentrated by evaporation
to recover nickel sulfate as  a  by-product.  Alternately,  scrap
iron  is  added  to  displace  the copper from solution.  This is
called cementation.  Slimes  generated  during  the  electrolytic
refining  process  are usually processed off-site for recovery of
other metals.

Industry Profile.   There  are  32  secondary  copper  processing
plants  in  the  United States.  The majority of these plants, as
shown in Figure 111-14, are located in or near  major  industrial
cities  where  most  of  the  raw  materials  are  generated  and
collected.

Figure  111-14  shows  that  the  secondary  copper  industry  is
concentrated  around  the Great Lakes and the New England states.
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The establishment of the industry occurred over a long period  of
time.   As shown in Table III-24, average plant age falls between
30 and 40 years, somewhat older than the average plant age in the
primary copper industry.  Comparing Table III-25 to Table III-20,
it can be seen that the average production  of  secondary  copper
plants  is  only about one-tenth of the average production in the
primary copper industry.

Only 22 percent  (7 plants)   of  the  32  plants  listed  in  this
subcategory  are direct dischargers.  Table 111-26 summarizes, by
type of discharge, the level of wastewater  treatment  at  plants
within  the secondary copper industry at present.  Zero discharge
of process wastewater is achieved by 20  plants  (Table  111-26),
which  corresponds  to best practicable treatment technology.  Of
the remaining 12 dischargers, only  six  are  without  wastewater
treatment.

Comparing  Figure  111-14 to Figure III-4 shows that the majority
of the 32 plants are in areas of net precipitation.  Table 111-27
tabulates, by type of  discharge,  the  number  of  plants  using
chemicals  or physical wastewater treatment processes.  The table
shows that few plants treat process wastewater.   Lime,  caustic,
settling,  filtration, and evaporation are the methods most often
used.  Table 111-28 shows the production processes  used.

Primary Lead

Raw Materials.  Galena, cerusite, and anglesite are the principal
mineral ores utilized by the  primary  lead  industry.   Most  of
these  ores  originate  in southeast Missouri, but  Idaho and Utah
also produce significant amounts.   Missouri  ores   have  a  lead
content exceeding 70 percent and a very low impurity content; the
combined  zinc  and copper content of the ores is less than three
percent.  Fewer refining steps  are  required  at  Missouri  ores
because  of  the  high  grade ores.  Other domestic lead smelters
process domestic and imported ores.  The ore concentrates used by
these smelters vary in quality but generally  contain  less  lead
and more impurities than concentrates from Missouri.

Manufacturing  Process.   The  manufacturing  process consists of
smelting and refining operations.  Typically, both operations are
carried out at the same  location;  however,  both  smelters  and
refineries  operate  independently  of each other.   A generalized
process flow schematic is shown in Figure 111-15.

Smelting Process—The initial process consists  of  blending  the
ore  concentrates with recycle products and fluxes.  The blend is
moistened and then pelletized using ball drums, and  the  pellets
are  fed  to a traveling grate furnace or sintering machine.  The
most common sintering process places a layer of  pellets  on  the
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grate  and  subjects  it  to  an  air  stream from below (updraft
system)  while  the  mixture  is  ignited  by  overhead  downdraft
burners.   Another  layer  of pellets is then laid upon the first
layer to burn from the bottom up.  In another  sintering  method,
the  air  flows from above (downdraft system) and the burners are
placed below the  charge.   The  charge  is  completely  sintered
before  reaching  the  end of the machine and is cooled by an air
stream at the  end  of  the  process.   Sulfur  oxides,  arsenic,
antimony,  and  cadmium are evolved as gases during this process.
A more highly concentrated SOX stream, emitted during the initial
part of the sintering operation, may or may  not  be  sent  to  a
sulfuric  acid plant.  Particulates are usually removed by a flue
and/or baghouse; the collected particulates are mixed with  water
in  a pugmill and then recycled to the sintering machine.  Sulfur
oxides are not removed by the  baghouses.   The  sinter  is  then
passed  through  a  sinter  breaker  at  the end of the sintering
machine where the sinter is broken and sized.  Oversize particles
are charged to the blast furnace while  undersize  particles  are
crushed  and  water  cooled  before  returning to the sinter feed
operation.  Sinter breaking produces significant amounts of  dust
that  must  be  removed  by  a  baghouse  or  wet  scrubber.  The
collected dust or sludge is recycled to the sinter  operation  in
either case.

The  blast  furnace  is  the  primary  reduction  unit  of a lead
smelter.  Blast furnaces are usually rectangular,  water  cooled,
and  are  charged  from  the top while air is introduced into the
bottom by tuyeres.  The charge consists of  sinter,  flux,  coke,
and   usually   includes   recycled  slag  and  dust  from  other
operations.  Three molten layers are usually formed in the  blast
furnace.   The top layer of the melt is slag containing silicates
of iron, calcium, and  magnesium  along  with  trace  impurities.
Significant  quantities  of  lead and zinc may also be present in
the slag.   Slags  with  economically  recoverable  zinc  may  be
processed on-site for zinc recovery.  In this process the slag is
heated  with  coal to high temperatures that oxidize zinc to zinc
oxide  dust  particles  which  are  then  collected  with   dust-
collecting equipment.  The residual slag is  granulated and either
recycled  to  the  sinter preparation process or discarded.  Slag
granulation water is usually recycled, but it may be a source  of
wastewater.  A middle layer or matte may be  formed in some cases.
The  matte  is  composed  of  copper and iron sulfides along with
precious metals.  If significant arsenic is present, the matte is
referred to as speiss.  Matte and  speiss  are  usually  sent  to
copper  smelters for recovery of other metals.  The bottom layer,
lead bullion, is retained and further refined.

Refining Process—The initial step in  the   refining  process  is
dross  decopperizing.   This  step  is  usually  performed at the
smelter.  Drossing kettles are generally hemisphere  shaped,  gas
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heated,  and  externally insulated.  The temperature at the dross
kettle is maintained slightly above the melting  point  of  lead.
Copper  is  practically  insoluble  at  this  temperature  and is
removed from the melt by skimming.  Sulfur is sometimes added  to
the  melt  to increase copper removal.  Dressing may be performed
as a two-stage process,  with  the  bullion  going  to  a  second
dressing  step.   The  dross,  or  skimmed  slag, is treated in a
reverberatory furnace to recover lead.   The  by-product,  copper
matte, is sent to a copper smelter.

Antimonial  lead  (also  known  as  hard  lead)   is the principal
product of the primary lead industry.  However,  in the production
of refined lead,  antimony  must  be  removed  from  the  drossed
bullion  in  an  oxidation process known as softening.  Softening
may be done in a reverberatory-type furnace or  by  an  oxidative
slagging  procedure  using  a sodium hydroxide and sodium nitrate
mixture as an oxidant.  In the reverberatory  furnace  operation,
air  is  introduced  through  pipes  or  lances  into the melt to
oxidize impurities and form a slag which is then skimmed from the
melt.  This oxidation-skimming  step  is  repeated  to  remove  a
second slag.  The two slags are treated for recovery of antimony,
antimonial lead, and sodium arsenate.  Sodium arsenate is usually
discarded.   A  tin slag, generated in this process, is sent to a
tin recovery operation.

There are two oxidative slagging techniques for antimony  removal
from  lead  bullion:   the kettle process and the Harris process.
In both processes a sodium hydroxide and sodium  nitrate  mixture
is  added  to the molten metal and impurities are then removed by
skimming.  The slag is discarded in the kettle  process,  but  in
the    Harris    process,    sodium    hydroxide   is   recovered
hydrometallurgically  from  the  slag.   Other  metals  such   as
arsenic, antimony, and tin may be also recovered.

Final  refining  of softened lead bullion is undertaken to remove
gold, silver and bismuth.  Gold and silver  are  removed  by  the
Parke's  process  in which zinc is added to the molten bullion to
form  insoluble  zinc-gold  and  zinc-silver  compounds.    These
compounds  are  subsequently skimmed and residual zinc is removed
from the  bullion  by  vacuum  dezincing.   Vacuum  dezincing  is
performed  in  a  separate  cell which vaporizes and removes zinc
from the melt under a vacuum.

The Betterton process  is  used  to  remove  bismuth  from  lead.
Calcium  and magnesium are simultaneously added to molten lead to
precipitate CaMg2Bi2 crystals which float to the surface and  are
skimmed.   Antimony  or  organic  agents  are  sometimes added to
facilitate removal.  Residual calcium and magnesium  are  removed
by adding caustic soda to the bullion in a final refining kettle.
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A  slag containing calcium, magnesium, and other trace impurities
is removed from the refined bullion.

Industry Profile.  There are seven primary  lead  plants  in  the
United  States,  all  located  west  of the Mississippi River, as
shown in Figure 111-16.  Four are smelters  and  refineries,  two
are smelters only, and one is exclusively a refinery.

Four  plants  were  built  prior to or during World War I and two
were built in the last 10 years (Table 111-29).  From the data in
Table 111-30, average production is in the 100,000 to 200,000 ton
per year range.

Only three of the plants are direct  dischargers.   Table  111-31
summarizes,  by  type  of  discharge,  the  level  of  wastewater
treatment at primary lead plants at present.   Only  one  of  the
three  discharging  plants is in an area of net precipitation, as
seen by comparing Figure 111-16 to Figure III-4.

Table 111-32 shows, by type of discharge, the  number  of  plants
using  given  chemicals or physical processes to treat wastewater
streams at this time.  The table shows that few  plants  use  any
treatment  processes.   Those  plants  with  a  treatment process
usually use lime, sedimentation  and  filtration.   Table  I11-33
shows the production processes.

Secondary Lead

Raw Materials.  The principal raw materials used in the secondary
lead  industry  are  battery  storage  plates  and lead residues.
Minor amounts of solder, babbitt, cable  coverings,  type  metal,
soft  lead,  and  antimonial  lead  are also utilized.  Discarded
batteries are the principal source of raw materials.

The battery-cracking operation may be performed on  site  or  off
site  by  scrap  dealers.  The battery tops are sawed off and the
plates and paste are removed for processing.  Spent  electrolyte,
along  with saw cooling water and wash water, constitutes a major
source of wastewater at plants where this operation is performed.
The battery cases constitute a significant source of solid waste.

Manufacturing  Process.   A  schematic  process   flow   diagram,
including  various  alternate processes that may be used is shown
in Figure 111-17.  Scrap lead from batteries and other  lead-base
materials  is  charged  to  reverberatory  or  blast  furnaces to
produce soft or hard lead, respectively.   Hard   (or  antimonial)
lead  contains  significant  amounts  of antimony.  Reverberatory
furnace is usually sent to the blast  furnace where scrap iron  is
added  as a reducing agent to produce antimonial lead.  Soft lead
from the reverberatory furnace may be further refined in a remelt
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kettle or oxidized in the Barton process to  produce  lead  oxide
which  is  subsequently  used  to make battery paste.  Antimonial
lead may be shipped without further processing for later  use  in
the manufacture of battery plates, or it may be further processed
on  site  to  make lead alloy by adding arsenic and copper to the
rerneIt kettles.

Emissions from  reverberatory  and  blast  furnaces  are  usually
controlled  with  bag  houses although wet scrubbers may be used.
Wet scrubbers may also control  emissions  from  remelt  kettles.
Scrubber  water is usually recycled at plants where wet scrubbers
are in use.  Casting is  usually  done  with  noncontact  cooling
water  in  closed  loop recirculating systems.  Sometimes contact
cooling may generate a small discharge.

Industry Profile.  There are 69 secondary lead-antimony plants in
the United States.  These plants, as shown in Figure 111-18,  are
predominantly  located  in or near major urban centers where most
of the raw materials are readily available.

Of the 69 secondary lead plants shown in Figure 111-18, 21 plants
(30 percent)  are located west of the Mississippi.  The  remaining
H8  plants  are  located  in  two  bands east of the Mississippi,
around the Great Lakes and in the south.

Table 111-34 shows that the average age of secondary lead  plants
is  within a span of 25 to 10 years.  Table III-35 shows that the
average production of battery cracking plants is in the 10,000 to
15,000 tons per year range.  The average  size  of  non  battery-
cracking  plants  is 1/3 to 1/4 of the other segment with produc-
tion of 2500 to 5000 tons per year.

Table  III-36  shows  that  relatively   few   plants   discharge
wastewater.   Table  III-36 summarizes, by type of discharge, the
level of wastewater treatment  at  plants  within  the  secondary
lead-antimony  industry.   In the non-battery cracking segment no
process wastewater is discharged.

Comparing Figure 111-18 and Figure III-U reveals that nearly  all
of  the  plants east of the Mississippi are located in regions of
net  precipitation.   About  half  of  the  plants  west  of  the
Mississippi  are  similarly  located.   These plant locations may
preclude use of solar evaporation ponds.

Table 111-37 lists, by type of discharge, the  number  of  plants
using  chemicals  or physical wastewater treatment processes.  As
noted, the majority of  the  plants  do  not  use  any  treatment
process.   Those  plants  using  treatment  processes use lime or
ammonia neutralization, sedimentation, filtration and evaporation
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ponds most often.  As seen in Table III-38, relatively few plants
use wet production processes other than battery cracking.

Secondary Silver
 :aw  Materials.   The  approximate  distribution  of  sources  of
 tecondary silver, except for in-house run-around scrap, is listed
 >elow:
Raw
s
below:
Photography:  30 percent
Arts:  20 percent
Electrical:  15 percent
Industrial Alloys:  15 percent
Miscellaneous:  20 percent

The   miscellaneous  category  includes  chemicals  and  ceramics
containing silver.

Manufacturing Process  (Photographic Wastes).   As shown in  Figure
111-20,  silver  from  photographic  film  may  be  recovered  by
chopping it into small pieces followed  by  stripping  of  silver
from  film.   The silver-rich solution is separated from the film
by  sedimentation,  decantation,  and  filtration.   The  plastic
portion  of  the film is usually disposed of as solid waste while
the solution is mixed with chemicals  (e.g., sulfuric acid,  alum,
caustic  soda)  to precipitate the silver.  The water is decanted
and sent to waste treatment and the sludge is  thickened,  vacuum
filtered  or centrifuged, and/or dried.  The dried cake undergoes
roasting and is cast into ingots or Dore plates.

Alternately, the photographic film may  be  incinerated  and  the
silver-bearing  ash undergoes roasting (16).   Some refineries buy
silver-bearing ash from scrap dealers.  A  wet  scrubber  on  the
incinerator may be a source of wastewater.

Dore  plates  are  electrolytically refined on site or shipped to
others.  The furnace slag  is  crushed  and  classified  and  the
silver concentrate is returned as furnace feed while the tailings
are  landfilled.  If electrolytic refining is practiced, the cell
slimes may be further processed for gold and platinum recovery.

Silver-rich  solutions  from  photographic  film  developing  and
manufacturing undergo precipitation and purification as described
above.   There  are  several  alternate methods for concentrating
silver  from  solutions.   One  method  uses  precipitation  with
sulfide  compounds or replacement with copper, aluminum, zinc, or
iron to produce silver sludges which can  be  filtered,  roasted,
and cast as described above.  Another method, direct electrolytic
refining from high tenor solutions, has also been used to recover
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silver  that  is  99  percent  pure.  The recovery of silver from
photographic wastes is usually done on a toll basis.

Manufacturing Process (Plating and Sterlingware Wastes).   Cyanide
plating solutions are treated to precipitate silver  and  oxidize
the  cyanide.   Precipitation is usually accomplished by addition
of sodium hypochlorite.   After initial settling, cyanide  may  be
oxidized  with  sodium hypochlorite and lime, and the solution is
then  resettled  and  dried.    The   resulting   silver-chloride
precipitate is washed and dried for further processing or sold as
the final product.

Solid   wastes  from  the  sterling  industry  are  melted  after
separation and reused if the  quality  is  high.   Lower  quality
scrap  is  melted  and  cast  as  silver  bullion  and sent to an
electrolytic refinery.

Manufacturing Process (Electrical  Components).   The  procedures
shown  in Figure 111-21 are typical if electrical component scrap
is not suitable for electrolytic refining.  The scrap is   smelted
in a reverberatory furnace to produce lead bullion, copper matte,
and  slag.   The lead bullion is melted in a cupola furnace where
litharge and precious metals layers  are  formed.   The  litharge
layer  is sent to a lead refinery and the precious metal  layer is
cast into anodes for electrolytic refining.  The copper matte  is
crushed,  ground, roasted and leached with sulfuric acid.  Silver
is then precipitated on  copper,  melted,  and  cast  as   refined
silver  ingots.   The  reverberatory furnace slag is smelted in a
blast furnace to separate the lead and copper portions which  are
then  added  to  the  respective circuits.  Blast furnace slag is
discarded.

Industry Profile.  The high value of silver has always made  the
recovery  of  scrap  silver  attractive.   In fact, the secondary
silver refined from old scrap in  1974  was  85  percent   of  the
primary production.  A projected increase in silver demand during
the last quarter of this century of 1.7 percent per year  combines
with high value to encourage secondary silver production  (2) .  Of
the  46  refining plants. Figure 111-22 shows that the plants are
located in three major areas of  the  United  States:   the  Gulf
Coast  states, the Rocky Mountain States and states bordering the
Great Lakes and the New England States.  Table 111-39 shows  that
half  of  the 46 plants process photographic wastes and the other
half process nonphotographic wastes.  Of  the  plants  processing
photographic wastes, the average plant age is less than 10 years.
Of  the  plants  processing  non-photographic wastes, the average
plant age falls within a span of 20 to 25  years.   Table  111-40
shows that average sized plant has a production in the 100,000 to
500,000 troy ounce per year range.
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Table 111-41 shows that just under half of the photographic waste
processing  plants  and  just  over  half of the non-photographic
waste processing  plants  are  direct  dischargers.   This  table
summarizes,  by  type  of discharge and subcategory, the level of
wastewater  treatment  at  plants  within  the  secondary  silver
industry  at  present.   Table  III-41  shows that about half (22
plants)  of the total number of plants are zero  dischargers.   Of
the  24  discharging  plants,  only  nine  plants  have  chemical
coagulation and settling of wastewater.

In a comparison of Figure  III-22  to  Figures  III-4,  only  the
plants  of  the  Gulf  Coast  and some of the plants in the Rocky
Mountain area are in an area of  net  evaporation.   All  of  the
other  plants  are  in  areas  of  net  precipitation.   This may
preclude the use of solar evaporation ponds.

Table II1-42 numerically  relates,  by  type  of  discharge,  the
number  of plants employing given chemicals or physical treatment
processes to treat a wastewater stream at present.  As noted, the
majority of the plants do not utilize any treatment processes for
metal pollutants other than silver.  Those plants which do  treat
wastewater  generally  use  lime,  with  some  plants  also using
sedimentation,  filtration  and  evaporation  ponds,  with   some
caustic  employed  for  neutralization.   Table  111-43 shows the
production process steps used by secondary silver producers.

Primary Tungsten

Raw Materials.  The  principal  domestic  ores  used  to  produce
ammonium  paratungstate   (APT)  and  tungsten  metal  powder  are
ferberite  (FeWO4) and scheelite  (CaWO4).  Both of these ores  are
mined principally in California and Colorado.

Manufacturing Process.  There are several variations in purifying
tungsten   but,  typically,  tungstate   (WO4)  is  purified  from
concentrates and converted to tungstic acid  (H2WO4) by  a  series
of  filtration  and  precipitation  reactions.  A general process
flow diagram is shown in Figure 111-23.  Usually ground ferberite
and scheelite are digested with sodium hydroxide  (NaOH) or  other
sodium  salts  to  form  soluble  sodium tungstate  (Na2WO4).  The
waste solids are settled and filtered and either  land-filled  or
sold  to  other  tungsten  processors,  depending on the tungsten
concentration.  Calcium chloride  (CaCl2) is  then  added  to  the
solution  to  precipitate  calcium  tungstate   (CaWO4),  and  the
resulting salt  (NaCl) is rinsed from the solids.  The precipitate
is  then  leached  with  hydrochloric  acid  to  convert  calcium
tungstate  to  tungstic  acid and calcium chloride is rinsed from
the solid.   The  tungstic  acid  is  subsequently  dissolved  in
ammonium  hydroxide  (NH4OH), forming ammonium tungstate  (NH4WO4).
Solids are then removed and the solution is  heated  to  form  the
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intermediate  product  known  as  APT.  APT is dried, sifted, and
converted to  oxides  in  a  nitrogen-hydrogen  atmosphere  in  a
furnace.   The  oxides are subsequently reduced to tungsten metal
powder  in  a  high-temperature  hydrogen  atmosphere.   Tungsten
powder  is  subsequently  used to produce metal, or combined with
carbon  or  other  metals  to  make  carbides  or  metal  alloys,
respectively.   Monolithic  tungsten  metal  is made by sintering
compacted tungsten powder in an inert atmosphere.

In an alternate method, where concentrates high in molybdenum are
used, the  concentrates  are  reacted  with  sodium  hydrosulfide
(NaHS)    to   precipitate   molybdenum  trisulfide   (MoS3) .   The
molybdenum can be separated and purified.  The  tungsten  remains
in  solution and is solvent-extracted with an organic solvent and
sodium  hydroxide  to  produce  ammonium  tungstate.   The   only
difference  between this and the former process is the use of the
solvent.

In  another  alternate,  scheelite  is  digested  directly   with
hydrochloric  acid  to  form  tungstic acid and calcium chloride.
The calcium chloride is subsequently washed from the precipitated
and settled tungstic acid.  Ammonium hydroxide is mixed with  the
tungstic acid slurry and dried to form APT.

The  acidic  wastewater  from  the  rinsing of tungstic acid is a
major source of wastewater as well  as  sludge.   Scrubber  water
used  to  control  fumes  from  the use of HCl and NH3 is another
significant source of wastewater.  Producers  of  tungsten  metal
from  APT,  however,  do not produce these wastewaters.  Hydrogen
used during the reduction operations is cleaned  with  water  and
this wastewater is discharged.

Industry  Profile.   In the early 1780*s, tungstic acid was first
isolated from sheelite and wolframite  and,  shortly  thereafter,
tungsten  was  obtained  by both carbon and hydrogen reduction of
wolframite  (WO3).  Hydrogen reduction is still a key step in  the
production  of tungsten powder from which other finished products
are derived.  From the mid-nineteenth century through  the  first
third  of  this century, tungsten was used chiefly as an alloying
agent in steel.  During the last 30 years, however, tungsten uses
have increased to include production of carbides and alloys.  The
1974 production  use  breakdown  was:   68  percent  carbide,  15
percent  pure  metal,  and 15 percent alloy.  Another two percent
was used to manufacture various metal compounds  (2).

There are ten plants in the United States,  as  shown  in  Figure
111-21, engaged in the manufacture of tungsten products.  Four of
them process ore concentrates to produce the intermediate product
APT,  three  of these four also reduce APT to tungsten metal, and
six plants only process APT to produce tungsten.
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Eight of the ten plants are located in states  around  the  Great
Lakes.   These are areas of net precipitation, which r^y preclude
the use of solar evaporation ponds.

Table III-4U shows the  relative  ages  of  the  plants  in  this
subcategory.  Most plants were built around the time of World War
II.   From  Table III-U5, the average size plant has a production
in the 1000 to 5000 tons per year range.

Figure 111-24 shows that five are direct dischargers while  three
are  indirect  dischargers  and  two are zero dischargers.  Table
111-46 summarizes, by type of discharge, the level of  wastewater
treatment  at  plants  within  the  primary  tungsten industry at
present.  The primary tungsten  industry  has  not  yet  had  BPT
regulations  promulgated.   Of  the  nine plants which discharge,
four  of  the  plants  treat  wastewater  by  precipitation   and
settling.

Table  111-47  indicates  the  frequency  of  use  of  production
processes in the primary tungsten industry.  Table 111-48  shows,
by  type  of  discharge,  the  number of plants using chemical or
physical  processes  to  treat  their  wastewater  streams.   The
predominant   processes  used  in  this  industry  include  lime,
sedimentation and filtration.

Primary Zinc

Raw Materials.  More than two-thirds of the zinc  concentrate  is
recovered  as  a  co-product  from lead and copper ores; slightly
less than one-third originates from zinc ores  (2).

Manufacturing Process.  There are two zinc production  processes:
pyrolytic  and electrolytic.  Both the pyrolytic and electrolytic
processes require roasting.  Subsequent steps  in  the  pyrolytic
process  prepare  the  calcine  for  retorting,  whereas  in  the
electrolytic operations the zinc is leached from the calcine  and
purified in preparation for electrolysis.

Pyrolytic    Zinc    Production—After   drying   and   blending,
concentrates are roasted to remove sulfur as  sulfur  dioxide  as
shown  in  Figure  111-25.   Other  volatile  impurities, such as
mercury and some lead and cadmium,  may  also  be  removed.   The
exhaust  gas  passes  through  dust  collection  equipment before
entering an acid plant for  conversion  to  sulfuric  acid.   The
waste solids are subsequently treated to recover cadmium.

The roasted concentrate  (calcine)  is blended with coke, moisture,
and  sometimes  silica sand and then pelletized.  The pellets are
sintered and crushed prior to feeding  to  a  reduction  furnace.
Most  of  the  cadmium  and lead are removed during sintering and
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they report to the dust collection system.   This  dust  is  also
treated to recover cadmium and lead values.

The  zinc  contained  in  the  sinter is reduced to zinc oxide or
metallic  zinc  in  either  a  vertical  retort  furnace  or   an
electrothermic furnace.  The charge vessel of the vertical retort
furnace  is  heated  externally  by  gas  burners  so  that  fuel
combustion products do not  mingle  with  the  zinc  vapor.   The
larger  electrothermic  furnace  is heated by passing an electric
current through the charge.  In both cases,  the  zinc  vapor  is
condensed  and  cast  into  ingots,  and the uncondensed zinc and
carbon monoxide are passed through a wet scrubber.  The exhausted
carbon monoxide is used as fuel while zinc is recovered from  the
scrubber water for reprocessing.

Electrolytic   Zinc   Production—Roasting   of  concentrates  is
required for electrolytic refining as  with  pyrolytic  refining.
In  the electrolytic process, depicted in Figure 111-26, however,
magnesium  is  removed   from   high-magnesia   concentrates   by
preleaching  with  weak  sulfuric acid to prevent build-up in the
electrolyte.  Following roasting, the  calcine  is  leached  with
spent  electrolyte   (H2SO*)  to  dissolve  zinc and cadmium.  The
gangue is separated from the zinc solution by  sedimentation  and
filtration,  and  these  solids  are  sold to other processors to
recover lead and copper.

The zinc solution is further purified in stages  by  adding  zinc
dust  and  sometimes  scrap  iron to precipitate first copper and
other impurities, and then cadmium; pH control  is  important  to
selectively   precipitate   impurities.   The  pure  solution  is
filtered and cooled and  then  passed  through  the  electrolytic
cells.   Cadmium-rich  solids  are processed on site, while other
solids are sent to other processors.

Zinc is deposited on aluminum cathodes during electrolysis.   The
purified zinc is stripped from the cathode, melted, and cast into
various  shapes for sale.  Strontium carbonate, barium hydroxide,
and gum arabic may be added to the electrolyte to  help  maintain
purity of the zinc.

Manufacturing  Process  (Cadmium Recovery).  All U.S. primary zinc
refine also recover cadmium.  The process is shown in Figure III-
27.  Cadmium-rich solids obtained from  furnace  dust  collection
equipment  and  from  purification  of zinc solutions are leached
with sulfuric acid to dissolve the  cadmium.   This  solution  is
treated  with zinc dust and other reagents to precipitate cadmium
sponge.

The sponge is usually melted under a caustic flux or distilled in
a graphite furnace.  In some cases, the sponge  is  dissolved  in
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sulfuric  acid  and electrolyzed.  The metal is cast into shapes,
often balls, suitable for electroplating.

Industry Profile.  A distribution of primary zinc plants  in  the
United  States  is  shown  in  Figure  111-28.   Primary  zinc is
produced pyrolytically or electrothermically by  two  plants  and
electrolytically  by  four  plants;   cadmium  is a by-product in
every case.

The primary zinc industry is a well-established industry.   Table
III-49  indicates  that  the average plant age is about 50 years.
Table 111-50 shows that the median as well as  the  average  size
plant  has  a  production in the 100,000 to 200,000 tons per year
range.  While the zinc industry is not confined to any particular
geographic location, all plants discharge wastewater.  Table III-
51 summarizes, by type of discharge, the wastewater treatment  of
plants within the primary zinc industry at present.

Table  111-52  numerically  relates,  by  type  of discharge, the
number of plants using chemical or physical  treatment  processes
to  treat  wastewater.   The  majority  of  the  plants use lime,
sedimentation and filtration.  Evaporation and  coagulants,  such
as  polymers  and  alum,  are  also used.  Table 111-53 indicates
frequency of use of each production process in the  primary  zinc
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                               TABLE III-l
                    Miscellaneous Nonferrous Metals
 Metal
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Actinium*
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Antimony
Arsenic
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Boron
Cadmium
Cesium
Cobalt
Columbium
Gallium
Germanium
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Zirconium
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    Holmium, Lanthanum, Lutetium, Neodymium, Praseodymium, Promethium,
    Samarium, Terbium, Thulium and Ytterbium.
*** Platinum Group:  Irdium, Osmium, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium and
    Ruthenium.
  + Considered with Primary Zinc in this Report.
 ++ Considered with Columbium/Tantalum in this Report.
                                   65

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                       TABLE III-2



               Nonferrous Metal Production








Industry                  1973 Production (tons)






Primary Aluminum                 4,529,000



Secondary Aluminum                 265,000



Columbium/Tantalum                   5,500



Primary Copper                   1,868,000



Secondary Copper                   486,000



Primary Lead                       687,000



Secondary Lead                     539,000



Secondary Silver                     1,200



Primary Tungsten                    14,000



Primary Zinc                       542,000
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                            TABLE III-6

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                               TABLE III-7
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                               TABLE III-8
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                               TABLE III-9

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                                TABLE 111-10

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                         TABLE III-ll

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Number of Plants             8            16            39           63

Caustic                      2204
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Polymer                      1001
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                             TABLE 111-12

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Number of Plants              23                 5

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Polymer                      10                  1
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Sedimentation                303
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 50,001
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150,000
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               150,000
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                              TABLE 111-22

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                          Direct               Zero                Total
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Number of Plants             8                   15                  23

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Polymer                      213
Cooling                      347
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Filtration                   224
Sedimentation                257
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                               TABLE 111-25

                  Production Ranges for Processing Plants
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                0 -  5,000                         11
            5,001 - 10,000                          4
           10,001 - 20,000                          6
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           Total No. of Plants in Survey           32
                              TABLE 111-26

                     Treatment Level Summary for the
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                              Treatment Level*
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Direct           32207
Indirect         32005
Zero            10           3           1           6         20

Total           16           7           3           6         32
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                              TABLE HI-27

                   Treatment Processes Utilized by the
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                          Direct       Indirect        Zero        Total
Treatment Processes     Dischargers   Dischargers   Dischargers   Industry

Number of Plants             5             7             20          32

Alum                         10              01
Caustic                      21              14
Lime                         20              13
Polymer                      10              12
Cooling                      31              26
Evaporation                  00              66
Filtration                   20              24
Sedimentation                21              25
Skimming                     01              01
No Treatment                 3             3             10          16
                            TABLE  111-28

                Production Processes Utilized by the
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                                          Number of
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             Slag Milling                    8
             Slag Granulation                5
             Furnace Scrubber                26
             Electrolysis                    4
             Casting                         25
             Other Metals                    5
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                           TABLE 111-29

              Initial Operating Year (Range) Summary
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       1972-
        1968
        6-10
      Plant Age Range (Years)
1967-       1947-       1902-
 1918        1903        1878       Insuff.
11-60       61-75       76-100       Data
                 Total
                               TABLE 111-30

                Production Ranges for Smelters and Refiners
                       of the Primary Lead Industry
 Production Ranges
    for 1976
    (tons/year)

 Less than 100,000
 100,001 - 200,000
 More than 200,000
                  Subcategories
         No. of Plants
         Smelters and
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               2
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Refiners Only

      0
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                             TABLE 111-31

                    Treatment Level Summary for the
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Treatment Level*
Discharge
Type
Direct
Zero
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0
1
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0
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3
2
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3
4
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    Level B - Removal of dissolved metals by chemical coagulation
      and settling or filtration.
                             83

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                        TABLE 111-32

             Treatment Processes Utilized by the
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                                    Total
         Treatment  Processes       Industry

         Number of  Plants             7

         Caustic                      1
         Lime                         4
         Polymer                      1
         Cooling                      2
         Evaporation                  6
         Sedimentation                6
         No Treatment                 2
                      TABLE III-33

           Production Processes Utilized by the
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                                    Number of
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Sintering                              6
Sulfuric Acid Plant                    4
Blast Furnace                          5
Slag Granulation                       5
Zinc Fume Scrubber                     2
Dross Kettle                           4
Dross Reverb Furnace                   4
Softening                              2
Hard Lead Refining                     2
Desilverizing                          4
Retort                                 4
Cupel                                  2
Debismuthizing                         1
Casting                                7
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               Production Ranges for the Battery Cracking
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Production Ranges
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Total No. of Plants in Survey
            Production Ranges
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                 0
             2,501
             5,001
            10,001
            15,000

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                                                  2,500
                                                  5,000
                                                 10,000
                                                 15,000
                  No. of Plants
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                   Treatment Level Summary
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  Discharge
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       lagoons.
                                  86

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                              TABLE 111-37

                   Treatment Processes Utilized by the
                   Secondary Lead Industry (69 plants)

                          Direct       Indirect        Zero        Total
Treatment Processes     Dischargers   Dischargers   Dischargers   Industry

Number of Plants            15             12            42          69

Ammonia                      3              9             0          12
Caustic                      2              114
Lime                         6              2             3          11
Polymer                      2              114
Cooling                      3              508
Evaporation                  4              408
Filtration                   5              3             4          12
Sedimentation                7             11             4          22
Ion Exchange                 0              101
Reverse Osmosis              0              Oil
No Treatment                 2*             3             7          12

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                                TABLE 111-38

                    Production Processes Utilized by the
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                                                   Number of
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                 Battery Cracking                     32
                 Dross Classification                  2
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                 Kettle Scrubber                       7
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Production Ranges
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 (troy 02./year)

        0 -    50,000
   50,001 -   100,000
  100,001 -   500,000
  500,001 - 1,000,000
1,000,000 +
Insufficient Data to Categorize
Total No. of Plants in Survey
                      Subcategories
             No. of Plants        No. of Plants
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 Discharge
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(1) Plants processing photographic wastes

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                              TABLE 111-42

                   Treatment Processes Utilized by the
                  Secondary Silver Industry (46 plants)

                          Direct       Indirect        Zero        Total
Treatment Processes     Dischargers   Dischargers   Dischargers   Industry

Number of Plants             7             17            22          46

Ammonia                      0              101
Caustic                      1              427
Lime                         3              429
Polymer                      2              114
Cooling                      1              001
Evaporation                  1              034
Filtration                   0              213
Sedimentation                2              035
                             TABLE 111-43

                 Production Processes Utilized by the
                 Secondary Silver Industry (46 plants)

                                                 Number of
                                               Plants With
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              Leach/Strip Supernatent              24
              Leach/Strip Air Control              19
              Precipitation/Filter
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              Precipitation Air Control            23
              Furnace                              34
              Electrolyte                          18
              Casting                              12
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                       TABLE 111-45

                   Production Ranges for
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Production Ranges
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(tons/year)	                Number of Plants

    0 - 1,000                           4
1,001 - 5,000                           3
5,000 +                                 2

Insufficient Data                       1
                       TABLE 111-46

                Treatment Level Summary
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Discharge         No
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Direct            30            25
Indirect          21            14
Zero              00            11
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                                TABLE  II1-47

                     Production Processes Utilized by  the
                     Primary Tungsten  Industry  (10 plants)

                                                   Number of
                                                  Plants With
            Production Process                     Process

            Fusion of  Concentrate                       2
            Leaching                                   4
            Precipitation                              3
            Filtration                                 2
            APT Drying                                 6
            Reduction                                   9
                              TABLE 111-48

                   Treatment Processes Utilized by the
                   Primary Tungsten Industry (10 plants)

                          Direct       Indirect        Zero        Total
Treatment Processes     Dischargers   Dischargers   Dischargers   Industry

Number of Plants             63              1          10

Ammonia Stripping            20              13
Lime                         31              04
Polymer                      11              02
Cooling                      10              01
Evaporation                  01              01
Sedimentation                12              03
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                            TABLE  111-50

              Production Ranges  for the Processing Plants
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         Production Ranges
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            (tons/year)                     No.  of Plants

         Less than 100,000                         1
         100,001  - 200,000                         4
         More than 200,000                         1
         Total No.  of  Plants  in Survey
                              TABLE 111-51

                     Treatment Level Summary for the
                          Primary Zinc Industry

                              Treatment Level*
Discharge       No
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Direct           00415
Indirect         00101
Zero             0           0           0           0          0

Total            00516

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       lagoons.
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                              TABLE 111-52

                   Treatment Processes Utilized by the
                     Primary Zinc Industry (6 plants)

                          Direct           Indirect           Total
Treatment Processes     Dischargers       Dischargers        Industry

Number of Plants             516

Caustic                      101
Lime                         516
Polymer                      314
Cooling                      516
Evaporation                  202
Sedimentation                516
                                 TABLE  111-53

                     Production Processes  Utilized by  the
                        Primary Zinc  Industry  (6  plants)

                                                   Number  of
                                                  Plants With
             Production Process                     Process

             Preleach                                   1
             Roaster                                    6
             Sulfuric Acid                              6
             Sinter                                     2
             Retorts                                    2
             Leaching                                   4
             Purification                               4
             Electrolysis                               4
             Cadmium Plant                              6
             Casting                                    6
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                           SECTION IV

                   INDUSTRY SUBCATEGORIZATION
BACKGROUND

Subcategorization  involves  the identification and evaluation of
factors  that  may  affect  the  applicability  of  uniform   and
equitable  regulations, and may require different limitations for
different subcategories.

The nonferrous metals  industry  has  been  subcategorized  in  a
number  of  development  documents  previously  published  by the
Environmental Protection Agency  (3  through  8) .   BAT  and  BPT
effluent  guidelines  have  been  promulgated  for  the following
subcategories:

1.  Bauxite refining
2.  Primary aluminum
3.  Secondary aluminum
4.  Primary copper smelting
5.  Primary copper refining
6.  Secondary copper
7.  Primary lead
8.  Primary zinc

Since the purpose of  this  report  is  to  review  the  existing
guidelines  and  suggest alternative technologies which may serve
as the technical basis for BAT  regulations,  this  investigation
considered existing and potential subcategories of the nonferrous
metals  industry.   The regulations for bauxite refining were not
considered because the BPT limitations require zero discharge  of
process wastewater pollutants.

Based  on  the  findings detailed in this section, the nonferrous
metals industry subcategories and secondary divisions recommended
for new or updated regulations are as follows:

Primary aluminum
    (1)  potline air scrubbing
    (2)  potroom air scrubbing
    (3)  contact cooling water
    (4)  cryolite recovery
    (5)  paste production air scrubbing
    (6)  anode bake plant air scrubbing
    (7)  cathode making
Secondary aluminum
    (1)  contact cooling water
    (2)  fume scrubbing
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Primary columbium-tantalum  (ore concentrates,
    slags or scrap to purified salts)
Primary columbium-tantalum  (purified salts to
    metals  (reduction))
Primary copper smelting
Primary copper refining
Secondary copper
    (1)   metal cooling
    (2)   slag granulation
    (3)   slag milling
    (4)   scrubbers
    (5)   electrolytic refining
Primary lead smelting
Primary lead refining
Secondary lead-antimony smelting
    (1)   battery cracking
    (2)   furnace scrubbers
          (a)  blast or reverberatory furnaces
          (b)  kettle furnaces
    (3)   casting
Secondary silver processing photographic wastes
    (1)   film silver stripping and precipitation
    (2)   solution silver recovery
    (3)   furnace scrubbers
    (4)   electrolysis
    (5)   casting
Secondary silver processing non-photographic wastes
    (1)   leaching/precipitation/filtration
    (2)   leaching/precipitation/filtration scrubbers
    (3)   furnace scrubbers
    (4)   electrolysis
    (5)   casting
Primary tungsten  (ore concentrates
    to ammonium paratungstate  (APT)
Primary tungsten  (APT to metallic tungsten)
Primary zinc
    (1)   Electrolytic
    (2)   Pyrolytic
Metallurgical acid plants

The preceding subcategorization was  based on the  combined  effect
of   raw    materials,    production    processes    and  wastewater
characteristics.  The raw materials  used  greatly  influence  the
production  process  employed  and   these, in  turn,  influence the
resulting wastewater characteristics.

FACTORS CONSIDERED
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The following factors were  examined  as  possible  criteria  for
subcategorizing the nonferrous metals industry:

 1. Metal products, co-products, and by-products
 2. Product form
 3. Raw materials
 4. Production process
 5. Plant location
 6. Plant age
 7. Plant size
 8. Wastewater volume and characteristics
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10, Air pollution control methods
11. Meteorological conditions

Metal Productsf_ Co-products, and By-products

The  metal  products,  co-products,  and by-products factor is of
primary importance  in  identifying  subcategories.   Each  metal
requires  its  own  raw materials and production processes, which
affect  wastewater  volume  and  characteristics,  air  pollution
control,  and waste treatment methodologies.  The production of a
few metals was found to be inherently allied to the co-production
of another metal  (i.e., columbium and tantalum).  Thus, many  co-
products are considered in a single subcategory.

In  other  cases,  however,  by-product  metals  were found to be
produced in low volume compared with the  principal  metals,  and
the  by-products'  contributions to the overall wastewater volume
and  characteristics  are  minimal  or  virtually  impossible  to
separate from the main product.  The following metals fall within
this  group,  and  will be covered under the regulations proposed
for the principal metal with which they are associated:

1.  Primary selenium and tellurium, of primary copper
2.  Primary cadmium of primary zinc
3.  Primary antimony of primary lead
4.  Primary bismuth of primary lead
5.  Primary silver of primary copper, lead, and zinc

Product Type

Subcategorization on  the  basis  of  the  metal  product   (e.g.,
copper,  lead),  includes  consideration  of the type and form of
product  produced.   For  example,  some  intermediate  products,
(i.e.,  anode  copper  or APT) have entirely different production
processes than the processes associated with producing a finished
product from  the  intermediate  product.   Such  differences  in
products may be sufficient to justify Subcategorization since the
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different  processes  associated with producing each product will
have different effects on wastewater volume and characteristics.

Raw Materials

In  many  metal  subcategories,  the  raw  materials  used   (ore
concentrates  or scrap) determine the process, the reagents used,
and  the   wastewater   characteristics.    Raw   materials   are
significant  in  differentiating  between  primary  and secondary
producers.

Production Processes

The production processes  for  each  metal  are  unique  and  are
affected  by  the raw materials used and the type of end product,
while the processes used may affect the volume,  characteristics,
and treatment of the resulting wastewater.

Plant Location

Most  plants  in  the  industry  are  located  near raw materials
sources,  transportation  centers,  markets,   and   sources   of
inexpensive  energy.   While  large primary copper, lead and zinc
producers are mainly found near Midwestern and Western  ores  and
are  remote  from  population  centers, plentiful and inexpensive
electricity in the Pacific  Northwest  and  Tennessee  Valley  is
important  for  primary  aluminum  producers  and thus becomes an
important locational factor.  Secondary producers, on  the  other
hand,  are generally located in or near large metropolitan areas.
Therefore, primary producers often have more land  available  for
treatment  systems  than  secondary  producers  who are generally
located in cramped urban  areas.   Plant  location  may  also  be
significant  in  that evaporation ponds can be used only in areas
where solar evaporation is feasible and where there is sufficient
land available for use for this type of waste treatment.

Plant A.ge

Plants  within  a  given  subcategory  may   have   significantly
different ages.  To remain competitive, plants must be constantly
modernized.    Modernization  of  production  processes  and  air
pollution abatement equipment produces analogous wastes among all
plants producing a given metal, despite the original plant start-
up  date.   Plant  age,  therefore,   is   not   a   factor   for
subcategorizing.

Plant Size

The  size  of  a  plant  generally  does  not  affect  either the
production methods or the wastewater characteristics.   The  type
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of  production  process  is  a  better basis for subcategorizing.
Generally, more water is used at larger  plants.   However,  when
water  use  and  discharge  are calculated as gallons per unit of
production, no real differences can be  ascertained  relative  to
size of plant.

Wastewater Volume and Characteristics

The  volumes  and characteristics of the wastewater generated are
directly related to raw materials, production processes, type  of
air   pollution   control  employed,  plant  size,  and  type  of
operation,  and  are   thus   significant   in   supporting   the
categorization.

Applicable Waste Treatment Technology

The  waste  treatment  methods in use throughout a given industry
vary.   Treatment  methods   are   a   function   of   wastewater
characteristics  and  required  discharge  quality.   The treated
wastewater may be discharged to a surface stream or to a POTW  or
may  be  recycled  to the production process.  Direct or indirect
discharge or recycle may require different levels  of  treatment.
The   treatment   methods  are  chosen  primarily  on  wastewater
characteristics and thus do not provide an independent basis  for
subcategorization.

Air Pollution Control Methods

Many  facilities  use  wet  scrubbers  to control emissions which
influence wastewater characteristics.  In some cases, the type of
air  pollution  control  equipment  used  provides  a  basis  for
individual waste stream limitations, in that if wet air pollution
control  is  used,  an  allowance may be necessary for that waste
stream, while a plant using dry systems should not be  given  the
benefit of that allowance.

Meteorological Conditions

Climate and precipitation may affect treatment technology in that
solar  evaporation  is  feasible  in  arid  areas.  These factors
cannot be used for subcategorization  because  few  plants  in   a
given   subcategory   are   located   in   areas  having  similar
meteorological conditions;  and  because  plants  from  different
subcategories  having  identical  meteorological conditions often
have different waste characteristics.

Wastewater Generation and Use

Subcategorization of nonferrous metals plants on the basis of the
entire plant's wastewater  generation  is  not  always  the  most
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appropriate  approach,  because  a  given  plant  may have one of
several combinations of waste streams.  A  more  useful  approach
for  the  purpose  of  developing effluent limitations is to deal
with the wastewater streams themselves.  These include:   1)   air
scrubbing   waste   streams,   2)   contact   cooling  water,  3)
electrolytic  wastes,  H)  slag  granulation  wastes,  5)   scrap
preparation  wastes   (for  example,  from  wet residue milling in
secondary aluminum and from battery cracking in secondary  lead),
6)  wastewater  from hydrometallurgical processes (as in tungsten
and  columbium-tantalum),  and  others.   Each  stream   has   an
associated  unit waste loading of pollutants per pound of product
produced or scrap processed.  Each may also be associated with an
appropriate effluent limitation.

SUBCATEGORY DESCRIPTION AND SELECTION RATIONALE

Aluminum

Aluminum is produced from both primary and secondary materials in
the United States with widely divergent production processes  and
wastes.   Consequently,  the industry is divided into primary and
secondary aluminum subcategories.

Primary Aluminum.  Alumina is the  basic  raw  material  and  the
Hall-Heroult  electrolytic  reduction  process  is  used  at  all
primary  aluminum  plants.   Both  prebake  and  Soderberg  anode
potlines  may use either dry air pollution control systems or wet
scrubbers.  Since 1973, many aluminum plants which formerly  used
wet scrubbers for potline air pollution control have converted to
dry scrubbing.  All plants with potroom  (secondary)  air pollution
controls use some type of wet system.  Wastewater characteristics
and  volume  are  dependent  on the type of air pollution control
method used, i.e., dry or wet scrubbing.

Other processes used at aluminum reduction plants which use water
are:

Paste making.  Most plants produce all or most of the anode paste
used for anodes.  Some of these use wet scrubbers to control  the
fumes and dust from this process.

Anode  baking.  Prebaked anodes are used in over half the plants.
They are reported to  be  more  energy-efficient  than  Soderberg
anodes,  as  well  as  being  easier  to hood effectively for air
pollution control.  Some of the plants which bake anodes use  wet
scrubbers to control the offgases.

Refining  and  degassing.  Relatively few primary aluminum plants
use  wet  scrubbers  for  refining  or  degassing.   Refining  or
degassing  also  takes  place at aluminum forming plants, and for
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that reason,  will  be  considered  under  the  aluminum  forming
category which is presently under study.

Casting.   Contact  cooling  water is used for cooling the molten
aluminum after it is cast.  Some plants  use  direct  chill  (DC)
casting,  wherein  water  is  sprayed on the partially solidified
ingot and used for complete quenching of the ingot.  Some  plants
use  water  to  cast  pigs  and sows.  Because of the differences
between  these  types  of  casting,  these  will  be   considered
separately.   The  only continuous casting found was rod casting,
using Properzi mills, and this will be covered  as  part  of  the
aluminum forming category.

Cryolite   recovery,   usually  to  recover  cryolite  from  worn
cathodes, is also used to recover cryolite from potline scrubbing
wastewater.

Cathodes or potliners are  usually  made  from  purchased  carbon
blocks,  with  paste  rammed  between  the blocks to form a solid
surface.  Only four plants reported any water use associated with
cathode making, and all  but  one  had  no  discharge  from  this
source.

The  uniformity  of raw materials, products, and process found in
the primary aluminum industry support  the  identification  of  a
single  subcategory.   A  more useful approach for the purpose of
developing effluent limitations is to deal  with  the  wastewater
streams   themselves.   These  include:  potline  air  scrubbing,
potroom air scrubbing, contact cooling water, cryolite  recovery,
paste  plant  air  scrubbing,  anode bake plant air scrubbing and
cathode making.

Secondary Aluminum.  Aluminum scrap and aluminum-containing dross
are the raw materials used by the  secondary  aluminum  industry.
Presorted scrap undergoes various treatment steps before smelting
which  depend  on  the type or condition of the materials and the
desired end products.  The  smelting  steps  are  common  to  all
plants   except   for  demagging.   The  typical  end-product  of
secondary aluminum smelters is an  aluminum-base  alloy  suitable
for  casting  engine  blocks,  structural  members,  and  similar
products.

The raw materials used by the secondary aluminum industry may  be
grouped   into   solids   (clippings  and  forgings,  borings  and
turnings, and old  castings)  and  residues.   Since  nearly  all
smelters  use various grades of scrap at one time QJ. another, the
type of scrap cannot be used as a basis for subcategorizing.

Some plants do not remove magnesium, while others demag by adding
chlorine  or  aluminum  fluoride.   These   di^««-or»+-   demagging
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practices  greatly  affect  the  waste characteristics.  Chlorine
addition results in volatile metal chlorides which are soluble in
water.  The metal fluorides formed by  adding  aluminum  fluoride
are  sparingly  volatile and only slightly soluble in water.   Wet
scrubbing may be practiced with both types of demagging  and  the
resulting  scrubber water is usually treated by pH adjustment and
settling.  Twenty-three plants use chlorine during demagging, but
only 13 discharge fume scrubber water from  the  plant.   On  the
other  hand,  12  plants  were found to use aluminum fluoride for
demagging, but none of them discharged  water  from  fume-control
operations.

If  molten aluminum is not shipped, the final process step of the
secondary  aluminum  industry  is  casting.   Cooling  the  final
aluminum shapes and forms varies from plant to plant and with the
product,  and  may involve air cooling, and contact or noncontact
cooling water.  Contact cooling water is generally  recycled,  so
there  are  only  small differences in the magnitude of the waste
generated by differing casting practices.

Three process waste streams can be found  at  secondary  aluminum
smelters:    dross  processing,  demagging  fume  scrubbers,   and
contact cooling water.  Since many combinations involving one  to
three  of  these  streams  are  found  in  the  industry, setting
effluent limitations according to individual waste streams rather
than combinations is recommended.

Columbium-Tantalum

Columbium and tantalum metals are  produced  from  the  slags  of
other   primary  metal  industries,  from  ore  concentrates,  or
tantalum scrap material.

Columbium  and   tantalum   production   entails   two   distinct
operations:   the  production  and purification of salts from ore
concentrates and slags, and reduction of salts to produce metals.
These two operations may or may not be done  at  the  same  plant
and, consequently, three types of production facilities are found
in  the  industry: 1)  plants processing slags or ore concentrates
to produce purified salts; 2) plants reducing the purified  salts
to  produce Columbium and tantalum metal; and 3) plants producing
both salts and metals.  A review  of  sampling  data  shows  that
plants processing slag or concentrate and plants processing salts
to  metals  produce significantly different wastewater volume and
characteristics.  Since  these  operations  frequently  occur  at
different sites, subcategorization is necessary.

While  three  types of facilities have been identified above, two
subcategories can adequately cover the entire  industry  for  the
purpose  of  regulation.   These  are  the columbium and tantalum
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salt-purification and the columbium and tantalum  metal-reduction
subcategories.   Plants  that both purify salts and reduce metals
would be regulated in both subcategories (i.e.,  their  allowable
discharge would be the sum of the individual limitations.

The most significant wastewater sources in columbium and tantalum
production   are   the   digestion,   solvent   extraction,   and
precipitation processes  associated  with  producing  salts  from
concentrates   and  slags.   The  processing  requires  extensive
chemical manipulation using acids, ammonia, and organic solvents,
all of which appear in the process effluent.  Producing columbium
and tantalum metal from  purified  salts  contributes  wastewater
from  the leaching operation which follows reduction and from wet
air pollution control devices.

Copper

Copper and copper-based alloys are produced from both primary and
secondary materials with significantly  different  processes  and
process wastes.  The industry is, therefore, divided into primary
and  secondary copper industries.  The primary copper industry is
also divided into  two  major  types  of  operations:   smelting,
including  ore  smelting  to produce unrefined blister copper and
fire refining; and electrolytic refining to  produce  high-purity
copper.    Smelting  and  electrolytic  refining  operations  are
generally done at separate installations, but some refineries may
be located at smelters.  Smelters generally process sulfide  ores
and  usually  have  acid plants.  Metallurgical acid plants are a
separate subcategory.

Thus,  the  primary  copper  industry   is   divided   into   two
subcategories: smelting and refining.

The   subcategorization   of  the  primary  copper  industry  was
primarily based on differences in manufacturing process  and  the
wastes  generated.  Other factors that were considered, but which
did not significantly affect subcategorization  were  plant  size
and  age.   Supporting  factors for the subcategorization are raw
materials and products produced.

Primary Copper Smelting.  The basic raw material for  the  copper
smelting  industry  is  copper-ore  concentrate.  Copper smelters
principally  produce  blister  copper,  and   the   manufacturing
processes  involve smelting and converting.  Roasting may also be
done before smelting.

While the concentrates serving  as  raw  materials  may  vary  in
composition,  the  same  pollutants  are usually generated in the
processing stages  and  subcategorizing  on  this  basis  is  not
warranted.   Of  the  15  primary  copper  smelters, seven employ
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roasting (four with  multiple-hearth  furnaces,  and  three  with
fluid-bed   furnaces).    Smelting   is   predominantly  done  in
reverberatory  furnaces,  although  some  smelters  use  electric
furnaces  and  one  operates  both  types of furnaces at adjacent
plants.  The converting step is  essentially  similar  throughout
the industry.

Primary  Copper Refining.  Fire-refined copper produced by copper
smelters is the raw material used  in  primary  copper  refining.
Electrolytic  refining  may  be  done  at  the  smelter but, more
typically, it is done at a separate installation.  Fire  refining
is  also done at electrolytic refineries to reprocess anode butts
or other very high grade copper.

The primary copper refining subcategory should  be  considered  a
single  subcategory  since  electrolytic  refining is used by all
refineries.  Because primary copper refineries frequently recover
and refine by-product metals  (selenium, tellurium, silver,  gold,
and  platinum),  primary  refining  of  these  metals  at  copper
refineries is included in this subcategory.

Plant location and meteorological conditions, while  factors  for
selecting  a  waste  treatment  method,  largely  do  not  affect
wastewater production.  Treating slimes to recover  selenium  and
tellurium  produces  small and infrequent discharges that have an
insignificant effect on the total waste production.   Lead  slags
are  shipped  to  lead refineries, and silver, gold, and platinum
are usually recovered  by  electrolytic  methods  in  small-scale
operations.

Secondary  Copper.   The  basic  raw  materials  of the secondary
copper industry are copper and copper-based scrap  and  residues.
The  scrap  is classified into 44 categories which can be grouped
into low, intermediate, and high grades depending on  the  copper
content  of the scrap.  Brass and slags are examples of low-grade
scrap; discarded  consumer  or  industrial  items  such  as  auto
radiators,  faucets, turnings, and countless other copper-alloyed
scrap make up  the  intermediate  grade;  high  grade  refers  to
essentially   pure  copper  items  which  may  have  non-metallic
contaminants.

A variety of processes are available to convert these varied  raw
materials   into   salable   products.    These  include:   scrap
preparation, melting, fire refining or alloying, and electrolytic
refining.  The  procedures  may  vary  somewhat  as  dictated  by
different  grades  of  scrap  feed  or desired end-products.  The
principal products  are  brass  and  bronze  alloys  and  refined
copper;  black  and/or  blister  copper may also be produced, but
these forms are either held in storage  for  future  refining  or
sold  to  other  refineries.  Important by-products, also sold to
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other processors, include slags, zinc oxide from  the  scrubbers,
and white metals (babbitt and lead).

The  great variety of raw materials, scrap preparation processes,
smelting and refining processes, and products produced make  this
industry  difficult to group into discrete categories.  Secondary
copper plants, in  addition,  have  built-in  flexibilities  that
allow  them to change production according to fluctuations in the
metal market.  A useful approach for the  purpose  of  developing
effluent limitations is to deal with the wastewater streams

     (1)   metal cooling
     (2)   slag granulation
     (3)   slag milling
     (4)   scrubbers
     (5)   electrolytic refining

Lead

Lead is produced from both primary and secondary materials in the
United  States.   Since  the  production processes and wastes are
dissimilar, the industry is therefore divided  into  primary  and
secondary lead subcategories.

Primary  Lead.   Primary  lead  production  entails  smelting and
refining of both domestic and foreign ores.   The  principal  raw
materials  used  are ore concentrates.  The material handling and
pyrometallurgical   processes   generate   air   emissions    and
wastewaters which require control and treatment.

The  rationale  for  considering the primary lead industry as two
subcategories is primarily based on production  process  and  raw
materials.  The primary lead industry is composed of smelters and
refineries.   Wastes  generated  during  the refining process are
small compared to smelting and this is important for the purposes
of subcategorizing.  The one primary lead refinery not located on
site with a smelter should  not.  be  included  with  the  smelter
subcategory because it does not produce process wastewaters.

Slag-handling practices vary among primary lead plants, with some
plants  using  slag  granulation  and others using dry processes.
Slag granulation does not produce significant  waste  loads.   If
the  granulation  water is recycled, any need for subcategorizing
based on slag-handling practices is  eliminated.   Certain  final
refining  steps,  such as bismuth removal, are done by only a few
plants.  These final refining steps produce little  or  no  waste
and, as a result, subcategorizing is not warranted on this basis.
Some plants produce sulfuric acid as a by-product of SO2 removal,
while  other  plants  do not operate a sulfuric acid plant.  Acid
plants are a separate subcategory.
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Some primary lead facilities process southeastern  Missouri  ores
and  others  process  other  domestic  and/or  foreign ores.  The
higher grade Missouri ores require fewer  processing  steps  and,
theoretically,  less  waste  production  than  non-Missouri ores.
Wastewater  quality  and  quantity,  however,  does  not   differ
appreciably from the processing of these different materials, and
subcategorizing on the basis of raw materials is not justified.

In  summary,  the  primary lead industry should be treated as two
subcategories because substantial differences exist  with  regard
to production processes and raw materials.  Primary lead refining
is   considered   separate  because  process  wastewater  is  not
produced,  and  this  plant  does  not   generate   any   process
wastewater.   All  other  plants  generate process wastewater.  A
previous development document  (6) also  mentioned  that  the  one
refinery  should  be  excluded  from consideration with the other
smelters,  or  smelters  and  refineries.   For  the  purpose  of
regulation, smelting or smelting and refining shall be designated
the primary lead smelting subcategory.

Secondary Lead-Antimony.  The industry is designated as secondary
lead-antimony  because  antimonial  lead  is  a very common alloy
product of secondary lead plants.  Waste lead  residues,  battery
storage  plates,  and various scrap solids comprise the basic raw
materials  of  the  secondary  lead-antimony   industry.    These
materials  undergo  various  furnace  and  kettle  operations  to
produce several final products:  lead  oxide,  refined  lead,  or
lead  alloys.   These products are then used to produce batteries
and other products.  The principal difference found among  plants
throughout  the  industry  was  whether  batteries are cracked on
site.  In the cracking operation, battery tops are sawed off  and
the  plates and paste removed for processing.  Spent electrolyte,
saw cooling water and wash water, are major wastewater sources.

Secondary lead-antimony plants are  generally  located  in  urban
centers  where  large  amounts  of  land for treatment may not be
available.   The  space  requirements  of  wastewater   treatment
systems  used  by  the secondary lead-antimony industry, although
important, do not affect the subcategorizing because, in general,
all the plants have the same problem.

Raw materials are important for the purposes  of  subcategorizing
because of their effects on wastewater production.  The principal
raw  materials  are waste batteries.  The other lead-antimony raw
materials are lead residues and scrap solids.  While  presmelting
treatment of scrap solids and lead residues results in no process
wastewater,  spent battery electrolyte and battery washing result
in significant wastewater generation.  There is a constant influx
of the electrolyte, which  is  brought  into  the  plant  in  the
batteries themselves.
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Major  differences  were  found  between  plants which use kettle
furnaces  with  wet  scrubbers  and  those  which  use  blast  or
reverberatory  furnaces.  While only two of the seven plants with
kettle furnace scrubbers discharged from this source, five of the
seven  reverb/blast  furnace  scrubber  users  discharge   water.
Additionally,  the  amount  of water used is almost twice as high
(per ton of furnace product) for reverb/blast  furnace  scrubbers
as  opposed  to  kettle scrubbers.  Based on this difference, the
melting operation has been divided into kettle furnace operations
and blast or reverberatory operations.

The fourth group under secondary lead is casting.  Although eight
plants  use  water  for  this  operation,  only  three  of   them
discharge.

The operations which produce wastewater are:

    a)   battery cracking
    b)   blast or reverberatory furnaces with wet air
         pollution control
    c)   kettle furnaces with wet air pollution control
    d)   casting

Since  at the many plants within the secondary lead industry, any
or all of these operations may take place, it is  appropriate  to
establish   separate  effluent  limitations  for  each  of  these
operations.

Secondary Silver

Secondary silver is produced from a variety  of  sources  and  by
different  methods.  The secondary silver industry receives scrap
silver from a variety of sources, including  waste  generated  by
the  photographic  and  silverware industries, industrial alloys,
and electrical components.  The variability and  high  commercial
value  of  the  raw material usually dictates the necessity for a
rather complex and flexible production sequence.

The secondary silver industry is subcategorized into two segments
based on raw materials used:  processors of silver-rich solutions
and photographic film;  and  processors  of  solid  silver  scrap
(tableware      and     jewelry).      Hydrometallurgical     and
pyrometallurgical methods are used to process both types  of  raw
materials;  therefore, the basis for subcategorization is not the
production process employed but rather  the  differences  in  raw
waste  characteristics  resulting  from  the  two  types  of  raw
materials.

Hydrometallurgical techniques are used to  separate  silver  from
solutions.   Silver is precipitated, settled, dried, roasted, and
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cast as ingots or  Dore  plates.   Some  refineries  subsequently
produce higher-quality silver by electrolysis.  Photographic film
is  processed  in  the  same  way except that the silver is first
stripped from the film and  solubilized  with  solvents  such  as
nitric  acid  and/or organic compounds before precipitation.  The
waste   supernatant   high    in    organics    resulting    from
hydrometallurgical   purification   must  be  treated.   The  wet
scrubbers used to control fumes generated in  this  process  also
produce wastewater.

Solid-silver   scrap   refining   begins  with  pyrometallurgical
techniques.  The high-tenor solid scrap such as  sterlingware  is
melted  and  reused.   Low-tenor  scrap  (silver-plated items and
solders), on the other hand,  is  smelted  in  reverberatory  and
blast  furnaces  to  separate the scrap into lead bullion, copper
matte, and slag.  The lead bullion is cupelled to form a litharge
layer and a silver-rich layer.  The litharge layer is returned to
the reverberatory furnace while the  silver-rich  layer  is  cast
into anodes and electrolytically refined.  The electrolytic slime
often is processed further to recover other precious metals.

The  copper  matte  is ground, roasted, and leached with sulfuric
acid to solubilize the silver which is subsequently  precipitated
onto  copper  plates.   The  silver-free  solution is treated for
copper recovery by evaporation.

The precipitation, sedimentation, and filtration of  silver  from
solutions  produce a waste supernatant that must be treated.  Wet
scrubbers are  also  used  to  control  the  fumes  of  volatile,
odorous,  and  corrosive chemicals used during hydrometallurgical
purification.  The solid silver scrap, on the other hand, may  be
refined  without  wet air-pollution control devices, but the acid
leaching of furnace slag may produce wastewater.

The  silver  industry  is  categorized,  for   the   purpose   of
regulation,   into   a   secondary  silver  photographic  process
subcategory and the  secondary  silver  non-photographic  process
subcategory.   Analysis  of  raw  wastewater  streams  sampled at
several representative  plants  in  the  industry  ascertained  a
higher  concentration  of  organic  priority  pollutants in waste
streams from the photographic process  subcategory  than  in  the
non-photographic  process subcategory.  Differences in the nature
of the raw materials and the quality and quantity of the effluent
generated justify separating the secondary silver  industry  into
these two subcategories.

The waste streams considered in establishing effluent limitations
are:

Photographic
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Film silver stripping and precipitation
Solution silver recovery
Furnace scrubbers
Electrolysis
Casting

Non - Ph ot ogr a ph i c

Leaching/precipitation/filtration
Leaching/precipitation/f iltration scrubbers
Furnace scrubbers
Electrolysis
Casting

Primary Tungsten

Tungsten  is  almost  exclusively produced from ore concentrates,
principally ferberite  and  scheelite.   Processing  of  tungsten
scrap  is not considered in this report, nor is the production of
tungsten carbides.

Tungsten production  entails  two  distinct  operations—ammonium
paratungstate   (APT)  production  from  ore concentrates, and APT
reduction to produce the metal.  Principal wastewater sources  in
producing  APT  include  leaching,  washing,  and  rinsing.   The
principal metal-production wastewater sources include cooling and
air pollution control, mostly by wet  scrubbers.   These  streams
are   not  big  contributors  of  wastewater  compared  with  the
wastewater generated in the salt production processes.

These two operations may or may not be done  in  the  same  plant
and, consequently, three types of production facilities are to be
found  in  the  industry:   plants processing ore concentrates to
produce APT;  plants reducing APT to produce tungsten metal;  and
plants producing both APT and metal.

Sampling  at  several  plants  in the industry indicates that the
wastewater volume and characteristics produced by APT  and  metal
production  are  significantly  different.  Plants processing ore
concentrates use a hydrometallurgical process which results in  a
waste  stream  that  is not generated in the conversion of APT to
tungsten metal.

Plant size and operations in the primary  tungsten  industry  are
considerably  diverse, with the processing sequence being chiefly
determined by  the  desired  product.   Typically,  tungstate  is
purified  from  concentrates  and converted to tungstic acid by a
series of filtration and precipitation reactions.   The  tungstic
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acid  is  subsequently  dissolved  in  ammonium hydroxide and the
solution heated to form the intermediate product known as APT.

APT can either be the  final  product  or  it  can  be  processed
further  to  the  metal  form  by  conversion  to  an  oxide in a
nitrogen-hydrogen atmosphere in an electric furnace.  The  oxides
are  subsequently  reduced  to  tungsten  metal powder in a high-
temperature hydrogen atmosphere.

Two subcategories can adequately cover the  entire  industry  for
the purpose of regulation.  These subcategories are:

1.  Concentrate to APT; and
2.  Reducing APT to metal.

Primary Zinc

Zinc is  mostly  produced  from  virgin  materials.   While  some
secondary  zinc plants do exist, all are at zero discharge.  Only
the primary zinc industry will be considered in this report.

Primary zinc is produced  by  either  electrolytic  or  pyrolytic
processing, both of which require roasting of ore concentrates to
remove  the sulfur.  Other impurities such as cadmium and mercury
are at least partially  removed  from  the  zinc  concentrate  by
roasting,  and  cadmium  is  a  by-product  at  every plant.  The
offgases from roasting are subjected to conventional SO2 control.
The  subsequent  steps  of  leaching  and  electrolysis  at   the
electrolytic  plants, or sintering and retorting at the pyrolytic
plants,  do  not   produce   significant   amounts   of   process
wastewaters.   The data obtained from sampling wastewater streams
at several  plants  show  that  little  variation  in  wastewater
quality   exists  between  the  two  types  of  zinc  processors.
However, there is a difference between electrolytic and pyrolytic
producers in the amount of water used.

The raw materials used, by-products, plant  age,  raw  wastewater
characteristics   and ancillary operations are all similar at the
plants making up the zinc industry.  These are thus not a  factor
for  subcategorizing.   Since there is a difference in water used
and discharged between pyrolytic and electrolytic producers, each
type of operation is considered for the purpose  of  establishing
effluent limitations and standards.

Metallurgical Acid Plants

Primary  copper,  lead  and  zinc  smelters  commonly operate by-
product sulfuric acid plants.  Most of the  ores  used  in  these
industries  are  sulfide  ores, and the SO2 in the off-gases from
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removed before they are released to the atmosphere.  Although not
all plants using sulfide ores operate acid plants, most  do.   It
is expected that all new smelters will have acid plants.

All  the  acid  plants  in  the  nonferrous  metals industry were
examined  for  the   purpose   of   subcategorization.    Factors
considered  were:  type of acid plant  (single or double contact),
size of plant, and type of smelter associated with the acid plant
(copper, lead or zinc).  No significant  differences  were  found
between  single  or  double contact acid plants in terms of water
use, nor were any significant differences found  between  copper,
lead  or  zinc  acid plants in terms of water use.  Based on this
analysis,  it  was   determined   that   for   the   purpose   of
subcategorization,   all  metallurgical  acid  plants  should  be
considered as a  single  subcategory.   The  relatively  few  DMA
plants  or  plants  producing  sulfur  from  off-gases  are  also
included in this subcategory.  This subcategory  does  not  cover
inorganic chemical acid plants producing sulfuric acid by burning
sulfur.
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                            SECTION V

                      WASTE CHARACTERISTICS
The  methods used to gather data and report waste characteristics
for the  nonferrous  metals  industry,  and  summaries  of  those
characteristics  relative  to  the  subcategories  established in
Section IV are presented in this section.

Waste  characteristics  of  each  subcategory   exhibit   various
process-related  and  nonprocess-related  differences.   Process-
related factors in  waste  variability  include:   raw  materials
processed,  process  control  measures,  and production equipment
employed.   In  some  cases,  the  technology   employed   by   a
manufacturer  is  considered  more  an  art  than  a science, and
process  variations  have  been   made   according   to   company
experience.   Nonprocess-related differences result from addition
of  wastes  other  than  process  waste,  such  as  storm   water
infiltration,  sanitary  waste,  boiler  blowdown,  or noncontact
cooling water.

PRIORITY POLLUTANTS

The Clean Water Act of 1977 expanded the  spectrum  of  pollutant
parameters  for  point  source  discharges to include potentially
toxic  pollutants.   Specifically,  65   classes   of   compounds
originally  identified  in the Consent Decree in NRDC vs Train, 8
ERC 2120  (D.D.C  1976)  are  to  be  considered  in  establishing
effluent limitations.

The 65 classes were selected based on the following criteria:

1.  Substances  for  which  there  is  substantial  evidence   of
carcinogenicity, mutagenicity and/or teratogenicity;

2.  Substances  structurally  similar   to   the   aforementioned
compounds or for which there is some evidence of carcinogenicity,
mutagenicity, or teratogenicity; and

3.  Substances known to have toxic  effects  on  man  or  aquatic
organisms  at  sufficiently  high  concentrations  and  which are
present in industrial effluents.

Within the 65 classes, 129 specific elements  or  compounds  were
identified  for  potential  regulation  as  priority  pollutants.
These include im organic  compounds,  13  metals,  cyanide,  and
asbestos.  A list of all 129 pollutants is provided in Table V-l.
Results  of  field sampling of raw waste and treated effluent for
the 129 priority pollutants are also presented in  this  section.
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A  discussion  of  each  parameter  and its potential impact as a
pollutant can be found in Section VI.

Organics

The organic compounds, numbered 1 to 114 in  Table  V-l,  can  be
subdivided into the following broad classifications:

Aliphatics    36
Aromatics     59
Pesticides    19

Of these compounds, 33 can be considered volatile, having boiling
points  less  than  150°C,  and 69 contain chlorine.  The organic
priority pollutants  pose  some  unique  problems  in  laboratory
analysis  and  interpretation  of  the  data.   They  are usually
present at much lower concentrations than  the  metals,  some  in
only  fractions  of  micrograms  per  liter  (jig/1) •  At these low
levels, the organic priority pollutants make only  minor  contri-
butions  to  the  overall  concentration  of organics measured by
standard BOD, COD, or TOC tests.  Elaborate sample collection and
handling  methods   and   sophisticated   laboratory   analytical
techniques are necessary for meaningful and reproducible results.
The  use  of  blank  samples  to determine the level of pollutant
contamination inherent in sampling  and  analysis  procedures  is
critical   to  proper  interpretation  of  the  organic  priority
pollutant data.

Toxic Metals

The 13 priority pollutant metals are:

Antimony       (Sb)
Arsenic        (As)
Beryllium      (Be)
Cadmium        (Cd)
Chromium       (Cr)
Copper         (Cu)
Lead           (Pb)
Mercury        (Hg)
Nickel         (Ni)
Selenium       (Se)
Silver         (Ag)
Thallium       (Tl)
Zinc           (Zn)

The metals are often thought of  as  a  group  because  of  their
several  common  characteristics  and  behavioral properties, but
each has distinctive characteristics that influence its  behavior
and the effect that it will have on the environment.  In addition
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to  the  individual  characteristics  of  a  metal  acting alone,
synergistic or antagonistic effects have  been  observed  between
metals  that  affect  toxicity.  Metals are not biodegradable and
removal mechanisms depend upon physical-chemical processes.

CONVENTIONAL  AND  NON-CONVENTIONAL   POLLUTANTS,   CYANIDE   AND
ASBESTOS

Past  studies  by  the  EPA and others have established a list of
other pollutant parameters  that  are  useful  in  characterizing
industrial  wastewaters.  The list includes both conventional and
non-conventional pollutants.   The  conventional  pollutants  are
generally   those  affected  by  secondary  municipal  wastewater
treatment.   The  non-conventional  pollutants  are  not  readily
affected by municipal treatment schemes.

The conventional pollutants are:

Biochemical Oxygen Demand  (BOD)
Chemical Oxygen Demand  (COD)
Total Suspended Solids  (TSS)
Oil and Grease  (OSG)
pH - Acidity and Alkalinity

The non-conventional pollutants are:

Ammonia   (NH3)
Fluoride  (F)
Total Organic Carbon  (TOC)
Total Phenols (4-AAP Method)

These  two  groups of pollutants will be referred to hereafter as
criteria  pollutants.   Data  for  cyanide  and   asbestos,   two
additional  priority  pollutants, are presented with the criteria
pollutants because they  cannot  be  classified  as  organics  or
metals.

Even  though the criteria pollutants may be present in nonferrous
industry wastewaters, monitoring practices  across  the  industry
are,  at best,  inconsistent.  At indirect dischargers, monitoring
requirements range from none, the typical case, to very  complete
programs.   The  majority  of  these  plants  pay  for wastewater
disposal on  the  basis  of  water  consumption,  and  wastewater
monitoring is not regularly carried out.

DATA SOURCES

In  order  to  achieve  the best possible characterization of the
wastes, all nonferrous metals producers were sent a detailed data
collection  portfolio  requesting   information   on   production
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processes,  quantity and type of wastewater generated, and on the
quality of waste streams in terms of presence or absence  of  the
priority pollutants.

Detailed   information  was  gathered  from  the  completed  data
collection portfolios and from telephone contacts with  plants in
the industry.  Little factual information was available about the
presence of most  of  the  priority  pollutants,  especially  the
organics.   This  lack  of  data  necessitated  a  field sampling
program to provide data to be used to characterize the  industry.
Samples  were  analyzed  for  priority  pollutants  and  criteria
pollutants, and the results were tabulated.   In  addition,  some
data  was  obtained  from  similar sampling programs conducted by
other contractors at mine/mill/smelter complexes, and  additional
sampling data was obtained as a result of EPA regional sampling.

SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS

Raw  waste  characteristics  for  the  nonferrous metals industry
generally reflect  the  products  and  the  methods  employed  to
manufacture them.  Because there is such a diversity in products,
processing,  raw  materials, and process control, there is a wide
range  in  the  characteristics.   The  variation  exists   among
different  streams  within  each  subcategory,  as  well as among
similar  streams   (such  as  casting  wastewater)  in   different
subcategories.   Discharge of nonprocess wastes  (sanitary, boiler
blowdown, noncontact cooling  water,  etc.)  with  process  waste
streams  and other nonprocess-related variables such as raw water
quality can contribute to this lack of uniformity.

Processing and raw waste characteristics for each subcategory and
the sources of the pollutants  specific  to  each  are  discussed
below.

Organic Pollutants

Organic  priority pollutant data were compiled from the screening
and verification phases of this investigation and  from  sampling
programs  conducted  by other contractors and EPA regions.  These
pollutants are generally classified for the purpose of laboratory
analysis as volatile organics, nonvolatile organics, or  cyanide.
Nonvolatile   organics   are   further  separated  as  the  acid,
base/neutral, or pesticide fractions.   The  results  of  cyanide
analyses  are presented with the criteria pollutant data and will
not be discussed here.

Blank samples were collected with wastewater samples to determine
the level of pollutant contamination inherent in the sampling and
testing procedures.   Samples  to  be  analyzed  for  nonvolatile
organic  priority  pollutants  were  usually  composited using an
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automatic sampler.  Tubing blanks corresponding to these  samples
were  obtained  by  drawing distilled deionized water through the
tubing used in the sampler.  During the screening  phase,  tubing
blanks  were taken in the field immediately before collecting the
first composite sample.  During the verification phase, they were
collected in the laboratory using a piece of tubing cut from  the
same  roll  as  that  used  in  the  field  for sampling.  Blanks
corresponding to volatile organic samples were  obtained  in  the
field during both screening and verification phases.

Samples were taken of intake water during the verification phase.
These  intake  samples  were  analyzed to determine the levels of
organic priority pollutants attributable to intake  water.   Data
for  the  organic priority pollutants were reviewed both as gross
concentrations and net concentrations.  Gross concentrations were
obtained by subtracting the concentrations found in the  analysis
blanks  from the concentrations present in the wastewater sample.
To  obtain  net  concentrations,  both  blank  and  intake  water
concentrations, where available, were subtracted.

The organic priority pollutant data for each of the subcategories
of  the  nonferrous  metals  industry  has  been  compiled and is
presented in tabular form in the following discussions.   In  one
table,  the  number  of  times  a  pollutant  was detected within
specified concentration ranges is presented.  This table is based
on gross concentration data which corresponds to  either  raw  or
treated  wastewater  streams.   A  second  table shows the range,
mean, and median net concentrations  of  each  organic  pollutant
detected  in  the  particular  subcategory.   Once again, raw and
treated wastewater data are presented separately.   Range,  mean,
and  median  concentrations  corresponding to the intake water of
the plants sampled are shown in a third table.  Only the  organic
priority  pollutants  that  were  detected  at  least once in the
subcategory are included in these tables.

Metals and Criteria Pollutants

Data for these pollutant  parameters,  like  the  organics,  were
compiled  from  the  screening  and  verification  phases of this
investigation and from similar  sampling  programs  conducted  by
other  contractors.   The  intake  water  samples  also  acted as
background  blanks  for  the  metals   and   criteria   pollutant
parameters.  The data are shown in the appropriate tables located
in  the  discussions  that  follow.  The significance of the data
will be discussed as it applies to each subcategory.

The metals and criteria pollutants were evaluated by  experienced
testing  laboratories.   Techniques  described  in  EPA  Standard
Methods   (70)  were  employed  to  analyze   for   the   criteria
pollutants.   Two  methods  were  used  to determine heavy metals
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concentrations: flameless atomic  adsorption  spectrometry  (A/A)
and  inductively  coupled  argon  plasma  emission  spectrometric
analysis (ICAP).  The metal  concentrations  determined  by  each
method were as follows:

Flameless A/A                     ICAP

Ant imony                          Beryllium
Arsenic                           Cadmium
Selenium                          Chromium
Silver                            Copper
Thallium                          Lead
                                  Nickel
                                  Zinc
Mercury  was  analyzed  by a special technique — the manual cold
vapor flameless atomic adsorption spectrometry technique.

Samples were also analyzed for asbestos by transmission  electron
microscopy.    Total  fiber  and  chrysotile  fiber  counts  were
reported by the testing laboratory.  Chrysotile was chosen by the
U.S.  Environmental  Protection   Agency    (Effluent   Guidelines
Division)  as  the  screening  parameter  for asbestos for mining
related activities because:  (1) its known toxicity when particles
are   inhaled,    (2)   its   industrial   prevalence,    (3)   its
distinguishing selected area electron diffraction  (SAED) pattern,
and   (4)  the  cumbersome  nature  of  the  transmission electron
microscopic  (TEM) analysis technique limits the identification to
one mineral form at the present time due to  economics  and  time
constraints.

While  the  asbestos  data  vary, the testing laboratory's report
 (34) indicates that, when the total fiber count   (which  includes
amphibole  fibers)  is  performed  in conjunction with a count of
chrysotile  fibers,  a  good  initial  screening   parameter   is
produced.   The  report recommends re-examining any facility with
chrysotile fiber counts greater  than  108  fibers/liter  because
this  represents a significant departure from ambient counts of  3
X  106 fibers/liter in the Great Lakes Basin.  The technique  used
had a threshold of detection of 2.2 X 105 total fibers/liter.

Only  wastewater samples from the plants sampled in the screening
phase  were  analyzed  for  asbestos.   The  verification   phase
wastewater samples were not analyzed for asbestos, mainly because
of the  difficulty in performing the analysis, the cost involved
due to the  highly  sophisticated  apparatus  required,  and  the
length of time required to perform each analysis.

CHARACTERIZATION OF NONFERROUS METAL INDUSTRY WASTEWATER
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In   the   following   discussion,   wastewater   characteristics
corresponding to  the  subcategories  in  the  nonferrous  metals
industry  are presented.  The organic priority pollutant data are
shown in this section on a subcategory basis,  while  metals  and
criteria  pollutant  data  are  described for specific wastewater
streams.

The final effluent from plants in the nonferrous metals  industry
typically   consists  of  contributions  from  both  process  and
nonprocess waste streams.  Nonprocess streams that? may  commingle
with process wastes include:

1.  Noncontact cooling water
2.  Storm water runoff
3.  Miscellaneous nonprocess wastes, e.g.,
    sanitary, boiler blowdown, laboratory wastes

Although  nonprocess  waste streams will not be regulated as part
of the nonferrous metals category, their effect  on  the  overall
effluent must be considered.

Noncontact   cooling   water   and   boiler  blowdown  frequently
contribute  significant  volumes  of  wastewater  to  the   final
effluent   but   usually  contain  negligible  concentrations  of
pollutants.  As a result, these streams tend to have  a  diluting
effect  when  commingled  with process wastewater streams.  Storm
water runoff from nonferrous metals plants may contain pollutants
in significant amounts.   Waste  management  techniques  such  as
diking  and  improved disposal methods for solid wastes result in
considerable variability in the characteristics  of  storm  water
runoff   streams.    Laboratory   wastes,   though  considered  a
nonprocess wastewater stream, may contribute significant  amounts
of pollutants to the overall effluent.  This is particularly true
of  the  organic  priority pollutants.  Several of these organics
are commonly used  in  laboratory  analyses  and  may  enter  the
wastewater in this stream.

Production  processes  that are not part of the nonferrous metals
industry, such as fabrication and ore concentrating, may also  be
operated at some plants.  Wastewater streams from these processes
are usually discharged with metal production streams.

The  quantities  of  raw  wastewater  are  presented  in terms of
quantity per day  (m3/day).  The pollutant characteristics of  the
waters,  with  the  exception of the organic priority pollutants,
are presented as concentrations   (mg/1).   The  organic  priority
pollutant  concentrations  are  presented in Mg/1.  Quantities of
discharge  and  water  use,  and  criteria  pollutant  data  were
acquired  from  the  field  sampling program, supplemented by the
records of industry treatment plants,  Federal  and  state  water
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pollution  control monitoring reports and the records of publicly
owned  treatment  works  (POTWs).   Data  on   organic   priority
pollutants   (other   than   phenols  and  cyanide)   in  effluent
discharges  were  not  available  from   industry   records   and
characterization is based solely on the field sampling program.

In  the following tables, the symbol "K" stands for "<", i.e., "K
100" means "< 100".  In some of the tables, engineering  notation
is  used.   For  example,  "2.3E6"  is the same as "2.3 x 106" or
2,300,000.

Primary Aluminum

The organic priority pollutant  data  for  the  primary  aluminum
industry are presented in Tables V-2, V-3 and V-4.

The  concentrations of metal priority pollutants present in waste
streams are shown in Table V-5.  Results of analysis for criteria
pollutants are summarized in Table V-6.

Process  wastewater  sources  in  the  primary  aluminum   plants
include:

1.  Potline air pollution control.
2.  Potroom air pollution control.
3.  Paste plant air pollution control.
U.  Anode bake plant air pollution control.
5.  Degassing air pollution control.
6.  Cryolite recovery.
7.  Contact cooling water.
8.  Cathode making

Water  use associated with air pollution control varies widely in
this industry due to differing in-plant controls  and  equipment.
Both  wet  and  dry  methods  are  currently  practiced.  Wet air
pollution control devices are a major source of wastewater in the
industry.

Raw wastewater characteristics of potline air  pollution  control
effluent  streams,  as  shown  in  Tables  V-5  and V-6, are from
samples taken at two primary aluminum plants.   Typically,  waste
streams from potline scrubbers or wet electrostatic precipitators
contain   suspended   solids,   fluorides  and  several  priority
pollutants,  suspended solids result from  dust  associated  with
alumina and cryolite addition to the electrolytic cell.  Chloride
and  fluoride  salts  result from the use of cryolite, a fluoride
salt in the cell.  Organic pollutants present can  be  attributed
to  anode  oxidation.  In addition, heavy metal impurities in the
alumina can be introduced to this waste stream.
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As can be seen in Tables  V-5  and  V-6,  potroom  air  pollution
control  wastewater  streams  display  characteristics similar to
those   associated   with   the   potlines,   but   at    reduced
concentrations.

Wet  air  pollution  controls  on  anode  bake  furnaces generate
wastewater  in  plants  utilizing  prebaked  anodes.     Suspended
solids,  oil  and  grease,  sulfur  compounds and fuel combustion
products characterize this effluent stream.  Fluorides  may  also
be  introduced  where  anode  recycle  is practiced.   A number of
organic priority pollutants that have been identified as products
of coal-tar distillation are  released  with  anode  baking.    In
plants using prebaked anodes, these organics may be introduced to
the bake plant waste stream.

Some  aluminum  reduction  plants  degas  molten  aluminum before
casting.  Degassing is usually accomplished  by  bubbling  a  gas
(chlorine,  nitrogen,  argon, or a combination of these elements)
through the melt.  When chlorine is used in  degassing,  wet  air
pollution  controls  must  be  used,  and  a wastewater stream is
produced.

Cryolite recovery is employed by several plants in the processing
of spent cathodes or potline scrubbing liquor.  As shown in Table
V-6, the resultant waste stream is typified by very  high  levels
of  cyanide as well as significant amounts of fluoride, suspended
solids,  and  TOC.   Although  storm  water  runoff  is   usually
considered a nonprocess waste stream, runoff from cathode storage
areas  typically  contains  high  concentrations  of   cyanide and
fluoride.

Contact cooling water may be used for casting.  The cooling water
is  frequently  recycled  but  may  require  a  bleed  stream  to
dissipate  the buildup of dissolved solids.  Heavy metals and oil
and grease are usually present in low concentrations.

The data in Tables V-5 and V-6 shows that, when compared  to  the
plant  intake  water  analyses,  over  half of the raw wastewater
parameters are nearly the same or only slightly higher  (less than
one order of magnitude) than the intake water.  Allowing for  the
intake concentrations, most of the metals at a majority of plants
show negligible pickup in the process.

Secondary Aluminum

The  organic priority pollutant data are presented in Tables V-7,
V-8 and V-9.
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The concentrations of metal priority pollutants present in  waste
streams  are  shown  in  Table  V-10.   Results  of  analyses for
criteria pollutants are summarized in Table v-11.

Sources of  process  wastewater  within  the  secondary  aluminum
industry include:

1.  Demagging air pollution control.
2.  Wet milling of residues.
3.  Contact cooling water.

During demagging, chlorine or aluminum fluoride is passed through
the  melt  causing  the  release  of magnesium with heavy fuming.
Where wet air pollution controls are utilized, the  waste  stream
will  contain  significant  levels of suspended solids and either
chlorides or fluorides, as well as moderate amounts of some heavy
metals.

Furnace residues used by the secondary aluminum industry  usually
require  milling and screening.  When performed as a wet process,
they generate a wastewater stream like the one shown in Table  V-
10  and  V-11.   Milling  streams  contain  significant levels of
suspended solids  (aluminum oxide and hydrated alumina).   Drosses
also  contain aluminum nitride which hydrolyzes in water to yield
ammonia, accounting for the high concentrations  of  ammonia  and
COD.

Contact cooling water may be used in casting, where it is sprayed
onto  the  ingot  molds  to  solidify  the aluminum and allow its
ejection from the mold.  The production of  shot,  requires  rapid
quenching  of  the molten aluminum droplets.  The characteristics
of  raw  contact  cooling  water  streams  are  quite   variable,
depending  on the process employed.  Oil and grease and chlorides
are usually present  along  with  moderate  levels  of  suspended
solids.

In  Table V~10, the comparison of the intake water concentrations
with those of the wastewater streams indicates that about half of
the parameters are present in concentrations markedly  less  than
the  concentrations  in  the  wastewater streams.  This indicates
that large amounts of these parameters are picked up by the water
during its use in the processes.

Primary Columbium-Tantalum

The production of columbium and tantalum involves the  processing
of  ore  concentrates  and slags to obtain columbium and tantalum
salts, and the subsequent  reduction  of  those  salts  into  the
respective   metals.    For   the  purpose  of  this  discussion,
wastewater characteristics corresponding to those  two  processes
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will  be  discussed  separately.   The  effluent  of  plants that
produce columbium and tantalum metals from concentrates and slags
consists of waste streams from both manufacturing stages.

The organic priority pollutant data are presented in Tables V-15,
V-16 and V-17.

The metals data are presented in Table V-18.   Five  elements
antimony,  mercury,  selenium,  silver,  and thallium — all have
concentrations in the raw wastewaters that are  very  nearly  the
same  as in the intake water.  The other eight metals are present
in substantially larger  quantities  than  in  the  intake.   The
processes   are   mainly   responsible   for  the  difference  in
concentrations.

The criteria pollutant parameter data are presented in  Table  V-
19.   As  with  most  of the metals, the waste streams contribute
substantial amounts of these parameters, and  the  concentrations
in  the  intake water do not materially affect the raw wastewater
concentrations.

Ore Concentrate to  Salt.   Process  wastewater  sources  in  the
production  of columbium and tantalum salts from ore concentrates
and slags include:

1.  Concentrate digestion air pollution control.
2.  Gangue solids waste slurry overflow.
3.  Raffinate wastewater.
H.  Solvent extraction air pollution control.
5.  Filtrate from salt precipitation.
6.  Precipitate calcining air pollution control.

The first step in the production of salts from  concentrates  and
slags  is  digestion  with  hydrofluoric acid.  Metals impurities
solubilized in the process require removal.  Wet scrubber  liquor
from  digestion  is strongly acidic, containing suspended solids,
fluorides, and  some  metals.   Insoluble  gangue  materials  are
removed  by  filtration.   On-site disposal of gangue material is
required because it is  mildly  radioactive.   The  waste  gangue
slurry  is  typically contained in a holding pond.  Overflow from
these ponds, as shown in Table V-18 and V-19, is very acidic  and
contains  significant  levels of metals, fluorides, and suspended
solids.

After filtration, the digested solution  is  generally  extracted
with  an  organic  solvent such as methyl isobutyl ketone  (MIBK) .
Following  the  extractions  of  columbium  and   tantalum,   the
raffinate is discharged as a waste stream.  As shown in Tables V-
18  and  V-19,  the barren raffinate stream is typically strongly
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acidic with high concentrations of  organics,  fluorides,  metals
and suspended solids.

After  extraction,  the  laden  organic streams are stripped with
water to  yield  purified  aqueous  solutions  of  columbium  and
tantalum.  The organic phase is then recycled to extraction.  Wet
air  pollution  control  equipment  associated  with this process
produces   acidic   effluent   streams   containing   significant
concentrations of fluorides and organic solvents.

Precipitation  of  pure metal salts from the aqueous phase may be
accomplished by ammonia addition to recover columbium or tantalum
oxides.  The precipitates  are  then  filtered,  resulting  in  a
filtrate  effluent  stream  which  typically  contains  very high
concentrations of  ammonia  as  well  as  significant  levels  of
fluoride,   various   metals,   and  suspended  solids.   Ammonia
stripping is frequently practiced to  recover  ammonia  from  the
filtrate  prior  to discharge.  Tantalum may also be recovered as
potassium tantalofluoride by precipitation with hydrofluoric acid
and potassium chloride or fluoride.  The precipitate is filtered,
leaving  a  filtrate  effluent  stream  that  may  contain   high
concentrations of potassium, fluorides and chlorides.

Following  filtration,  the  precipitates  are  usually dried and
calcined to yield purified salts.   The  characteristics  of  the
scrubber  waste  streams  associated with calcination reflect the
precipitation process  employed.   High  levels  of  ammonia  are
present  when  ammonia  is used as a reagent in the precipitation
process.

Salt to Metal.  Sources of process wastewater associated with the
production of columbium and tantalum metals from their respective
salts include:

1.  Salt calcination air pollution control.
2.  Reduction leachate.
3.  Reduction air pollution control.
4.  Tantalum sizing.

One of the plants surveyed practices drying, or  calcination,  of
the  salt  feed stock.  Wet scrubbers are required to control air
emissions from this process and a wastewater stream results.

Reduction  processes  vary  somewhat  in  the  columbium-tantalum
industry.   The dominant technique, sodium reduction, uses sodium
chloride  as  a  catalyst.   Following  the  reaction,  extensive
washing  with water or acid  (nitric or hydrofluoric) is required.
Waste streams from reduction  operations  reflect  the  processes
utilized  and  the  chemical  makeup  of the original salt.  They
contain high levels of dissolved  solids,  including  significant
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concentrations  of fluoride, as well as such compounds as sodium,
potassium, chloride, and sulfate.  Wet scrubbers  are  frequently
employed   to  control  the  reduction  process  emissions.   The
resultant discharge is similar to reduction washing streams.   The
wash water and scrubber water may  contain  valuable  amounts  of
columbium and tantalum solids.  If this is the case, these solids
may be recovered by passing the wastewater through a cyclone.

The reduced tantalum metal is sized in water at one of the plants
surveyed.  Water used for sizing at this facility is not recycled
and makes a minor contribution to the total effluent.

Primary Copper

Both  smelting  and  refining are practiced by the primary copper
industry.   Some  plants  engage  in  smelting  only,  processing
concentrates  and  ores to blister copper.  Other plants practice
refining only, purifying  blister  copper  received  from  copper
smelters,  into refined metal; still others do both.  Significant
differences in the  wastewater  characteristics  associated  with
smelting  and  refining  are  to  be  expected.  For this reason,
effluent  streams  corresponding  to  these  two  processes   are
discussed  separately.   Plants  engaged in both the smelting and
refining of primary copper will have wastewater streams from both
operations.

The organic priority pollutant data are shown in Tables V-20,  V-
21, and V-22.

The  field  sampling  data  collected  for the priority pollutant
metals, phenol and cyanide, and for the criteria  parameters  are
contained  in  Tables  V-23 and V-24.  Nearly all the parameters,
except thallium and  beryllium,  are  more  than  two  orders  of
magnitude  higher  than  the  concentrations  found  in the plant
intake water.  This indicates that, except for these two  metals,
the  process  is  responsible  for high concentrations in the raw
wastewater.

Smelting.   Process  wastewater  sources  from   primary   copper
smelting include:

1.  Acid plant blowdown.
2.  Contact cooling.
3.  Slag granulation

Most  smelters  recover  sulfur  from  emissions  from  smelting,
roasting or converting operations either as sulfuric acid  or  as
liquid  SO2.   Preconditioning  of  these gases normally utilizes
electrostatic precipitators and scrubbing  towers  which  may  be
operated  with a blowdown to prevent the buildup of soluble salts
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such as metallic sulfates and chlorides.  As shown in Tables V-23
and V-24, acid plant blowdown typically contains very high levels
of suspended solids as  well  as  significant  concentrations  of
various  metals.   In  a  few instances, wet scrubbing is used to
treat smelter and converter offgases without an acid plant.   The
resultant  waste  stream can be expected to have very high metals
and sulfate levels.

Furnace slag is disposed of by either dumping, a dry process,  or
granulation.   The  molten  slag  may  be  granulated using high-
pressure water jet?.  Slag  granulation  wastewater  streams  are
typically high in suspended and dissolved solids and some metals,
such  as  arsenic,  lead,  zinc  and  copper.  Differences in the
impurity of the feed are reflected in the composition of the slag
and, to some extent, in the slag granulation wastewater.

The contact casting cooling water used by primary copper smelters
is usually recycled with the use of cooling  towers  or  a  pond.
Blowdown is usually contaminated with solids and small amounts of
metals.

Refining.   Sources  of  process  wastewater  associated with the
refining of primary copper include:

1.  Waste electrolyte and cathode wash water.
2.  Anode wash water.
3.  Contact cooling.

Electrolytic refining may result in two principal waste  streams:
waste   electrolyte  and  cathode  and  anode  wash  water.   The
electrolyte is a dilute solution  of  sulfuric  acid  and  copper
sulfate.   Most  refineries  practice  total recycle of the spent
electrolyte by treating a bleed  stream  to  control  copper  and
impurity   concentrations.   Varying  degrees  of  treatment  are
required due to differences in the purity of  the  anode  copper.
Anode  impurities,  which may include nickel, arsenic, and traces
of antimony and bismuth, may be present in the  effluent  if  the
spent  electrolyte  bleed  stream  is discharged.  The rinsing of
cathodes after electrolytic refining is usually carried out above
the cell and no effluent is generated by this operation.  The raw
wastewater  characteristics  of  a   spent   electrolyte   stream
following  electrowinning treatment and a cathode wash stream are
shown in Tables V-23 and V-24.  They  are  strongly  acidic  with
high concentrations of suspended solids and several metals.

Contact  cooling  water  is  usually  recycled,  or  is reused in
another operation.  In some cases, a blowdown is discharged.   As
shown  in  Tables  V-23 and V-2U, contact cooling water typically
contains only minor amounts of  pollutants,  except  for  copper,
which may be present in significant concentrations.
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Secondary Copper

The organic priority pollutant data are presented in Tables V-25,
V-26 and V-27.

The  concentrations of metal priority pollutants present in these
streams are shown in Table V-28.   Results  of  the  analyses  of
criteria pollutants are summarized in Table V-29.

Process  wastewater  sources within the secondary copper industry
include:

1.  Slag milling and classification.
2.  Smelting air pollution control.
3.  Contact cooling.
4.  Electrolyte
5.  Slag granulation

When slag is used as a raw material, it is frequently milled  and
classified  prior to smelting.  As can be seen in Tables V-28 and
V-29, the wastewater generated is  typically  high  in  suspended
solids,  copper,  lead, and zinc.  Other metals may also be found
at significant levels.  Since the wastewater streams reflect  the
composition  of  the slag being treated, the metal concentrations
may vary somewhat.

Most secondary copper smelting operations utilize  air  pollution
control  devices.   If  wet control equipment is used, wastewater
may be generated.  Smelting air pollution control  wastewater  is
typically  acidic  and  contains significant levels of copper, as
well as varying concentrations of other metals.  Variation in the
composition of this stream is due, in part, to differences in the
metallic content of the raw material and the fluxes used.

Only  one  of  the  secondary   copper   plants   that   practice
electrolytic   refining   discharges   process  wastewater.   The
electrolyte, a solution of sulfuric acid and copper  sulfate,  is
usually   recycled  or  sold.   When  the  spent  electrolyte  is
discharged, however, the strongly acidic wastewater contains very
high concentrations of copper as well as  significant  levels  of
other  metals.   The  characteristics of this stream are shown in
Tables V-28 and V-29.

In some plants, the water used  in  ingot  or  anode  cooling  is
discharged  without  recycle.   Those contact cooling streams are
described in Tables V-28 and V-29, with  moderate  concentrations
of  suspended  solids and a few metals.  Differences in the final
product and in the cooling  processes  utilized  will  result  in
minor  variations.   In  cases  where  contact  cooling  water is
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recycled with a blowdown, the effluent usually contains the  same
pollutants but at higher concentrations.

Tables  V-28  and  V-29  show  that  nearly all of the parameters
listed,  except  antimony  and  thallium/  have  raw   wastewater
concentrations  very much greater than the intake concentrations.
This indicates that the process is largely  responsible  for  the
metals concentrations in the wastewater streams.

Primary Lead

Some  primary lead plants engage in smelting only, processing ore
concentrates into lead bullion.   One  plant  practices  refining
only,  and  still  others  engage  in both smelting and refining.
Significant  differences  in   the   wastewater   characteristics
associated with these two processes are to be expected.  For this
reason, wastewater streams corresponding to smelting and refining
are  discussed  separately.   Plants engaged in both the smelting
and refining of primary lead will have effluent streams from both
operations.

The organic priority pollutant data are shown in Tables V-30  and
V-31.

The field sampling data for the priority pollutant metals and the
criteria  pollutants  are  presented  in  Tables  V-32  and V-33,
respectively.  Beryllium,  thallium  and,  to  a  lesser  extent,
silver and mercury are present in the raw and treated wastewaters
at  concentrations  nearly the same as those found in the intake.
The concentrations  in  all  other  parameters  listed  are  much
greater  than  those  found  in the intake, indicating that large
amounts of these parameters  are  present  as  a  result  of  the
processes.

Smelting.   Process  wastewater  sources in primary lead smelting
include:

1.  sintering air pollution control.
2.  Acid plant blowdown.
3.  Blast furnace air pollution control.
>4.  Zinc fuming air pollution control.
5.  Slag granulation.
6.  Dross reverberatory furnace air pollution control.

A major waste stream in primary lead  smelting  is  generated  by
sintering,  which  removes sulfur as SO2 and S03 and also many of
the undesirable metallic impurities such as arsenic, antimony and
cadmium, in the sinter offgases.  The sinter  is  then  sized  in
preparation  for  subsequent  processing in a blast furnace.  The
sizing operation produces a considerable amount  of  dust.   Dust
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removal  and  sulfur  oxide  removal is achieved by air pollution
control equipment and conversion to sulfuric acid. Wet  emissions
control  equipment  is  used  at  four plants, but only one has a
discharge from this source.

Sintering  emissions  must  undergo  a  series  of   conditioning
treatments   before   SOX   recovery  as  sulfuric  acid  can  be
accomplished.  Process wastewaters described in Tables  V-32  and
V-33,  are  typically high in dissolved solids, mostly consisting
of sulfates, and metals such as cadmium, lead and zinc.   Recycle
is commonly practiced, but there may be a blowdown.

The  sinter  is  charged  to  a blast furnace along with coke and
fluxing or slagging additions.  Recycled slag,  residues,  dross,
and solids from dust collection equipment may also serve as feed.
Blast furnace emission control devices may or may not involve the
use  of  water.  Wastewater from wet control equipment is usually
recycled with discharge of a  blowdown  which  contains  moderate
levels  of  dissolved solids and various metals.  A blast furnace
scrubber blowdown stream is characterized in Tables V-32  and  V-
33.

Blast  furnace  slag  is  either granulated or processed for zinc
recovery in a zinc fuming furnace.  Zinc oxide generated  in  the
fuming  process  is collected as dust particles.  One plant has a
wastewater associated with the dust collection equipment.   After
fuming,  residual  slag  is  granulated using high-pressure water
jets, as is blast furnace slag.  Although recycle  is  practiced,
there may be a blowdown.

After slag removal, the lead bullion undergoes dressing to remove
copper.   Where air pollution control is used, it is usually dry.
One plant uses water to  cool  the  gas,  but  total  recycle  is
achieved.   The  copper  dross is then treated in a reverberatory
furnace, where the use of wet air pollution control equipment may
result in wastewater.

Refining.  Refining lead bullion involves  a  number  of  process
steps,  including  softening, hard lead refining, debismuthizing,
and refining.  Although air pollution control devices are usually
required for these operations, dry methods  are  currently  used,
except for the use of venturi scrubbers in the hard lead refining
process  at  one  plant.   This  wastewater  is  reused  for slag
granulation, resulting in no discharge from this source.  In  the
primary   lead  industry,  metal  casting  is  characteristically
accomplished with the use of noncontact cooling water.  One plant
reported the use of contact  cooling  water,  but  there  was  no
discharge from this operation.

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The  principal  raw  material  for the secondary lead industry is
scrap batteries.  Used batteries are processed  or  "cracked"  to
remove  the  lead  before  using  the  lead  as a feedstock.   One
European smelter charges whole batteries to the furnace, however.
Some secondary lead plants crack batteries onsite.  Other  plants
purchase  battery  and  other lead-containing scrap that has  been
processed by scrap dealers; the effluent of these plants consists
exclusively of smelting/refining effluent.  A description of   the
wastewater   characteristics   of  secondary  lead  smelting   and
refining operations will follow the discussion  of  the  cracking
stream.

The  organic priority pollutant data are shown in Tables V-34, V-
35 and V-36.

The field sampling data for the priority pollutant metals and the
criteria pollutants  are  presented  in  Tables  V-37  and V-38,
respectively.    The   raw   wastewater   concentrations  of   all
parameters listed except selenium are  much  greater  than  those
found in the intake water, indicating that these large amounts of
parameters are present as a result of the processes.

Battery  Cracking.  Sources of process wastewater associated  with
the cracking operation include:

1.  Battery acid.
2.  Saw cooling.
3.  Washdown.

In the cracking operation, the tops of automobile  batteries   and
other  lead-acid  batteries  are  sawed  off and the contents are
dumped.   Spent  electrolyte    (sulfuric   acid)   drains   away.
Approximately  one-half  gallon  of acid is produced as waste for
each battery cracked.  The battery  plates  and  paste  are  then
stored  to await smelting.  Tables V-37 and V-38 describe battery
acid streams sampled in the field study.   Battery  acid  streams
are  strongly  acidic and contain significant levels of suspended
solids, as well as several metals  including  antimony,  arsenic,
cadmium,  lead  and  zinc.   Washdown streams associated with the
cracking process frequently make significant contributions to the
overall effluent in the secondary lead industry.   Representative
characteristics  of  combined  battery  acid,  saw  cooling,   and
washdown streams are shown in Tables V-37 and V-38.

Smelting.   Process  wastewater  sources  associated   with   the
smelting and refining of secondary lead include:

1.  Blast or reverberatory furnace air pollution control.
2.  Kettle air pollution control.
3.  Contact cooling.
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Following  cracking,  scrap  lead from batteries is smelted along
with any  other  lead-containing  scrap.   Smelting  may  involve
production  of soft lead using reverberatory furnaces and/or hard
lead using blast furnaces.  Although most plants use dry  methods
for  emission control of these furnaces, some utilize wet methods
resulting in wastewater.

Lead is frequently refined further or alloyed  with  the  use  of
remelt  kettles.  Air pollution equipment is usually required and
wet or dry methods are used.  Water is  used  for  air  pollution.
control,   but   is   generally   totally  recycled.   Wastewater
characteristics are shown in Tables V-37 and V-38.   These streams
generally have high  concentrations  of  antimony,   cadmium,  and
nickel.

Metal   cooling   in  the  secondary  lead  industry  is  usually
accomplished using noncontact cooling water, but a  few plants use
contact cooling water in their casting operations.   However, very
few plants discharge from this source, since at most  plants  the
water is totally evaporated on the cast product.

Secondary Silver

Silver   is   recovered   from  a  number  of  sources  including
photographic  wastes,  sterlingware  and  electrical  components.
Effluent  characteristics  are  largely dictated by the nature of
the raw material used and the  processes  involved.   Significant
differences   in  silver  recovery  from  photographic  and  non-
photographic sources has resulted  in  subcategorization  of  the
secondary  silver industry on this basis, as discussed in Section
IV.  For  this  reason,  effluent  streams  associated  with  the
processing  of  photographic  and  non-photographic scrap will be
described separately.  Many plants, however, use both sources  of
raw  material  and contributions from each will contribute to the
overall effluent.

The organic priority pollutant data are presented in Tables V-39,
V-40 and V-41.

The field sampling data for the priority pollutant  metals and the
criteria pollutants  are  presented  in  Tables  V-42  and  V-43,
respectively.   All  the parameters listed are present in raw and
treated wastewater at concentrations much greater than the levels
found in the intake water, indicating that these pollutants are a
result of the processes employed.

Many secondary silver processors have complete and   sophisticated
laboratory  facilities  for  testing  incoming materials, running
pilot tests to determine  the  treatment  recovery   process,  and
conduct quality control analysis.
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Photographic.   Sources  of  process  wastewater  related  to the
processing of photographic wastes include:

1.  Leaching and stripping.
2.  Precipitation and filtration.
3.  Furnace air pollution control.
**.  Electrolysis
5.  Contact cooling.
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The three major kinds of photographic wastes from which silver is
recovered are  dry  film,  sludges,  and  spent  hypo  solutions.
Photographic  film  may  be chopped into small flakes followed by
acid or caustic stripping.  Incineration, an alternate method for
recovering film silver, will be  discussed  later.   Sludges  are
also  stripped  to  recover  silver  but usually require slightly
different leaching processes than film.  The silver-rich solution
is separated for further processing and the waste solids  may  be
landfilled  or  treated  as a wastewater stream.  Wastewater from
the leaching process  and  from  wet  scrubbers  associated  with
leaching  will be strongly acidic or caustic, reflecting the kind
of leachate used.  As can  be  seen  in  Tables  V-42  and  V-43,
significant  levels of chromium, copper, lead, and zinc are found
in this waste stream.  A number of  organic  priority  pollutants
used  in  the  manufacture  of  photographic  film  appear in the
leaching wastewater.

After the granulated film or sludge  is  leached,  a  variety  of
chemicals,  such  as  iron,  sine,  and soda ash, may be added to
precipitate the silver  from  solution.   Processing  spent  hypo
solutions  usually  begins  with  such  a  precipitation step.  A
series of settling or filtration steps  are  then  used  and  the
silver-free  solution  is discharged for treatment.  A few plants
use  common  wet  scrubbers  for  leaching   and   precipitation.
Wastewater  streams  associated with precipitation and filtration
are similar to  leaching  waste  streams,  but  may  reflect  the
composition of the chemical additives used.

The  filtration cake is roasted to metallic silver and cast.  Wet
scrubbers are usually used to control furnace emissions.

In some plants, direct  incineration  of  photographic  film  and
sludges   is   used   to  recover  silver.   Scrubbers  on  these
incinerators may generate wastewater streams very high in certain
organic priority pollutants.

Two  of  the  sixteen  processors  of  photographic  wastes  used
electrolytic  refining  after  roasting,  but  neither reported a
wastewater associated with the  process.   Only  one  plant  used
contact cooling water for casting silver ingots.
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Non-photographic.  Process wastewater sources associated with the
production of silver from non-photographic scrap include:

1.  Leaching and stripping air pollution control.
2.  Precipitation and filtration.
3.  Furnace air pollution control.
4.  Electrolysis
5.  Contact cooling.

Non-photographic   sources   of  silver  scrap  include  jewelry,
silverware, electrical components, spent catalysts,  and  silver-
bearing  solutions.   Although processing techniques vary widely,
the first step in silver recovery is usually stripping with  acid
or  cyanide  solutions.   Wet  scrubbers  are  usually  used  and
generate a highly acidic wastewater which may contain significant
levels of cyanide  (if cyanide is used in the  stripping  process)
as  well as other metals.  Organic priority pollutants present in
leaching waste streams may be attributed to such sources  as  the
decomposition of plastics associated with electrical components.

Chemical  additions  to  the  silver-rich  solutions cause silver
precipitation, typically as silver chloride or nitrate.  This  is
the  first  step of silver recovery for silver-bearing solutions.
Precipitation is usually followed by filtration and the resulting
filtrate is discarded as wastewater.  These streams are typically
acidic and may contain high concentrations of cyanide, as well as
significant levels of other metals.   Air  pollution  control  is
rarely used for precipitation and filtration.

Furnaces  melt  the cake produced by filtration.  Solid scrap may
be roasted directly as the first step in  processing.   In  these
cases,  afterburners  may  be  used to burn combustible material.
Wet scrubbers are frequently associated with the furnaces.

Electrolytic refining is used at some plants  to  further  purify
the  silver.   The  electrolyte  is  frequently  recycled  to the
precipitation process described earlier.  Spent electrolyte, wash
water, and wet scrubber systems may contribute, however,  to  the
final  effluent.   The wastewater, as shown in Tables V-42 and V-
43,  contains  significant  levels  of  several  metals  such  as
cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc.

Contact  cooling  water  is  used by a number of secondary silver
plants that process non-photographic wastes.

Primary Tungsten

Tungsten  production  involves  ore  processing  concentrates  to
obtain  the  salt,  ammonium  paratungstate  (APT), and subsequent
reduction of APT to metallic tungsten.  For the purpose  of  this
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discussion, wastewater characteristics corresponding to these two
process  stages  will  be  described separately.  The effluent of
plants that produce metal from ore concentrates will  consist  of
waste streams from both manufacturing stages.

Organic  priority pollutant data are presented in Tables V-44, V-
45, and V-U6.

The field sampling data for the priority pollutant metals and the
criteria pollutants  are  presented  in  Tables  V-47  and  V-48,
respectively.   Only antimony and thallium are present in raw and
treated wastewaters at concentrations  nearly  the  same  as  the
levels  found  in  the  intake water.  The high concentrations of
water pollutants relative to  the  intake  indicates  that  these
pollutants are present as a result of the processes employed.

Ore  Concentrate  to  APT.   Process  wastewater sources from the
production of APT from ore concentrates include:

1.  Precipitation and filtration.
2.  Leaching.
3.  APT drying air pollution control.

There are several variations in the production of  APT  from  ore
concentrates.   Frequently,  ground  ferberite  and scheelite are
digested with caustic or  other  sodium  salts  to  form  soluble
sodium  tungstate in a process known as fusion.  Calcium chloride
is then added to  precipitate  calcium  tungstate,  or  synthetic
scheelite.   The  waste  solids  are settled and filtered and the
resultant gangue is landfilled or sold.  If  molybdenum  recovery
is feasible, sodium hydrosulfate is used in fusion, precipitating
molybdenum  trisulfate.   From this compound, molybdenum may then
be separated and  purified.   No  wastewater  streams  have  been
reported to be associated with the fusion process.

Leaching  is  the next step.  In plants that practice fusion, the
synthetic scheelite is leached with hydrochloric acid to  convert
it to tungstic acid.  In other plants, scheelite ore concentrates
are  digested directly with hydrochloric acid.  Calcium chloride,
and sometimes ferrous chloride, are also precipitated by leaching
and must be washed from  the  tungstic  acid  after  settling  or
filtration.   The  filtrate .and  wastewater streams, as shown in
Tables  V47  and  V-U8,  reflect  the  composition  of  the   ore
concentrate  and  the  processing  steps  used prior to leaching.
They are typically strongly acidic, very high in  chlorides,  and
may  contain  significant levels of such metals as arsenic, lead,
and zinc as well.  Wet scrubbers may also be associated with  the
leaching process, generating a similar waste stream.
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In  most  cases,  the  tungstic  acid resulting from the leaching
process is  dissolved  in  ammonia  hydroxide,  forming  ammonium
tungstate.   The  solids  are  removed and the solution heated to
form APT.  Subsequent drying of  APT  involves  the  use  of  wet
scrubbers  at  two plants.  The scrubber wastewater contains high
concentrations of ammonia and may  be  stripped  to  recover  the
ammonia.    One  plant  converts  sodium  tungstate  directly  to
ammonium tungstate, using a  liquid  ion  exchange  process,  and
discharges the raffinate following treatment.

APT  to Metal.  Sources of process wastewater from the production
of metallic tungsten from APT include:

1.  APT drying air pollution control.
2.  APT reduction air pollution control.

Although APT drying is usually associated with the production  of
APT  from  ore  concentrates, three plants which produce tungsten
using APT as a raw material dry the salt before  reducing  it  to
metal.   The  wastewater  from  the  associated  wet scrubbers is
characteristically high in ammonia.  These  wastewaters  are  not
stripped for ammonia recovery.

Dried  APT  is  converted  to  oxides  by  heating in a nitrogen-
hydrogen atmosphere and the oxides are  subsequently  reduced  to
tungsten  metal powder in a high-temperature hydrogen atmosphere.
Wet scrubbers are usually associated with the reduction  process.
The resultant wastewater contains high concentrations of ammonia.

Primary zinc

The  organic priority pollutant data are shown in Tables V-49, V-
50 and V-51.

The field sampling data for the priority pollutant metals and the
criteria pollutants  are  presented  in  Tables  V-52  and  V-53,
respectively.  Comparing the intake water concentrations with the
wastewater  streams  indicates  that  all  of  the parameters are
present in markedly larger quantities in the  wastewater  streams
than  in the intake water, indicating that large amounts of these
elements are picked up  by  the  water  during  its  use  in  the
process.

The  following  wastewater  streams  may  be  associated with the
production of primary zinc:

1.  Concentrate drying air pollution control.
2.  Roasting air pollution control.
3.  Acid plant blowdown.
4.  Sintering air pollution control.
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5.  Reduction furnace.
6.  Preleaching.
7.  Leaching air pollution control.
8.  Anode/cathode washing.
9.  Contact cooling.

Three primary zinc plants dry the zinc concentrates  before  they
are  roasted.   Two  of  these  plants  use  wet scrubbers with a
blowdown that contributes to  the  plant  effluent.   The  sulfur
dioxide concentration in this wastewater may be significant.

Roasting  at  primary  zinc  plants  removes sulfur from the zinc
concentrate as sulfur dioxide.  Other volatile impurities such as
mercury, lead, and cadmium may be partially removed as well.   The
offgases are sent to an acid  plant  to  recover  sulfuric  acid.
Frequently,  the  roaster  gases are preconditioned using wet air
pollution control equipment.  As shown in Tables V-52  and  V-53,
the   roasting   air   pollution   control   wastewater  contains
significant concentrations  of  metals  such  as  lead,  arsenic,
cadmium, and zinc.

The roasting offgases undergo a series of additional steps at the
acid  plant  before being released to the atmosphere.  Impurities
such as lead, cadmium, zinc,  and  mercury  are  removed  by  air
pollution  control devices and appear in the acid plant blowdown.
This can be seen in Tables V-52 and V-53, which present  the  raw
waste  characteristics  of  acid  plant blowdown.  The acid plant
blowdown is similar to streams from roaster gas  preconditioning,
containing high concentrations of a number of metals.

In pyrolytic zinc plants, calcine leaves the roasting furnace and
is  pelletized  and sintered.  Dust collection systems associated
with the sintering process  pick  up  significant  quantities  of
cadmium  and  lead.   One  of  the  two  pyrolytic  plants  has a
wastewater bleed stream associated with sintering  air  pollution
control.

Offgases  from  the pyrolytic or electrothermic reduction furnace
consist principally of metallic zinc vapor and  carbon  monoxide.
By first passing the  gases through a condenser, almost all of the
zinc vapor is converted to a liquid.  One of the pyrolytic plants
has  a  wastewater  blowdown  from wet scrubbing of the reduction
furnace gases.  The other uses a baghouse.

One of the four  electrolytic  zinc  reduction  plants  practices
preleaching  of  ore  concentrates with dilute sulfuric acid prior
to roasting to remove magnesium and prevent its  buildup  in  the
electrolyte.   The preleaching waste stream is shown in Tables V-
52 and V-53.
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Following roasting at electrolytic plants, the calcine is leached
with spent  electrolyte,  a  sulfuric  acid  solution  containing
residual  zinc  sulfate,  to  dissolve  zinc  and  cadmium.   Wet
scrubbers are used by  a  few  plants  to  control  leaching  air
emissions  and  a wastewater may be generated.  Zinc dust is then
added  to  the  zinc  solution  to  precipitate   impurities   by
displacement;   however,   no   process  wastewater  streams  are
associated with purification.

Air  pollution  devices  are  typically  not  required   in   the
electrolytic  production  operation.  Washing of the cathodes and
anodes is sometimes  practiced,  however,  which  may  result  in
wastewater.  The electrolyte itself is usually recycled.

Casting primary zinc usually involves contact cooling water.  Air
pollution control is sometimes required in casting and one of the
six zinc plants utilizes a wet scrubber.

Cadmium  by-product  recovery is always practiced at primary zinc
plants.   However,  only  one  plant  generates  a  waste  stream
associated  with  cadmium recovery.  At this plant, cadmium balls
are cast, washed, and rinsed.  The rinse water is  discharged  as
an effluent stream.

POSSIBLE  SOURCES OF PRIORITY POLLUTANTS IN THE NONFERROUS METALS
INDUSTRY

Information from data collection portfolios  and  the  literature
(17, 18, 19) has revealed possible sources of priority pollutants
in  wastewaters  from  the  nonferrous metals industry.  Possible
sources of organic priority pollutants are presented below:

1.  Plastics
2.  Pesticides and algicides
3.  Coal or pitch
4.  Organic solvents, cleaning compounds
5.  Ore flotation compounds
6.  Photographic film
7.  Heat transfer fluids
8.  Metal coatings

Some of these sources may be inherent in the production  process,
such  as  pitch  used  in the aluminum reduction industry.  Other
sources, such as specific cleaning compounds, may only be used at
certain plants.

Possible sources of metal priority pollutants are:

1.  Product metal
2.  Metal impurities from ore concentrates or scrap
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Plastics

The secondary nonferrous metals industries  reclaim  metals  from
materials  which  may  contain  plastics, such as copper wire and
lead batteries.  A number  of  organic  priority  pollutants  are
known  to  be  used in the manufacture of plastics and are listed
below (numbers refer to the numerical position in Table V-1) :
 1. acenaphthene
 2. acrolein
 3. acrylonitrile
20. 2-chloronaphthalene
29. 1, 1-dichloroethylene
66. bis  (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate

Pesticides and Algicides
67.  butyl benzyl phtha'late
68.  di-n-butyl phthalate
69.  di-n-octyl phthalate
70.  diethyl phthalate
71.  dimethyl phthalate
89.  vinyl chloride
Algicides are commonly used in cooling towers and  water  recycle
systems  to prevent fouling.  One primary aluminum plant reported
using pentachlorophenol as an algicide.  Runoff may also  contain
small   concentrations   of  pesticides.   The  organic  priority
pollutants possibly used  as  algicides  and  pesticides  in  the
nonferrous metals industry are:
 1. acenaphthene
 6. carbon tetrachloride
 8. 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
 9. hexachlorobenzene
15. 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
16. chloroethane
21. 2,4,6-trichlorophenol
23. chloroform
27. 1,4-dichlorobenzene
53. hexachlorocyclopentadiene
55. naphthalene
60. 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol
62. N-nitrosodiphenylamine
64. pentachlorophenol
71. dimethyl phthalate
80. fluorene
Coal or Pitch
      90.  aldrin
      91.  dieldrin
      92.  chlordane
      93.  4,4'-DDT
      94.  4,4'-DDE
      95.  4,4'-DDD
      96.  alpha-endosulfan
      97.  beta-endosulfan
      98.  endosulfan sulfate
      99.  endrin
     100.  endrin aldehyde
     101.  heptachlor
     103.  alpha-BHC
     104.  beta-BHC
     105.  gama-BHC
     106.  delta-BHC
     114.  toxaphene
A    number   of   organic  priority  pollutants  are   "coal-tar"
compounds,  a   family  of  compounds  resulting   from   incomplete
distillation  of  coal.  Coal, coke and  coal tar  (pitch) are  used
in  nonferrous  metals  pyrolytic  or  electrothermic   processes.
Pitch  is a major component of carbon anodes and  cathodes used  in
the electrolytic reduction of alumina to aluminum.  Anode  baking
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at  primary  aluminum  plants  is believed to release significant
quantities of these compound and their presence in wastewater due
to scrubbing of air emissions  was  suspected  at  eight  primary
aluminum  plants  according  to  the  data collection portfolios.
Coal tar  compounds  may  also  be  introduced  to  the  scrubber
wastewater  of nonferrous metal plants that use electric furnaces
with carbonaceous anodes.  Coke added to the sintering charge may
also be a source of coal tar compounds.   The  following  organic
priority pollutants are coal-tar compounds:
 1. acenaphthene
34. 2,4-dimethyl phenol
39. fluoranthene
55. naphthalene
72. 1,2-benzanthracene
73. benzo(a) pyrene
74. 3,4-benzofluoranthene
75. 11,12-benzofluoranthene
76. chrysene
77.
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84.
87.
acenaphthylene
anthracene
11,12-benzoperylene
fluorene
phenanthrene
1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene
indeno (l,2,3,-c,d)  pyrene
pyrene
toluene
Organic Solvents, Cleaning Compounds
Several  organic  solvents  are  used  in  the  nonferrous metals
industry to chelate metals in solution.   Although  the  solvents
(for  instance, methyl isobutyl ketone in columbium-tantalum) are
not organic priority pollutants, they may be precursors to  them.
Oil emulsifiers are sometimes added to cooling water circuits and
in   casting   operations.    Several   priority  pollutants  are
associated with metal cleaning.  Some compounds may be associated
with  metal  scrap.   Several  organic  priority  pollutants  are
present  in  industrial  cleaning  compounds  and may be found in
floor washdown streams.  Organic priority pollutants that may  be
used as solvents or cleaning compounds include:
 4. benzene
 6. carbon tetrachloride
 7. chlorobenzene
 8. 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
10. 1,2-dichloroethane
11. 1,1,1-trichloroethane
12. hexachloroethane
13. 1,1-dichloroethane
14. 1,1,2-trichloroethane
15. 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
16. Chloroethane
18. Bis(chloroethyl) ether
20. 2-chloronaphthalene
23. chloroform

Ore Flotation
25.  1,2-dichlorobenzene
30.  1,2-trans-dichloroethylene
32.  1,2-dichloropropane
38.  ethylbenzene
42.  bis (2-chloroisopropyl)  ester
44.  methylene chloride
45.  methyl chloride
47.  bromoform
54.  isophorone
56.  nitrobenzene
86.  tetrachloroethylene
87.  toluene
88.  trichloroethylene
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Certain   organic   compounds   are   used   to  enhance  gravity
concentration of ores in the primary copper  industry  and  other
nonferrous  metals  mills.  Although ore flotation is not part of
the nonferrous metals category, ore flotation  compounds  may  be
present  in  the  smelter's  raw  material,  especially  if it is
received in slurry form.  1,2-dichloroethane is  reportedly  used
as a flotation agent.

Photographic Film

Some materials used in the manufacture of photographic film, such
as  cellulose  acetate  and various plasticizers, contain organic
compounds that have been identified as priority pollutants.  This
may account for  the  presence  of  priority  pollutants  in  the
wastewater  of  secondary silver plants that process photographic
film and emulsions.  The organic priority pollutants attributable
to this source are:
15. 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
20. 2-chloronaphthalene
44. methylene chloride
45. methyl chloride
65. phenol
66. bis{2-ethylhexyl)phthalate

Heat Transfer Fluids
67.  butylbenzyl phthalate
68.  di-n-butyl phthalate
69.  di-n-octyl phthalate
70.  diethyl phthalate
71.  dimethyl phthalate
89.  vinyl chloride
Heat transfer fluids other than water are sometimes used  in  the
nonferrous metals industry.  They are used, for example, in pitch
handling  in  the  aluminum  reduction industry and as electrical
insulation    fluids    in    transformers    and     capacitors.
Polychlorinated biphenyls  (PCB«s), which had freguently been used
for  these purposes, are now strictly regulated.  The manufacture
of PCB^ has been prohibited and guidelines have been established
to control the use and disposal of PCB's in existing transformers
and capacitors.  Organic priority pollutants that have been  used
in heat transfer fluids are:

 7.   chlorobenzene                 108.   PCB-1254
 8.   1,2,4-trichlorobenzene        109.   PCB-1221
20.   2-chloronaphthalene           110.   PCB-1232
UO.   4-chlorophenyl phenyl,ether   111.   PCB-12H8
52.   hexachlorobutadiene           112.   PCB-1260
107.  PCB-12U2                      113.   PCB-1016

Product Metal

At  plants  which are producing a specific metal, relatively high
concentrations  of  that  metal  are  usually  present   in   the
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wastewater.    In  the  primary  copper  industry,  for  example,
wastewater streams usually contain significant levels of copper.

Metal Impurities from Ore Concentrates

The following subcategories of the nonferrous metals industry use
ore concentrates as raw materials:

Primary columbium-tantalum
Primary copper
Primary lead
Primary tungsten
Primary zinc

The metal impurities present in the ore concentrates are  usually
found  in  relatively  high  concentrations  in the wastewater of
these plants.
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                                TABLE V-l

                           PRIORITY POLLUTANTS
 1.   acenaphthene
 2.   acrolein
 3.   acrylonitrile
 4.   benzene
 5.   benzidine
 6.   carbon tetrachloride (tetrachloromethane)
 7.   chlorobenzene
 8.   1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
 9.   hexachlorobenzene
10.   1,2-dichloroethane
11.  1,1,1-trichloroethane
12.  hexachloroethane
13.  1,1-dichloroethane
14.  1,1,2-trichloroethane
15.  1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
16.  chloroethane
17.  bis(chloromethyl) ether
18.  bis(2-chloroethyl) ether
19.  2-chloroethyl vinyl ether (mixed)
20.  2-chloronaphthalene
21.  2,4,6-trichlorophenol
22.  parachlorometa cresol
23.  chloroform (trichloromethane)
24.  2-chlorophenol
25.  1,2-dichlorobenzene
26.  1,3-dichlorobenzene
27.  1,4-dichlorobenzene
28.  3,3-dichlorobenzidine
29.  1,1-dichloroethylene
30.  1,2-trans-dichloroethylene
31.  2,4-dichlorophenol
32.  1,2-dichloropropane
33.  1,3-dichloropropylene  (1,3,-dichloropropene)
34.  2,4-dimethylphenol
35.  2,4-dinitrotoluene
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36.  2,6-dinitrotoluene
37.  1,2-diphenylhydrazine
38.  ethylbenzene
39.  fluoranthene
40.  4-chlorophenyl phenyl ether
41.  4-bromophenyl phenyl ether
42.  bis(2-chloroisopropyl) ether
43.  bis(2-chloroethoxy) methane
44.  methylene chloride (dichloromethane)
45.  methyl chloride (chloromethane)
46.  methyl bromide (bromomethane)
47.  bromoform (tribromomethane)
48.  dichlorobromomethane
49.  trichlorofluoromethane
50.  dichlorodifluoromethane
51.  chlorodibromomethane
52.  hexachlorobutadiene
53.  hexachlorocyclopentadiene
54.  isophorone
55.  naphthalene
56.  nitrobenzene
57.  2-nitrophenol
58.  4-nitrophenol
59.  2,4-dinitrophenol
60.  4,6-dinitro-o-cresol
61.  N-nitrospdimethylamine
62.  N-nitrosbdiphenylamine
63.  N-nitrosodi-n-propylamine
64.  pentachlorophenol
65.  phenol
66.  bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
67.  butyl benzyl phthalate
68.  di-n-butyl phthalate
69.  di-n-octyl phthalate
70.  diethyl phthalate
71.  dimethyl phthalate
72.  1,2-benzanthracene (benzo(a)anthracene)
73.  benzo(a)pyrene (3,4-benzopyrene)
74.  3,4-benzofluoranthene (benzo(b)fluoranthene)
75.  11,12-benzofluoranthene (benzo(k)fluoranthene)
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76.  chrysene
77.  acenaphthylene
78.  anthracene
79.  1,12-benzoperylene (benzo(ghi)perylene)
80.  fluorene
81.   phenanthrene
82.   1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene (dibenzo(a,h)anthracene)
83.   indeno (1,2,3-cd) pyrene (2,3-o-phenylene pyrene)
84.   pyrene
85.   2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)
86.  tetrachloroethylene
87.  toluene
88.  trichloroethylene
89.  vinyl chloride (chloroethylene)
90.  aldrin
91.  dieldrin
92.  chlordane (technical mixture and metabolites)
93.  4,4'-DDT
94.  4,4'-DDE (p,p'-DDX)
95.  4,4'-DDD (p,p'-TDE)
96.  alpha-endosulfan
97.  beta-endosulfan
98.  endosulfan sulfate
99.  endrin
100. endrin aldehyde
101. heptachlor
102. heptachlor epoxide
        (BHC=hexachlorocyclohexane)
103. alpha-BHC
104. beta-BHC
105. gamma-BHC (lindane)
 106.  delta-BHC
        (PCB-polychlorinated biphenyls)
 107.  PCB-1242  (Arochlor  1242)
 108.  PCB-1254  (Arochlor  1254)
 109.  PCB-1221  (Arochlor  1221)
 110.  PCB-1232  (Arochlor  1232)
 111.  PCB-1248 (Arochlor 1248)
 112.  PCB-1260 (Arochlor 1260)
 113.  PCB-1016 (Arochlor 1016)
 114.  Toxaphene
 115.  Antimony

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116. Arsenic
117. Asbestos
118. Beryllium
119. Cadmium
120. Chromium
121. Copper
122. Cyanide
123. Lead
124. Mercury
125. Nickel
126. Selenium
127. Silver
128. Thallium
129. Zinc
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                           SECTION VI

                SELECTION OF POLLUTANT PARAMETERS


The  wastewater  parameters  to  be  considered  in  establishing
effluent  limitations guidelines and standards of performance are
presented in this section.  They are grouped  into  two  separate
classes:   criteria   and   priority  pollutants.   The  priority
pollutants are further classified  into  five  groups,  based  on
their   evaluated  significance  in  nonferrous  metals  industry
wastewaters.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF POLLUTANT PARAMETERS

Priority Pollutants

Using the field sampling data presented in Section V, each of the
129  priority  pollutants  was  evaluated   in   terms   of   its
significance   in  each  subcategory  of  the  nonferrous  metals
industry.   Responses   to   data   collection   portfolios   and
information collected in a literature review were also taken into
consideration.  The priority pollutants for each subcategory were
grouped as one of the following:

1.  Significant (selected for potential regulation)
2.  Site specific
3.  Marginally significant
14.  Insignificant
5.  Not detected

The priority pollutants were classified as significant if all the
following  criteria were satisfied for the subcategory being con-
sidered:

1.  The priority pollutant was frequently present  in  wastewater
above a threshold concentration or it was found in one particular
wastewater  stream at concentrations an order of magnitude higher
than the threshold level.  The threshold concentration  for  each
priority pollutant is indicated in Table VI-1.  The rationale for
selecting these thresholds is discussed later in this section.

2.  Samples of similar waste streams taken  at  different  plants
contained  similar concentrations of the pollutant.  That is, the
pollutant was present throughout a subcategory.

If pollutants were found above  the  threshold  concentration  at
only  one  plant  in  a  subcategory,  it  is  considered as site
specific.
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In a  few  instances,  priority  pollutants  were  designated  as
marginally significant due to unusual circumstances which will be
described in the subcategory discussions later in this section.

If  a  pollutant was not found above the threshold concentration,
but  was  detected  at  least   once,   it   is   classified   as
ins igni f icant.

Priority  pollutants  that  were  never  detected are, of course,
classified as  not  detected.   No  acid  fraction  compound  was
detected.

Table   VI-2  summarizes  the  heavy  metal  limits  set  on  the
concentrations in water for various  conditions.   The  threshold
levels  given in Table VI-1 were chosen based on the treatability
limits and a minimum limit that would satisfy the conditions  set
for a majority of the water uses given in Table VI-2.

Two  pollutants  that  have  not  been  previously  discussed are
asbestos and cyanide.  They are priority pollutants, but are  not
organic or metallic.

Asbestos  is  a generic name describing several fibrous, hydrated
silicate minerals.  Chrysotile is the particular mineral selected
for this study.  It has been suggested  (28) that values over  10°
fibers/1   should   be   reexamined  because  this  represents  a
significant departure from ambient concentrations.   A  threshold
value  of  108  fibers/1  of chrysotile will be the limit used to
determine significance in  the  nonferrous  metals  industry.   A
value  of  100  pg/1  was  chosen for cyanide because that is the
approximate quantitative detection limit.

Criteria Pollutants

The conventional pollutants  (BOD, COD, TSS, oil  and  grease  and
pH)  and  the non-conventional pollutants  (fluoride, TOC, NH3 and
phenols), unlike the organic priority pollutants, have been  used
extensively for characterizing all types of wastewater.

The  conventional  pollutants  TSS  and  pH have been selected as
pollutant parameters.  The monitoring of TSS is  useful  in  this
industry because it  indicates the efficiency of treatment methods
used  to remove metals from the wastewater.  Another conventional
pollutant, pH, was also selected as a  pollutant  parameter.   It
serves  as  a  simple,  reliable  indicator  of  the  acidity  or
alkalinity of the wastewater.

Fluoride, NH3 and phenols, non-conventional pollutants, were also
selected as pollutant parameters for some of  the  subcategories.
Fluoride compounds are used in the production of primary aluminum
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and   columbium-tantalum   and   are   present   at   significant
concentrations in the raw wastewater of these  industries.   This
was confirmed by the sampling data.  Phenols were designated as a
pollutant  parameter  in  the primary aluminum, secondary copper,
and secondary silver subcategories because  they  were  found  in
wastewater  of  these  industries  in excess of 250 |jg/l-  In the
secondary aluminum, columbium-tantalum, and tungsten  industries,
NH3  is  used in the process or formed during a process step.  In
other subcategories, it has been used for neutralization  of  the
wastewater.  Monitoring of NH3 may be necessary.

BOD,  COD, TOC, and oil and grease were not selected as pollutant
parameters.  BOD in wastewater  is  measured  with  a  biological
test.    High  concentrations  of  metals,  a  characteristic  of
wastewater  in  the  nonferrous  metals  industry,  may   inhibit
biological activity, and may render the test ineffective for this
industry.   The  monitoring of COD and TOC is of limited value in
this industry.  These tests measure concentrations  of  organics,
but  may  not be a reliable indicator of the presence of specific
organic priority pollutants in  this  industry.   Typically,  low
values  of  oil and grease were detected in the wastewater.  This
is to be  expected,  however,  as  none  is  used  in  production
processes.   On-site forming operations present at several of the
plants contributed significant levels of oil and  grease  to  the
overall  plant  effluent,  but  these  forming operations are the
subject of other studies.

POLLUTANT PARAMETERS

A summary of  the  significance  of  the  priority  and  criteria
pollutants  in  the  nonferrous  industry is given in Table VI-3.
Priority pollutants are listed with the level of significance  to
which  each has been assigned for each subcategory, based upon an
evaluation of the waste characteristics data given in Section  V.
The  significance  of criteria pollutants as pollutant parameters
is for each subcategory is also presented.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON SELECTED POLLUTANT PARAMETERS

Using the data from the sampling program and the other sources of
information described in Section V,  each  of  the  129  priority
pollutants  was  evaluated  in  terms  of its significance in the
nonferrous  metals  industry  by  subcategory.    The   following
discussions  represent  information  on  uses  of the pollutants,
possible sources of the pollutant in the  environment,  and  some
information on the toxicity or carcinogenicity of the parameters.
Only  those  priority  pollutants classified as significant in at
least one subcategory  in  the  nonferrous  metals  industry  are
considered   in   this   discussion.   Criteria  pollutants  were
suggested as parameters where  appropriate.   Several  literature
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sources  (17-19,  29)  were used to compile background information
for the organic priority pollutants,  other references are  cited
in the discussion.

Priority Pollutant Parameters

Acenaphthene.    Acenapthene   belongs  to  a  class  of  organic
compounds identified by structure as polynuclear aromatics (PNA).
It is a coal tar residue solid (at ambient temperature)  • produced
during   high   temperature  carbonization  or  coking  of  coal.
Acenaphthene is also used as  a  dye  intermediate,  insecticide,
fungicide,   and  in  the  manufacture of some plastics.   Research
indicates   that   some   polynuclear   aromatics   have   highly
carcinogenic properties.

Benzene.   Benzene  is  an  aromatic organic produced principally
from coal tar and petroleum.   It  serves  as  a  degreasing  and
cleaning  agent  and  is  commonly  used  as  a  general solvent.
Benzene acts as an intermediate in the  synthesis  of  medicines,
dyes,  and other organic compounds and is used in the manufacture
of varnishes, lacquers, and  other  products.   studies  indicate
that benzene is toxic to aquatic organisms.

1,2,ft-Trichlorobenzene.  The compound 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene is a
halogenated  aromatic.   It is used as a capacitor dielectric (in
mixtures),   dye  carrier,   heat   transfer   fluid,   degreaser,
lubricant,   and  as  an  intermediate  in  herbicide manufacture.
Research indicates that chlorinated  benzenes  are  resistant  to
chemical and physical degradation and tend to accumulate in fatty
tissues.

1,2-Dichloroethane.     1,2-dichloroethane   is   a   halogenated
aliphatic used in the production of  tetraethyl  lead  and  vinyl
chloride, as an industrial solvent, and as an intermediate in the
production  of  other organochlorine compounds.  Some chlorinated
ethanes have been  found  in  drinking  waters,  natural  waters,
aquatic  organisms  and foodstuffs.  Research indicates that they
may have mutagenic and carcinogenic properties.

1,1-Dichlorgethylene.  This is a halogenated aliphatic used as an
internal  plasticizer  in  fibers  and  plastics   manufacturing.
Polymers  with  high 1,1-dichloroethylene content  (such as Saran)
are widely used in food packaging.  The heat-seal characteristics
of Saran-type coatings make them useful  in  the  manufacture  of
nonflammable synthetic fiber.  1,1-dichloroethylene polymers have
also been used extensively as interior coatings for marine tanks,
railroad  cars  and  fuel storage tanks, and for coating of steel
pipes and structures.  Dichloroethylenes are highly volatile  and
do  not decay rapidly.  Research indicates that dichloroethylenes
may have mutagenic and carcinogenic properties.
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1,2-Trans-pichloroethylene.   This  is  a  halogenated  aliphatic
Fluoranthene.   Fluoranthene  is  a  polynuclear  aromatic  (PNA)
produced as a residue during the pyrolysis or combustion of  coal
and petroleum.  It is also found in coal tar, pitch, asphalt, and
creosote  and  occurs as a by-product during the carbonization or
coking of coal.  Some polynuclear aromatics have  been  found  to
have highly carcinogenic properties.

Methvlene Chloride.  Methylene chloride, a halogenated aliphatic,
is  commonly  used as an industrial solvent.  It is also found in
metal degreasers and cleaning fluids, paints,  and  insecticides.
Research  has  shown that some chlorinated ethanes have mutagenic
properties.

Dichlorobromomethane.  This compound is a halogenated  aliphatic.
Research   has   shown   that   halomethanes   have  carcinogenic
properties, and  exposure  to  this  compound  may  have  adverse
effects on human health.

Phthalate   Esters.    Phthalate   esters   are  used  mainly  as
plasticizers in plastic compositions.  Their other  uses  are  in
gasoline  additives, synthetic lubricants, pesticides, cosmetics,
fragrances and insect repellents.

The  phthalate  ester  plasticizers,  which  can  be  present  in
concentrations  up  to  60  percent  of  the  total weight of the
plastic, are only loosely linked to the plastic polymers and  are
easily  extracted.   Phthalate  esters  are believed to enter the
environment via vaporization during use or through plastic  waste
disposal.   They  are  known  to  be  widely  distributed  in the
environment, having been found in soil, water, air, fish  tissue,
and human tissue.

The   phthalate  esters  which  were  found  in  the  wastewaters
generated in the nonferrous metals industry are:

Bis  (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
Butylbenzylphthalate
Di-n-butyl phthalate
Di-n-octyl phthalate
Diethyl phthalate
Dimethyl phthalate

Benzo(a) pyrene.  Benzo(a)pyrene is a polynuclear  aromatic  found
in  coal tar, cigarette smoke, and in the atmosphere as a product
of  incomplete  combustion.   It  is   a   derivative   of   1,2-
benzanthracene.  Benzo(a)pyrene is believed to be carcinogenic.

Chrysene.   Chrysene  is  a  polynuclear aromatic present in coal
tar.  It is formed during the distillation  of  coal  and,  to  a
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lesser  degree, during the distillation and pyrolysis of a number
of fats and  oils.   Research  indicates  that  some  polynuclear
aromatics are highly carcinogenic.

Fluorene.   Fluorene,  a  polynuclear  aromatic, is found in coal
tar, coal tar pitch, asphalt and creosote and  is  formed  during
the  pyrolysis and combustion of fossil fuels.  It is used in the
manufacture of resins, insecticides and dyes.  Research indicates
that some polynuclear aromatics are highly carcinogenic.

Pyrene.  Pyrene is a polynuclear aromatic that occurs in coal tar
and is formed during the pyrolysis  of  fossil  fuels.   Research
indicates    that   some   polynuclear   aromatics   are   highly
carcinogenic.

Trichloroethylene.  Trichloroethylene, a halogenated  unsaturated
aliphatic,  is  used  primarily  as a degreasing solvent in metal
industries.  It had minor applications as a dry cleaning  solvent
and  as  an extractive solvent for decaffeinating coffee, but was
replaced in both of these uses by perchloroethylene and methylene
chloride, respectively.

Its volatilization during production and use is the major  source
of  environmental levels of this compound.  Trichloroethylene has
been detected in ambient air, in food, and  in  human  tissue  in
pg/1   (ppb) quantities.  Its detection in rivers, municipal water
supplies, and  the  sea  and  aquatic  organisms  indicates  that
trichloroethylene   is   widely   distributed   in   the  aquatic
environment at the vg/1 level or lower.

Polvchlorinated Biphenyls.  Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)  have
been used as hydraulic oils, as  heat  transfer  fluids,  and  as
dielectrics  in capacitors and transformers.  They have also been
used in  brake linings, asphalt paving compositions, printing inks
and die  castings.   PCBs  have  been  detected  in  most  species
monitored   throughout   the   world   and  are  believed  to  be
carcinogenic.  PCBs are stored in fatty tissues and it  has  been
documented  that  fish  and  other  organisms accumulate the sub-
stances  in amounts as high as 75,000 times the  levels  to  which
they  are  exposed.   The  high  degree  of  persistence  of PCBs
suggests that they will persist in the  environment  for  decades
and  perhaps  even  centuries.   The manufacture of PCBs has been
essentially prohibited in this country and regulations have  been
established  to control the use and disposal of PCBs currently in
existence.

The following PCBs have been detected  in  wastewaters  from  the
nonferrous metals industry:

PCB-1254
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PCB-12U8

Antimony.  Antimony is a naturally occurring silver-white element
that  makes up between 0.00002 and 0.00005 percent of the earth's
crust.  Environmental concentrations of antimony are reported  at
0.33  Mg/1  in  seawater of 35 parts per thousand salinity and at
1.1 pg/1 in freshwater streams.  Antimony and its  compounds  are
used  in  the  manufacturing  of  alloys,  as  flame  retardants,
pigments, and catalysts, as well as for medicinal and  veterinary
uses.

Antimony  forms  salts with a +3 and +5 valence which are soluble
in  water.   Sulfide  and  oxide  salts  are  largely  insoluble.
Antimony has been found to be toxic.  Doses as low as 100 mg have
been  fatal.   The  symptoms  are  similar  to  those  of arsenic
poisoning.  Since 1949,  antimony  potassium  tartrate  has  been
given  intravenously  for the treatment of schistosomiasis but it
has   been   known   to   produce   severe   electrocardiographic
abnormalities, skin eruptions, and even pneumonia  (30).

The  compounds of antimony are toxic, and are classed as acutely,
moderately,   or   chronically   severe.    According   to   this
categorization,  moderate  toxicity  includes  injury to internal
organs,  and  severe  toxicity  includes  seriously  debilitating
effects  or  death   (31).  It has been reported that antimony has
caused the deaths of an adult and a child.  Antimony  metal,  fed
to  rats, allowed normal growth but resulted in consistent injury
to the heart.  Antimony added to the food  of  rabbits  caused  a
progressive  increase in both the hemoglobin and in the total red
cells, and when fed to cats was  accompanied  by  a  decrease  in
white cells  (30) .

It  has  been  reported  (32) that antimony can be concentrated by
certain forms of marine life to over 300 times its  concentration
in the surrounding waters.

Arsenic.  Arsenic is a naturally occurring element often referred
to  as  a  metal,  although chemically classified as a metalloid.
Environmental concentrations of arsenic  have  been  reported  at
0.0005  percent  in  the  earth's  crust  and 3 pg/1 in seawater.
Analyses of 1,577  surface  water  samples  in  the  U.S.  showed
arsenic present in 87 samples, with concentrations ranging from 5
to  336  pg/1, and a mean level of 64 jjg/1  (33).  Arsenic and its
compounds  are  used  in  the  manufacturing  of  glass,   cloth,
electrical semiconductors, as fungicides, wood preservatives, and
growth  stimulants  for  plants  and  animals,  and in veterinary
applications.

Although arsenic compounds are constantly taken into the body  as
a  constituent  of  food,  there  is  no  evidence  that it is an
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essential element in human nutrition (30).   Normal  human  blood
contains  0.2  to  1.0 mg/1 of arsenic.  Arsenic is very toxic to
humans.  Ingestion of small amounts  usually  results  in  severe
poisoning  and larger doses have proven fatal (30).  Arsenic also
accumulates in the body so that small doses may become  fatal  in
time.   Slow  excretion  is  the  basis  for the cumulative toxic
effect.

Cadmium.  Cadmium is a soft, white metal that  dissolves  readily
in mineral acids.  Biologically, it is a non-essential element of
high  toxic  potential.  It occurs in nature chiefly as a sulfide
salt,  frequently  in  association  with  zinc  and  lead   ores.
Accumulations  of  cadmium  in soils in the vicinity of mines and
smelters may  result  in  high  local  concentrations  in  nearby
waters.   The  salts  of  the metal also may occur in wastes from
electroplating plants, pigment works, and  textile  and  chemical
industries.   Seepage  of  cadmium from electroplating plants has
resulted in groundwater cadmium concentrations  of  0.01  to  3.2
mg/1.   Cadmium is used in metallurgy to alloy with copper, lead,
silver, aluminum, and nickel.   It  is  also  used  in  ceramics,
photography and nuclear reactors.

Dissolved  cadmium was found in less than 3 percent of 1,577 U.S.
surface water samples with a mean concentration of slightly under
10 jjg/1.  Most fresh waters contain less than 1 M9/1 cadmium  and
analyses  of  seawater indicate an average concentration of about
0.15 jjg/1  (33).  The chloride,  nitrate,  and  sulfate  salts  of
cadmium are highly soluble in water.

Cadmium  poisoning of humans has resulted from the consumption of
foods or liquids prepared and left in cadmium-plated  containers.
Consumption of cadmium salts causes cramps, nausea, vomiting, and
diarrhea.   Oral  ingestion  has been reported as the source of a
number of deaths  (38).  Once cadmium enters the body, it tends to
remain,  concentrating  in  the  liver,  kidneys,  pancreas,  and
thyroid   (39).   The major sources in the human diet appear to be
grains and seafoods.

Chromium.  Chromium salts  are  used  extensively  in  the  metal
finishing  industry as electroplating and passivating agents, and
as mordants in the textile  industry.   They  also  are  used  in
cooling waters, in the leather tanning industry, in manufacturing
catalysts,  in  pigments and primer paints, and in fungicides and
wood preservatives.  In  the  analysis  of  1,577  surface  water
samples  collected  at  130 sampling points in the U.S., chromium
was found in  386 samples ranging from 1 to  112  pg/1;  the  mean
concentration   was    9.7   pg/1   (33).   Trivalent  chromium  is
recognized as an essential trace element  for animals and  humans.
Hexavalent chromium is suspected to be carcinogenic.
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Of  the  trivalent  chromic  salts,  the  chloride,  nitrate, and
sulfate are readily soluble in water.  Of the hexavalent chromate
salts, sodium, potassium, and  ammonium  chromates  are  soluble.
When  administered orally, chromium salts are not retained in the
body but are rapidly eliminated.  Although the salts of trivalent
chromium are not considered to be physiologically  harmful   (40) ,
there is evidence that large doses of chromates lead to corrosive
effects in the intestinal tract and to nephritis  (38) .  The taste
threshold for the most sensitive person is about 1.5 mg/1.

Copper.   Copper  is a soft heavy metal that is ubiquitous in its
distribution in rocks and minerals  of  the  earth's  crust.   In
nature,   copper  occurs  usually  as  sul fides  and  oxides  and
occasionally as metallic  copper.   Weathering  and  solution  of
these  natural  copper  minerals  result  in background levels of
copper in natural surface waters in concentrations generally well
below 20 pg/1.  Higher concentrations of  copper  originate  from
human  sources.   These  sources  include  corrosion of brass and
copper pipe by acidic waters, industrial  effluents  and  runoff,
sewage treatment plant effluents, and the use of copper compounds
as  aquatic  algicides.   Potential  industrial  copper pollution
sources number in the tens of thousands in the U.S.  However, the
major  industrial  sources  include  the  smelting  and  refining
industries,  copper  wire  mills,  coal  burning  industries, and
electroplating  industries.   Copper  may  enter  natural  waters
either  directly  from these sources or by atmospheric fallout of
air pollutants produced by these industries.

A study of natural surface waters in  the  U.S.  revealed  copper
concentrations ranging from less than 10 M9/1 to 280 pg/1, with a
mean  value  for U.S. waters of 15 pg/1.  Values from 0.6 vg/l to
4.3 pg/1 have been reported  in  seawater   (33).   The  chloride,
nitrate,  and  sulfate  of  divalent copper are highly soluble in
water.

Copper is found in traces in all plant and animal life, and it is
believed  to  be  essential  for  nutrition.   The  physiological
function  of  copper  appears to be involved in the metabolism of
iron, because the utilization of iron by the blood-forming organs
does not occur properly in the absence of copper  (30,
Copper is not considered to be a cumulative systemic poison, like
lead or mercury.  Most of the copper ingested is excreted by  the
body  and little is retained.  Even so, copper has been suspected
as a cause  of  haemachromatosis,  a  rare  liver  disease  among
middle-aged  men  (42) .   Chronic  copper  poisoning  among human
beings, however, has never been  proved,  even  among  people  in
copper  industries who have absorbed enough copper for their skin
and hair to be colored green  (43,  44,  45,  30) .   There  is  no
evidence  that  poisoning of humans has ever occurred as a result
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of consumption of copper in water.  It would appear  that  copper
in  concentrations  high  enough  to be dangerous to human beings
renders water disagreeable  to  taste;  consequently,  copper  is
probably  not  a hazard in domestic supplies.  However, copper in
water  may  be  disadvantageous  or   detrimental   for   certain
industrial   uses.    While  in  trace  amounts,  copper  may  be
beneficial or even essential for the growth of living  organisms,
in excessive quantities it has been found toxic to a wide variety
of aquatic forms, from bacteria to fish (44, 45) .

The   limiting  factor  in  domestic  water  supplies  is  taste.
Threshold concentrations for taste have been  generally  reported
in  the  range  of 1.0-2.0 mg/1 of copper, while as much as 5-7.5
mg/1 makes the water completely undrinkable  (44, 45) .

Cyanide.  Cyanide compounds are almost universally present  where
life  and  industry are found.  Besides being very important in a
number of manufacturing processes, they are found in many  plants
and  animals  as  metabolic  intermediates that generally are not
stored for long periods of time.  Cyanides occur in the effluents
from gas works and coke ovens, from the  scrubbing  of  gases  at
steel  plants,  from metal cleaning and electropiating processes,
and from chemical industries.

When toxicities are expressed in terms of  the  cyanide  ion,  it
must be realized that most of the cyanide in water is in the form
of  HCN.   It is apparent that HCN rather than the cyanide ion is
the  major  toxic  species.    In   natural   streams,   cyanides
deteriorate  or  are  decomposed  by  bacterial  action,  so that
excessive concentrations may be expected to diminish  with  time.
In  1962,  the  USPHS  Drinking Water Standards set a recommended
limit of 0.01 mg/1.  The toxicity of cyanides is  a  function  of
pH,  temperature, and dissolved oxygen.  According to Klein  (48),
the odor threshold for hydrogen cyanide in water is 0.001 mg/1.

The CN ion, except  for  a  small  portion  exhaled,  is  changed
rapidly   to   the  relatively  non-toxic  sulfur  complex   (SCN,
thiocyanate) in the liver,  and  is  eliminated  irregularly  and
slowly  in  the  urine.   There is no evidence that the CN ion is
stored in the body.  Small doses of CN, incapable  in  themselves
of  causing  intoxication, can be disposed of indefinitely in the
body, since the natural detoxifying  mechanisms  are  practically
inexhaustible, although slow.

Cyanide  has  been  shown  to  be  poisonous to humans, and small
amounts can have adverse effects.

Trout and other aquatic  organisms  are  extremely  sensitive  to
cyanide.   Certain  metals,  such  as  nickel,  may  complex with
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cyanide to reduce lethality especially at higher pH  values,  but
zinc and cadmium cyanide complexes are exceedingly toxic.

When  fish are poisoned by cyanide, the gills become considerably
brighter in color  than  those  of  normal  fish,  owing  to  the
inhibition  by  cyanide  of  the  oxidase  responsible for oxygen
transfer from the blood to the tissues.

Lead.  Lead is a naturally occurring metal that  makes  up  0.002
percent of the earth's crust.  The reported concentration of lead
in seawater of 35 parts per thousand salinity is 0.03 pg/1, while
available data indicate that the mean natural lead content of the
world's  lakes  and rivers ranges from 1 to 10 pg/1.  Analyses of
over 1,500 stream samples from 1962 to 1967 found  lead  in  19.3
percent of the samples, with concentrations ranging from 2 to 140
      and a mean value of 23 \ig/1  (33) .
Lead  is  used in batteries; in the metallurgy of steel and other
metals;  in  ceramics,  plastics  and  electronic   devices;   in
construction   materials   and  in  x-ray  and  atomic  radiation
protection devices.

Certain lead salts, such as the acetate and chloride, are readily
soluble, while the sulfate is only slightly soluble.  Foreign  to
the  human  body,  lead  is a cumulative poison which tends to be
deposited in bones.  The intake that can be regarded as safe  for
everyone  cannot be stated definitely, because the sensitivity of
individuals to lead differs considerably.

Lead  is  not  among  the  metals  considered  essential  to  the
nutrition  of  animals  or  human  beings  (30) .   Lead poisoning
usually results from the cumulative toxic effects of  lead  after
continuous  consumption  over  a long period of time, rather than
from  occasional  small  doses.   Immunity  to  lead  cannot   be
acquired, and sensitivity to lead seems to increase with exposure
Mercury*   Mercury, a silver-white metal that is a liquid at room
temperature, can exist in  three  oxidation  states:   elemental,
mercurous,  and  mercuric;  it  can be part of both inorganic and
organic compounds.  The elemental form of mercury is rather inert
chemically.  The mercuric salts of acetate, chlorate and  cyanide
are highly soluble in water.

A  major use of mercury has been as a cathode in the electrolytic
preparation of chlorine and caustic soda; this accounted  for  33
percent  of  total  demand  in  the  U.S.  in  1968.   Electrical
apparatus  (lamps, arc  rectifiers,  and  mercury  battery  cells)
accounted  for 27 percent, and industrial and control instruments
(switches, thermometers, and barometers) , and general  laboratory
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applications  accounted for 14 percent of demand.  Use of mercury
in   antifouling   and   mildew- proof ing   paints   and   mercury
formulations  used  to  control  fungal diseases of seeds, bulbs,
plants, and vegetation were other  major  utilizations;  however,
mercury is no longer registered by the EPA for use in antifouling
paints  or  for  the  control  of  fungal diseases of bulbs.  The
remainder was used for dental amalgams, catalysts, pulp and paper
manufacture, Pharmaceuticals, and metallurgy and mining.

Mercury and mercuric salts are considered to be highly  toxic  to
humans   (50,  36,  30).  They are readily absorbed by the gastro-
intestinal tract, and have been fatal.

Nickel.   Nickel  is  a  silver-white  ductile   metal   commonly
occurring   in   natural  waters  in  the  +2  valence  state  in
concentrations ranging from a few micrograms per  liter  to  more
than  100  pg/1.   Nickel seldom is found in groundwater, and, if
present, probably exists in colloidal form.  It seldom exists  in
nature in the elemental form.

Approximately 0.01 percent of the earth's crust is nickel, and it
is ranked 24th in order of abundance of the elements.  By far the
greatest  proportion  of  nickel  in the earth's crust comes from
igneous rocks.  Some common minerals  containing  nickel  include
pentlandite  and ullmannite.  Certain secondary silicate minerals
contain nickel, which also substitutes for magnesium  in  various
primary   minerals    (e.g.   olivine,   hypersthene,  hornblende,
biotite) .

In a study of 130 surface water sampling stations throughout  the
U.S.,  nickel appeared in 16.2 percent of 1,577 samples collected
between 1962 and 1967, with a mean concentration of 10 ng/1 and a
range of  1  to  130  pg/1.   In  drinking  water  samples  taken
throughout  the  U.S., nickel was detected in only 4.6 percent of
the samples, with a mean concentration of 34.2 pg/1 and  a  range
of 1 to 490
Nickel  as a pure metal is not a water pollution  problem because
it is not affected by, or soluble in, water.  Many nickel  salts,
however,  are highly soluble in water and, since they are used in
metal-plating works, they may be discharged to surface or  ground
waters.   The  toxicity  of  -nickel to man is believed to be low,
though there are no data available  to  substantiate  this  (50) .
Systematic poisoning of human beings by nickel or nickel salts is
almost unknown (30).  Nickel has been found, however, to be toxic
to  plants at low concentrations.   (28) .  Research indicates that
the presence of nickel salts in  aquatic  environments  may  pose
serious hazards to freshwater and marine organisms.
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Selenium.   Selenium is an essential nutrient with concentrations
ranging from 0.1 to 100 \ig/1 in potable water and averaging  0.09
ng/1  in  the  major  oceans.   In  most natural waters, selenium
levels are low (less than 1 pg/1), but in areas with seleniferous
soils, water levels up to  300  ng/1  have  been  reported  (33).
Selenium  occurs  in  some  soils  as  basic  ferric selenite, as
calcium selenite, as elemental selenium, and in organic compounds
derived from decayed plant tissue.  Although selenium is found in
some natural waters, food appears to be the  most  likely  source
for human ingestion (54, 55 56).

Proof of human injury by selenium is scanty and definite symptoms
of  selenium poisoning have not been identified, but it is widely
believed that selenium is highly toxic to man (50, 57,  56,  58),
It  has  been  stated that the symptoms of selenium poisoning are
similar  to  those  of  arsenic  poisoning   (59).   Mild  chronic
selenium  poisoning  has  been observed in humans living in areas
where the soil and crops are  rich  in  selenium.   In  addition,
there  have  been cases of selenosis at industrial establishments
that use or produce selenium compounds.

Selenium in  trace  amounts  appears  to  be  essential  for  the
nutrition  of  animals,  including  man,  although very little is
known about the  mechanism  of  its  action  (60).   Arsenic  and
selenium  are  apparently antagonistic in their toxicity, tending
to  counteract  each  other.   Selenium  salts  are  rapidly  and
efficiently   absorbed   from  the  gastro-intestinal  tract  and
excreted largely through the urine.  Retention is highest in  the
liver and kidneys  (30, 37) .

Silver.   Silver  is a white ductile metal occurring naturally in
the pure form and in ores.   Principal  uses  of  silver  are  in
photographic  materials, as a conductor, in dental alloys, solder
and brazing  alloys,  paints,  jewelry,  silverware,  and  mirror
production.

There  is abundant literature on the bactericidal power of silver
(30).  Silver toxicity to  microorganisms  is  so  high  that  at
dosage  rates  sufficient  to  sterilize  water,  silver is not a
toxicant nor an irritant, and it  does  not  interfere  with  the
water's palatability.  A large part of ingested silver would pass
through the intestinal tract without assimilation  (30) .

Water  quality  criteria for silver have been set, not because of
the danger of silver in natural sources of water supply,  but  to
prevent  its intentional addition to water, in excessive amounts,
for disinfection.  If silver is ingested by humans,  a  condition
known   as   argyria   may   result,  causing  a  permanent  gray
discoloration of skin, eyes and mucous membranes  (61, 62, 63).
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Thallium.  Pure thallium  is  a  bluish-white,  soft,  inelastic,
heavy  metal  that constitutes about 0.003 percent of the earth's
crust.  It oxidizes readily in air to thallium  oxide.   Analyses
of U.S. river water during 1958 and 1959 detected no thallium.

Industrial  uses  of  thallium include the manufacture of alloys,
electronic devices, dyes and pigments in  fireworks  and  special
optical  glass.   Many  thallium-containing  catalysts  have been
patented for industrial organic reactions.  Its salts are used as
poisons for rats and other rodents (36) and as ant bait.

Thallium is a cumulative poison, four times as toxic as arsenious
oxide, and it affects  the  sympathetic  nervous  system,  causes
muscular  pains,  endocrine  disturbances, and loss of hair (64),
It does not occur normally in animal tissues, but when taken into
animal bodies, it is cumulative  (30).  Thallium  salts,  for  the
most part, are highly soluble in water.

Zinc.   Zinc  is  a  naturally  occurring  element  that makes up
approximately 0.02 percent of the earth's crust.  It is  used  in
various  alloys,  as  a  protective  coating for other metals, in
galvanizing steel, and as a reducing agent.  Zinc was detected in
1,207 of 1,577 surface water samples collected  at  130  sampling
locations throughout the U.S. between 1962 and 1967.  The maximum
observed  concentration  was 1,183 pg/1 and the mean value was 64
ng/1.  Levels of zinc in  natural  seawater  approximate  5  »g/l
(33).

Many zinc salts are highly soluble in water.  The taste threshold
for  zinc  occurs  at  about  5  mg/1.  Zinc has no known adverse
physiological effects upon man except at high concentrations.  In
fact, zinc is  an  essential  and  beneficial  element  in  human
nutrition   (30,  38).   Unlike the aberrant syndromes for most of
the essential trace elements, there has been no primary  disorder
of zinc metabolism described for humans.

From an acute toxicity point of view, invertebrate marine animals
seem  to be the most sensitive organisms tested.  Zinc has caused
growth retardation in sea  urchins  and  fatalities  to  bryozoan
larvae and barnacles.

Criteria Pollutant Parameters

Total  Suspended  Solids   {TSS).  The solid materials or residues
found suspended in water may be either organic or  inorganic,  or
both.   Commonly  found  inorganic  materials are sand, silt, and
clay.  The organic fraction may include such materials as grease,
oil,  tar,  or  animal  or  vegetable  waste  products.    Solids
discharged  with  the  wastes  of  civilization  contain  varying
amounts of inert materials, slowly biodegradable  materials,  and
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rapidly   decomposable  substances.   Finely-divided  solids  may
remain suspended in water for a relatively long  period  of  time
before settling to the bed of the stream or lake.

Solids in suspension are aesthetically displeasing because of the
turbidity  they impart to the water.  The increased turbidity, or
reduced light penetration, impairs the photosynthetic activity of
aquatic  plants,  thus  promoting  and  maintaining  the  noxious
conditions due to depletion of dissolved oxygen.  This results in
the death of fish and fish food organisms.  Suspended solids also
reduce the recreational value of the water (9).

Disregarding  any toxic effect attributable to substances leached
out by water, suspended solids may kill  fish  and  shellfish  by
causing  abrasive  injuries and by clogging gills and respiratory
passages of various aquatic fauna.

Suspended  solids  in  water  interfere  with   many   industrial
processes,   cause  foaming  in  boilers,  and  incrustations  on
equipment exposed to such water, especially  as  the  temperature
rises.  They are undesirable in process water used in the textile
industry, in laundries, in dyeing, and in cooling systems.

When  suspended  solids  settle  to  form  sludge deposits on the
stream or lake bed, they are often damaging to life in the water.
Blanketing of the stream or  lake  bed  can  destroy  the  living
spaces  of  benthic organisms.  When of an organic nature, solids
may use a portion or all of the dissolved oxygen available in the
area.

Ammonia  (NH3).  Ammonia occurs in surface and ground waters as  a
result of the decomposition of nitrogenous organic matter.  It is
one  of  the  constituents of the complex nitrogen cycle.  It may
also result from the discharge of industrial wastes from chemical
or  gas  plants,  refrigeration  plants,  scouring  and  cleaning
operations  where "ammonia water" is used, the processing of meat
and  poultry  products,  rendering  operations,  leather  tanning
plants,  and  the  manufacture  of  certain organic and inorganic
chemicals.   Ammonia  may  be  indicative  of  pollution  and  it
increases  the chlorine demand for drinking water treatment.  The
WHO European Drinking Water Standards set a recommended limit  of
0.5 mg/1 as NH3.

Ammonia  exists  in its non-ionized form only at higher pH levels
and is most toxic in this state.  The  lower  the  pH,  the  more
ionized  ammonia  is  formed,  and  its  toxicity decreases.  The
toxicity of a given concentration of ammonium compounds  on  fish
has  been found to increase by 200 percent or more between pH 7.4
and 8.0.  Ammonia,  in  the  presence  of  dissolved  oxygen,  is
converted  to nitrate ion (NO3~) by nitrifying bacteria.  Nitrite
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ion (NO2~) , an intermediate product between ammonia  and  nitrate
ion,   sometimes   occurs   in  quantity  when  depressed  oxygen
conditions permit.  Ammonia can exist in several  other  chemical
combinations including ammonium chloride and other salts.

Nitrates   and   nitrites   are   considered   to  be  among  the
objectionable components of mineralized waters.  Excess  nitrates
cause  irritation of the gastrointestinal tract, causing diarrhea
and diuresis.  Methemoglobinemia, a  condition  characterized  by
cyanosis and which can result in infant and animal deaths, can be
caused by high nitrate concentrations in waters used for feeding.
Possible   carcinogenic   properties   of  nitrites  and  nitrate
derivatives  have  caused  a  considerable  amount   of   concern
recently.   Nitrites  can  combine  with  other chemicals to form
nitrosamines, potent cancer-causing agents.  A  recent  study  at
MIT  indicates  that  nitrates  by themselves can cause cancer in
laboratory animals (68).  Evidence exists that ammonia  exerts  a
toxic  effect  on  all  aquatic  life  depending on pH, dissolved
oxygen level, and the total ammonia concentration in  the  water.
Low ammonia concentrations have been reported to be acutely toxic
in  various  species  of  fish.   Suffocation  results  from  the
decreased ability of the hemoglobin to combine with oxygen in the
presence of ammonia.  Very low ammonia concentrations have caused
a noticeable drop in the oxygen content of  the  blood  of  fish.
Algae,  which thrive on high nitrate concentrations, appear to be
harmed or inhibited when the nitrogen is in the form of  ammonia.
A  significant  oxygen  demand  'can  result  from  the  microbial
oxidation of ammonia.  Approximately  H.5  grams  of  oxygen  are
required for every gram of ammonia that is oxidized.  Ammonia can
add  to  eutrophication problems by supplying nitrogen to aquatic
life.  Ammonia is a major reagent in some processes  and  appears
in high concentrations in the plant effluent  (9).

p_H  - Acidity and Alkalinity.  Although not a specific pollutant,
pH is related to  the  acidity  or  alkalinity  of  a  wastewater
stream.  It is not a linear or direct measure of either; however,
it  may  properly  be  used as a surrogate to control both excess
acidity and excess alkalinity in water.  The term pH is  used  to
describe   the   hydrogen  ion-hydroxyl  ion  balance  in  water.
Technically, pH is the negative logarithm  of  the  hydrogen  ion
concentration.   A  pH  of  7  indicates  neutrality or a balance
between free hydrogen and free  hydroxyl  ions.   A  pH  above   7
indicate  that  the  solution  is  alkaline,  while  a pH below  7
indicates that the solution is acid.

Knowledge  of  the  pH  of  water  or  wastewater  is  useful  in
determining  necessary  measures for corrosion control, pollution
control, and disinfection.   Waters  with  a  pH  below  6.0  are
corrosive  to  water  works  structures,  distribution lines, and
household  plumbing  fixtures  and   such   corrosion   can   add
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constituents  to  drinking  water  such  as  iron,  copper, zinc,
cadmium, and lead.  Low pH  waters  not  only  tend  to  dissolve
metals  from structures and fixtures, but also tend to redissolve
or leach metals from sludges and bottom sediments.  The  hydrogen
ion  concentrations  can  affect the taste of the water; at a low
pH, water tastes sour.

Extremes of pH or rapid pH changes can exert stress conditions or
kill  aquatic  life  outright.   Even   moderate   changes   from
acceptable criteria limits of pH are deleterious to some species.
The harmful effect on aquatic life of many materials is increased
by   changes  in  the  water  pH.   For  example,  metallocyanide
complexes can increase a thousand-fold in toxicity with a drop of
1.5 pH units.  Similarly, the toxicity of ammonia is  a  function
of pH.  The bactericidal effect of chlorine in most cases is less
as  the pH increases, and it is economically advantageous to keep
the pH close to 7 (9).

Fluoride {F~).  Fluorine is the most reactive  of  the  nonmetals
and  is  never  found  free  in  nature.   It is a constituent of
fluorite or fluorspar,  calcium  fluoride,  and  sodium  aluminum
fluoride  (cryolite).   Due  to  their origins, fluorides in high
concentrations are not a common constituent  of  natural  surface
waters;  however,  they  may occur in hazardous concentrations in
ground waters.

Fluoride can be found in plating  rinses  and  in  glass  etching
rinse  waters.   Fluorides  are  also  used  as  a  flux  in  the
manufacture of steel,, for making aluminum,  for  preserving  wood
and mucilages, as a disinfectant, and in insecticides.

Fluorides in sufficient quantities are toxic and can be lethal to
humans.  Fluoride may also cause endemic cumulative fluorosis and
skeletal  effects.   There  is abundant literature describing the
advantages of fluoride in drinking water to aid in the  reduction
of  dental  decay,  especially among children.  However, slightly
higher concentrations may cause mottled enamel in children.

Fluorides may be  harmful  in  certain  industries,  particularly
those   involved   in   the   production   of   food,  beverages,
Pharmaceuticals, and medicines.  Fluorides  found  in  irrigation
waters  in  high  concentrations  have  caused  damage to certain
plants exposed to these waters.  Chronic  fluoride  poisoning  of
livestock  has  been  observed.   Fluoride from waters apparently
does not accumulate in soft tissue to a significant degree; it is
transferred to a very  small  extent  into  the  milk  and  to  a
somewhat greater degree into eggs.  Data for fresh water indicate
that fluorides are toxic to fish.
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High fluoride levels result from the use of fluoride compounds in
columbium-tantalum and primary aluminum production processes.

Total  Phenols   (Phenolics).   Total  phenols  as measured by the
4-AAP method are defined as hydroxy derivatives  of  benzene  and
its condensed nuclei.  It is unlikely that harmful concentrations
of  phenolics  will  be  consumed  in  drinking  water since such
concentrations are much higher than taste would allow.  Threshold
concentrations for taste and odor for phenols  are  less  than  1
mg/1  (20).   The  literature has listed many sources of phenolic
pollutants including gas works (production),  wood  distillation,
oil   refineries,   sheep   and   cattle  dip,  chemical  plants,
photographic  developers,   explosives,   insecticides,   foundry
operations,  Orion  manufacture,   and  stocking  factories, among
several others.

Many phenolic compounds are more toxic than  pure  phenol:  their
toxicity varies with the combinations and general nature of total
wastes.     The  effect  of  combinations  of  different  phenolic
compounds is cumulative.

Phenols and phenolic compounds are both acutely  and  chronically
toxic  to  fish  and  other aquatic animals.  Also, chlorophenols
produce an unpleasant taste in fish  flesh  that  destroys  their
recreational and commercial value.

It is necessary to limit phenolic compounds in raw water used for
drinking  water  supplies, as conventional treatment methods used
by water supply facilities do not remove phenols.  The  ingestion
of  concentrated solutions of phenols will result in severe pain,
renal irritation, shock and possibly death.

Phenols also reduce the utility of water for  certain  industrial
uses,  notably  food  and  beverage  processing, where it creates
unpleasant tastes and odors in the product.

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SELECTION OF PRIORITY POLLUTANT PARAMETERS

The following section briefly describes  the  rationale  used  to
select    priority   pollutant   parameters   for   the   various
subcategories of  the  nonferrous  metals  industry.   Wastewater
characteristics  presented  arid  described  in Section V were the
principal  basis  for  pollutant   parameter   selection.    Data
corresponding  to  similar  wastewater  streams  was  analyzed to
observe trends and establish possible sources of the  pollutants.
Background  information  regarding  the  properties  and possible
sources of pollutants was also considered.   A  summary  of  this
material  was  presented  previously  in  this  section.  Another
source  of  information  was  the  data   collection   portfolios
described  in  Section  I.   Part of the portfolio asked that the
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plants identify each of the  129  priority  pollutants  as  known
present,  suspected present, suspected absent, or known absent in
the effluent.  The responses for each pollutant were tallied  for
the   different  subcategories  and  will  be  presented  in  the
discussions which follow.

Primary Aluminum

The  pollutant  parameters  selected  for  the  primary  aluminum
industry are:

                      Site                  Marginally
 Significant        Specific                Significant

Acenaphthene        1,2-benzanthracene       Antimony
Fluoranthene        Copper                   Cadmium
Methylene           Nickel
   chloride         Selenium
Benzo(a)pyrene      Silver
Chrysene            Beryllium
Pyrene
Arsenic
Chromium
Cyanide
Lead
Mercury
Zinc
Fluoride
TSS
Phenolics
pH

Organics.    Analyses  for  the  presence  of  acenaphthene  were
performed on samples from four  plants.   It  was  found  at  two
plants  in  concentrations greater than 10 >jg/l.  A known residue
of coal and petroleum pyrplysis,  this  compound  appears  to  be
generated by the baking of coal tar pitch in anode bake plants or
in the cell at plants using Soderberg anodes.

Fluoranthene  appeared  consistently in samples from three plant.
Three streams contained fluoranthene  at  concentrations  greater
than  100 pg/1.  Fluoranthene appears to be generated principally
in streams involving the baking of anodes, but is also present in
cryolite recovery  and  paste  plant  wastewater  streams.   This
compound  is  also  known to be produced during the pyrolysis and
combustion of coal and petroleum.

Benzo(a)pyrene  was  detected  at  concentrations  equal  to   or
exceeding  10  pg/1  in  wastewater  streams  of two plants.  The
concentration in one potline scrubber wastewater was greater than
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500 jjg/1.  Benzo (a) pyrene is known to be present in coal tar  and
may  be produced by anode baking operations.  Benzo(a)  pyrene has
been found in Soderberg potroom air samples.

Chrysene is also known to occur in coal tar and is formed  during
the  distillation of coal.  It was detected at more than 100 pg/1
at two plants.  It is suspected of being  associated  with  anode
baking operations.

Pyrene  is known to be produced with the heating of fossil fuels.
At three plants, pyrene was found at  more  than  10  ng/1.   One
potline air pollution control stream contained a concentration of
more  than  200 pg/1 of this compound.  Once again, the source of
pyrene is suspected to be anode baking operations.

1,2-Benzanthracene occurred in samples from only  one  plant  and
therefore is considered site specific.  This compound is known to
be  present  in coal tar and pitch and may be introduced by anode
baking.  Methylene chloride was  detected  at  all  four  plants,
twice  at  values  greater  than 100 pg/l.  It is a commonly used
solvent, but  the  actual  source  in  this  industry  cannot  be
determined  from  the data.  Since methylene chloride was used to
prepare sample bottles,  its  presence  may  be  an  artifact  of
sampling.

In  the  data  collection  portfolios,  27 plants which discharge
wastewater were asked to specify the presence or absence  of  the
priority pollutants in their effluent.  Responses for the organic
compounds  selected as pollutant parameters are summarized below.
Although most of the plants indicated that these  compounds  were
believed  to  be  absent, several reported that they believed the
pollutant parameters to be present in their wastewater.

                   Known     Believed  Believed  Known
Pollutant         Present     Present   Absent   Absent

Acenaphthene         -          1         20       3
Fluoranthene         -          6         19       2
Methylene chloride   -                    26       1
1,2-benzanthracene   -          8         19       -
Benzo(a)pyrene       -          8         19       -
Chrysene             -          7         20       -
Pyrene               -          8         19       -

Metals.  The majority of the  aluminum  plants  stated  that  the
metals   selected  as  significant  were  believed absent in their
waste  streams.  The  responses  for  the  metals  are  summarized
below.
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                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
                  Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             -          2          21         4
Arsenic              3          3          17         4
Cadmium              5          2          16         H
Chromium             6          3          16         2
Copper               7          5          14         1
Lead                 1          5          19         2
Mercury              1          3          21         2
Nickel               1          3          23         -
Selenium             1          1          22         3
Silver               1          3          22         1
Zinc                 8          3          16         -

All  of  the  priority  pollutant  metals  were detected in waste
streams in  the  field  sampling  program.   From  the  data  and
information  in  Section V, arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury, and
zinc occur industry-wide  at  concentrations  several  orders  of
magnitude  greater  than  the  significance thresholds previously
discussed.   streams  with  cryolite  recovery  contribute  these
metals  in  larger  amounts  than any other process stream.  They
also remained in the effluent in higher  concentrations  than  in
other streams.

The  metals  beryllium, copper, nickel, selenium, and silver were
also detected at high concentrations, but  only  at  one  or  two
plants  sampled.  The concentrations were generally three to five
orders of magnitude larger than the threshold  limits.   Cryolite
recovery  wastewater  was  present in the streams sampled.  These
metals  were  termed  site  specific  because,  while   in   high
concentrations,  the  metals  did  not appear to be present on an
industry-wide basis.

In  the  case  of  antimony  and  cadmium,   the   intake   water
concentrations play a greater role.  Industry-wide, the amount by
which  the  metals  are greater than the threshold concentration,
after accounting for the background levels, is very small, always
less than one order of  magnitude  greater  than  the  threshold.
Removal of the selected metals should remove the trace amounts of
the metals labeled marginally significant.

Other  Priority  Pollutants.  Cyanide has also been selected as a
pollutant parameter.  Its  presence  appears  to  be  related  to
cryolite  recovery.   Cyanide  complexes have been found in spent
cathode leachate.

Secondary Aluminum
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The pollutant parameters  selected  for  the  secondary  aluminum
industry are the following:

Significant                  Site Specific

Dichlorobromomethane         Benzene
Di-n-butyl phthalate         1,2-trans-dichloroethylene
Cadmium                      Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
Chromium                     Butylbenzyl phthalate
Copper                       Di-n-octyl phthalate
Lead                         Dimethyl phthalate
Zinc                         Antimony
Ammonia                      Arsenic
TSS                          Beryllium
pH                           Mercury
                             Nickel
                             Selenium
                             Thallium

Organics.  Dichlorobromomethane was detected in excess of 10 M9/1
at  two of the five plants sampled in this study.  In both cases,
it occurs in waste streams from chlorine demagging air  pollution
control.

Di-n-butyl  phthalate  appears to be significant in the secondary
aluminum industry, having been detected in excess of 10  M
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ethylhexyl)  phthalate was detected in the dross milling stream at
approximately   2,000   M9/1  and  in  the  demagging  stream  at
approximately  200  »g/l.   These  streams  were   combined   for
treatment  and the treated waste stream contained more than 1,200
pg/1.  Butylbenzyl phthalate concentrations in the dross  milling
stream were reported to be almost 100 pg/1.  Di-n-octyl phthalate
was  also  detected  in  this  stream  though  at  slightly lower
concentrations.  The raw data for this compound was 36 Mg/1,  but
this  value  was  reduced to 15 pg/1 after subtracting the intake
concentration.  Di-n-octyl phthalate was also  found  at  another
plant,  but  it was detected during only one of the three days of
sampling.  The dross milling stream also contained concentrations
of dimethyl phthalate in  excess  of  50  M9/1-   Phthalates  are
mainly  used as plasticizers in plastic compounds though they may
also be present in gasoline additives and  synthetic  lubricants.
The  source  of  these  compounds at this particular plant is not
known.

The secondary aluminum plants  which  discharge  wastewater  were
asked  to  specify  the  presence  or  absence  of  the  priority
pollutants in their effluent.  All of the plants  indicated  that
they  believed  the organic priority pollutants were absent.  The
only exception was the compound hexachloroethane,  which  two  of
the  plants  believed  to  be  present  in  their effluent.  This
compound was not found in any sample taken in this industry.

Metals.  The majority of plants believed most metals to be absent
in their effluent.  The responses for the metals  are  summarized
below.
Pollutant

Antimony
Arsenic
Beryllium
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Thallium
Zinc
 Known
Present
   1
   5
  11
   1
   7
   2
   5
Believed
 Present
   1
   5

   6
   2
   2
Believed
 Absent

   19
   21
   21
   17
    7
   20
   10
   17
   15
   20
   20
    8
Known
Absent
  1

  1

  1
  1
In  field  sampling,  all  of  the priority pollutant metals were
detected.  From the data and information in  Section  V,  it  was
determined   that  cadmium,  chromium,  copper,  lead,  and  zinc
occurred industry-wide at concentration levels several orders  of
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magnitude  greater  than the thresholds.  The data indicates that
waste streams related to dross milling, and to  a  lesser  extent
demagging wet air pollution controls, contain the highest levels.
They  also remained in the effluent in higher concentrations than
in the other streams.  Subtraction of intake  concentrations  had
no  effect  on  reducing  the  significance  level in which these
metals were placed.

All of the remaining metals except for silver  were  detected  at
moderate  concentrations in only one or two streams in the plants
surveyed.  Nearly all of the intake concentrations are less  than
the  threshold levels previously selected.  Intake concentrations
did eliminate the seemingly high concentrations of some metals in
a few waste streams,  allowing  the  metals  to  be  called  site
specific.   While  dross  milling  and  demagging  air  pollution
control appear to contribute significant levels of three  metals,
after  deducting  the  intake  concentrations,  it  appears  that
generally only very small concentrations  of  the  site  specific
metals  are  added to the waste streams by the processes employed
in the secondary aluminum industry.   Since  zinc,  cadmium,  and
lead  are in the greatest concentration, treatment for removal of
these metals should remove all other heavy metals  to  acceptable
levels.
Primary Columbium-Tantalum

The  pollutant  parameters  selected
industry are the following:

Significant

1,2,4-1r ichlorobenzene
1,2-dichloroethane
Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
Tetrachloroethylene
PCB-125U
PCB-1248
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Zinc
TSS
Ammonia
PH
Fluoride
for the columbium/  tantalum
 Site Specific

 1,2-trans-dichloroethylene
 Methylene chloride
 Nitrobenzene
 Butyl-benzyl phthalate
 Di-n-butyl phthalate
 Di-n-octyl phthalate
 Trichloroethylene
 Antimony
 Arsenic
 Beryllium
 Silver
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Organics.  1,2,4-trichlorobenzene was detected at two of the four
columbium-tantalum plants sampled, once at more  than  200  ng/1-
This  compound was found only in streams containing gangue slurry
effluents.  The original source of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene in  the
columbium-tantalum  industry cannot be positively identified, but
it is reportedly used as a capacitor  dielectric,  heat  transfer
fluid, degreaser, and lubricant.

1,2-dichloroethane  was  detected  at  low  levels  at all plants
sampled.  The highest concentrations  (up  to  approximately  150
pg/1)  appeared in streams containing digester scrubber and floor
washdowns.  1,2-dichloroethane is used as an industrial solvent.

Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate was detected at  all  of  the  plants
sampled.   Although high concentrations of this compound appeared
in  the  intake  water  of  some  of   these   plants,   effluent
concentrations  were uniformly higher than in the intake.  Bis (2-
ethylhexyl) phthalate  concentrations  at  three  of  the  plants
exceeded  100  pg/1  and  one  stream contained 1,100 pg/l.  This
compound does not appear to be limited to  particular  wastewater
streams.   It  is  used  primarily  as  a  plasticizer in plastic
compositions, though some use in gasoline additives and synthetic
lubricants is also reported.

Tetrachloroethylene was selected as a pollutant parameter because
it was detected at  two  of  the  four  plants  sampled  in  this
industry, twice at concentrations exceeding 100 pg/1.  One of the
known  uses  of  tetrachloroethylene  is  as  a solvent for metal
degreasing.  The data suggest washdowns as a possible  source  of
this compound.

PCB-1254  and  PCB-1248  were detected at all but one of the four
plants sampled.  The two compounds were frequently  found  to  be
present  at  net  concentrations  in  excess of 1 pg/1 even after
subtracting blank and intake water  values.   In  one  wastewater
stream,  more  than  50  pg/l of PCB-1254 and 30 pg/1 of PCB-1248
were present.  PCBs have been used as dielectrics in transformers
and capacitors, as hydraulic oils, and as heat transfer fluids.

1,2-trans-dichloroethylene  is  designated  as   site   specific.
During  one  of  the  three days of sampling at one plant, it was
detected at concentrations greater than 200 vg/l in a  number  of
streams.    1,2-trans-dichloroethylene   is  used  as  a  general
solvent.

Methylene chloride, another industrial solvent, was  found  at  a
very  high  level,  approximately  88,000  vg/lr  in  a  digester
scrubber/floor  washdown  stream.   Methylene  chloride  was  no+-
detected at any other plant sampled.
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Nitrobenzene,  another  site  specific  parameter,  was  found in
gangue slurry wastewater at one plant at concentrations exceeding
150 pg/1.  Nitrobenzene is used in the manufacture of aniline and
as a dye intermediate, but its source in  the  columbium-tantalum
industry is not known.

Three   phthalates   have   been   selected   as  site  specific.
Butylbenzyl phthalate and di-n-octyl phthalate were  detected  in
tantalum metal leaching wastewater at one plant, at approximately
50  MS'l  of each compound.  Di-n-butyl phthalate was detected in
several streams of another plant.  Two  streams  contained  di-n-
butyl  phthalate  at  approximately 50 M9/1-  Phthalates are used
primarily as plasticizers in plastic compositions though they may
also be present in gasoline additives and  synthetic  lubricants.
The sources of these phthalates at the particular plants have not
been identified.

Trichloroethylene  was  detected  at  more  than  200  pg/1  in a
digester scrubber/floor washdown stream  at  one  plant  sampled.
During one of the three days of sampling, 20 jjg/1 of the compound
was  detected  at a second plant in a waste stream which also was
composed of washdown and other wastewater.  Trichloroethylene,  a
degreasing  solvent,  appears to be present in effluent from some
plants, but it was not judged to occur industry-wide.

In the data collection portfolios, all of the  columbium-tantalum
plants  responding  to  the  question  concerning the presence or
absence of the priority pollutants in their wastewater  indicated
that the organic priority pollutants were known or believed to be
absent from their wastewater.

Metals.  The  majority  of   metals  were  believed absent by the
plants.  The responses for the metals are summarized below.

                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             1-21
Arsenic              1-21
Beryllium                                   3          1
Cadmium              -          -           2          2
Chromium             1111
Copper                          1           2          1
Lead                                        2          2
Mercury              -          1           1          2
Nickel               1111
Silver                                      2          2
Zinc                                        3          1
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All of the priority  pollutant  metals  were  detected  in  field
sampling.   The  data  in  Section V show that cadmium, chromium,
copper, lead, mercury, nickel, and zinc  occur  industry-wide  at
concentrations  several  orders  of  magnitude  greater  than the
significance thresholds previously discussed.  The effect of  the
intake  on  reducing the concentrations of the significant metals
is negligible and  can  be  ignored.   The  data  in  Table  V-14
indicate  that  the  waste  streams related to floor washdown and
digester air pollution control  contain  the  highest  levels  of
these  metals.  While a large percentage of each metal appears to
be removed by existing treatment, the treated  wastewaters  still
contain   the  metals  in  amounts  greater  than  the  threshold
concentrations.

Antimony, arsenic, beryllium, and silver were detected in all  of
the  waste  streams, but only in one or two plants at levels sub-
stantially greater than the threshold limits.  Allowing  for  the
intake concentrations eliminates the significance of the metal in
several  of  the  waste streams.  As with the significant metals,
floor washdown and digester air pollution control streams contain
the highest concentrations.  Extraction  raffinate  streams  also
contain large concentrations of the site specific metals.

For  all  the  site  specific metals, after accounting for intake
concentrations the residual concentrations  are  generally  still
very  much  greater than the threshold.  Treatment for removal of
the metals of highest  concentration   (zinc,  cadmium  and  lead)
should remove the other heavy metals to acceptable levels.

Primary Copper

The pollutant parameters selected for the primary copper industry
are the following:

Significant             Site Specific

Arsenic                 Antimony
Chromium                Cadmium
Copper                  Thallium
Lead                    Zinc
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
TSS
PH

Qrganics.   No  organic  priority  pollutants  were  included  as
pollutant parameters in this industry.   Samples  collected  from
primary  copper  plants  did  not  indicate  that  these  organic
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compounds  were  present  in  the   wastewater   at   significant
concentrations.   These  findings  support  the  opinion  of  the
industry itself.  All of the primary copper plants believed  that
the   organic   priority   pollutants   were  absent  from  their
wastewater.

Metals. The majority of the primary copper plants either knew the
priority pollutant metals to be present or believed  them t to  be
absent.  The responses for the metals are summarized below*.

                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             632-
Arsenic              7211
Cadmium              713-
Chromium             5          2          4
Copper              10          1
Lead                 8          -          3
Mercury              4151
Nickel               821-
Selenium             5231
Silver               623-
Thallium                        1          9
Zinc                 911-

All  of  the  priority  pollutant  metals  were detected in field
sampling.  The data in Section V show that all the priority  pol-
lutant metals, except antimony, cadmium, thallium and zinc, occur
industry-wide  at  concentrations  several times greater than the
significance thresholds previously  discussed.   As  in  previous
subcategories, the intake water concentrations are lower than the
threshold   levels.    The   highest  metals  concentrations  are
associated with the acid plant blowdown.

Antimony, cadmium, thallium, and zinc were detected in all of the
waste streams, but only in  one  plant  at  levels  substantially
greater  than the threshold limits.  All these metals are also at
the highest levels in  the  acid  plant  streams.   Allowing  for
intake  concentrations of these metals reduces their significance
in several of the waste streams.

For   the   site   specific   metals,   after   accounting    for
concentrations,  the  concentrations  are still very much greater
than the threshold.  However, cadmium and zinc are likely  to  be
removed   by   treatment   methods  used  to  remove  significant
pollutants such as copper, lead and nickel.

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The following were designated as  pollutant  parameters  for  the
secondary copper industry:

                                            Marginally
Significant             Site Specific       Significant

Fluoranthene            Naphthalene         Hexachlorobenzene
Bis (2-ethylhexyl)       Di-n-octyl          Chrysene
  phthalate               phthalate
Di-n-butyl              Dimethyl phthalate
  phthalate             Acenaphthylene
Diethyl phthalate       Antimony
Fluorene                Beryllium
Pyrene
PCB-1254
PCB-1248
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Zinc
PH
Phenolics
TSS

Qrganics.   The  sampling  data show some general characteristics
that should be noted.  While a  few  wastewater  streams  sampled
contained very high concentrations of a number of organics, (i.e.
hundreds or thousands of M9/1* these high concentrations were not
always  confirmed  by results from samples taken at similar waste
streams at other plants.  In addition,  the  levels  of  organics
detected  in  this  industry  showed  a  tendency  to vary during
successive days of sampling.

Fluoranthene was detected at concentrations greater than 10  Mg/1
at  three of the five plants sampled.  The highest concentration,
approximately 3,000 pg/1,  was  detected  in  a  treated  furnace
scrubber   wastewater   stream   during   one  day  of  sampling.
Fluoranthene also occurred in a waste electrolyte/floor  washdown
at  concentrations  as  high as 250 pg/1 and at lower levels in a
number of other streams.  Fluoranthene is a polynuclear  aromatic
known  to  be produced during the pyrolysis or combustion of coal
and petroleum.  This is a possible explanation of its presence in
the furnace scrubber stream.
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Three phthalates have been designated  as  significant  pollutant
parameters.    Bis (2-ethylhexyl)   phthalate   was   detected  in
wastewater  at  all  the   secondary   copper   plants   sampled.
Concentrations  of  bis(2-ethylhexyl)  phthalate in these streams
were relatively high, ranging from 10 to 7,000 pg/1.   Di-n-butyl
phthalate  was  also detected at all five plants, but at somewhat
lower concentrations.  Three of  the  streams  contained  maximum
concentrations  of  more  than  100  pg/1.  Diethyl phthalate was
detected at  two  plants.   A  waste  electrolyte/floor  washdown
stream  and a slag milling stream each had average concentrations
of  approximately  50  itq/1.   Phthalates  are  used  mainly   as
plasticizers  in  plastic  compositions,  though uses in gasoline
additives and synthetic lubricants have also been reported.

Fluorene  was  detected  at  three  plants.   Concentrations   of
approximately  50  pg/1  occurred in some streams associated with
slag milling and  waste  electrolyte/floor  washdown  operations.
Fluorene is a polynuclear aromatic found in coal tar and coal tar
pitch.   Its  specific  origins  in  this  industry have not been
identified.

Pyrene, another polynuclear  aromatic  found  in  coal  tar,  was
present   in   wastewater   at   three   plants.    The   highest
concentration, approximately 7,000 pg/1, was detected in  treated
furnace  scrubber wastewater during one day of sampling.  Similar
waste streams from  other  plants  did  not  contain  significant
concentrations  of  pyrene,  however.   A waste electrolyte/floor
washdown stream at one plants contained more  than  100  \*<3/l  of
pyrene  and  approximately  20  vg/1  was found in a slag milling
wastewater stream.

The  polychlorinated  biphenyls,  PCB-1254  and  PCB-12U8,   were
present  in  the  wastewater  of  three  plants.  The maximum net
concentrations  of  these  compounds  detected  in  the  sampling
program  were approximately 3 pg/1 and 2 Mg/l» respectively.  The
PCBs were found in a variety  of  wastewater  streams  and  their
origin  in  this  industry  cannot  be traced on the basis of the
sampling  data.   PCBs  have  been   used   as   dielectrics   in
transformers  and  capacitors,  as  hydraulic  oils,  and as heat
transfer fluids.

Four organic priority pollutants have  been  designated  as  site
specific.   Two  polynuclear  aromatics,  naphthalene  and acena-
phthylene, were detected in'the waste electrolyte/floor  washdown
stream at one plant.  The average concentration of naphthalene in
this  stream  exceeded  2,000 jjg/1.  Acenapthylene concentrations
were lower, usually about 100 pg/1.   Naphthalene  is  the  major
constituent  of  coal  tar and is also used as an intermediate in
the production of solvents and lubricants.  Acenapthylene is also
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present  in  coal  tar  and  is  produced  in  the  pyrolysis  or
combustion of fossil fuels.

Di-n-octyl  phthalate  appears  to be introduced by a contact and
noncontact cooling water stream at net concentrations of 175 pg/1
at one plant.  The slag  milling  wastewater  stream  at  another
plant  contained  dimethyl phthalate in concentrations as high as
1000 M9/1-  Phthalates are known to be used as  plasticizers  and
may  also be used in gasoline additives and synthetic lubricants.
The specific origins of these compounds in this industry have not
been identified.

Two  organic  priority  pollutants  have   been   classified   as
marginally  significant.   Although  high concentrations of these
compounds were detected,  they  were  not  found  to  be  present
frequently  or consistently in wastewater.  Hexachlorobenzene was
detected in wastewater at two plants.  The compound  was  present
at  concentrations  of  approximately  5,000  vg/1  in  a furnace
scrubber stream during one day of sampling, but was not  detected
the  following  day.   The  slag milling stream at a second plant
contained hexachlorobenzene at approximately  200  and  150  M
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                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             217-
Arsenic              1-81
Beryllium            1          -          9
Cadmium              3          -          7          -
Chromium             217-
Copper               712-
Lead                 613-
Mercury              2161
Nickel               415-
Selenium                                   9          1
Silver               118-
Zinc                 711-

At  the  five  plants  in  the field sampling program, all of the
priority pollutant metals were detected.  The data in  Section  V
show  that  all  of  the  metals  except antimony/ beryllium, and
thallium occur industry-wide at concentration levels much greater
than  the  significance  thresholds  previously  discussed.   The
effect  of the intake water on reducing the concentrations of the
significant metals is negligible.  Thus, most of the  metals  are
present  as  a  direct  result  of the production processes.  The
waste streams containing the waste electrolyte and refining  area
cleaning  water  contained the highest levels of all metals.  The
treated waste streams still contain the metals in amounts greater
than the threshold concentrations.

Antimony and beryllium were detected in all of the waste streams,
but only in one or two  waste  streams  at  levels  substantially
greater than the threshold limits.  Both of these metals are also
found  in  the  greatest  concentrations in the waste electrolyte
streams.  Allowing  for  intake  water  concentrations 'of  these
metals  eliminates  the  significance  in  several  of  the waste
streams.

For all the metals, after accounting for  intake  concentrations,
the net concentrations are generally still very much greater than
the  threshold  values.  Since lead, copper, and zinc are in such
high concentrations, treatment for removal of these metals should
also remove the other heavy metals to acceptable levels.

Primary Lead

The pollutant parameters selected for the primary  lead  industry
are the following:
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                                                 Marginally
Significant             Site Specific            Significant

Cadmium                 Antimony                 Arsenic
Copper                  Beryllium                Mercury
Lead                    Nickel                   Selenium
Zinc                    Ammonia                  Silver
TSS
pH

Organics.   No  organic  priority  pollutants  were  included  as
pollutant parameters in this industry.   Samples  collected  from
three  primary  lead plants did not indicate that these compounds
were present in the  wastewater  at  significant  concentrations.
All  of  the  primary  lead  plants  which  discharge  wastewater
indicated  in  data  collection  portfolios  that  they  knew  or
believed  the organic priority pollutants to be absent from their
effluent.

Metals.  The data collection portfolio responses of  the  primary
lead  plants asked to specify the possible presence or absence of
the priority pollutant metals were varied.  However,  a  majority
of the plants stated that most of the metals were either known to
be  present  or believed absent.  The responses for the metals is
summarized below.

                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             3          -          2
Arsenic              311-
Beryllium                                  4          1
Cadmium              5
Copper               5
Lead                 5
Mercury              1-22
Nickel               221-
Selenium             1121
Silver               221-
Zinc                 5          -          -          -

All of the above metals were detected in waste streams.  The data
in Section V show that cadmium,  copper,  lead,  and  zinc  occur
industry-wide  at  concentration  levels  much  greater  than the
threshold limits.  As in previous subcategories, the intake water
concentrations of these  metals  are  lower  than  the  threshold
levels.   Thus,  most of the significant metals is contributed by
the production processes.  Table  V-34  reveals  that  the  waste
streams  related to the acid plant and slag granulation processes
contained the highest levels of  these  metals.   While  a  large
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percentage  of  the  metal  appears to be removed by the existing
treatment methods, the treated waste streams  still  contain  the
metals in amounts greater than the threshold concentrations.

Antimony, beryllium, and nickel were detected in all of the waste
streams,  but  only  at one plant at levels substantially greater
than the threshold  limits.   These  site  specific  metals  were
higher  in  the  acid plant and slag granulation Wc-^te streams at
the one plant.  Allowing for intake water concentrations of these
metals eliminates their significance.

For all the metals previously  mentioned,  after  accounting  for
intake  concentrations the net concentrations are generally still
very much greater than  the  threshold  values.   The  marginally
significant  metals—arsenic, mercury, selenium, and silver—were
all detected in the wastewaters,  but  at  levels  only  slightly
above  the  threshold  limits.  Treatment for removal of the high
concentration metals —zinc, cadmium and lead--shoald remove  the
marginally significant metals to acceptable levels.

Secondary Lead

The pollutant parameters selected for the secondary lead industry
are the following:

                                                      Marginally
Significant                  Site Specific            Significant

Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate  Butylbenzyl phthalate    Thallium
Di-n-butyl phthalate         Mercury
Di-n-octyl phthalate
Chrysene
PCB-1254
PCB-1248
Antimony
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Nickel
Silver
Zinc
TSS
Ammonia
pH

Organics.   In   field  sampling,  wastewater  samples  from three
plants were analyzed  for  organic  priority  pollutants.   Three
phthalates  were  selected  as  significant pollutant parameters.
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Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate was detected at every  plant.   After
accounting  for blank and intake concentrations, levels of bis(2-
ethylhexyl)  phthalate as high as 300 M9/1 and 500 ^g/1 were found
in two of the waste streams, as well as at several lower  values.
Di-n-butyl  phthalate  occurred  at  two plants at concentrations
ranging between 10 and 50 »g/l.~  Di-n-octyl  phthalate  was  also
found   in   wastewater   streams   at   two   plants,   although
concentrations never  exceeded  30  pg/1.   Phthalates  are  used
mainly  as  plasticizers in plastic compositions, though they may
also be present in gasoline additives and  synthetic  lubricants.
The phthalates do not appear to be associated with one particular
stream  in this industry and their source cannot be identified on
the basis of this sampling data.

Chrysene was detected at every plant sampled.  Concentrations  as
high as 100 pg/1 and 500 jjg/1 were found in two of the wastewater
streams.   Chrysene  is  a polynuclear aromatic formed during the
distillation  of  coal  and,  to  a  lesser  degree,  during  the
distillation  and  pyrolysis  of  a number of fats and oils.  The
source of Chrysene in this industry cannot be identified  on  the
basis  of  the  sampling  data.   It  was detected in a number of
different wastewater streams.

PCB-125U and PCB-1218 were detected in wastewater streams at  two
plants.   The  compounds  were  present in all streams sampled at
these plants in concentrations ranging from approximately 1 to  5
ng/l»   PCBs  have  been  used as dielectrics in transformers and
capacitors, as hydraulic oils, and as heat transfer fluids.

Butylbenzyl phthalate was classified as site specific because  it
was  found  at concentrations exceeding 10 vg/1 at only one plant
sampled.  In a combined raw wastewater stream,  however,  it  was
detected at 85 pg/1.  The origin of butylbenzyl phthalate in this
industry  is  not  known.   Like  other  phthalates,  it  is used
primarily as a plasticizer, though it  also  can  be  used  as  a
gasoline additive and synthetic lubricant.

In   the  data  collection  portfolios,  plants  which  discharge
wastewater were asked to specify the presence or absence  of  the
priority  pollutants  in  their  wastewater.   All  of the plants
indicated  that  they  knew  or  believed  the  organic  priority
pollutants to be absent.

Metals.  The data collection portfolio responses of the secondary
lead  industry  plants  asked to specify the possible presence or
absence  of  the  priority  pollutant  metals  were  varied   and
inconclusive.   The  majority  of the plants believed most of the
metals to be absent from their waste stream.  The  responses  for
the metals are summarized below.
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                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony            13          5          4
Arsenic              976-
Cadmium              7663
Chromium             3          5         10          4
Copper              12          2          7          1
Lead                17          4
Mercury              2          4         13          3
Nickel               6          4         11          1
Silver               2          3         17          -
Thallium             1          -         18          3
Zinc                10          6          6          -

At  the four plants sampled, all of the priority pollutant metals
were detected in waste streams.  The data in Section V show  that
all   the   metals  except  beryllium  and  selenium  (considered
insignificant), and mercury and thallium, occur industry-wide  at
concentration levels several orders of magnitude greater than the
significance  thresholds  previously discussed.  The intake water
concentrations of these  metals  are  lower  than  the  threshold
levels,  as  has been the case in every other subcategory.  Their
effect on the gross concentration of the  significant  metals  is
negligible.  Thus, the intake water can be ignored as a factor in
any  analysis.    The  highest  concentrations of these metals are
found in the battery electrolyte waste streams.  While the metals
appear to be removed somewhat by existing treatment methods,   the
treated waste streams still contain the metals in amounts greater
than the threshold concentrations.

Mercury  was  detected  in  all of the waste streams, but only in
battery electrolyte waste streams at levels substantially greater
than the threshold.  The  intake  water  concentration  allowance
eliminates  the significance of the metal in several of the waste
streams and plants.  Existing treatment systems appear capable of
partially removing this metal from the waste streams.

Thallium was also detected in all of the  waste  streams  but  at
levels  only  slightly greater than the threshold level at all of
the plants sampled.  Allowing for the intake concentration in the
wastewater streams indicates that only very small amounts of  the
material must be removed to reach the threshold.  Existing treat-
ment  methods  are  capable  'of  removing  some  of  the thallium
present.  For all  of  the  other  significant  metals,  the  net
concentrations  are  generally  still  very much greater than the
threshold levels after treatment.  Treatment for removal of zinc,
lead  and  copper   should  remove  the  other  heavy  metals  to
acceptable levels.
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Secondary Silver

The  following  were  selected  as  pollutant  parameters for the
secondary silver industry:

Significant                  Site Specific

(Photographic and Non-photographic)

Benzene                      Carbon Tetrachloride
Bis(2-ethylhexyl)            Fluoranthene
  phthalate                  Dichlorobromomethane
Butylbenzyl phthalate        Di-n-butyl phthalate
Di-n-octyl phthalate         Mercury
Tetrachloroethylene          Thallium
PCB-1254                     Trichloroethylene
PCB-12U8
Antimony
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Cyanide
Lead
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Zinc
TSS
Ammonia
PH
Phenolics

  (Photographic Only)

1,2-dichloroethane
1,1-dichloroethylene
Methylene chloride

Organics.  Benzene was detected at  two  of  the  four  secondary
silver  plants  sampled  in  this  study.   One  plant  processed
photographic wastes, while another  reclaimed  silver  from  non-
photographic  material.   Raw wastewater concentrations in excess
of 100 pg/1 were found in  two  streams.   Benzene  is  a  common
solvent  which  may  be  used as a degreasing and cleaning agent.
The sources of this compound in the secondary silver industry are
not known.

Three phthalates  have  been  selected  as  significant.   Bis (2-
ethylhexyl)  phthalate  was  detected  in  every  stream sampled.
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Concentrations in these streams ranged from 7 pg/1 to  124
Butylbenzyl  phthalate  was found above 10 ng/1 in the wastewater
at two plants.  One plant  processed  photographic  wastes  while
another  used  non-photographic material.  Concentrations were as
high as 60 ng/1-  Di-n-octyl phthalate was detected at all plants
sampled in this study, although concentrations at one plant  were
less  than  10 jjg/1.  Streams at the other three plants contained
concentrations ranging from 10 jjg/1 to 70 pg/1.   Phthalates  are
primarily  used  as  plasticizers  in plastic composition, though
they are also found in gasoline additives  and  lubricants.   One
possible  source of phthalates in this industry is their presence
in  photographic  wastes  introduced  as  raw   materials.    The
phthalates  mentioned  above,  however,  were  found  to exist in
plants that process non-photographic materials as well  as  those
using photographic waste.

Tetrachloroethylene  was  detected at concentrations exceeding 50
Mg/1 at two plants.  One  plant  processed  photographic  wastes,
while the other reclaimed silver from non-photographic materials.
Tetrachloroethylene  is  known  to  be used as a solvent in metal
degreasing.   Its  origins  in  the  secondary  silver  industry,
however, cannot be clearly identified on the basis of this data.

The  polychlorinated biphenyls, PCB-1254 and PCB-1248, were found
to be present in wastewaters of two plants after  accounting  for
concentrations of the compound in blank and intake water samples.
Maximum net concentrations of PCB-1254 and PCB-1248 were 2.3 pg/1
and  1.7  Mg/l»  respectively.   The  compounds have been used as
dielectrics in transformers and capacitors,  as  hydraulic  oils,
and  as  heat  transfer  fluids.   Their  source in the secondary
silver industry is not known.

Several organic priority pollutants were found to be  significant
only  for  the  secondary silver plants that process photographic
wastes.  One such compound, 1,2-dichloroethane, was  detected  at
both  photographic secondary silver plants sampled in this study.
Concentrations of 1,2-dichloroethane at these  plants  frequently
exceeded 100 pg/1.  This compound is a common industrial solvent,
but its specific use in this industry cannot be identified on the
basis of this sampling program.

Another   pollutant  parameter,  1,1-dichloroethylene,  was  also
detected  only  at  the  two  plants  that  recover  silver  from
photographic  wastes.   Several  streams contained concentrations
greater than 100 pg/1.  More than 6,000 yg/1 of this compound was
detected in a raw wastewater stream associated with  film  sludge
processing.    1,1-dichloroethylene   is   used  as  an  internal
plasticizer in fibers and plastics manufacturing.
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Methylene  chloride  was  detected  at  only   one   photographic
secondary  silver plant.  Concentrations at this plant were found
to be very  high.   Two  of  the  three  raw  wastewater  streams
contained  approximately  3,000 ng/1 of methylene chloride.  This
compound was not designated  as  site  specific  because  another
plant  indicated  in the data collection portfolio that methylene
chloride was believed to be present in its wastewater.

A number of organic priority pollutants were identified  as  site
specific  because  they  occurred  at  significant  levels in the
wastewater of only  one  plant.   Carbon  tetrachloride,  a  site
specific  parameter,  was  detected  at concentrations as high as
2,000 ing/lr in wastewater streams  of  a  plant  processing  non-
photographic wastes.  Carbon tetrachloride is commonly used as an
all-purpose solvent and chemical intermediate.

Dichlorobromomethane  was  found  to  be  present  in the treated
wastewater  of  one  plant  processing  non-photographic  wastes.
Concentrations   ranged   between  1,500  and  2,800  pg/1.   The
industrial uses of dichlorobromomethane are  not  known  and  the
origin of this compound in secondary silver processing wastewater
cannot be determined.

Another  designated  as  site  specific  compound  is  di-n-butyl
phthalate.   While  di-n-butyl  phthalate  was  detected  at  two
plants, only at one non-photographic plant was it found in excess
of 15 pg/1.  Here the compound was found at 80 pg/1. and 300 jjg/1.
Phthalates  are  used  mainly as plasticizers in plastics, though
they also occur in gasoline additives and synthetic lubricants.

Trichloroethylene was  detected  only  at  one  secondary  silver
plant,  a  processor of photographic wastes.  Most of the streams
sampled  at  this  plant  contained  more  than  100  ng/1,   and
concentrations    as    high   as   900   M9/1   were   detected.
Trichloroethylene is used primarily as a  degreasing  solvent  in
metal  industries.   Its  source in the secondary silver industry
has not been identified.

In the data collection portfolios, the  secondary  silver  plants
which  discharge wastewater were asked to specify the presence or
absence of the priority pollutants in their  effluent.   Although
most  of  the  plants  indicated  that the organic compounds were
known or believed  to  be  absent,  one  plant,  a  processor  of
photographic wastes, reported that it believed methylene chloride
to be present.  The organic priority pollutants listed below were
not selected as pollutant parameters on the basis of the sampling
data but were identified by this plant as being known or believed
present:
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Methyl chloride
Phenol
Diethyl phthalate
Dimethyl phthalate
Vinyl chloride

Metals.    The   data   collection  portfolio  responses  of  the
secondary silver plants asked to specify the possible presence or
absence  of  the  priority  pollutant  metals  were  varied   and
inconclusive.   The  majority of the plants stated that they knew
most of the  metals  were  present  in  their  waste  streams  or
believed  them  to  be  absent.  The responses for the metals are
summarized below:

                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Antimony             3271
Arsenic              2191
Cadmium              5341
Chromium             5242
Copper               9112
Lead                 6223
Mercury              2182
Nickel               8-32
Selenium             2-92
Silver              11          1          1          -
Thallium                                   9          H
Zinc                 9112

All of  the  priority  pollutant  metals  were  detected  in  the
sampling program.  The data in Section V show that all the metals
except  mercury,  thallium,  and beryllium occur industry-wide at
concentrations several  orders  of  magnitude  greater  than  the
significance   thresholds   previously   discussed.   The  intake
concentrations of these  metals  are  lower  than  the  threshold
levels and several orders of magnitude less than the actual waste
stream  concentrations.   The  highest metals concentrations were
found in the waste streams from air pollution control devices and
silver slurry  supernatant.   While  existing  treatment  schemes
appear  to  remove  a large percentage of each metal, the treated
waste streams still contain the metals in  amounts  greater  than
the threshold concentrations.

Mercury  and thallium were detected in all the waste streams, but
only in one or two waste streams at levels substantially  greater
than   the   threshold   limits.    Allowing   for   the   intake
concentrations of these metals  eliminates  the  significance  of
these  in  several  of the waste streams and plants.  As with the
other metals, both mercury and  thallium  are  contained  in  the
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highest  concentrations  in  the waste streams from silver slurry
supernatant and air pollution control devices.

While the site specific metals are  not  present  in  as  high  a
concentration  as significant ones, the net concentrations in the
treated effluents are still greater than  the  threshold  limits.
Since  zinc,  chromium,  lead,  and  cadmium  are  present in the
greatest concentrations, treatment for removal  of  these  metals
should remove all the other heavy metals to acceptable levels.

Other Priority Pollutants.  Cyanide was designated as a pollutant
parameter  because  it was found in concentrations several orders
of magnitude greater than the threshold limits.  It  was  present
predominately  in  the  film  waste influent stream as well as in
silver  slurry  supernatant  and  air  pollution  control  device
streams.   This  trend  appears to be applicable to nearly all of
the metals and the criteria parameters.  The  existing  treatment
methods  used  in  the  secondary  silver  industry  are not very
effective in removing cyanide.

Primary Tungsten

The following pollutant parameters were selected for the  primary
tungsten industry:

                                                 Marginally
Significant             Site Specific            Significant

Tetrachloroethylene     Acenaphthene             Cadmium
Chromium                Naphthalene              Mercury
Copper              ,    Bis(2-ethylhexyl)        Nickel
Lead                           phthalate         Zinc
Silver                  Di-n-butyl phthalate
TSS                     D n-octyl phthalate
Ammonia                 Dimethyl phthalate
pH                      Chrysene
                        Ac enapht hylen e
                        Vinyl chloride
                        Arsenic
                        Selenium
                        Thallium

Qrganics.    Tetrachloroethylene,    the  only  organic  priority
pollutant   designated   as   significant,   was   detected    at
concentrations  ranging  between  20  pg/1  and  70  pg/1  in the
wastewater of two of the three plants sampled.  The  presence  of
tetrachloroethylene did not appear to be specific to a particular
waste  stream  and  its  origin  in  this  industry  has not been
determined.
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Several organics were identified as site specific.   Of  these,   a
number  were  detected  in  the  ion  exchange raffinate which is
discharged as a wastewater stream at one of the  plants  sampled.
Acenaphthene,  naphthalene, and acenaphthylene were each found in
the raffinate stream at concentrations of 100  M9/1  or  greater.
These  three compounds are polynuclear aromatics and have similar
chemical structures.  Another compound, vinyl chloride, was  also
detected  in  this stream in excess of 150 jjg/1 during one day of
sampling.  Vinyl chloride is used in a number of  plastics.   The
occurrence  of these organic priority pollutants in the raffinate
waste stream can probably be attributed to  the  organic  solvent
used in the ion exchange process.

Several  phthalates  were  designated  as  site specific.  Bis (2-
ethylhexyl)   phthalate,  di-n-butyl  phthalate,  and   di-n-octyl
phthalate  were  detected  at  one  plant  in a stream containing
tungstic acid rinsewater.  Concentrations in this  stream  varied
between  700  ng/1  and  900  jig/1.   Di-n-butyl  and  di-n-octyl
phthalate were present at lower concentrations, averaging 50 pg/1
and 20 pg/1, respectively, after accounting for blank and  intake
values.   Dimethyl  phthalate  was  detected  at  230 »g/l at one
plant.  The compound occurred in a combined wastewater stream and
the specific source of dimethyl phthalate cannot be identified.

Chrysene was also detected at only  one  tungsten  plant  and  is
therefore  designated  as  site specific.  A stream consisting of
tungstic  acid  rinsewater  contained  240  pg/l   of   chrysene.
Chrysene is a polynuclear aromatic formed during the distillation
of  coal  and,  to  a  lesser extent, during the distillation and
pyrolysis of a number of fats and oils.

In the data collection  portfolios,  the  tungsten  plants  which
discharge  wastewater  were  asked  to  specify  the  presence or
absence of priority  pollutants  in  their  wastewater.   In  all
cases,  the plants indicated that the organic priority pollutants
were believed to be absent.

Metals.  The data collection portfolio responses  of  the  plants
asked to specify the possible presence or absence of the priority
pollutant  metals  were  varied.  Nearly all of the plants stated
that they either knew the metals to be present or  they  believed
the  metals  to  be  absent.   The  responses  for the metals are
summarized below:
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                   Known     Believed   Believed    Known
Pollutant         Present     Present    Absent     Absent

Arsenic              3          -          3          -
Cadmium              3          -          3          -
Chromium             H          -          2
Copper               t          1          1
Lead                 3          -          3          -
Mercury              1          -          2
Nickel               312-
Selenium                                   6
Silver               4          -          2
Thallium                                   6
Zinc                 4          -          2

In the field sampling program,  all  of  the  priority  pollutant
metals were detected in the waste streams.  The data in Section V
show  that chromium, copper, lead, and silver occur industry-wide
at concentrations several orders of magnitude  greater  than  the
significance   thresholds  previously  established.   The  intake
concentrations of these  metals  are  lower  than  the  threshold
levels  and are also a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than
the gross concentrations of these four metals*  Their  effect  on
reducing  the  gross  concentrations of the significant metals is
negligible.  The data  in  Table  V-U9  shows  that  the  highest
concentrations  of  these  metals  are found in the tungstic acid
rinsewater stream.   While  a  large  percentage  of  each  metal
appears  to  be  removed  by existing treatment schemes (lime and
settle), the treated waste streams still contain  the  metals  in
amounts greater than the threshold values.

Arsenic,  selenium,  and thallium were also detected in all waste
streams, but only in one or two  waste  streams  at  levels  much
greater than the threshold limit.  These metals are also found in
the  highest  concentrations  in  waste  streams  associated with
tungstic acid and dilute hydrochloric  acid  washes  and  rinses.
Allowing  for  the  intake  water  concentrations of these metals
eliminates their significance in several of the waste streams and
plants.   This  leaves  them  in  the  site  specific   category.
Treatment  schemes  used  by  the plants generally appear able to
remove the metals down to levels near but not below the threshold
limits of each metal.

Cadmium, mercury, nickel, and zinc  were  also  detected  in  all
waste  streams,  but  at  levels  less than an order of magnitude
greater than the threshold limit.  Allowing for the intake  water
concentrations  indicates  that treatment schemes would only have
to remove small amounts of each  metal  to  reach  the  threshold
limit.    Lead,   chromium,   and   copper  are  in  the  highest
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concentrations, and treatment for removal of these metals  should
remove the other heavy metals to acceptable levels.

Other  Priority  Pollutants.   Cyanide  is  considered to be site
specific because it was found in concentrations several orders of
magnitude greater than the threshold limits  in  only  two  waste
streams.   Cyanide  was  found  to  predominate  in waste streams
consisting of tungstic acid precipitate rinse water.

Primary Zinc

The following pollutant parameters were selected for the  primary
zinc industry:

Significant                  Site Specific

Methylene chloride           Hexachlorobenzene
Bis(2-ethylhexyl)            1,1-dichloroethane
  phthalate                  Trichlorofluoromethane
Arsenic                      PCB-125U
Cadmium                      PCB-1248
Chromium                     Antimony
Copper                       Cyanide
Lead                         Thallium
Mercury                      Ammonia
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Zinc
TSS
pH

Organics.   Methylene  chloride  was  designated  as  a pollutant
parameter because significant net concentrations of the  compound
were   detected   at   three   of   the   five   plants  sampled.
Concentrations of methylene chloride in  the  raw  wastewater  at
these  plants exceeded 100 vg/1. after accounting for blanks.  One
treated wastewater stream exceeded 2,000 /jg/1.  This compound was
also detected at a fourth plant, but at concentrations less  than
those  found in the blank samples.  Methylene chloride is used as
an  industrial solvent and is also found in metal  degreasers  and
cleaning  fluids,  paints,  and insecticides.  It was found to be
present in a number of wastewater streams and its origins in this
industry cannot be traced.

Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate was detected at more than 10 pg/1  at
four  plants.  Most of the net concentrations were relatively low
and none exceeded  100  Mg/1.   Phthalates  are  used  mainly  as
plasticizers,  but  are  also  found  in  gasoline  additives and
synthetic lubricants.
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Several  organic  priority  pollutants  were  found  to  be  site
specific.   1,1-dichloroethane was detected at one plant.  It was
found present in a roasting wastewater stream at 180 ng/1.  Three
similar roasting/acid plant streams did not contain this compound
at  detectable  levels.   1,1-dichloroethane  is   used   as   an
intermediate in vinyl chloride manufacture, and as an all purpose
solvent.  Its source in this industry is not known.

Trichlorofluoromethane  was  detected  in  a  combined wastewater
stream at one plant.  This  stream  contained  concentrations  of
approximately  100  vg/1.   This  compound  is  a  Freon  used in
aerosols and as a refrigerant.  Its origin in  the  primary  zinc
industry has not been determined.

PCB-1254  and PCB-1248 were designated as site specific pollutant
parameters because they were detected at one plant.   During  one
of   the   three  sampling  days,  net  concentrations  of  these
pollutants exceeded 9 and 7 pg/1, respectively.  PCBs  have  been
used  as dielectrics in transformers and capacitors, as hydraulic
oils, and  as  heat  transfer  fluids.   The  presence  of  these
compounds  in  the  effluent stream can probably be attributed to
one of these sources.

In the data collection portfolios, all five primary  zinc  plants
responding  to  the  question  of  the presence or absence of the
priority pollutants in their effluents indicated  that  they  did
not  believe any of the organic priority pollutants to be present
in their wastewater.

Metals.  The responses of the zinc plants asked  to  specify  the
possible  presence  or  absence  of the priority pollutant metals
were varied.  Nearly all of the plants stated  that  they  either
knew the metals to be present or believed them to be absent.  The
responses for the metals are summarized below:

                 Known    Believed       Believed,   Known
Pollutant       Present   Present         Absent    Absent

Antimony                     2              3         -
Arsenic            32              -         -
Cadmium            5         -                        -
Chromium           11              21
Copper             3                        11
Lead               U                                  1
Mercury            4                                  1
Nickel             11              3         -
Selenium           31              1         -
Silver             12              2         -
Thallium           21              2         -
Zinc               4                        -
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In  the  sampling  program,  all of the priority pollutant metals
were detected in the waste streams.  The data in Section  V  show
that  all  of  the  metals  except  for  antimony,  thallium, and
beryllium occur industry-wide at concentrations up to a couple of
orders of magnitude  greater  than  the  significance  thresholds
previously  discussed.   The intake water concentrations of these
metals are lower than the threshold levels and are also a  couple
of  orders  of magnitude smaller than the gross concentrations of
the metals classed as being significant.  Thus, their  effect  on
the gross concentrations in the wastewater streams is negligible.
The  data  in  Table V-5U show that the highest concentrations of
these metals are found in the acid plant waste stream.   While  a
large  percentage  of  each  metal  appears  to be removed by the
existing treatment schemes  (lime and settle), the  treated  waste
streams  still  contain  the  metals  in amounts greater than the
threshold concentrations.

Antimony and thallium were also detected in  all  waste  streams,
but  seldom  at  levels  much  greater than the threshold limits.
These metals are also found in the highest concentrations in acid
plant   waste   streams.    Allowing   for   the   intake   water
concentrations  of  these metals eliminates their significance in
several of the waste streams and plants.  This leaves them in the
site specific category.  Treatment schemes presently in use  were
generally  not  very effective in removing these two metals.  For
all the metals, after accounting for intake  concentrations,  the
net concentrations are generally still very much greater than the
threshold.   Treatment for removal of zinc, cadmium and lead, the
metals in highest concentration, should remove  the  other  heavy
metals to acceptable levels.

Other  Priority  Pollutants.   Cyanide  was detected in all waste
streams, but in only one or two streams at  levels  much  greater
than  the  threshold  limit.  Cyanide levels are highest in waste
streams associated with the acid plant air pollution control  and
contact cooling.
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                              TABLE VI-3



                        LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
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8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
1° 2°
Priority Pollutants Al Al
acenaphthene 1
acrolein
acrylonitrile
benzene 4 2
benzidine
carbon tetrachloride
(tetrachloronethane) 4
chlorobenzene 4
1,2,4-trichlorobenzene 4
hexachlorobenzene
1,2-dichloroethane 4 4
1,1, 1-trichloroethane
hexachloroe thane
1 ,1-dichloroethane 4
1,1,2-trichloroethane 4
1,1, 2 ,2-tetrachloroethane
chloroe thane
bis(chlorooetbyl) ether
bis(2-chloroethyl) ether
2-chloroethyl vinyl ether
(mixed)
2-chloronaphthalene
2,4,6-trichlorophenol
parachloroneta cresol
chloroform (trichloro-
me thane) 4 4
2-chlorophenol
1 , 2-dichlorobenzene
1 , 3-dichlorobenzene
1,4-dichlorobenzene 4
3,3'-dichlorobenzidine 4
1,1-dichloroethylene 4 4
1,2-trans-dichloroethylene 2
Cb/ 1° 2* 1° 2° 2° 1° le
Ta Cu Cu Pb Pb Ag V Za
44 42
444 4144
444 2
44 444
1
3 42
144 4 1* 4 4
44 44
2
44 44
4 4
4
4
4
444 4444
4
444 41* 4
244 444
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                        TABLE VI-3  (Continued)



                        LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE






PARAMETER                                        SUBCATEGORY

31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
1° 2°
Priority Pollutants Al Al
2 , 4-dichlorophenol
1,2-dichloropropane
1 , 3-dichloropropylene
(1,3,-dichloropropene)
2 ,4-dimethylphenol
2 , 4-dinitrotoluene
2,6-dinitrotoluene
1 ,2-dipheaylhydrazine
ethylbenzene 4 4
fluoranthene 1 4
4-chlorophenyl phenyl ether
4-brooophenyl phenyl ether
bis(2-chloroisopropyl) ether
bis(2-chloroethoxy) nethane
methylene chloride
(dichlorooethane) 1 4
methyl chloride
(chloromethane) 4
methyl bromide
(bromome thane)
bromoform (tribromomethane)
dichlorobroroomethane 1
trichlorofluorome thane
dichlorodifluoronethane
chlorodibronomethane 4
hexachlorobutadiene
hexachlorocyclopentadiene
isophorone 4 4
naphthalene 4 4
nitrobenzene
2-nitrophenol
4-nitrophenol
2,4-dinitrophenol
4,6-dinitro-o-cresol
Cb/ 1° 2° 1* 2° 2° 1° 1°
Ta Cu Cu Pb Pb Ag V Zn
4
4
4 4444
441 4244
244441* 41
4 44
444 244
2
4
44 4 4
4 2 4 24
2 44
4
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                        TABLE VI-3  (Continued)



                        LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
PARAMETER
SUBCATEGORY


61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.

67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.

73.

74.

75.

76.
77.
78.
79.

80.
81.
82.

83.

84.
85.


Priority Pollutants
K-nitrosodinethylaaine
N-nitroEodiphenylaaine
N-nitrosodi-n-propylaaine
pentachlorophenol
phenol
bis(2-ethylhexyl)
phthalate
butyl benzyl phthalate
di-n-butyl phthalate
di-n-octyl phthalate
diethyl phthalate
dimethyl phthalate
1 ,2-benzanthracene
(benzo(a)anthracene)
benzo(a)pyrene (3,4-
benzopyrene)
3 ,4-benzof luoranthene
(benzo (b) f luoranthene)
11 , 12-benzof luoranthene
(benzo(k)f luoranthene)
chrysene
acenaphthylene
anthracene
1 , 12-benzoperylene
(benzo ( ghi )perylene )
fluorene
phenanthrene
1 ,2 ,5 ,6-dibenzanthracene
(dibenzo(a,b)anthracene)
indeno (1,2,3-cd) pyrene
(2,3-o-phenylene pyrene)
pyrene
2,3,7, 8-tetrachlorodi-
benzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)
1"
Al




4

4
4
4
4
4
4

2

1

4

4
1
4
4

4
4


4

4
1

**
2°
Al






2
2
1
2

2



4




4
4


4






4

**
Cb/
Ta



4


1
2
2
2
4
4

4

4

4


4
4


4
4





4

** **
1°
Cu






4
4
4
4

4

4

4




4




4





4

**
2° 1°
Cu Pb






1
4
1
2
1
2



4




3
2
4


1
4




1 4

** **
2°
Pb






1
2
1
1
4
4



4




1
4
4

4
4
4




4

**
2° 1°
Ag V






1 2
1
2 2
1 2
4 4
2



4




2
2


4
4
4




4 4

** **
1°
Zn



4


1
4
4
4
4
4

4






4
4









4

**
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                                 LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
         PARAMETER
                                                           SUBCATEGORY


86.
87.
88.
89.

90.
91.
92.

93.
94.
95.

Priority Pollutant*
tetrachloroethylene
toluene
trichloroethylene
vinyl chloride
( chl o roe thy 1 ene )
aldrin
dieldrin
chlordane (technical mix-
ture and metabolites)
4, 4' -DDT
4,4-DDE (p.p'-DDX)
4,4'-DDD (p.p'-TDE)
1°
Al
4
4
4


4
4

4
4
4

2«
Al
4
4
4


4
4

4
4
4

Cb/
Ta
1
4
2


4
4

4
4
4
4
1°
Cu
4
4




4

4
4
4
4
2"
Cu
4
4
4


4
4

4
4
4
4
1° 2°
Pb Pb
4
4
4


4
4

4
4
4

2o
AC
1
4
2*


4
4

4
4
4
4
1°
V
1
4
4

2
4
4

4
4
4
4
1*
Zn
4
4
4



4

4
4
4


93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.

103.
104.
105.
ture and metabolites)
4, 4' -DDT
4,4-DDE (p.p'-DDX)
4,4'-DDD (p.p'-TDE)
alpha-endosulfan
beta-endosulfan
endosulfan sulfate
endrin
endrin aldehyde
heptachlor
heptachlor epoxide
(BHC=hexachlorocyclohexane)
alpha-BHC
beta-BHC
ganma-BHC (lindane)
4
4
4


4



4
4


4
4
4
4
4

4


4

4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
It
4
4
4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

4
4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4

4
4
4


4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4
4


4

4
4


4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4

4
4
4

4
4
4
4
4
4


4



4



4
4
106. delta-BHC                     4
    (PCB-polychlorinated biphenyls)
107. PCB-1242 (Arochlor 1242)
108.
109.
110.
111.
112.
113.
114.
115.
PCB-1254
PCB-1221
PCB-1232
PCB-1248
PCB-1260
PCB-1016
Toxaphene
Antimony
(Arochlor
(Arochlor
(Arochlor
(Arochlor
(Arochlor
(Arochlof
1254)
1221)
1232)
1248)
1260)
1016)
4 4
4 4
3 2
1
1
2
4
4
2
1
1
4
2
1
4
1
4
2 1
1
1
1
4
4
4
2
2
2
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PARAMETER
                        TABLE VI-3  (Continued)



                        LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
SUBCATEGORY


116.
118.
119.
1/0.
121.
ill •
123.
124.
125.
126.
127.
128.
129.

Priority Pollutants
Arsenic
Berylliua
Cadaiua
ChroaiuB
Copper
Lyanioe
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Seleniun
Silver
Thallium
Zinc
1°
Al
1
4
3

2
1
1
2
2
2
&
t
2°
Al
2
2
1

1
1
2
2
2
4
2
1
Cb/
Ta
2
2
1

1
1
1
1
4
2
4
1
I6
Cu
1
4
2

1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2°
Cu
1
2
1

1
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1°
Pb
3
2
1

1
1
3
2
3
3
4
1
2*
Pb
1
4
1

1
1
2
1
4
1
3
1
2°
Ag
1
4
1

1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1*
W
2
4
3

1
1
3
3
2
1
2
3
1°
Zn
1
4
1

1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
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                                  TABU VI-3 (Continued)

                                  LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
          PARAMETER
                                                            SUBCATEGORY
Conveatioaal
Pollutants
1*
Al
2*
Al
Cb/
T«
i»
Cu
2*
Cu
1*
Pb
2*
Pb
2«
Ag
1*
W
l'*
Zn
     Biochemical Oxygen Denand

     Chemical Oxygen Demand

     Total Suspended Solids

     Oil and Grease
          NOT SELECTED

          NOT SELECTED

SELECTED AS POLLUTANT PARAMETER

          NOT SELECTED
     pH - Acidity and Alkalinity   SELECTED AS POLLUTANT PARAMETER
     Non-Conventional Pollutants
     Fluoride

     Ammonia

     Total Organic Carbon
PP   NS        PP   NS   NS   NS   NS   NS   NS   NS

     PP        PP                  PP   PP   PP

          NOT SELECTED
     Total Phenols (4AAP-method)   PP   NS
               NS   NS   PP   NS   NS   PP   NS   NS
NS   Not Selected
PP   Selected as Pollutant Parameter
 *   Associated only with photographic wastes
**   Insufficient data available
 +   Data fron one plant in each subcategory indicates that asbestos is an insignificant
     pollutant

Numbers presented in the table correspond to the following
  significance levels:

     1.   Significant
     2.   Site specific
     3.   Marginally significant
     4.   Insignificant

Blanks  indicate that the compound was never detected in the analyses.
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                           SECTION VII

                CONTROL AND TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY
The control and treatment technologies that are  currently  being
used,   or   have   anticipated   application,  for  reducing  or
eliminating the discharge of pollutants in process wastewaters in
the nonferrous metals industry are discussed in this section.

In the context of this  report,  the  term  "control  technology"
refers  to  any  practice  applied  in  order  to  reduce a given
wastewater flow for one or more of the  following  purposes:   1)
to  concentrate  pollutants  for greater removal efficiencies, 2)
to reduce the volume of wastewater which must be handled, and  3)
to  reduce  or  eliminate  a  wastewater discharge through either
conversion to a dry  process  or  wastewater  recycle  or  reuse.
"Treatment  technology"  refers  to  any  practice  applied  to a
wastewater  to  reduce  the  concentration  of  pollutants  or  a
specific  pollutant  in the wastewater before discharge, recycle,
or reuse in another process.

The control and treatment technologies in use, or  which  can  be
used,  are first discussed generally and then in relation to each
subcategory and its associated wastewaters.

CURRENT CONTROL PRACTICES

Several control technologies  are  available  in  the  nonferrous
metals  industry,  all  of  which  can  be  helpful  in  reducing
pollutant   discharge   either   by   reducing   the    pollutant
concentration  or  the  wastewater volume.  By optimizing control
technology use, plants can significantly or totally reduce  their
treatment  requirements.  Controls presently in use industry-wide
are discussed first and those with more limited  applications  or
possible future use are then discussed.

Conservation and Reuse

Recycle.   Recycle  of process water is currently practiced where
it is desirable due to water  costs  or  shortage,  where  it  is
advantageous in terms of reducing treatment costs, or where it is
necessary  to  meet  permit  conditions.  Recycle, as compared to
once through use of process water, is becoming  a  more  freguent
practice.

Two  types  of  recycle are possible, recycle with a blowdown and
total recycle.  Total recycle of process water may not always  be
possible  because  of  dissolved  solids.  The recycled stream is
often cooled by evaporation,  which  concentrates  any  dissolved
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solids  in  the wastewater.  The dissolved solids (i.e., sulfat.es
and chlorides)  may precipitate, forming scale if  the  solubility
limits  of the dissolved solids are exceeded.  A bleed stream may
be necessary to prevent  problems  (pipe  plugging,   or  scaling,
etc.)   that  would  be  caused  by the precipitation of dissolved
solids.  While the volume of bleed required is a function of  the
amount  of  dissolved  solids  in  the  wastewater,   five percent
blowdown is a common value.  Some plants operate at less than two
percent blowdown.  Increased blowdown of  cooling  water  may  be
required  unless  adequate  cooling  devices  (cooling  towers or
ponds) are used to reduce the temperature.   Another  alternative
is  the  use  of  non-contact  heat  exchangers,  which eliminate
concentration by evaporation and minimize  scaling  problems.   A
copper refinery on the East Coast is using this method to achieve
zero discharge.

Recycle  offers  economic  as  well  as environmental advantages.
Water consumption is reduced and wastewater  handling  facilities
(pumps,  pipes, clarifiers, etc.) can be sized for smaller flows.
By concentrating the pollutants in a  much  smaller  volume  (the
blowdown)   greater  removal  efficiencies  can be attained by any
applied  treatment  technologies.   Recycle  may   require   some
treatment  of  water  prior  to  its reuse.  This may entail only
sedimentation or cooling.

Three variations of recycle or reuse are used in  the  nonferrous
metals  industry:  1)   a  wastewater  is recycled within a given
process; 2) a wastewater is combined with others and the combined
wastewater is recycled to the processes from which it originated;
and 3) reuse of a wastewater in different processes.

Evaporation.  Evaporation is a control  technology  which  offers
the  possibility  of  total  wastewater elimination with only the
remaining solids requiring disposal.  Evaporation can be  natural
or artificial.

Natural  evaporation  in  wastewater impoundments located in arid
regions is a technique practiced at  many  operations  to  reduce
discharges  to  zero  or  nearly zero.  Its successful employment
depends on favorable climatic conditions  (net evaporation) and on
the availability of land.  Land requirements can  be  significant
in  areas  where  the  net evaporation value is small and a large
surface area of water must be^ exposed.  In some  instances  where
impoundment  is  not  practical  for the plant's total wastewater
discharge,   impoundment   of   smaller,   highly    contaminated
wastewaters   from  specific  processes  may  afford  significant
advantages.

Two methods  of  artificial  evaporation  are  practiced  in  the
nonferrous  metals industry:  1)  application of cooling water in
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such a way that total evaporation of the cooling water occurs and
2)   reusing a wastewater in another process in which  evaporation
occurs.   Total  evaporative cooling may require longer conveyors
for additional air cooling to assure that the ingots have  cooled
sufficiently  to  be  handled and may not be applicable to plants
with limited space.  Evaporative consumption by cooling hot gases
for preconditioning and  the  use  of  wastewater  in  fluid  bed
roasters  offer  two means of eliminating wastewater flow through
consumptive reuse in a different process.

Dry Air Pollution Control Devices.   Dry  air  pollution  control
devices   allow   the  elimination  of  a  wastewater  (scrubbing
wastewater) with high pollution potential.  However, occasionally
wet  devices  may  be  necessary  to  control   certain   gaseous
pollutants.

Dry  air  pollution control devices and methods include cyclones,
dry  electrostatic  precipitators,  fabric  filters   (baghouses),
adsorption   of   fluorides   on   dry   activated   alumina  and
afterburners.  These devices remove particulate matter, the first
three  by  entrapment  and  the   afterburners   by   combustion.
Afterburner  use  is  limited  to  emissions consisting of mostly
combustible particles.  Characteristics of the  particulate-laden
gas  which affect the design and use of a device are gas density,
temperature, viscosity,  flammability,  corrosiveness,  toxicity,
humidity,   and   dew  point.   Particle  size,  shape,  density,
resistivity, concentration,  and  physiochemical  properties  are
particulate  characteristics which affect the design and use of a
device.

Proper  application  of  a  dry  control  device  can  result  in
particulate  removal  efficiencies  greater  than  99  percent by
weight  for  fabric  filters,  electrostatic  precipitators   and
afterburners, and up to 95 percent for cyclones.

The  important difference between wet and dry devices is that wet
devices control  gaseous  pollutants  as  well  as  particulates.
Common  wet  air pollution control devices are venturi scrubbers,
packed  tower  scrubbers  and  wet  electrostatic  precipitators.
Collection   efficiencies   depend   on  the  solubility  of  the
contaminant in the scrubbing liquid.    (71).   Depending  on  the
contaminant  removed,  collection efficiencies are usually around
99 percent for particles and gases.

Wet devices may be chosen over dry devices because of any of  the
following  factors:   1)   the  particulate size is predominantly
under  20 microns, 2)  flammable particles  or  gases  are  to  be
treated at minimal combustion risk, 3)  both vapors and particles
are to be removed from the carrier medium, and  U)  the gases are
corrosive and may damage dry air pollution control devices (71).
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Pry  Sl^ag Processing.  Slag from pyrometallurgical processes is a
solid waste that must be disposed of  or  reused.    Slag  can  be
disposed   of   by   slag  granulation  or  slag  dumping.   Slag
granulation involves the use of  a  high-velocity  water  jet  to
produce a finely divided and evenly sized rock, which can be used
as  concrete  agglomerate or for road surfacing.  Slag dumping is
the dumping  and  subseguent  solidification  of  slag,  composed
almost entirely of insolubles, which can be crushed and sized for
such  applications as road surfacing.  Slag can be reprocessed if
the metal content is high enough to  be  economically  recovered.
Wet  or dry milling, and recovery of metal by melting can be used
to process slag with recoverable amounts of metal.  Of course, in
all slag reuse processes, ultimate disposal  of  the  reprocessed
slag must be considered.

Although  slag  dumping eliminates the wastewater associated with
slag granulation, two additional  factors  must  be  dealt  with.
Large  volumes  of  dust are generated during crushing operations
and dust control systems may be necessary.   Also,  slag  dumping
may  not  be  acceptable  to slag processors, since salts are not
removed from the slag by dry processing.

Process Variations. Process variations which eliminate or  reduce
a  wastewater  or  pollutant concentration in a wastewater may be
considered as controls.  While the possibility of such variations
exists throughout the  nonferrous  metals  industry,  a  detailed
discussion  is  best made on a subcategory basis.  Therefore, the
topic is briefly discussed here and will be further discussed  by
individual subcategories later in this chapter.

Waste Stream Segregation.  The segregation of process wastewaters
is  a valuable control technology and may reduce treatment costs.
Individual  process  wastewaters  may  exhibit   very   different
chemical  characteristics and by separating these wastewaters the
proper method of treatment or disposal may  be  applied  to  each
wastewater.   Consider  two  wastewaters,  one high in fluorides,
ammonia, and other dissolved solids; the other, a contact cooling
water.  Significant advantages exist  in  segregating  these  two
wastewaters.   If ammonia stripping v ..3 performed on the combined
wastewaters, the cost of steam or aii stripping would  be  higher
than  necessary.  Also,  if fluoride removal by lime precipitation
was practiced, reduced removals would result from  combining  the
wastewaters  due  to  dilution of the fluoride concentration.  In
addition, recycle of the cooling water would be made difficult by
mixing the relatively pure cooling water with  the high  dissolved
solids  stream.   There  are many other examples in the nonferrous
metals industry where segregation  affords  advantages,  such  as
separating acid plant blowdown and contact cooling water.
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Rainfall  runoff  is  not  considered a process wastewater unless
mixed with process wastes.  However, its segregation from process
streams  can  eliminate  hydraulic  overloading  of  sewers   and
treatment   facilities.   Some  plants  located  lower  than  the
surrounding terrain have  built  flood  control  dams  at  higher
elevations in order to minimize the passage of storm water runoff
onto  plant property.  The use of curbing is an excellent control
practice for minimising the commingling of  runoff  with  process
wastewaters.   Lining retention ponds should also be practiced to
minimize infiltration of spring water  during  periods  of  local
flooding and exfiltration of the wastewaters to a nearby aquifer.

Contact Copling Water Reduction.  Contact cooling of molten metal
is widely used.  Control of contact cooling water can be achieved
by  recycle,  total  evaporation,  air  cooling, or conversion to
noncontact cooling.

Recycle  and  total  evaporation  were  discussed   in   previous
sections.   Air  cooling  of  molten metal has limited potential.
Air cooling is not generally employed in the production  of  high
tonnage  metal  for  several  reasons.  The casting line might be
inordinately long  (or large), requiring a large number  of  molds
to  allow for the slower cooling of the metal.  Maintenance might
be higher because of the longer conveyor, the added heat load  on
equipment  and  lubricants,  and the need for added blowers.  Air
cooling without these process appurtenances might greatly  reduce
the  rate  of  finished metal production from levels now possible
with water cooling.  Also, air cooling cannot be used  in  direct
chill  casting  operations.   Its  applicability,  except  in low
tonnage operations, is doubtful.

While noncontact cooling water can replace contact cooling  water
in  some  applications,  industry-wide  conversion  to noncontact
cooling may not be possible.  Plants that  already  have  contact
cooling  in  place  would  require extensive retrofitting.  Also,
certain molten metals require contact cooling to produce  desired
surface  characteristics.   Some  plants  produce a metal shot by
allowing molten metal to flow through a screen  into  a  tank  of
water,  immediately quenching the metal and producing a spherical
shot product.   Shot  could  probably  not  be  produced  without
contact cooling water.

Although  all  the  technologies discussed are being used by many
plants within the nonferrous metals industry, many  other  plants
do  not  apply  appropriate  control  technologies.   Some plants
already built can not easily implement  some  of  the  previously
discussed  controls, such as air cooling, because flexibility may
not be readily available in the process and/or costs to implement
changes may be high.  Recycle  and  reuse,  however,  are  widely
applicable control technologies.
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Total  recycle  may  become  more  wide-spread  in  the future if
methods for removal of dissolved solids such as  reverse  osmosis
and ion exchange become more common and inexpensive.

Lessening  the  need  for  wet scrubbing systems, or reducing the
volume of scrubber water required, is an area where advances  are
possible.   Processes  could  be modified such that the volume or
severity of air emissions can be limited, thereby minimizing  the
volume  of  water  used  for air pollution control.  For example,
furnaces can be designed to minimize  the  volume  of  emissions.
Using  inert  gases,  instead  of  chlorine, for degassing in the
aluminum industry is an  example  of  how  the  severity  of  air
emissions can be limited.

CURRENT TREATMENT PRACTICES

Several  methods  of  pollutant  removal  are now in place in the
nonferrous metals industry.  Their  use  and  application  for  a
subcategory or wastewater is dependent on many factors, including
wastewater   characteristics,   expense   relative   to   similar
technologies, plant layout and space availability, and individual
company preferences.  Methods which are being used  industry-wide
are  discussed  first and those with more limited applications or
possible future uses are then discussed.

Physical-Chemical Methods

Precipitation.  The removal of materials  from  solution  by  the
addition of chemicals which form insoluble  (or sparingly soluble)
compounds with them is common practice in both hydrometallurgical
processes   and   wastewater   treatment.    This   precipitation
technology includes coagulation, flocculation, and clarification.
It is especially useful in the removal of  metals  and  fluorides
from wastewater.

To  be  successful,  precipitation  depends  primarily  upon  two
factors:

1.  Sufficient excess of the added  ion  to  drive  the  reaction
toward complete precipitation of the solute.
2.  Removal of the resulting solid phase from the wastewater.

If the first requirement is  not  met,  only  a  portion  of  the
pollutant(s)   will   be   removed  from  solution,  and  desired
concentrations may  not  be  achieved.   Failure  to  remove  the
precipitates  formed  prior  to  discharge  is  likely to lead to
redissolution, since ionic equilibrium in  the  receiving  stream
will  not,  in  general,  be  the  same  as in the treated waste.
Effective sedimentation or filtration is thus a  vital  component
of  a  precipitation  treatment  system and frequently limits the
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overall  removal  efficiency.   In  practice,  sedimentation   is
usually done in settling ponds or clarifiers.

Lime,  caustic,  soda  ash,  and  calcium  chloride  are the most
commonly used precipitants in the industry.  Lime,  caustic,  and
soda ash create alkaline conditions conducive to the formation of
insoluble  carbonates  or hydroxides of the pollutant cations and
their removal, together  with  adsorbed  suspended  solids,  upon
flocculation   and   clarification.    Calcium  chloride  removes
fluoride by precipitation as calcium fluoride.

Lime for chemical precipitation has gained widespread use because
of its ease of handling, economy, and treatment effectiveness for
a great variety of dissolved materials.  In the nonferrous metals
industry, lime is used  for  fluoride  precipitation  as  calcium
fluoride and hydroxide precipitation of metals.

The treatment conditions, dosages, and final pH must be optimized
for  any  given wastewater, but, in general, attaining a pH of at
least 9 is sufficient to ensure  removal  of  heavy  metals.   To
attain  desired levels of control for some heavy metals, however,
it is necessary to attain a pH of 10 to 12.

Pourbaix (72) has compiled "Potential pH Diagrams" and solubility
curves for many elements, based  on  theoretical  considerations.
Curves  based on Pourbaix1s results are shown in Figure VII-1 for
the soluble metals silver, cadmium, copper, iron,  nickel,  lead,
tellurium,  and  zinc.   These  are  equilibrium  curves for pure
compounds in simple systems, and may not be extrapolated directly
to the complex systems of nonferrous wastewaters.  Many  factors,
such  as  the  effects  of  widely differing solubility products,
mixed-metal hydroxide complexing, and metal chelation render  the
values  of  Figure  VII-1  of  only  limited value when assessing
attainable concentrations from a  treatment  system.   Among  the
metals  effectively  removed  in alkaline solution are:  arsenic,
cadmium, copper, trivalent  chromium,  iron,  manganese,  nickel,
lead, antimony, and zinc.

Lime  precipitation is widely used for the control of fluoride as
well as for the removal  of  heavy  metals.   High  lime  dosages
contribute  excess  calcium  ion  to  the  solution, resulting in
precipitation of calcium fluoride.  The elevated pH  produced  by
the lime enhances the precipitation effectiveness by shifting the
equilibrium  towards the presence of free fluoride ion, which may
then be precipitated as calcium fluoride.  Published sources  (3,
73,  74,  75,  76)  indicate  that  lime is effective in removing
fluoride to less than 20 mg/1.

Shown in Tables VII-1 and VTI-2 are sampling results showing  the
effect of lime precipitation on various parameters in wastewaters
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from  the  columbium-tantalum  and  tungsten  industries.   These
tables are based on  results  of  3  24-hour  composite  samples.
Table  VII-3 lists removall efficiencies of several pollutants by
lime precipitation.  These removals are illustrative and  greater
removals can be attained.

Removal  efficiencies  of  organic priority pollutants which were
selected as pollutant parameters in  Chapter  VI  are  listed  in
Table VII-4.

Coagulation   and  Flocculation.   Suspended  solids  removal  by
precipitation  reactions  can  be  aided  through  the   use   of
coagulation  and  flocculation.   Coagulation is the reduction of
electrical   repulsive   forces   on   a   particle's    surface.
Flocculation   is   the   agglomeration   of  particles,  through
adsorption or molecular  bridging  and  is  induced  by  particle
contact.

Mechanical  stirring  is  the  most  frequently used flocculating
method.  Polymers are often used as flocculant aids.  Widely used
coagulants are  aluminum  salts   (A12(S04)3»11H2O,  A1C13),  iron
salts   (FeCl3,  Fe2(SO4)3,  FeSC>4«7H2O) and lime.  Coagulants and
flocculants are added to the water to be treated under controlled
conditions of concentration, pH, mixing  time,  and  temperature.
They  upset  the  stability of the colloidal suspension by charge
neutralization  and  flocculation  of  suspended   solids,    thus
increasing  the effective diameter of these solids and increasing
their subsequent settling rate.

The effectiveness  and  performance  of  individual  coagulation-
flocculation  systems may vary somewhat with respect to suspended
solids removal,  incidental  removal  of  soluble  components  by
adsorptive  phenomena,  and  operating characteristics and costs.
Specific system performance must be analyzed and  optimized  with
respect  to  mechanical  mixing  time,   coagulant  or  flocculant
dosage, settling time, thermal and wind-induced mixing, and other
factors.

pH  Adjustment.   Adjustment  of  pH  is  a  chemical   treatment
frequently  practiced by industry.  The addition of either acidic
or alkaline  constituents  to  a  wastewater  for  pH  adjustment
generally influences the behavior of both suspended and dissolved
components.   The  pH  of  acid  wastewaters  may  be adjusted by
addition  of  a  variety  of  basic  reagents,  including   lime,
limestone,  sodium  hydroxide,  soda ash, ammonium hydroxide, and
others, to raise the pH to any desired level.  Lime is most often
used because it is inexpensive and easy to apply.

Ammonia neutralization is frequently used  in  hydrometallurgical
processes,  where  ammonia  offers an advantage in being volatile
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and therefore easily removed from the final product,  allowing the
recovery of nearly pure oxides.  In waste treatment,  however, its
use or presence is a disadvantage, because of  its  toxicity  and
oxygen demand during microbial oxidation to nitrites  and nitrates
in  the  receiving  waters.  Additionally, ammonia neutralization
does not effectively remove metals when used for waste treatment.

Excessively basic wastewaters may be neutralized by  addition  of
an acid, commonly sulfuric, although hydrochloric and nitric acid
and  carbon  dioxide  are  also  used.   Since  many  metals form
insoluble hydroxides in basic  solutions,  sedimentation  of  the
alkaline   wastewater   prior   to  neutralization  prevents  the
resolubilization of the metals and may simplify subseguent  waste
treatment reguirements.

All wastewaters should be essentially neutral prior to discharge.
Generally,  the  wastewater will be sufficiently uniform to allow
adeguate pH control based only on the wastewater flow rate,  with
only  periodic  adjustments  based  on  effluent  pH.   Automated
systems which monitor and continuously adjust  the  concentration
of reagent added to the wastewater are currently available and in
use.   One bauxite refining plant mixing very aciiic and alkaline
wastes and using automated controls reported no  deviations  from
the pH range of 6 to 9 in over a year.

Ammonia  Stripping.   Ammonia  which  is  introduced as a process
reagent may be removed from process wastewaters by stripping with
air or steam.  Air  stripping  is  generally  accomplished  in  a
packed or lattice tower and involves blowing air through a packed
bed  or  lattice,  over  which  the  ammonia-laden  stream flows.
Usually, the wastewater is heated prior to delivery to the tower,
and air is used at ambient temperature.  The evaporation of water
and the volatilization of ammonia generally produces  a  drop  in
both  temperature  and  pH, which ultimately limit the removal of
ammonia that may be achieved in a  single  air  stripping  tower.
High removals are generally achievable and are favored by:

1.  High pH values, which shift  the  eguilibrium  from  ammonium
toward free ammonia;
2.  High temperature, which decreases the solubility  of  ammonia
in agueous solutions;
3.  Intimate and extended contact between the  wastewater  to  be
stripped and the stripping gas.

Of  these  factors,  pH  and  temperature are generally more cost
effective to optimize than increasing contact time by an increase
in  contact  tank  volume  or  recirculation  ratio.    With   air
stripping, the temperature will, to some extent, be controlled by
the climatic conditions; the pH of the wastewater can be adjusted
to  assure optimum stripping.  As a result, the major drawback of
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air stripping is the low  efficiency  in  cold  weather  and  the
possibility of freezing within the tower.  Because lime may cause
scaling  problems  and  the types of towers used in air stripping
are not easily cleaned, caustic soda  is  generally  employed  to
raise the feed pH.

Steam  stripping  offers  better  ammonia  removal (99 percent or
better)  (9)  than   air   stripping   for   the   high   ammonia
concentrations found in some wastewaters of the nonferrous metals
industry.   Tray towers are used, and the pH is adjusted to 12 or
more with lime.  Simple tray designs (such as disk  and  doughnut
trays)   are  used  in  steam stripping because of the presence of
appreciable suspended solids and the scaling  produced  by  lime.
These  allow  easy  cleaning  of  the  tower,  at  the expense of
somewhat lower steam/water contact efficiency, necessitating  the
use of more trays for the same removal efficiency.

Extremely  high  initial  ammonia  concentrations  in wastewaters
allow recovery of significant quantities of  reagent  ammonia  by
steam  stripping,  which partially offsets the capital and energy
costs of the technology.

Strippers are widely used  in  industry  for  the  removal  of  a
variety  of  materials,  including  hydrogen sulfide and volatile
organics as well as ammonia, from  aqueous  streams.   The  basic
techniques  have  been  applied both in process and in wastewater
treatment applications and are well understood.  The use of steam
strippers with and without pH adjustment is standard practice for
the removal of hydrogen sulfide  and  ammonia  in  the  petroleum
refining  industry  and  has  been  studied  extensively  in this
context  (84,  85,  86).   Air  stripping  has  been  applied  to
municipal    (87)  and  industrial  wastewater  treatment  and  is
recognized as an effective technique of broad applicability  (88).
Both air and steam stripping have been  successfully  applied  to
wastewater   treatment,   either  within  the  nonferrous  metals
industry or to similar wastes in closely related industries.

Physical Separation Methods

Filtration..  Filtration is the  separation  of  suspended  solids
from   water by using a permeable material.  Filtration by various
means  (sand, dual-  and multi-media, pressure, and cloth filters)
is generally used as a polishing step to further reduce suspended
solids after sedimentation.  Vacuum filtration is  commonly  used
to dewater clarifier sludges.  Table VII-5 lists organic priority
pollutant removal efficiencies by multi-media filtration.

Sedimentation.  Removal of solids from water by gravity is widely
used in wastewater treatment.  In sedimentation ponds, relatively
low  solids  loads  are  removed,  necessitating  only occasional
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dredging to maintain adequate settling volume.   Such  ponds  may
serve  a  variety of purposes in addition to removal of suspended
solids, including cooling.  As basins for a variety  of  chemical
treatments,  they  can  provide  sufficient  retention  time  for
completion  of  reactions,   for   pH   control,   for   chemical
precipitation, and for the removal of precipitates.

Settling  ponds are frequently used in multiples.  The purpose of
this scheme is to further reduce suspended solids loadings in the
sequential ponds and to allow the  use  of  precipitation  or  pH
control before discharge or recycle.

A  more  space-efficient method of removing suspended solids from
wastewater is the use of clarifiers, which are essentially  large
tanks  with directing baffles and phase segregating systems.  The
design of these devices provides for concentration and removal of
suspended and settleable solids as a  semi-solid  sludge  in  one
effluent  stream  and  a  clarified liquid in the other.  Through
proper design and application,  the  clarified  waters  may  have
extremely  low  solids  content.   Clarifiers may range in design
from simple  units  to  more  complex  systems  involving  sludge
blanket  pulsing  or  sludge  recycle  to  improve  settling  and
increase the density of the sludge.  Since settling of  suspended
solids  depends  mostly  on  the surface area of the clarifier or
pond, settling can be improved by inserting trays or tubes in the
settling basin, which has the effect of  converting  a  clarifier
into  many shallow settling basins.  Since the tubes are inclined
from 45 to 60 degrees from the horizontal,  settled  solids  that
collect  on  the tubes will slide down while the wastewater flows
upward.  Thus, the tubes are self-cleaning.  Settled solids  from
clarifiers  are  removed  periodically or continuously for either
disposal or recovery of various concentrated metals.   Thickeners
are  often  used  to  increase  the  solids  concentration in the
clarifier underflow.

Clarifiers have a number of  distinct  advantages  over  settling
ponds:

1.  Less land space is required.  On a volumetric capacity  basis
these devices are much more efficient for settling than ponds.
2.  Influences of rainfall are reduced  compared  to  ponds.   If
desired, the clarifiers can be covered.
3.  Since  the  external  structure  of  clarifiers  consists  of
concrete  or  steel   (in  the  form  of  tanks), infiltration and
rainfall runoff influences do not exist.
4.  Clarifiers can generally be placed adjacent to  a  production
plant, making recycle easier.

Clarifiers also suffer some disadvantages compared to ponds:
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1.  They  have  mechanical   parts,   and   thus   require   more
maintenance.
2.  Their storage capacity for either clarified water or  settled
solids is limited.
3.  The internal  sweeps  and  agitators  in  clarifiers  require
energy for operation.

Centrif ugatjon.   Centrifugation,  which  may  be considered as a
form of forced or assisted settling, may be feasible in . specific
treatment applications.  The presence in a wastewater of abrasive
components  or  significant  fine particles (less than 5 microns)
tends to limit centrifugation as a solids removal option.

Other applicable Treatment Technologies

There are a number  of  treatment  technologies  which  are  used
infrequently or not at all in the nonferrous metals industry, but
which are applicable to treating the types of wastewaters present
in  the  industry.   Their  limited  application  may be due to a
number  of   factors,   including   higher   costs,   operational
complexity,  and  the  availability  of more accepted techniques.
However, these technologies often afford much  greater  pollutant
reduction   than   can   be   achieved   with  more  conventional
technologies and therefore, should be considered.

Sulfide Precipitation.  The use of sulfide ion as  a  precipitant
for  removal  of  heavy metals accomplishes more complete removal
than the use of hydroxide for- that  purpose.   Arsenic,  cadmium,
cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, mercury, manganese, nickel, lead,
and   zinc   have   been   reported  to  be  removed  by  sulfide
precipitation   (89,  90,  91,  92).   Figure  VII-2   illustrates
theoretical  solubilities of several metal sulfides as a function
of pH.  By comparing Figures VII-1 and VII-2 it can be seen  that
the theoretical solubilities of metal hydroxides are much greater
than those of the sulfides.

Sodium  sulfide,  calcium  sulfide,  sodium bisulfide, and barium
sulfide are commonly used reagents for sulfide  precipitation  of
metals    (90).    The   steps   involved  in  a  typical  sulfide
precipitation facility are:

1.  pH adjustment and sulfide reagent addition -  the  wastewater
pH  is raised by alkali addition and the sulfide reagent is flash
mixed with the wastewater,
2.  Precipitation  -  metal  sulfide  forming   reactions   occur
followed by agglomeration,
3.  Clarification - the treated wastewaters are passed through   a
quiescent zone allowing the precipitate to settle out, and
U.  Final effluent filtration and pH  adjustment  -  the  treated
overflow  from  clarification is filtered to remove any unsettled
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solids  and  the  stream  pH  is  adjusted  to   meet   discharge
regulations (90) .

Two  problems  associated  with  sulfide  precipitation  are  the
possible formation of hydrogen sulfide gas and the production  of
an  oxidizable  metal  sulfide  sludge.   Formation  of  hydrogen
sulfide gas during sulfide precipitation can be avoided by  three
methods.   First,  by  raising the pH of the wastewater to 8.0 or
above, hydrogen  sulfide  will  disassociate  into  HS~  and  H+.
Secondly,  when the reactions between the sulfide reagent and the
dissolved  metals  are  completed,  the  pH  will  rise  sharply.
Therefore,  pH  monitoring  to  control  sulfide  dosage rate can
prevent excess sulfide  being  added  to  the  wastewater.   This
method  was  used  at  two  pilot plants  (93).  Thirdly, when the
precipitation reactions are complete, the  solution  undergoes  a
sharp   negative  electric  potential  change.   This  change  in
potential   can   be   measured   by    an    oxidation/reduction
potentiometer.   The response of the potentiometer can be made to
control the rate of sulfide reagent addition.   This  method  was
used at a smelter in Japan  (94) and at a pilot plant (95).

Metal  sulfide sludge can oxidize if exposed to air, allowing the
metallic portion of the sludge to dissolve into the aqueous phase
from  which  it  may  reenter  the  environment.   Possible  safe
disposal methods of metal sulfide sludge are:  1) maintaining the
sludge  in an oxygen free environment  (96), 2) chemical treatment
or fixation (73, 97), or 3) recycling the sludge to a smelter for
metals recovery  (94, 98) .

While little cost information  is  available  concerning  sulfide
precipitation,  those  differences  from  hydroxide precipitation
which will probably increase costs are:  1) a  separate  reaction
tank  and  associated equipment for sulfide addition, 2) hoods on
the reaction tank and flocculator/ clarifier for hydrogen sulfide
control, 3) special instrumentation  to  control  excess  sulfide
addition,  and  4) higher chemical costs  (90).  Those differences
which will probably lower costs are:  1) smaller sludge  handling
equipment  due  to  the  lower  operating  pH of the system which
results in less carbonate and sulfate precipitates, and  2)   less
alkali needed since the operating pH is lower  (90).

Sulfide  precipitation  is effective for removal of heavy metals,
especially as a polishing treatment  following  lime  and  settle
treatment.  Separation of the sulfide precipitates from solutions
is  not  always  easy,  and  filtration may be required.  Sulfide
precipitation is more complicated than  hydroxide  precipitation.
It  would  be  most  applicable  to small volume, highly polluted
wastewaters, such as those from acid plants or from refinery  by-
product recovery.
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EPA  is  studying full scale sulfide precipitation treatment at a
Swedish copper smelter.  Preliminary  results  are  shown  below.
The plant, treating combined process wastes and rainfall run-off,
uses a Na2S solution and after the sulfide reaction is completed,
clarifies  and filters the wastewater.  Following filtration, the
wastes are mixed with lime prior to discharge.

                             Sulfide         Lime
Pollutant        Influent   Effluent       Effluent
                  (mg/1)     (mg/1)          (mg/1)

As                 208       52.0          28
Cu                   3.6      0.3           0.5
Pb                  45.0      0.9           1.1
Cd                   6.8      0.13          0.12
Zn                  45.0     22.0          21.0
Fe                  15.      12            11
Hg                   2.5      0.06          0.08
pH  (units)         2.6        4.2          11.3
Flow  (m3/hr)        125
      (gal/min)     550

Ult r a f i 1tration and Reverse Osmosis.  Ultrafiltration and reverse
osmosis are similar processes in which pressure is used to  force
water   through   membranes   which   do  not  allow  passage  of
contaminants.  They differ in the size of contaminants passed and
in the pressures reguired.   Ultrafiltration  generally   retains
particulates  and  materials with a molecular weight greater than
500,  while  reverse  osmosis  membranes  generally   pass   only
materials  with  a  molecular  weight  below 100  (although sodium
chloride,  with  a  molecular  weight  below  100,  is  retained,
allowing  application  to  desalinization).   Pressures  used  in
Ultrafiltration generally range from 50 to 100 psi, while reverse
osmosis is run at pressures ranging from 400 to 1,800 psi.

Ultrafiltration has been  applied  on  a  significant  commercial
scale  for oil removal from emulsions, yielding a highly purified
water effluent and an oil residue  sufficiently  concentrated  to
allow  reuse,  reclamation,  or  combustion.   The  equipment  is
readily available, and present day membranes are  tolerant  of  a
broad pH range.

Reverse  osmosis is conceptually similar to Ultrafiltration.  The
process of osmosis involves the passage of  a  liquid  through  a
semipermeable  membrane,  from  a  dilute  to a more concentrated
solution.  Reverse osmosis is an operation in which  pressure  is
applied  to  the more concentrated solution, forcing the permeate
to diffuse through the membrane into the  more  dilute  solution.
This  filtering  action  produces a concentrate and a permeate on
opposite sides of the membrane.
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Reverse osmosis divides a liquid waste into two fractions, a pure
one suitable for reuse or recycle, and a residue  containing  all
of  the pollutants originally present, but in a more concentrated
form.  A typical value for the volume of the concentrated  reject
brine stream is 15 percent of the original wastewater volume (99,
100,  101).   Evaporation  and  land  filling  of  the  resulting
concentrate, total impoundment, and  land  spreading  are  a  few
possible methods of disposing the concentrated fraction.

Reverse  osmosis  cannot  tolerate variations of input conditions
and therefore requires, in general, considerable pretreatment  of
the wastewater.  The pH, temperature, and suspended solids levels
must  be  modified before reverse osmosis is used.  Membrane life
and  efficiency  are  both  adversely  affected   by   inadequate
treatment of waters prior to membrane contact.

Figure VII-3 illustrates a typical reverse osmosis system.  Table
VII-6  records  selected  metal  removal  efficiencies by reverse
osmosis. Table VTI-7 records organic  removal  efficiencies,  and
Table  VII-8  characterizes the three most common membrane types:
hollow fiber, spiral wound, and tubular.

Deep Well Disposal.  Disposal of  wastes,  especially  oil  field
brines  and  chemical  wastes,  in  deep wells is practiced as an
alternative to treatment as restrictions on discharging wastes to
navigable waters become tighter.  A primary  copper  refinery  is
disposing  of its wastewater with deep well disposal.  Such wells
can be costly, especially when several are needed and depths  are
one   or  two  thousand  meters.   Geologic  conditions  must  be
suitable, and in many parts of the country, deep  wells  are  not
practical.   Confined  sand  strata  below  the  level from which
drinking water is obtained, especially  those  already  naturally
saline,  are  among  the  most  suitable candidates for deep well
disposal.  However,  care  must  be  taken  in  using  deep  well
disposal to avoid groundwater contamination.

Oxidation.   A  number  of  the wastewater constituents resulting
from industrial processes may be removed or rendered less harmful
by  oxidation.   Among  these  are  cyanide,  sulfide,   phenols,
ammonia,  and  a variety of materials presenting high COD levels.
The simplest approach to this treatment process  is  aeration  of
the  wastewater.   This  may  occur  naturally as a result of the
aeration  induced  by  pumping  or  on  a   pond   surface,   and
artificially  in  a  spray  pond.   More  elaborate  oxidation by
controlled introduction of strong oxidants, such as  chlorine  or
ozone,  achieves  more  complete and rapid results but at greater
costs.

Cyanide  (CN~) is oxidized to cyanate  (CNO-) and,  ultimately,  to
CO2  and  N2•   This can be accomplished by rapid chlorination at
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alkaline pH (about 10.5).   The  probable  reaction  with  excess
chlorine  and  caustic  soda  used  for  neutralization  has been
expressed as:

         2NaCN + 5C12 +12NaOH = N2 + 2Na2O3 + 10NaCl + 6H2O

A pH of 10 to 11 is necessary.  This reaction may be performed on
either  a  batch  or  continuous  process.    If  metal   cyanide
complexes  are  present,  extended chlorination for several hours
may be necessary.  If organics are  present  in  the  wastewater,
halogenated  organics  may  be  formed by chlorination (104, 105,
106) .

Ammonia may be converted  in  wastewaters  through  oxidation  to
nitrate  by  aeration--or,  more rapidly, by ozonation—or use of
chemical oxidants.

Ozone is a powerful oxidant with a wide range of uses,  including
disinfection,   and  as  an aid in the removal of organics, color,
odor, iron, and manganese.  It is attractive since only oxygen is
added to the water through its use.  Ozone would be effective  as
an  oxidant  where chlorine toxicity problems might exist.  Ozone
is reported to be an economical alternative  for  destruction  of
phenols   in   industrial   wastewaters    (107)   and  industrial
applications are considered practical  (107, 108, 109).

Activated  Carbon.   Activated  carbon  is  a  sorptive  material
characterized  by  high  surface  area  within  its internal pore
system.  Pores generally range from 0.001 to 0.01 micrometer, and
surface areas of up to 202 m2/g  (300,000 ft2/oz)  are  considered
normal.   Although  pollutant  removal  by  activated  carbon  is
usually associated with adsorption, five mechanisms of removal by
activated carbon  have  been  noted:   1)   true  adsorption,  2)
precipitation,  3)   ion  exchange,  4)   reduction  to  metal or
oxidation to insoluble forms, and 5)   filtration  or  entrapment
 (110).   One  or  all  of these mechanisms may be responsible for
removing a pollutant.

In  contrast  to  alumina,  silica  gel,  and  other  adsorbents,
activated  carbon  exhibits  a relatively low affinity for water.
Compounds which are readily removed by activated  carbon  include
aromatics,   phenolics,  chlorinated  hydrocarbons,  surfactants,
organic  acids,  high  molecular  weight  alcohols,  and  amines.
Current applications of this material also involve the removal of
color,  taste,  and  odor components in water.  Table VII-9 lists
organic  priority  pollutant  removal  efficiencies.    Activated
carbon has been reported to remove ammonia, cyanide, phenols, and
fluorides above 90 percent  (78,  191).
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Activated  carbon  has  also  been  shown  to remove a variety of
inorganic salts.  Table VII-10 lists  several  metals  and  their
respective  potentials  for  removal.  Since removal of metals is
variable and dependent on  waste  stream  characteristics,  exact
removal  of a metal by activated carbon cannot be determined (90,
110, 79) .

When the pollutant removal capability  of  the  carbon  has  been
exhausted  it  must  be reactivated or disposed.  Reactivation is
accomplished  by  heating  in  a  furnace  and  volatilizing  the
entrapped  organics.   Approximately  10%  makeup  carbon will be
necessary due to losses in  handling  during  reactivation.   For
different  carbon  exhaustion  rates the wastewater flow at which
regenerative columns  becomes  more  economical  than  throw-away
carbon  varies.   For  example,  for  an exhaustion rate of 5,500
pounds of carbon per million gallons, regenerative carbon becomes
more economical than throw-away  carbon  at  a  flow  of  115,000
gallons  per  day, but for an exhaustion rate of 12,400 pounds of
carbon per million gallons the breakeven flow is  51,000  gallons
per day.  Disposal of exhausted carbon in landfills may result in
leaching  of  organic  and metal pollutants to groundwaters (113,
111, 115).

Granular activated carbon may be more  applicable  than  powdered
activated carbon for treating nonferrous wastewaters.  The use of
powdered  activated  carbon  is  most  commonly  associated  with
activated sludge systems  (113, 114), where  continual  mixing  of
the  wastewater  allows  the powdered activated carbon to contact
the wastewater for a much longer time than can be  achieved  with
the  lime  and  settle  treatment  schemes  used  throughout  the
nonferrous metals industry.  Also, powdered activated  carbon  is
more  difficult  to regenerate than granular activated carbon due
to problems  in  handling  the  slurry  which  results  from  the
powdered activated carbon addition and possible volatilization of
a  large  percentage  of powdered activated carbon during thermal
regeneration  (115,194).

Activated Alumina.  Activated  alumina  has  been  used  for  the
removal  of  fluorides   (74,  77,  116,  117,  118, 119, 120)  and
arsenic  (121, 122).  Adsorption is the mode of pollutant  removal
usually  associated  with  activated  alumina,  however, all five
mechanisms mentioned under activated carbon most likely occur.

The ability of the alumina to effectively remove a  pollutant  is
dependent on the wastewater characteristics.  High concentrations
of  alkalinity or chloride and high pH reduce activated alumina's
removal capacity.  The  alkalinity-causing  and  chloride  anions
compete with fluoride ions for removal sites on the alumina.
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While fluoride can be removed as calcium fluoride to less than 20
mg/1  by  precipitation, levels lower than 1 mg/1 of fluoride are
achievable  with  activated  alumina  (77,  111).    An   initial
concentration  of  8-30 mg/1 of fluoride can be reduced by 85-99+
percent  (78, 80,  82,  118).   However,  some  complex  forms  of
fluoride  are  not  removed by activated alumina (117).  Caustic,
sulfuric acid, hydrochloric  acid,  and  alum  can  be  used  for
activated  alumina regeneration.  Influent arsenic concentrations
of 0.3 - 10 mg/1 can be reduced by 85-99+ percent (121, 122) .

Solidification .  Conversion of a wastewater or sludge to a  solid
is  one treatment to eliminate the discharge of pollutants.  Some
silicates are known to form solids; one  of  the  best  known  is
Portland  cement.  There are also some proprietary compounds, the
chemical nature of  which  is  undisclosed,  which  are  used  to
convert  liquid and slurries to a solid form.  One such system is
reputed to convert a solution or slurry to a solid in a period of
from 2H to 72 hours, after which  the  waste  can  be  landfilled
 (123).   This system reportedly reacts with polyvalent metal ions
to produce stable, insoluble,  inorganic  compounds.   Monovalent
cations,   many   organic  compounds,  many  anions,  water,  and
colloidal or high molecular weight materials may not  enter  into
the  reaction,  but are physically entrapped in the solid matrix.
Only limited data on the fixation achieved  by  this  system  are
available.   The  results  of one simple leach test are presented
for illustration  (5).  In this test, 25 g of a fixed waste from a
coppery refinery by-products bleed stream  (selenium and tellurium
recovery operation) were leached by recirculating 250 ml of water
 (pH 7.3) over the waste contained in a Buchner funnel for 4  days
 (96  hrs.).   Analyses  of the solution at the end of this period
indicated the following removals from the fixed waste:


                      Ions Leached, ug/g material
 pH     As     Cd     Cu     Fe     Pb     Se     re     Zr

 10.3   0.08   0.015   1.1   1.05   0.75   0.33   0.60   1.6


 Since costs for this fixation  treatment  are  estimated  to  run
 between  $0.005 and $0.025/1  ($0.02 and $0.10/gal), it is not one
 to be applied indiscriminately to large volume  wastewaters.   It
 would  be  applicable to low volume, highly polluted wastewaters,
 such  as  those  from  copper   refinery   by-products   recovery
 operations,  where  the  waste  stream  may  involve  only  a few
 thousand liters per day.  Prior reduction of  the  volume  to  be
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treated, by reverse osmosis, ion exchange, or evaporation, may be
a useful adjunct to fixation as a solid.

Ion Exchange.   Ion exchange is basically a process for removal of
various  ionic  species  in  or  on  fixed  surfaces.   During the
process, ions in the  matrix  are  exchanged  for  soluble  ionic
species.   Cationic,  anionic,  and  chelating ion exchangers are
available  and  may  be  either  solids  or  liquid.   Solid  ion
exchangers  are  generally  available  in granular, membrane, and
bead forms  (ion exchange resins) and may be employed in upflow or
downflow beds or columns, in agitated baskets, or in cocurrent or
countercurrent flow modes.  Liquid  ion  exchangers  are  usually
employed  in  equipment  similar  to  that  employed  in  solvent
extraction operations  (pulsed columns, mixed  settlers,  rotating
disc  columns, etc.)  In practice, solid resins are probably more
likely candidates for  end-of-pipe  wastewater  treatment,  while
either  liquid  or  solid  ion  exchangers  may  be  utilized for
internal process streams.

Ion exchangers' behavior and performance  are  usually  dependent
upon  pH,  temperature,  and  concentration.  The highest removal
efficiencies are generally observed for polyvalent ions.  In  ion
exchange,  some  pretreatment  or  preconditioning  of  wastes to
reduce  suspended  solid  concentrations,  which  may  clog   ion
exchange  resins,  and  other parameters, which may be removed in
preference to a pollutant whose removal is desired, is likely  to
be necessary.

Table  VTI-11  summarizes  the range of conditions and variety of
purposes for which various ion exchange resins are employed.  The
disadvantages  of  ion  exchange  in  treatment   of   industrial
wastewater  are  the  relatively  high  operating and maintenance
costs, somewhat limited resin exchange capacity, and insufficient
specificity — especially in cationic exchange  resins—for  some
applications.   Although it is suitable for complete deionization
of water, ion exchange is generally limited in this  application,
by  economics  and  resin  exchange capacity, to the treatment of
water containing 500 mg/1 or less of total dissolved solids.

For recovery of specific ions or group of  ions   (e.g.,  divalent
heavy metal cations, or metal anions such as molybdate, vanadate,
and  chromate),  ion  exchange  is applicable to a broad range of
solutions.  This use is typified by the recovery of uranium  from
ore leaching solutions using strongly basic anion exchange resin.
Additional  examples  are  the commercial reclamation of chromate
plating and anodizing solutions, and the recovery of  copper  and
zinc from rayon production wastewaters  (124).  Chrome plating and
anodizing wastes have been purified and reclaimed by ion exchange
on a commercial scale, yielding economic as well as environmental
benefits.   In  tests,  chromate  solution  containing  levels in
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excess of 10 mg/1 chromate, treated by ion exchange at  practical
resin  loading  values  over  a  large  number of loading cycles,
consistently produced an effluent containing no  more  than  0.03
mg/1  of  chromate.   Concentrations of arsenic, barium, cadmium,
chromium,  copper,  cyanide,  lead,  iron,  manganese,   mercury,
selenium, silver, and zinc can be reduced by 95 percent  (125).

Ammonia  removal  can  be  performed  with  the natural inorganic
zeolite, clinoptilolite.   Clinoptilolite,  a  cation  exchanger,
sorbs  ammonium  ions  in  preference  to calcium, magnesium,  and
sodium  (126).  Regeneration can be performed  in  a  closed  loop
system  with  the ammonia being removed by an air stripping unit.
Caustic and sodium chloride are the most common regenerants, with
the sodium displacing the ammonium ions.

High concentrations of ions other than those to  be  removed  may
interfere with removal.  Calcium ions, for example, are generally
collected  along with the divalent heavy metal cations of copper,
zinc, lead, etc.  High  calcium  concentrations,  therefore,  may
make   ion   exchange   removal  of  divalent  heavy  metal  ions
impractical by causing rapid loading of resins and  necessitating
unmanageably   large   resin  inventories  and/or  very  freguent
regeneration steps.  Less difficulty of this type is  experienced
with   anion   exchange.    Available  resins  have  fairly  high
selectivity against the  common  anions,  such  as  chloride  and
sulfate.   Anions  adsorbed  along with uranium include vanadate,
molybdate,   ferric   sulfate   anionic   complexes,    chlorate,
cobaIticyanide, and polythionate anions.

Ion   exchange   resin   beds  may  be  fouled  by  particulates,
precipitation within the beds, oil and  greases,  and  biological
growth.    Pretreatment   of  water,  as  discussed  earlier,   is
therefore commonly required for successful operation.  Generally,
feed water needs to be treated by coagulation and filtration  for
removal  of  iron,  manganese,  carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide,
bacteria, algae, and hardness.  Since there is some  latitude  in
selection  of  the  ions  that are exchanged for the contaminants
that are removed, post-treatment may or may not be required.

CONTROL AND TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES BY SUBCATEGORY

The foregoing control and treatment technologies are discussed in
this section as they apply to-the individual subcategories.  This
section will discuss the processes in each  subcategory  and  the
possible   wastewaters   and   related   control   and  treatment
technologies.  Tables summarizing existing control and  treatment
technologies  for  individual  wastewater  streams  are included.
Data from these tables will be referred to for clarification  and
emphasis.
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Primary Aluminum

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Anode paste preparation
2.  Anode baking.
3.  Reduction (potline and potroom scrubbing).
H.  Degassing.
5.  Metal cooling.
6.  Cryolite recovery.

Anode  and  Cathode  Preparation.  Preparing anode paste requires
crushing, screening, calcining, grinding and mixing of  coke  and
pitch  and  is  inherently  a dusty operation requiring extensive
particulate  control.   As  shown  in  Table  VII-12,  22  plants
preparing  paste use dry air pollution control  devices while only
four use wet air pollution control devices.  Three do not use any
emission control.  Paste plant water  use  and  discharge  levels
are, in gallons/ton paste, as follows.

    Plant          Use       Discharge

    13             683       683
    14             632       632
    26             UO        53
    29             171       171

Anode  bake  plant air emissions are reportedly more difficult to
control  by   dry   methods.    Supposedly,   dry   electrostatic
precipitators may not control gaseous fluorides and baghouses may
be susceptible to blinding caused by tars and oils emitted during
the  baking process.  Fluidized alumina beds, a dry system, avoid
the previously mentioned  problems.   Dry  systems  are  used  by
eleven out of the 21 plants which control anode baking emissions.
Three   plants  which  use  fluidized  bed  alumina  systems  for
emissions control reported using water, although none  discharged
from this source.

Wastewater from wet air pollution control of bake plant emissions
must  be  treated for fluorides  (where anode stubs are recycled) ,
tars, oils, and particulates.  If care is taken in the removal of
fused cryolite from the anode stubs before reprocessing, fluoride
emissions from the anode bake plant would be  greatly  minimized,
and  hence  fluoride  concentrations  in  the bake plant scrubber
water would be minimized.  Typical treatment of  this  wastewater
consists of addition of an alkali and sedimentation for suspended
solids  and  fluoride  removal.   Nine plants reported the use of
water in bake plant air pollution control devices.  The water use
and discharge levels for these  operations  are,  in  gallons/ton
baked anodes, as follows:
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    Plant          Use       Discharge

     1               33         0
     2              292         0
     3               94         0
     5             9791      9791
     5             6524      6524
    13             4693         0
    14             6009        10
    24               92         0
    25              404       264

Four  plants  reported  using  water to make potliners.  Only one
plant (#29)  discharged from this source, at a rate of  2  gal/ton
aluminum.

Reduction  (Potline and Potroom Scrubbing).  Wet and dry emission
control  devices  are  used  for  potline  air  emissions.    Dry
scrubbing of potline gas involves removal of pollutants contained
in  the  gases  from  the  electrolytic  cells  (potlines) by dry
alumina.   The  pollutants  are  sorbed  by  the  alumina,   with
particulate  collection  performed  by  baghouses.  The system is
used for  gases  collected  immediately  above  the  cell  having
relatively high concentrations of pollutants.

The  outstanding  features  of the system include the sorption of
emitted gases on alumina, the subsequent return  of  the  alumina
and  sorbed  fluorine  compounds to the pots to produce aluminum,
and the generally high levels  of  removal  efficiency  for  both
gaseous  fluorine  compounds and particulates  (e.g., greater than
99 percent).  This process uses no water.

A typical dry scrubbing  process  includes  hoods  and  ducts  to
collect  and  deliver  the  gases  from the pots to air pollution
control units, usually a cyclone type device to  separate  coarse
particulates;  a reactor section in which the gases are contacted
with the alumina, and a fabric filter, from which the  gases  are
released to the atmosphere.

When  dry  scrubbing is properly operated with efficient hooding,
atmospheric emissions limits may be satisfied without the use  of
water.   Thus, the dry scrubbing process is of major significance
to water pollution control at primary aluminum plants.

Although many plants have converted from  wet  to  dry  scrubbing
since  1973,  12  plants still practice wet air pollution control
for potline  emissions.   All  plants  using  secondary   emission
control   (i.e., potroom scrubbing) use some form of wet scrubber.
Water from wet scrubbers can be treated in various ways to remove
impurities, so that the water can be recycled.  In  the   case  of
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primary potline and secondary potroom wet scrubbers, the fluoride
dissolved  in  the  water  can be precipitated and settled.   This
treatment reduces the suspended solids content at the same time.

In general, the method used  to  remove  the  fluoride  from  the
wastewater  is  precipitation  either  as  cryolite or as calcium
fluoride.  In the first case, sodium aluminate (or  caustic  soda
and  hydrated  alumina)   is  added.   In  the second case, a lime
slurry (or  calcium  chloride)  is  used.   After  precipitation,
thickening  of  the  slurry  is  accomplished  in  clarifiers  or
thickeners.  The treatment of  wet  scrubber  liquor  to  recover
cryolite is a significant practice, because a sufficient quantity
of fluoride is removed to permit recycle of the treated liquor to
the  scrubbers.  The process also recovers the fluoride in a form
which can be returned to the aluminum cell bath.    The  value  of
the  recovered  cryolite  represents a credit to partially offset
the cost of the treatment process.  Sulfates  are  present,   thus
preventing total recycle of the scrubber liquor.

High  suspended solids concentrations are reduced by the fluoride
precipitation.  Fluoride  removals  below  levels  achievable  by
precipitation  can be achieved by activated alumina and activated
carbon.  High  cyanide  concentrations  in  potline  and  potroom
scrubbers can be treated by breakpoint chlorination, as one plant
already  does,  or by ozone oxidation.  For potline emissions the
reported anode type and water use and discharge,   in  gallons/ton
aluminum, are as follows:
    Plant
     2
     3
    21
    23
     9
    19
    20
    26
    28
    30
    31
    29
Anode Type
     PB
     PB
     PB
     PB
    VSS
    VSS
    VSS
    HSS
    HSS
    HSS
    HSS
HSS + PB
   Use
  29071
    335
    821
   8086
   5475
   6845
  14194
   1655
156,839
  11975
   1263
   3600
Discharge
   4845
      0
    110
     56
      0
   6845
  14194
      0
    381
      0
    219
      0
 (PB=prebaked,  VSS=vertical  stud  Soderberg,  and HSS=horizontal
stud Soderberg).

For  potroom  emissions  control  devices,  the  anode  type  and
reported water use and discharge levels, in gallons/ton aluminum,
are as follows:
    Plant
Anode Type
   Use
Discharge
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    12                  PB            37512        37512
    13                  PB             3600         2100
    11                  PB             3802           83
    2U                  PB            23161          538
     9                 VSS             2669            0
    19                 VSS            18667        18667
    20                 VSS            55967        53128

No HSS plants reported the use of potroom controls.

Degassing.   There  are  a  number  of  variations  in  degassing
procedures  that  function  as  process  control  techniques   to
eliminate  the  use  of  water  for  wet  scrubbing  of degassing
emissions.  The  necessity  for  degassing  varies  with  product
specifications.  Products which must be especially high in purity
and free of pin holes caused by gas bubbles require degassing.

Alternative degassing operations are:

1.  Chlorine degassing with wet scrubbing of gases.
2.  Degassing with mixtures of chlorine and other gases.
3.  Degassing with inert  (nitrogen or argon) gases.
1.  Filtration of the molten metal, using special materials and
conditions.

Wet  scrubbing may be necessary due to the characteristics of the
gas and the possible  formation  of  hydrochloric  acid  and  its
resulting   damage   to   dry   air  pollution  control  systems.
Environmental control efforts have resulted in  the  development,
and  successful  use,  of  gas  mixtures such as chlorine plus an
inert gas, or chlorine, carbon monoxide, and  nitrogen.   In  the
case  of  mixed  gases,  gas burners or controlled combustion gas
generators are used to produce  a  gas  of  carefully  controlled
composition.

A degree of uncertainty exists with regard to the basic reactions
in  the degassing process.  The degassing process may depend to a
degree on  the  chemical  reaction  of  chlorine  with  hydrogen,
followed  by  evolution of hydrogen chloride gas bubbles.  It may
also depend on the formation of gas bubble nuclei and interfaces,
which furnish the basis for the simple physical evolution of  the
hydrogen from its dissolved state in the metal.

All  of the above listed degassing alternatives are in commercial
use on a regular basis and have been for sufficient  time  to  be
considered  established practice in one or more producing plants.
There is no known evidence that the  degassing  alternatives  are
completely   applicable  to  every  plant.   Applicability  of  a
specific process to a specific plant must  be  determined  on  an
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individual  basis.   The  reported water use and discharge levels
for degassing scrubbers, in gallons/ton degassed aluminum, are;
    Plant

    11
    19
    26
Use

701
730
445
 Discharge

 596
 730
 408
Contact Cooling.   Control  of  wastewater  from  direct  contact
cooling can be achieved by means of a cooling tower, with recycle
of  the  water.   A bleed stream will be necessary to prevent the
buildup of dissolved and suspended solids, and  oil  and  grease.
The  water  use  and  discharge levels for casting operations are
shown below, in gallons/ton aluminum cast:
DC Casting

    Plant

     1
     2
     2
     3
     4
     5
     6
     7
     9
    10
    11
    13
    15
    15
    17
    20
    22
    23
    25
    26
    27
    29
    29
    30
    31
    31
Use

 7604
    0
 2920
Var.
  608
14497
33182
28064
 2477
34219
 4936
11250
  267
 8184
 5840
 4964
13140
 6822
 1560
 3006
   61
 4380
 7300
 1700
 2898
12587
gow S Pig Casting

    Plant          Use
 Discharge

 7604
    0
 2920
    0
  107
14224
  796
 1947
    0
    0
 3949
  729
    8
  105
  117
 4964
   30
  341
 1560
 3006
   61
 2071
 3445
  698
 2898
12587
               Discharge
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     5
    15
    15
    18
    20
    23
    23
    24
    25
    29
    31

Mixed Casting
     3
     6
     8
    12
    14
    18
    21
    25
    28
    19

Properzi Casting

    Plant

     3
     9
    15
    18
    22
  0
  0
  0
  0
219
  0
  0
  0
  0
  0
  0
Use

     0
92,318
  2978
  3066
  4683
  4737
   608
     0
     0
  6529
Use
     0
  7276
     0
31,536
       0
       0
       0
       0
     219
       0
       0
       0
       0
       0
       0
     Discharge

        0
     1947
      666
     3066
     4449
     4737
       15
        0
        0
        0
     Discharge

      0
      0
     73
      0
      0
Cryolite Recovery.   In  addition  to  recovering  cryolite  from
potline  scrubber  water,  cryolite  can  be recovered from spent
cathodes by a leaching operation.  Cryolite is  precipitated  and
the   resulting   waste   stream  must  be  treated  for  cyanide
destruction by chlorination or ozonation, for suspended solids by
settling and flocculation, and for metals by lime precipitation.

The  water  use  and  discharge  levels  reported   for   cathode
reprocessing,  in gal/ton of aluminum produced at the plants from
which the spent cathodes came, are as follows:
    Plant
Use
Discharge
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    23             101            101
    24              33              0
    26             388             97
    28             190              0
    31             365             62

Secondary Aluminum

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Dross processing.
2.  Smelting and demagging.
3.  Molten metal cooling.

Dross Processing.  Dry and wet dross processing (milling)  methods
are practiced in secondary aluminum.  Table VII-13 shows that  of
the  63  plants  surveyed, 20 report dross processing, of which 4
use water and 16 use a dry method.

The dry method of dross  processing  consists  of  impact  mills,
grinders,  and  screening  operations  to  recover  the  metallic
aluminum values from  the  nonmetallies.   The  dust  from  these
operations  is  vented  to  baghouses.  The baghouse dust and the
nonmetallic fines from screening constitute the solid waste  from
the  operation.   These  are disposed of at the plant site on the
ground.  Dry processing has the disadvantage of not removing  the
fluxing salts from the dross, thus impregnating runoff and ground
water  if the solids are stored on the surface.  While an attempt
may be made to control dissolved salts by  containing  runoff  in
drainage  ditches,  some  contamination of surface and subsurface
waters is unavoidable considering present  solid  waste  disposal
practices.   Those practicing dry dross processing in areas where
land for solid waste disposal is  limited  use  the  services  of
industrial waste disposal contractors.

Of  the  four plants that practice wet dross processing, two have
instituted total recycle, one recycles with a blowdown,  and  one
attains  zero  discharge  by solar evaporation.  Certain industry
personnel claim that wet milling of primary aluminum residues and
secondary aluminum slags with a countercurrent  flow  process  is
the only way to reduce or possibly eliminate salt impregnation of
runoff  and  ground water from discarded solid waste.  By using a
countercurrent milling and washing approach, two advantages could
be realized.  The final recovered  metal  would  be  washed  with
clean  water  providing  a low salt feed to the melting furnaces.
The wastewater, with  the  insolubles  removed,  would  be  of  a
concentration   suitable   for   economical   salt   recovery  by
evaporation and crystallization.  Heat for evaporation  could  be
supplied  by the waste heat from the furnaces.  The process would
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have to contend with the ultimate disposal of dirt, trace metals,
and insoluble salts not removed from the  dross  during  milling.
Such  salt  recovery  installations  are operating in England and
Switzerland, and the salts recovered assist  in  paying  for  the
operation,  since  they  are  reusable  as  fluxing  salts in the
secondary aluminum industry
Smelting and  Denagging.   Smelting  can  be  performed  with  or
without  demagging thus creating different pollution controls for
each method.   When  smelting  is  performed  without  demagging,
baghouses or other dry devices can be used to treat emissions, as
is  demonstrated by the fact that only 3 of the 22 plants that do
not demag have wet  air  pollution  control  systems.   Demagging
complicates  emissions  control  due to the possible formation of
hydrochloric acid in the smelting emissions if chlorine is used.

Demagging can be performed with chlorine  or  aluminum  fluoride.
Although  emissions  from  demagging  with fluoride are generally
controlled  with  dry  processes,  chlorine  is  still  used  for
demagging  at  the  majority  of  plants  that  demag.   Aluminum
fluoride is more expensive than chlorine and is not  regarded  as
effective  as  chlorine in removing magnesium.  Also, the furnace
refractory lining life is shorter when aluminum fluoride is  used
since  residues  resulting  from  aluminum fluoride demagging are
more corrosive than chlorine demagging residues.

If chlorine is used  for  demagging,  wet  scrubbing  is  usually
necessary  due  to  the  corrosiveness of the off gases.  However,
methods have been developed for reduction and/ or removal of fumes
without a major use of water either in the  process  or  in  fume
control .

The  Alcoa Process* is described as a fumeless demagging process.
It recovers molten magnesium  chloride.  The  unit  is  installed
between  the  holding furnace and the casting machine and removes
magnesium continuously as the metal flows through.  The operation
uses no flux salts.   Little  data  is  available  regarding  its
effectiveness,  but  two passes through the unit may be necessary
to meet magnesium specifications in the aluminum product.

The  Derham  process*  includes  equipment  and  techniques   for
magnesium  removal, with chlorine, from secondary aluminum melts,
with a minimum of fume generation and without major use of  water
in  either the process or in fume control.  The principal concept
is the entrapment of magnesium chloride, the reaction product  of
magnesium  removal,  in  a  liquid flux cover with the flux being
subsequently used in the melting operations.  The Derham  process
may  not  be  able  to  meet  stringent air pollution regulations
*The use of  trade  names  does  not  constitute  endorsement  or
recommendation for use.
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without the use of a very  fine  or  coated  baghouse  or  a  wet
scrubber.

The  Carborundum  metal  pump  system*  is another dry method for
chlorine demagging.  However,  little  information  is  available
concerning  this  process  and  questions  remain  regarding  its
effectiveness in controlling air pollution.

The water from chlorine demagging fume scrubbing  operations,  is
highly  acidic,  due  to  the hydrolysis of aluminum chloride and
magnesium  chloride  which  forms  hydrochloric  acid.   Existing
treatment  practices are listed in Table VII-13; pH adjustment to
6.0-7.0 will precipitate most of the aluminum  and  magnesium  as
hydroxides.   Coprecipitation  of  heavy  metal  hydroxides  also
occurs.  The effectiveness of pH  adjustment  is  diminished  for
aluminum  removal  if too much alkali is added, since dissolution
of aluminum hydroxide occurs at about pH 9.

The reported water use and  discharge  levels  for  plants  using
chlorine demagging are as follows, in gal/ton aluminum:

    Plant          Use       Discharge

     1             65             65
     2            289            289
     3             54             54
     4            490              0
     5            184            184
     6             65             65
     7             70             70
     8            137            137
     9            781            781
    10            550            550

Metal  Cooling.   The  major  pollutants  in wastewater generated
during the cooling of molten ingots are oil and grease  and  sus-
pended  and  dissolved solids.  Oil and grease, used to lubricate
mold conveyor systems, is washed from equipment as the ingots are
sprayed with water.  The production of  deoxidizer  shot  differs
from ingot cooling, in that the molten aluminum flows through the
mesh  of  a  screen  and  forms  a  spherical shot product before
quenching in the cooling tank.

The amount of wastewater discharged from  metal  cooling  can  be
reduced  by recycle and using cooling towers or ponds.  Discharge
of contact cooling water could be eliminated by  adopting  either
total   evaporation   through  regulated  flow  or  air  cooling.
However, the latter two alternatives are not suited  to  smelters
producing deoxidizer shot.
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Fifteen  of  the  plants  surveyed  are practicing total recycle.
Flash cooling on hot ingots may  be  a  viable  disposal  method.
While  oil and grease accumulation would appear to be unavoidable
in a recirculation system, removal by skimming is facilitated  at
higher  concentrations  of  oil  and grease.  Use of greases that
melt at higher temperatures and are less  prone  to  erosion  has
been suggested as a means of controlling this pollution problem.

Six  plants  are  using total or near total consumption to reduce
contact cooling flows and seven plants  report  that  the  molten
aluminum  is cooled without wastewater being discharged. * Twenty-
eight plants report no treatment of contact cooling water  before
recycle  or discharge.  However, one plant does treat its contact
cooling water with caustic and  polymer  addition  for  suspended
solids  and  various  dissolved  solids  removal,  as well as oil
removal  (by skimming) and sedimentation.

Columbium-Tantalum.

This industry is composed of five plants, three  in  the  ore  to
salt subcategory, and four in the salt to metal subcategory.  The
processes  to  be  discussed for only the ore to salt subcategory
are:

1.  Digestion.
2.  Solvent extraction.
3.  Precipitation and filtration.

The processes to be considered for the metal subcategory are:

1.  Salt drying.
2.  Reduction.
3.  Consolidation.

The potential sources of wastewaters from  this  subcategory  are
summarized in Table VII-14.

Digestion.   All  three plants use hydrofluoric acid to leach the
columbium/ tantalum ore concentrates with the leachate  going  to
solvent  extraction.   Two  plants  report  a  gangue  slurry  of
unreacted ore that must be treated.  Wet scrubbers are  in  place
at all three plants, two with recycle and a bleed stream, and one
with  once  through water usage.  Wet scrubbers are necessary due
to the acidic nature of the emissions and the presence of gaseous
fluoride.  Existing treatments are shown in  Table  VII-14.   The
scrubber  liquor  and  the  gangue  slurry  are high in suspended
solids,  fluoride, acidity and metals and require alkali  addition
for  suspended  solids,  fluoride,  and  metals  reduction and pH
adjustment.  Additional fluoride removal  technologies,  such  as
activated  alumina and reverse osmosis, may be necessary, as well
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as filtration for additional  suspended  solids  removal.   Also,
additional heavy metal removal techniques such as reverse osmosis
or ion exchange may be necessary since initial concentrations are
extremely high.

Solvent  Extraction.   After methyl isobutylketone extraction the
barren raffinate must be treated.  One plant recycles  a  portion
to  the  leaching  process to utilize the highly acidic nature of
this wastewater.  The raffinate has  characteristics  similar  to
the  gangue  slurry  and  treatment  techniques would be similar.
Waste characteristics and  subsequent  treatment  would  also  be
similar  for  wet  scrubbers  used  over  the  solvent extraction
process.

Precipitation and Filtration.  The metal values in  the  pregnant
extraction  solutions  are precipitated to recover metal salts by
oxide  precipitation  with  ammonia  or  by  potassium   chloride
precipitation of potassium fluorotantalate.  The barren solutions
must  be  subsequently  treated.   A  wastewater similar to those
previously produced  in  the  digestion  and  solvent  extraction
processes  results  from potassium chloride precipitation and the
attendant treatment is also similar.  However, the ammonia  laden
streams  from  ammonia  precipitation  require treatment for high
levels of  this  pollutant.   All  three  plants  practice  steam
stripping.

Salt  Drying.   Four  of  the  five plants surveyed practice salt
drying or calcining prior to further processing.   Wet  scrubbers
are  necessary  since  gaseous fluoride may still be present, and
ammonia gas will be present when ammonia-precipitated  salts  are
being  dried,  possibly  making  steam  stripping or ion exchange
necessary.  Three plants practice recycle with a bleed stream and
one plant discharges the scrubber liquor without recycle.

Reduction.   Four  plants  practice  reduction.   Leaching  after
sodium  reduction, a common practice for the tantalum production,
is a  major  source  of  wastewater.   After  completion  of  the
reduction  reaction,  and  cooling  of  the products, tantalum is
obtained as small particles in a matrix of potassium  and  sodium
salts.   The salts are removed by successive leaches in water and
acid to produce a pure metal powder.  The resultant  leachate  is
laden  with  fluorides  and dissolved solids.  Fluoride treatment
technologies, including lime precipitation and activated alumina,
must be applied to this wastewater.

Only one plant reports  reducing  columbium  oxide.   This  plant
reduces   the  columbium  salt  aluminothermically  with  no  air
pollution control systems employed or other wastewaters reported.
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Consolidation.  Three plants  practice  consolidation.    Two  use
electron beam furnaces for purification and consolidation and use
only  noncontact  cooling water for the furnace.  The other plant
uses water for  tantalum  sizing.   The  sizing  stream  contains
ammonia to prevent solubilization of the tantalum.  Treatment for
the  sizing  stream  consists of hydrochloric acii neutralization
and centrifugation.

Additional Comments.  Opportunities in this industry for reuse of
process wastewater or for major reductions in water discharge may
be limited.  Currently there is no alternative to the practice of
dissolving columbium and tantalum ores  with  hydrofluoric  acid.
 (This  inevitably  leads  to the solubilization of many other ore
constituents which limits the extent to  which  barren  solutions
remaining  after  extraction  of  columbium  and  tantalum may be
reused.)  Similar constraints apply to wastewaters resulting from
precipitation of metal salts and  from  reduction  wastes,  since
contamination  must  be  avoided  at  every  step in the process.
Segregation of wastewaters in this subcategory  is  important  if
treatment costs are to be minimized and pollutant removals are to
be maximized.

The reported discharge levels from the ore-to-salt operations, in
gal/lb of precipitation capacity, are as follows:

    Plant          Discharge

      A              13.2
      B               7.8
      E              22.7

The  discharge levels from salt-to-metal operations, in gal/lb of
reduction capacity, are as follows.

    Plant          Discharge

      A.              19.44
      B              11.70
      C               3.74
      D              17.42

Primary Copper

Smelting and refining are the subcategories of the primary copper
industry.   Copper  acid  plants   are   discussed   with   other
metallurgical acid plants.  The specific operations are:

1.  Roasting, smelting, and converting  (including acid plants)
2.  Slag granulation.
3.  Fire refining
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H.  Electrolytic refining
5.  Metal cooling.

Rpasting, Smelting, and  Converting.   All  of  these  operations
require  some  degree  of air pollution control.  The type of air
pollution control is dependent on the  nature  of  the  emissions
produced   and   whether  or  not  an  acid  plant  is  employed.
Relatively high amounts of sulfur dioxide will  be  emitted  from
all  of  these  operations,  especially  roasting and converting.
Gases from roasting and  converting  operations,  except  at  one
plant  without  an acid plant, are sent to an acid plant directly
or after preliminary conditioning or particulate  removal.   Some
plants  send  emissions from smelting to an acid plant.  Smelting
emissions can be controlled with wet or dry methods, although dry
electrostatic precipitators are most frequently used.

Slag Granulation.  Reverberatory furnace slag  from  smelting  is
usually loaded into rail cars or pots and transported to the slag
waste  area.  Two disposal methods are used, slag dumping or slag
granulation.  Slag dumping, of course,  eliminates  a  wastewater
and is practiced at most plants.

The  main  criteria  for  the  recycle  of  granulating  water is
temperature.  Plants that practice slag granulation  can  recycle
this  wastewater  if sufficient retention time can be provided to
assure adequate  cooling.   If  pond  area  or  capacity  is  not
available,  a  cooling  tower  or  heat  exchanger is a practical
approach.  Slag granulation water could  also  be  used  for  ore
concentrating.    Existing   treatment   for   slag   granulation
wastewater can be seen in Table VII-15.

Electrolytic Refining.  Spent electrolyte is  an  effluent  which
has  commercial  value.   NiSO4,  CuSO4,  and  black acid are all
recoverable by-products from this effluent.  At some  refineries,
the spent acid is returned to the electrolytic cells for reuse.

Gold, selenium, silver, and tellurium are recoverable by-products
of  slimes  which  form  in  electrolytic  cells.   Wastewater is
discharged from the recovery of these  by-products  at  only  one
plant  and  is  treated  with  lime,  polymer,  and  ferric salts
addition and sedimentation.

When the cathodes and the  spent  anodes  are  removed  from  the
electrolytic  cell,  adhering  acid  is  rinsed off.  The general
practice at primary copper refineries is to use all of this water
as electrolyte make-up.   Total  recycle  of  this  washwater  is
practiced at five plants.

Metal  Cooling.   Smelters  and  refineries  use large volumes of
water for contact cooling.  In contact cooling, intermediate  and
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finished  products  are  both  sprayed and quenched with water to
solidify the item to produce required surface characteristics.

When blister copper is cast into cakes,  surface  characteristics
are  not critical, and the casting is usually sprayed with water,
most of which is consumed through evaporation, and  then  allowed
to  air  cool.   Fire  refined  copper  castings are subjected to
direct cooling with  water  as  is  copper  shot.   Most  smelter
produce   an   intermediate   product,  anode  copper,  which  is
subsequently used  in  the  electrolytic  production  of  cathode
copper.   R.S the copper is poured into an anode mold contained on
a casting wheel, direct contact water is used as both a spray and
for complete immersion in a bosh tank.  When  cathode  copper  is
cast  into  shapes  such  as  cakes and wire bars, direct contact
cooling is used to achieve both cooling and the required  surface
characteristics.   Some  refineries  sell their cathodes "as is",
without melting and casting.

Temperature is an important operating parameter for cooling water
in that at a lower temperature, less water is needed  to  cool  a
given  amount  of metal.  If effective cooling means are supplied
 (cooling ponds or towers), blowdown requirements attributable  to
temperature will be minimized.  Waste cooling water is handled in
many ways throughout the industry as can be seen in Table VII-15.

Reported water use, blowdown and discharge from refineries are as
follows, in gal/ton refined copper:

    Plant          Use       Blowdown       Discharge

      1              ?            0              0
      2           2036         2036           2036
      3           9333            0              0
      14              ?          145              0
      5           2336         2336              0
      6           4869           39              39
      7            362          362            362
      8           4508          115              0
      9            261            ?              0
     10           2634          222            162

 Secondary Copper

 The processes to be considered are:

 1.  Slag milling
 2.  Slag granulation
 3.  Pyrometallurgical processing
 4.  Electrolytic refining
 5.  Molten metal cooling.
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Slag Milling.  Copper-rich slags undergo recovery of their copper
content  by  either  wet  or  dry  processing.  Dry processing is
accomplished by collecting the molten slag in an  inverted  cone-
shaped  thick  metal  pot, about one meter or larger in diameter.
The slag is cooled in the pot without the use  of  water  and  is
transported  in  the  pot  to  a  slag  storage pile, where it is
dumped,  slag from this pile is further processed to reclaim  the
copper  values,  either by remelting in the smelter or by selling
it to another secondary copper smelter for reclaiming.

In some cases the slag is wet milled rather than being  remelted.
Of  the  plants  that  do practice wet slag milling, six of eight
plants surveyed practice total recycle as can be  seen  in  Table
VII-16.    Sedimentation   is   necessary  for  suspended  solids
reduction  before  recycle.   Some  plants  practice   additional
treatment, such as screening or filtration.

Slag  Granulation.   Copper-poor  slags  are either dumped or wet
granulated.  Although slag dumping is possible, granulated  slags
may  be easier to dispose of as fill or railroad ballast than the
large chunks formed in slag pots.  Five of  the  plants  surveyed
practice   slag   granulation,   although   none   discharge  any
wastewater.  Four plants  practice  total  recycle  of  the  slag
granulation  wastewater and one disposes of this wastewater in an
evaporation pond.

Pyrometallurgical Processing.  In the  smelting  operation,  many
types of furnaces are used in the secondary copper industry, such
as  cupola, converter, rotary, electric, blast, and reverberatory
furnaces.  Air pollution control devices for these furnaces  vary
widely.

The  wastewater  from  wet  scrubbing  devices contains suspended
solids and  heavy  metals.   Existing  treatments  for  scrubbing
liquor are shown in Table VII-16.

Electrolytic  Refining .  Electrolyte is normally totally recycled
by circulating it through thickeners and filters  to  remove  the
solids   (slimes).  Depending on the quality of the anodes and the
impurities from the scrap metal that are carried through the fire
refining,  soluble  metal  concentrations   build   up   in   the
electrolyte which cannot be removed as slimes.  When this occurs,
a  bleed  stream  of  the  electrolyte  is  required.  Such waste
electrolyte normally is treated  to  remove  the  copper  content
first  by high-voltage deposition and finally by cementation with
iron.  Cementation with iron involves the precipitation of copper
ions by displacement with iron,  which  has  a  higher  oxidation
potential  than  copper.  The resulting solution may then be lime
precipitated and filtered before  discharge.   Some  electrolytic
refineries  have a ready market for the contaminated electrolyte.
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Cathode rinse water is used as electrolyte makeup or  is  totally
recycled.

Metal  Cooling.   Contact  cooling,  air  cooling, and noncontact
cooling are used throughout the industry as shown on  Table  VII-
16.  Anodes and rough brass or bronze ingots are generally spray-
cooled  to  rapidly solidify the casting, and the casting is then
quenched in a tank of water.  Smooth brass or bronze ingots  must
be slowly cooled in the mold under a layer of charcoal to produce
the  smooth  surface  required  by certain customers.  Ingot mold
lines are quite long for the production of  smooth  ingots.   The
ingots are air cooled in the mold during the first portion of the
conveyor  travel,  then the bottom of the ingot mold is submerged
in water during the second portion of the  conveyor  travel,  and
finally  the solidified ingot is dumped into a quench tank.  Part
of the charcoal burns during the ingot's  travel  period  on  the
conveyor.   The  unburned  charcoal  and  ash  go into the quench
water.  These residues settle as a sludge  and  are  periodically
cleaned  out of the quenching tanks and subsequent settling tanks
or ponds.  The water may or may not be recycled with cooling  and
treatment.   Treatment is necessary for oil and grease, suspended
solids, and some heavy metals.  Lime precipitation  can  be  used
for treatment.

Air  cooling  is  employed  only by some producers and may not be
applicable to all producers since very long  or  large  conveyors
would be necessary.

Primary Lead

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Sintering.
2.  Other pyrometallurgical processes.
3.  Slag granulation.
i».  Metal cooling.

Sintering.   Sintering  removes sulfur as SO2 and SO3, as well as
other impurities such as arsenic, antimony, and cadmium.  Of  the
seven  plants  surveyed,  four  plants  have sinter scrubbers, as
shown in Table VII-17.   This  waste  stream  is  high  in  heavy
metals,  suspended  solids, and other dissolved solids, including
arsenic.  Existing treatments are shown in Table VII-17.

Other PYrotnetallurgical Processes.  The  other  pyrometallurgical
processes  performed  in  primary lead plants are:  blast furnace
smelting, dezincing, dressing, dross processing, softening,  hard
lead  refining,  desilverizing,  debismuthizing, retort and cupel
furnace processing, and refining.  Virtually every application of
these processes in the primary lead  industry  employs  baghouses
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for  air  pollution  control.   The few exceptions can be seen by
referring to Table VII-17.

Slag  Granulation.   Five  plants   practice   slag   or   speiss
granulation  with  three  plants discharging wastewater from this
process.  One plant attains total recycle with  sedimentation  as
the only treatment.  The plants which discharge use at least lime
precipitation.

Metal  Cooling.  None of the plants surveyed report any discharge
of contact cooling water.  Two of the seven plants that cast lead
ingots use noncontact cooling water.  One plant does use  contact
cooling  water  but  it  is  applied  such that total evaporation
occurs.

The discharge levels reported from primary lead smelters are,  in
gal/ton of blast furnace capacity:

    Plant               Discharge

      A.                  309
      B                    0
      C                    0
      D                    0
      E                 1098
      F                 1227

The one refinery is at zero discharge.

Secondary Lead

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Battery cracking.
2.  Pyrometallurgical processing.
3.  Metal cooling.

Battery  Cracking.  Wastewater results from battery cracking from
these sources:

1.  Waste electrolyte from the battery.
2.  Saw cooling water.
3.  Washdown.

The   combined   wastewater   from   these   sources   has    the
characteristics  of  the battery electrolyte, with concentrations
of pollutants  dependent  upon  dilution  from  the  other  water
sources.   Characteristics  of  a battery cracking wastewater are
low pH and high suspended and dissolved solids, heavy metals, and
arsenic concentrations.  Adjustment of pH with lime and resultant
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removal of suspended solids  and  heavy  metals  is  a  necessary
treatment for this wastewater.   Activated alumina can be used for
greater   arsenic   reduction   than   that   achieved   by  lime
precipitation.  Many types of treatment for the battery  cracking
wastewater  exist  throughout  the industry, as is shown in Table
VII-18.

The  reported  blowdown  and  discharge  from  battery   cracking
operations  are shown below, in gal/ton lead cracking produced in
the operation.  Also shown is the calculated battery electrolyte,
also in gal/ton lead.  The electrolyte represents the  difference
between  the  water  used  and  the  blowdown  from  the cracking
operation.   In  some  cases,  plants  reported  the  tonnage  of
batteries   cracked.   This  tonnage  was  assumed  to  be  whole
batteries, and multiplied by 0.45 to arrive at the contained lead
weight.

    Plant     Electrolyte    Blowdown

     1         33              33
     2         35              59
     3         93             186
     4        145             291
     5        100             200
     6  '      92              92
     7         60              90
     8        107             161
     9         68             102
    10        225             238
    11        228             255
    12        146             153
    13         29              34
    14         37              37
    15         52              69
    16         71              88
    17         31             260
    18         51             251
    19          0             395
    20        118            1116
    21        212             217
    22         10              19
    23        231            1225
    24         11              69
    25         63             169
    26        101             144
    27        129             388
    28        281             476
    29         94             106
    30         44              76
    31         86             191
  33
  59
 186
 291
   0
   0
  90
   0
 102
 238
 255
 153
   0
  37
  69
  88
 168
 251
 395
1116
 217
  19
1225
   0
   0
   0
 388
   0
 130
  76
 191
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Pyrproetallurqical   Processing.    Pyrometallurgical   processing
refers  to  metal  processing  by either blast, reverberatory, or
kettle furnaces.  Several plants use  wet  scrubbers  to  control
possible  acidic  sulfur  dioxide  emissions.   The water use and
discharge  figures  reported  from  plants  using  wet  emissions
control  systems  are as follows, in gal/ton of furnace or kettle
capacity:
Kettles
    Plant

     3
     4
     5
    10
    19
    21
    24
    Use

    1456
    2407
    1123
      83
     398
     737
    2253
          Discharge

            0
            0
            0
            0
           16
            0
          188
Reverbs & Blast Furnaces
              Furnace Type   Use
    17
    23
     9
    17
    20
     1
    33

Other Furnaces

    Plant

    25
    28
Blast
Blast
Blast & Reverb
Reverb
Reverb
Reverb
Reverb
Use

58,656
   246
              5174
              5373
               155
              1868
               626
              6739
               780
              Discharge

              0
              0
                    Discharge

                    347
                    875
                      0
                    313
                    626
                    156
                      0
Metal Cooling.  As  can  be  seen  in  Table  VII-18,  noncontact
cooling  water  is used in the majority of plants.  Where contact
cooling  is  used  total  recycle,  recycle  with  bleed,   total
evaporation,  or  discharge  without recycle is practiced.  Water
use and discharge quantities reported by  secondary  lead  plants
for casting are as follows, in gallons per ton lead cast:
    Plant
    Use
          Discharge
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     6               16        0
     7               26        0
     9                50
    25               62        0
    27               152
    32               42       42
    34             1123        0
    35              189      189

Secondary Silver.

TVJO  subcategories  are  to  be  considered  within the secondary
silver  industry:  plants  that  recover  secondary  silver  from
photographic  wastes;  and  plants  that recover secondary silver
from non-photographic wastes.  Although the  silver  sources  are
different,   the   recovery   processes  are  similar,  and  both
subcategories will be discussed together in  this  section.   The
processes to be considered are:

1.  Leaching and film stripping.
2.  Precipitation and filtration.
3.  Pyrometallurgical processing.
4.  Electrolytic refining.
5.  Metal cooling.

Leaching  and  Film  Stripping^  The greatest source of recovered
silver from photographic sources is the stripping of silver  from
photographic  film.   There  will  usually be no wastewaters from
this process since the  flow  associated  with  this  process  is
impregnated  with  silver.   However,  wet  air pollution control
devices are  used  at  some  plants  to  control  air  emissions.
Recycle is possible and is practiced in all three plants with wet
scrubbers  as  can  be  seen  in Table VII-19.  Complex treatment
schemes are employed at two of the plants.  The other  evaporates
the wastewater in a smelting furnace.

Non-photographic  leaching streams can be impregnated with either
silver or impurities, depending  on  the  process  employed.   In
those  cases  where  impurities  are  leached,  treatment of this
wastewater, high in heavy metals and suspended solids and low  in
pH,  is  necessary.  pH adjustment and precipitation of the heavy
metals and suspended solids removal are practiced throughout  the
industry.   Wet  scrubbers  are  also  necessary  on  this acidic
process.   Waste  characteristics  of  the  scrubber  liquor  are
similar  to  the  leaching waste and must be treated accordingly.
Existing treatments are shown in Table VII-20.

Precipitation and Filtration .  The depleted silver solutions must
be discarded after precipitation; this waste is  common  to  both
subcategories.   High  heavy  metal concentrations  (especially in
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nonphotographic leaching wastes) , suspended solids, and  possibly
ammonia  require  treatment.   Several  methods  of treatment and
control of this waste stream are being practiced.  Slowdown  from
wet  air  pollution  control  devices is treated similarly to the
precipitation and filtration wastes.

Pyrometallurgical Processes.  Furnaces for melting,  drying,   and
incinerating  are  employed  in  the  secondary  silver industry.
Given  this  wide  variability  in  furnace   applications,   the
characteristics  of  the  emissions  from these furnaces, and the
type of air pollution control employed,  may  also  vary.   Thus,
certain  plants may require wet scrubbers to clean emissions  from
their furnances while other plants may be able  to  use  dry   air
pollution control devices.

Electrolytic   Refining.    Although   electrolytic  refining  is
practiced,  discharges  from  this   source   are   not   common.
Contractor  hauling, artificial evaporation, and total recycle of
electrolyte  are  practiced.   Spent  electrolyte  is   sent    to
precipitation in two plants.

Metal  Cooling.  Since the volume of silver cast is small, little
if any contact cooling water is required.  A flow of 1,000 gpd is
the only  significant  discharge  of  contact  cooling  water  in
secondary  silver and it is treated by lime, caustic, and polymer
addition and sedimentation.  Several other  plants  have  contact
cooling  water  flows  of  less  than  100 gpd and others use air
cooling.

The water use and  discharge  levels  reported  for  the  various
secondary  silver  operations are as follows, in gallons per  troy
ounce:

Wet Film Stripping and Recovery

              Use       Discharge
      1       .462      0
      2       .044       .044
      3     18.863       .156
      4       ?         0

Photographic Solution Silver Recovery

    Plant     Use       Discharge

     2        25.4      25.4
     5          .3        .6
     6         4.9       4.9
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Non-Photographic Leaching-Precipitation-Filtration

    Plant     Use       Discharge
     7
     8
     8
     9
    10
    11
    11
    11
    12
    13
    14
    14
    15
 26.0
195.28
  3.56
  1.14
   .31
   .12
   .17
   .11
   .31
   .17
   .08
   .43
   .42
          26.0
         195.28
           3.56
            .67
            .31
           0
           0
           0
            .31
            .17
            .08
            .43
            .42
Leaching-Precipitation-Filtration Scrubbers

    Plant      L'se       Discharge
     7
     8
    10
    11
    11
     3
    14
    15
    16
    17
 166.4
7074.2
  10.7
  19.7
 320.6
    .009
 173.3
  26.0
  77.7
   7.5
Furnace  Scrubbers
     Plant

     18
     7
     5
     10
     11
     16
 Cse

   4.5
   7
   1.0
   2. 1
   7.8
 131.5
 Electrolytic Refining
     Plant
     18
Blowdown

.059
               .87
             17.19
               .10
               0
               0
               .009
              60.67
              26.0
               0
               2.6
          Discharge

               0
               .7
               0
               0
               0
               0
           Discharge

                0
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     20              0
     80              0
     90              0
    11        .111           0
    19        .520           .008
    20        .390           .390
    21        0              0
    13        .017           .017
    14        .035           .035
    15        .10U           . 10U
    22        .008           .008
    16        .007           0
    23        0              0
    17        0              0

Casting.  Nine plants do not use any water.  The others are:

    Plant     Use       Discharge

     8        .029           .029
     9        .011           .011
    11*      7.826           0
    13        .083           .083
    1H*       .1H3           .143
    2<4        .005           .005
    16        .122           0

*includes scrubber

Primary Tungsten

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Fusion of concentrates.
2.  Leaching.
3.  Precipitation and filtration.
4.  APT drying.
5.  Reduction.

Fusion of Concentrates.  As shown in  Table  VII-21  no  tungsten
plants discharge wastewater from this process.  Dry air pollution
control  devices/ if any, are used to control emissions from this
process.

Leaching.  Leaching wastewater cannot be eliminated  since  water
is  necessary  to the process and the pollutant levels present in
this wastewater prohibit recycle with the treatment  technologies
in  current  use  in the tungsten industry..  Therefore, adequate
treatment is necessary to eliminate the  potential  of  pollution
from  this  wastewater.   Two of the three plants which discharge
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leaching wastes use lime and polymer addition, and  sedimentation
to  treat  this  waste.   The other plant discharges its leaching
wastes with no treatment.  Leaching  is  performed  at  a  fourth
plant   but   all   of  the  resulting  leachate  is  sent  to  a
precipitation process.

P re c i p i t at ion and Filtration.   Sodium  tungstate  solutions  are
generally  precipitated  with  calcium  chloride  and filtered to
recover calcium tungstate or are reacted with  ammonia  solutions
and  filtered  to  recover  crude  ammonia tungstate.  The barren
solutions  from   these   processes   must   be   treated.    The
characteristics  of  these  wastes  are  similar  to the leaching
wastes except the pH may not be acidic.  Recycle  of  this  waste
stream  may  not  be  possible  because dissolved solids are very
high.  Ammonia  stripping  is  practiced  by  one  plant  on  the
wastewater  produced  by ammonia tungstate formation.  Two plants
have eliminated a barren ammonium  solution  by  evaporating  the
entire solution to recover the ammonium tungstate.

APT  Drying.   APT  drying  is  usually  performed before further
processing.  Wet  air  pollution  control  devices  are  used  at
several  plants and may be necessary to prevent ammonia emissions
to the atmosphere.  NO plant currently  treats  this  stream  for
ammonia  removal.   Treatment  applied  to this wastewater can be
seen in Table VII-21.

Reduction.  When tungstic oxide is reduced to  pure  tungsten  by
heating  in  a  hydrogen atmosphere, water vapor is produced, and
the emissions are usually controlled by a  wet  scrubber.   Total
recycle of this wastewater is practiced at two plants.

Water  use  and  discharge  levels  reported  from APT production
operations are shown below, in gallons/pound of APT:

    Plant          Use       Discharge

    1              12.2      11.5
    2              11.4      11.4
    3               7.1       6.1
    4              12.7      12.7

Water use and discharge  levels  reported  from  metal  production
operations are shown below, in gallons/pound tungsten metal:

    Plant          Use       Discharge

    2              37.9      37.9
    3               6.15       .86
    5               1.04      1.04
    6              14.98      0
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    7               2.59      2.59

Primary Zinc

The processes to be considered are:

1.  Roasting
2.  Sintering and zinc reduction.
3.  Leaching.
4.  Electrolytic refining.
5.  Cadmium production.
6.  Metal cooling.

Roasting.  Since all zinc plants process ores high in sulfur (30-
32JE) , roasters and acid plants are utilized at  all  the  plants.
Preconditioning  of the emissions from roasting is performed with
wet scrubbers at every plant.  From Table VII-22 it can  be  seen
that  pH  adjustment  with  caustic or lime is practiced at every
plant  to  precipitate  metals  and   reduce   suspended   solids
concentrations.

Sintering   and   Zinc   Reduction.    Two  plants  produce  zinc
pyrometallurgically rather than hydrometallurgically  as  at  the
other  plants.   Pyrometallurgical  zinc is produced by sintering
and reduction.  Sintering does not require  wet  scrubbers  since
most  of  the  sulfur  is removed during roasting.  The reduction
furnaces, however, may require the use of wet  scrubbers  if  the
carbon  monoxide  content  in the emissions are captured for use.
One plant treats the bleed stream  from  the  wet  scrubber  with
polymer addition and sedimentation for suspended solids removal.

Leaching.  Leaching is used to produce zinc hydrometallurgically.
This  operation  may  require  wet  scrubbers  to  control acidic
emissions since sulfuric acid is used to leach the zinc from  the
roasted  ore  concentrates.   Controls  and  treatments  for this
wastewater are summarized in Table VI1-22.

Electrolytic  Refining.   Air  pollution  control   devices   for
refining  are  not  utilized  by  the  electrolytic  zinc plants.
Electrolyte is not discharged at any plant, but is recycled after
passing  through  a  series  of  electrowinning   cells.    After
refining, the electrolytically deposited zinc may be washed.  Two
plants discharge this washwater; one plant treats this waste with
lime  and polymer addition, sedimentation, and filtration and the
other plant discharges the washwater to an evaporation pond.

Cadmium Production.  The  only  wastewater  associated  with  the
recovery  of  cadmium  is washwater of the cadmium balls and mold
cooling water.  Two plants do not discharge this wastewater,  one
by  total recycle.  Of the plants that discharge this wastewater.
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two  of  the  plants  use  lime   and   polymer   addition,   and
sedimentation,  and  another  plant  settles  and  discharges the
wash water.

Metal Cooling.  Two plants do not  produce  any  wastewater  from
this  operation.   Total evaporation is employed at another plant
to avoid discharge.  One plant uses an air cooling system.

The process wastewater discharged,  apart  from  acid  plant  and
roaster  scrubber  wastewater,  is as follows, in gal/ton of zinc
capacity:

Electrolytic

    Plant     Discharge
    A
    B         1521
    C         2816
    D            0

Pyrolytic

    Plant     Discharge

    E          80
    F         517

Metallurgical Acid Plants

Acid plants are used in a  variety  of  subcategories  -  primary
copper,  lead  and  zinc.  These metals are usually produced from
sulfide ores, and in the production sequence, sulfur is  released
 (as   SOX)  in  a  pyrometallurgical  process,  either  roasting,
sintering or converting.

After the hot gases have been subjected  to  primary  particulate
control,  the  gases  are  usually treated with an open scrubbing
tower and a packed scrubbing tower  (or  one  scrubber  performing
both  operations  of  preconditioning  and scrubbing) , and a mist
precipitator  (for final particulate and SO3 removal) .  Due  to  a
buildup  in  salts, a blowdown may be necessary.  This wastewater
is highly acidic and is contaminated with metals .

In areas of net evaporation, this wastewater is usually impounded
and evaporated.  Other control measures  are  reuse  and  minimi-
zation  of the amount of blowdown.  Using the acid plant blowdown
for cooling hot gases from other processes, feeding the  blowdown
into   fluid   bed  roasters,  or  using  the  blowdown  for  ore
concentrating  are  three  possible  reuse  schemes.   One  plant
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reports  that  it  uses  its  blowdown  for  concentrating  after
sedimentation.   The  amount  of  acid  plan€  blowdovm  can   be
minimized  by  using highly efficient primary particulate control
devices.  This would minimize the  particulate  load  carried  to
acid plant scrubbers, thus minimizing required blowdown.
Lime  precipitation
wastewaters.
       is  used at three lead plants for acid plant
Preconditioning of the emissions from roasting is performed  with
wet  scrubbers  at every zinc plant.  From Table VII-22 it can be
seen that pH adjustment with caustic  or  lime  is  practiced  at
every  plant  to  precipitate  metals and reduce suspended solids
concentrations.

Reported blowdown rates from metallurgical  acid  plants  are  as
follows, in gal/ton acid:
  Plant

     1
     2
     3
     4
     5
     6
     7
     8
     9
    10
    11
    12
    13
    11
    15
    16
    17
    18
    19
    20
    21
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
Metal

  CU
  CU
  CU
  CU
  CU
  Pb
  Pb
  Pb
  Zn
  Zn
  Zn
  Zn
  Zn
  Cu
  Cu
  Cu
  Cu
  Cu
  Cu
  Pb
  Zn
Blowdown

  355
  291
 1009
    0
 1812
  535
 1496
 1262
  547
 1312
  485
 1006
  645
  502
  332
  352
   80
 3798
  179
  179
  514
 (SC=Single Contact, DC=Double Contact Acid Plant)

 (Cu=Copper, Pb=Lead and Zn=Zinc)
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  0.0001
                                     PH
Figure VII-1.  The Relationship of Solubilities of Msta! Ions
               as a Function of pH
Source:
Reference: 9
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WASTEWATER
   FEED
PREPROCESSING
FILTER
  PRODUCT WATER
(PERMEATE)TO REUSE
           PLASTIC SEAL
          HOLLOW FIBER
                REVERSE
                OSMOSIS
                 UNIT
                      BRINE  TO
                    EVAPORATION
   FIGURE  YH-3' REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM
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                               TABLE VII-1

      Concentrations of Various Parameters of a Columbium/Tantalum
    Raw Waste Stream Before and After Lime Addition and Sedimentation
Parameter
Influent (mg/1)
Effluent (mg/1)
Percent Removal %
PH
COD
TSS
Fluoride
Aluminum
Calcium
Copper
Cadmium
Iron
Lead
Manganese
Nickel
Zinc
10
16
900
4.5
9
550
110
0.025
120
50
17
60
27
11.5
8
10
2.5
0.2
230
0.7
0.002
0.3
0.3
0.2
0.5
0.2

50
99
45
97
57
99
99
99+
99
99
99
99
                               TABLE VII-2

           Concentrations of Various Parameters of a Tungsten
    Raw Waste Stream Before and After Lime Addition and Sedimentation
Parameter
PH
COD
TSS
Chloride
Arsenic
Aluminum
Cadmium
Copper
Chromium
Iron
Lead
Nickel
Zinc
Influent (mg/1)
0.5
300
200
25E3
7
3
0.2
5
2
50
20
1
2
Effluent (mg/1)
7-9
53
150
19E3
0.08
0.5
0.08
0.07
0.05
2
0.2
0.1
0.6
Percent Removal (%)

84
28
26
99
83
60
99
97
96
99
90
70
Scientific Notation Used, i.e. 19,000 = 19E3
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                              TABLE VII-3



     Percent Removal of Selected Pollutants by Lime Precipitation



                             Influent
Pollutant
COD
TSS
Fluoride
Sb
As
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Ag
Zn
Concentration (mg/1)
350
100
25
150
60
30
15
200
40
20
1
0.5
0.2
0.1
1.0
3.0
0.3
4.0
1.0
0.3
0.003
3.0
0.7
0.2
0.01
10
2
- 1500
- 350
100
- 5,000
- 150
60
30
- 3,000
- 200
40
100
100
0.5
100
- 5,000
- 500
3
100
4
1
0.1
- 1,000
3
0.7
2
- 2,000
10
Removal (%)
75 -
65 -
50 -
90 -
75 -
60 -
30 -
90 -
75 -
60 -
95 -
95 -
85 -
95 -
95 -
95 -
85 -
95 -
85 -
70 -
95 -
95 -
80 -
60 -
70 -
95 -
70 -
85
75
65
99
90
75
60
99
90
75
99+
99
95
99
99+
99+
95
99+
95
85
99+
99+
95
80
99+
99+
95
Source:  Sampling data and References 77,  78,  79,  80,  81,  82,  83
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                               TABLE VII-4

                       Percent Removal of Organic
                Priority Pollutants by Lime Precipitation
     Organic Priority
        Pollutant

 1.  acenaphthene
 4.  benzene
 8.  1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
10.  1,2-dichloroethane
29.  1,1-dichloroethylene
39.  fluoranthene
44.  methylene chloride
48.  dichlorobromomethane
66.  bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
67.  butyl benzyl phthalate
68.  di-n-butyl phthalate
69.  di-n-octyl phthalate
70.  diethyl phthalate
73.  benzo(a)pyrene
76.  chrysene
80.  fluorene
84.  pyrene
86.  tetrachloroethylene
108. PCB-1254
111. PCB-1248
   Influent
 Range (ug/1)

   4-570
  15
1580
   2- 23
   1-224
   4-320
 191-224
   1-224
  31
  14- 31
  14
  14- 31
  14- 31
 570
 230-545
   4-570
 220
   5- 12
   1-  3
   1-  2
 Average
Removal (%)

    80
    80
    90
    91
    76
    82
    99
    76
    32
    60
    89
    60
    60
    93
    94
    80
    56
    50
    41
    39
 Similar
Compounds*

 39, 73, 76, 84
 10, 23, 44, 86


 10, 23, 44, 86

 66, 68

 66, 68
 66, 88


 39, 73, 76, 84
*For pollutants for which removal data was not available, the percent
removal recorded in the second column was based on an average percent
removal of the molecularly similar compounds listed in the third column
by priority pollutant number (see Table V-l).

Source:  Sampling data, and references 17 and 111
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                               TABLE VII-5

                       Percent Removal of Organic
              Priority Pollutants by Multimedia Filtration
     Organic Priority
        Pollutant

 1.  acenaphthene
 4.  benzene
 8.  1,2,4,-trichlorobenzene
10.  1,2-dichloroethane
29.  1,1-dichloroethylene
39.  fluoranthene
44.  methylene chloride
48.  dichlorobromomethane
66.  bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
67.  butyl benzyl phthalate
68.  di-n-butyl phthalate
69.  di-n-octyl phthalate
70.  diethyl phthalate
73.  benzo(a)pyrene
76.  chrysene
80.  fluorene
84.  pyrene
86.  tetrachloroethylene
108. PCB-1254
111. PCB-1248
  Influent
Range (ug/1)
  0.08-
    Tr-
 29
 46   -
 46   -
  0.08
 46
 46   -
 Tr   •
 Tr
 Tr   •
 Tr   -
 Tr
  0.08-
  0.08-
  0.08*
  0.10-
  0.8 •
 50
 50
   0.2
  15
 154
1020
1020
1020
 760
 760
 760
 760
 760
   0.2
   0.2
   0.2
   0.2
   6.7
 Average
Removal (%)

    32
    53
    62
    59
    59
    38
    20
    59
    54
    54
    54
    54
    54
    32
    32
    32
    25
    62
    80
    80
 Similar
Compounds*

 39, 84
 23, 44
 23, 44
 23, 44

 66
 66
 66
 66
 39, 84
 39, 84
 39, 84
                         PCB (in general)
                         PCB (in general)
*For pollutants for which removal data was not available, the percent
removal recorded in the second column was based on an average percent
removal of the molecularly similar compounds listed in the third column
by priority pollutant number (see Table V-l).

Reference 17
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                               TABLE VII-6

        Percent Removals of Various Pollutants by Reverse Osmosis
                              Influent       Average
     Pollutant              Range (mg/1)    Removal (%)     Reference

Aluminum                      2   - 150      96-99          110,  182
Cadmium                       0.02-   0.06   98             110
Chloride                     12   -1080      74-91          103,  182
Chromium (VI)                 0.1 -  50      91-99          182
Copper                        1   - 100      82-96          182
Cyanide                       0.8 -  78      79-83          182
Iron                          0.2 -  94      95-98          182
Lead                          0.02-   0.03   99+            110
Magnesium                    11   - 265      62-64          182
Nickel                        0.7 -   0.8    99             110
Zinc                          0.02-   0.1    97             110
                                  TABLE VI1-7

                          Percent  Removal of Organic
                    Priority Pollutants by  Reverse  Osmosis*


             Organic Priority
                Pollutant                            Removal (%)


    39. fluoranthene                                     99.9+
    66. bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate                      99.9+
    67. butyl benzyl phthalate                           99.9+
    68. di-n-butyl phthalate                             99.9+
    69. di-n-octyl phthalate                             99.9+
    70. diethyl phthalate                                99.9+
    73. benzo(a)pyrene                                   99.9+
    76. chrysene                                         99.9+
    84. pyrene                                           99.9+
   108. PCB-1254                                         99.9+
   111. PCB-1248                                         99.9+


   *Based on nearly 100  percent removal of compounds with  molecular weight
   greater than 200.

   Reference 102
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  1. acenaphthene                0.1            99          PAH+, 84
  4. benzene                    Tr  -  2        93
  8. 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene     94              99
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 39. fluoranthene                0.1            99          PAH, 84
 44. methylene chloride         47              43
 48. dichlorobromomethane       12  - 47        73
 66. bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate Tr  -400        36
 67. butyl benzyl phthalate     Tr  -400        36          66
 68. di-n-butyl phthalate       Tr  -400        36          66
 69. di-n-octyl phthalate       Tr  -400        36          66
 70. diethyl phthalate          Tr  -400        36          66
 73. benzo(a)pyrene              0.1            99          PAH, 84
 76. chrysene                    0.1            99          PAH, 84
 80. fluorene                    0.1            99          PAH, 84
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 86. tetrachloroethylene        Tr  -  0.06     88
108. PCB-1254                   10  -100        95          PCB ++
111. PCB-1248                   10  -100        95          PCB
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+Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (in general)
++ PCB (in general)

Reference 17, 111, 112, 192, 193.
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 0.96  -  2.6                      As             122
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 0.012 -  0.087                    Hg             78, 186
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                          SECTION VIII

           COST, ENERGY, AND NON-WATER QUALITY ASPECTS


This   section   presents  an  analysis  of  cost  estimates  and
associated  energy  and  non-water  quality  impacts  of  various
alternative   technologies.    Selected   in-plant  controls  are
discussed herein, and the costs are included under the technology
costs.   The  determination  of  which  costs  and  benefits  are
acceptable  for  BPT  will  be made by the EPA prior to proposing
regulations.

The treatment alternatives for direct  and  indirect  dischargers
are  considered  together,  rather  than  separately, because the
majority of POTWs  (Publicly Owned Treatment Works) are unable  to
remove  the heavy metals found in this industry's wastewater.  In
many cases, an industrial source can  discharge  to  a  municipal
sewer  by  paying  a  service  charge  and providing some form of
pretreatment.  Pretreatment is required for  any  pollutant  that
"interferes  with,  passes through, or otherwise is incompatible"
with a POTW.  Many POTWs are secondary biological  systems  which
do not effectively treat heavy metals to low levels.  POTWs, like
other  discharge  sources,  have  limitations  on  the  levels of
pollutant they  discharge.   As  a  result,  municipalities  have
developed  sewer  ordinances  limiting the discharge level to the
POTW of pollutants that POTWs can not remove.  A survey of  these
ordinances  revealed that many municipalities limit the levels of
heavy metals being discharged to the POTW  (23) .  A summary of the
limits set in sewer ordinances are tabulated below.

                Minimum       Mode       Maximum      Number of
Pollutant     Limit  (mg/1)    (mg/1)    Limit  (mg/1) Municipalities

As               0.01          0.05         3            35
Cd               0.002         0.1;2       15            58
Cr               0.1           5           25            49
Cu               0.06          1;3         18            66
Pb               0.05          0.1          5            U9
Hg               0.0005        0.005        5            30
Ni               0.1           1           15            57
Se               0.01          0.02         5            2H
Ag               0.03          0.1          5            35
Zn               0.2           5           50            64
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Therefore, nonferrous metals plants that discharge to POTWs must,
in many cases, remove heavy metals to levels comparable to direct
dischargers.   For  this  reason,  the treatment alternatives for
indirect and direct dischargers  are  developed  without  distin-
guishing between the two.

The  basis  used  to  develop costs for treatment technologies is
presented first, followed by the estimated costs and benefits for
the alternatives applicable  to  each  subcategory.   Energy  and
other non-water quality aspects are also presented.

Existing  plants  and  new  sources are discussed separately with
existing plants being covered first.

EXISTING SOURCES

In-Plant Control Measures

The in-plant control measures that exist in or are  available  to
plants in the nonferrous metals industry are discussed in Section
VII.   The  incorporation of in-plant controls into the processes
of an existing source can be a cost-effective means  of  reducing
pollutant   and  hydraulic  loadings  and  thereby  the  cost  of
treatment facilities.  Recycle of various process streams is  the
most  common in-plant control suggested for BAT.  The assumptions
used to develop the costs of recycling wastewater  are  presented
under  the  "Investment  Cost  Basis" portion of this section.  A
description of the recycled streams is  provided  in  the  "Plant
Costs" portion of this section.  The costs of the recommended in-
plant  controls  are  included  for  each treatment scheme in the
summation curves of annual costs.

Alternative Technologies and Basis of Cost Estimates

The results  of  detailed  cost  analyses  of  various  treatment
technologies for existing sources are described below.  Summation
curves  have  been  used  to present the annual costs.  Costs for
each subcategory are presented separately. In some  subcategories
the  individual wastewaters combine in ways that reguire a unique
set of treatment alternatives.  In other cases treatment  schemes
are essentially the same for more than one subcategory.  In these
cases,  the  same  annual cost curves for a given alternative are
presented under the discussion of more than one subcategory.

Investment Cost Basis and Technology Description

Investment costs include  equipment  and  installation  costs  of
treatment components and monitoring equipment plus allowances for
contingencies  and  engineering.   For  technologies currently in
use, i.e. chemical precipitation, vacuum filtration,  filtration.
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pH  adjustment,  chlorine oxidation, activated alumina, activated
carbon, steam stripping, reverse osmosis, sedimentation,  holding
tanks, cooling towers, and evaporation, specific cost curves were
developed  from  current  bids,  the literature and other sources
(74, 99,  100,  127  through  159).   The  cost  information  was
equalized  by  updating all the costs to the 4th quarter of 1976.
The national average EPA-Standard  Treatment  Plant   (STP)  index
and/or  EPA-Large  City Advanced Treatment (LCAT)  index were used
to update the costs for preliminary engineering  estimates.   The
EPA-LCAT index was chosen because its component mix is indicative
of  the  treatment processes presented herein.  The EPA-STP index
was chosen because it was the index used by  a  majority  of  the
references from which costs were obtained.  These cost values are
averages  for  the  nation  and,  under  specific regional market
conditions, could  vary as much as 4056.   The  factors   (160)   in
Figure  VTII-1  can  be  used  to  obtain  the capital cost for a
particular location.

Total installed costs are broken into equipment and  construction
fractions as follows:   (160)

Process                       Equipment          Construction

Chemical Precipitation            20                  80
Vacuum Filtration                 35                  65
Multi-Media Filtration            20                  80
pH Adjustment                     35                  65
Chlorine Oxidation                35                  65
Activated Alumina                 50                  50
Activated Carbon                  50                  50
Steam Stripping                   35                  65
Reverse Osmosis                   50                  50
Holding Tank                      50                  50
Sedimentation                     10                  90
Cooling Tower                     35                  65
Evaporation Lagoon                10                  90

A  contingency allowance of 15% of the installed cost was used to
cover  unexpected  costs  due  to  local  plant  conditions   and
differences  between  actual  systems and those used for the cost
estimates.  No allowance  was  made  for  plant  shutdown  during
construction.  The need for a shutdown is dependent on the layout
of  each  plant.   Engineering  costs  were  estimated by using a
percentage  of  the  installed  cost  plus  contingencies.    The
percentage  used  was  to  the  nearest  0.55?  from  curve  A  in
Consulting Engineering  (ASCE MOP #45), which is a plot of percent
engineering costs versus construction costs.

Investment costs were developed for each level of  treatment  and
were  then  amortized  for  incorporation  into  the  annual cost
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summation curves.  The summation curves present the cost of  each
alternative  as  a  plot  of annual cost ($/yr) versus plant flow
(mgd).  This approach allows the reader to determine the cost  of
any size plant.

The  alternatives  for  treatment  include  one  or  more  of the
following unit operations or processes in various combinations:

Chemical Precipitation.  Lime is used to precipitate  metal's  and
the  process  includes sedimentation and thickening of the sludge
plus sludge dewatering by vacuum  filtration.   Investment  costs
for  chemical  precipitation  were developed assuming lime as the
precipitant and including sedimentation, gravity  thickening  and
vacuum   filtration.    Lime   was   selected   because   of  its
comparatively low cost coupled with its proven  effectiveness  in
the  industry.   While it is recognized that caustic, iron salts,
and sulfides may be more appropriate in some applications,  costs
for  these  precipitants and their feed systems are comparable to
lime relative to the overall costs of  a  chemical  precipitation
system.

Specific cases were developed for chemical precipitation relating
investment  cost to lime dosage and sludge production.  The cases
are as follows:

            Case        Lime (mg/1)         Sludge  (Ib/mil gal)

              1          16,000                500,000
              2           7,300                250,000
              3           2,500                100,000
              a           1,100                 50,000
              5             580                 25,000
              6             285                 10,000
              7              50                  1,500

Units were sized for these cases based on  an  overflow  rate  of
40.75   m3/day-m2    (1000   gpd/ft2)  for  sedimentation  and  an
application rate of 122 kg/day-m2   (25  Ib/ft2/day)  for  gravity
thickening  (161) .

The  investment  costs  for  vacuum  filtration were developed in
terms of the amount of sludge to be dewatered.  The  filter  area
was  calculated using a dry solids loading rate of  19.53 kg/m2/hr
 (U Ib/ft2/hr) and an operating period of 10 hrs/day   (143) .   The
quantity  of  solids  requiring  dewatering  is  dependent on the
treatment alternative and the specific  lime   dosage  and  sludge
production   cases,  as  previously  described,  used  with  each
alternative.
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Multi-Media Filtration.
        fine
        of
 	  A. granular media filter bed is  used  to
   particulates.   The  filter  bed consists of graded
 gravel,  coarse  anthracite  coal,  and  fine   sand.
the   filter  backwash  is  pumped  to  the  secondary
          However, when  filtration  is  used  without
               the  backwash  is  pumped directly to a
remove
layers
Normally
sedimentation tank
chemical  precipitation,
vacuum filter.
The hydraulic loading rate used  was  163  1/min-m2  (4  gpm/ft2)
(143).  Specific cases were developed for filtration as follows:
                   Case

                    1
                    2
                    3
                    4
                            TSS Removed (mg/1)

                                100
                                 50
                                 15
                                  5
The solids carried over to the filter from chemical precipitation
have  a  direct  influence  on  the  solids being recycled in the
backwash to the secondary clarifier  and  therefore  add  to  the
sludge volume applied to the vacuum filter.

Neutralization or p_H Adjustment.  H2SO4 (66°Be')  and/or NaOH (50%
liquid)  are  utilized  to  obtain  desired  pH values at various
points in any given alternative sequence.  The  investment  costs
include a mixing tank and chemical handling systems for both acid
and alkaline solutions, which also include storage tanks.

Chlorine  Oxidation.   Chlorine  gas  is used to oxidize or break
down  undesirable  pollutants  that  may  interfere  with   other
processes  or  remain  in  an  effluent.   Specifically, chlorine
oxidation is used for cyanide and ammonia destruction.

The investment costs include chlorine storage and  feed  systems,
and  a chlorine contact tank with a detention time of 30 minutes.
The costs also include a feed system for adjustment  to  alkaline
pH prior to chlorine addition.
Activated  Alumina.
           Contact columns containing alumina are used
          and  fluoride.   The  backwash   and   spent
to  remove  arsenic
regenerant  are  both recycled to the chemical precipitation unit
for removal of the concentrated pollutant.

The investment costs  are  based  on  a  system  using  activated
alumina  in  contacting  columns.   A surface loading rate of 122
1/min-m2 (3 gpm/ft2)  was  assumed  with  an  alumina  adsorption
capacity of 0.5% by weight for fluoride and arsenic  (80).
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Activated  Carbon.  Granular activated carbon in downward flowing
contacting columns is used to adsorb colloids and large molecular
pollutants.  An exhaustion rate of .18 kg/m3  (1500  Ib/mil  gal)
was assumed for all subcategories except secondary silver.  A .66
kg/m3  (5500  Ib/mil  gal)  and  1.49  kg/m3  (12,400 Ib/mil gal)
exhaustion  rate  was  assumed   for   secondary   silver,   non-
photographic  and  photographic, respectively,  on-site multiple-
hearth furnace  regeneration  was  assumed  for  plants  treating
wastewater  flows  greater  than  1287, 435, and 193 m3/day (.34,
.115, and .051 mgd) for exhaustion rates of .18,  .66,  and  1.49
kg/m3  (1500,  5500,  and  12,400  Ib/mil gal) respectively.  For
plants smaller than those given for each exhaustion rate, it  was
assumed  that  the spent carbon would be discarded.  Many factors
influence the  investment  cost  for  activated  carbon  systems;
namely,   exhaustion   rate,  carbon  type   (manufacturer  &  raw
material), contact type  (upward, downward - packed, expanded)  and
regeneration method.

Steam Stripping.  A stripping tower and steam are used to  remove
ammonia  from  the  wastewater.   The  investment costs include a
stripping tower, a boiler, and a blower.  A surface loading  rate
of  81.5  1/min-mz   (2  gpm/ft2)  was  assumed along with a steam
requirement of 1 pound of steam per gallon of wastewater treated.

Reverse Osmosis.  To remove selected  ions  from  the  wastewater
streams,  prefiltration cartridges are used along with membranes.
The resulting brines are further concentrated into  a  disposable
sludge by multiple-effect evaporators.

The investment costs include prefiltration cartridges, membranes,
membrane housing, pumps, and mechanical evaporation of the brine.
Costs  were  based  on  a recovery of 85% of the flow through the
reverse osmosis unit and  a  98%  reduction  in  the  brine  flow
through the mechanical evaporator.

Holding  Tank  and  Cooling  Tower.   These  two  items  will  be
discussed together as they  are  incorporated  into  the  various
treatment  schemes  to  provide  cooling of contact cooling water
prior to recycle.

By reviewing the information  supplied  in  the  data  collection
portfolios  it  was  found  ,that   85%  of the plants that recycle
contact cooling water following treatment through cooling  towers
have  flows  greater  than  303 m3/day  (80,000 gpd).  It was also
found that 60% of the plants that  recycle contact   cooling  water
following sedimentation or no treatment have  flow rates less than
303  m3/day   (80,000 gpd).  For those plants that recycle contact
cooling water with no reported treatment, 86% had contact cooling
water flows less than 303 m3/day  (80,000 gpd).  It  was  therefore
assumed  that plants having contact cooling water flows less than
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303 m3/day (80,000 gpd)  would provide recycle following  a  day's
retention  time  in a. holding tank and that plants having contact
cooling water flows greater than 303 mVday  (80,000  gpd)  would
provide recycle following treatment in a cooling tower.

The investment costs for a holding tank include tanks, pumps, and
1,000  ft  of  piping with the tanks sized to store a day's flow.
The investment costs for a cooling tower  assume  the  use  of  a
mechanical  (induced)  draft  tower and include the tower, pumps,
305 meters (1,000 ft) of piping, fans and packing.  The sizing of
the tower is based on a range of 13.9°C (25°F),  an  approach  of
5.6°C (10°F),  and a wet bulb temperature of 21.11°C (70°F) (162).

Sedimentation.   Primary  sedimentation  is  utilized  to  remove
suspended solids from the wastewater  stream  prior  to  recycle.
The investment costs include a primary sedimentation tank, solids
removal  mechanism,  and  305  meters  (1,000 ft) of piping.   The
costs were based on a hydraulic loading rate  of  32.6  m3/day-m2
(800 gpd/ft«)  (161) .

Evaporation.    A   lagoon  is  used  for  solar  evaporation  of
wastewater in regions of net evaporation.  The  investment  costs
include  excavation  and  dikes,  land  costs, asphalt or plastic
liner, pumps and pipes.  The sizing of the lagoons was  based  on
the  net  effective  annual  evaporation  rate.   This  value was
determined for each plant.

Monitoring.  The costs are based on  collecting  samples  of  the
influent  and  effluent  streams  of  the  treatment  plant.   The
sampling schedule is for 24-hour composite samples  to  be  taken
once  per week.  Continuous monitoring of the pH and flow is also
provided for the influent and effluent of all treatment plants.

The equipment items include two flow meters, two primary and  one
backup  refrigerated samplers, two pH meters, refrigerated sample
storage containers, and a refrigerator.  The costs are  based  on
equipment manufacturers' price lists  (157, 158, 159) .

The  above  treatment  operations  and  processes,  alone  or  in
combination, have been arranged in alternatives which may be  BAT
level  technologies.   Removal of metallic priority pollutants by
chemical precipitation  has  been  widely  demonstrated  in  this
industry.  Consequently, treated concentrations can be determined
with  a high degree of accuracy.  Removing metals to lower levels
by activated alumina and reverse osmosis has had limited  use  in
the  industry.  The effectiveness of activated carbon in removing
the organic priority pollutants has not been demonstrated in  the
nonferrous metals industry.  Reports are available, however,  that
discuss  the  degree of adsorbability of activated carbon for the
individual priority pollutant organics (102, 111, 163, 112,  17) .
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Based  upon  these reports, conservative estimates have been made
for removals by carbon and its exhaustion rates  under  different
operating conditions.

Land Costs

Land  requirements   (129)   are  presented  in  Figure  VIII-2 for
individual  technologies.     The   technologies   are:   chemical
precipitation,   primary   sedimentation,  filtration,  activated
alumina,  activated  carbon,  steam   stripping,   oxidation   by
chlorine,  cooling tower,  pH adjustment, reverse osmosis, holding
tanks, and vacuum filtration.  The total land requirement can  be
determined   from   Figure   VIII-2  by  summing  the  individual
requirements of each technology for any given alternative.

Land costs are not provided, as costs are  highly  site  specific
and could vary by several magnitudes.  Land costs for evaporation
lagoons,  however, were taken to be $1,000/acre, as lagoons would
be  utilized  in  rural  areas  where  $1,000/acre  would  be   a
reasonable  cost  for  land.   Land  requirements for evaporation
lagoons are presented in Figure VIII-3  (98).

Annual Costs

Capital.  Capital costs were amortized at  an  interest  rate  of
7.75%  over  a  20-year period, i.e. cost of capital being 10% of
the investment per annum.  Consequently,  the  capital  investment
cost can be determined from the capital cost curve by multiplying
any  annual  capital  cost value by ten.  Since the current money
market is unstable, the annual capital costs may need  adjustment
for  higher interest rates.  The following table presents factors
to convert the amortized cost of capital  expenditures  shown  in
the annual cost summation curves to the amortized capital cost at
a  variety of other  interest rates.  These factors are based on a
payback period of 20 years.
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       Interest         Capital Recovery         Multiplication
         Rate                Factor                   Factor

         7.75                .09996                   1.0
         8                   .10185                   1.02
         8.5                 .10567                   1.06
         9                   .10955                   1.10
         9.5                 .113/18                   1.13
        10                   .11746                   1.17
        10.5                 .12149                   1.21
        11                   .12558                   1.26
        11.5                 .12970                   1.3
        12                   .13388                   1.34
        12.5                 .13810                   1.38
        13                   .14235                   1.42
        13.5                 .14665                   1.47
        14                   .15099                   1.51

Decree iation.   Estimated  lives  of  the  components   of   each
alternative  were established and related to the investment costs
to determine the estimated design life of each alternative (131).
The estimated lives for each component are as follows:

              Technology                    Useful Life  (yrs.)

         Chemical Precipitation                  25
         Vacuum Filtration                       15
         Filtration                              15
         pH Adjustment                           15
         Chlorine Oxidation                      15
         Activated Alumina                       15
         Activated Carbon                        15
         Steam Stripper                          15
         Reverse Osmosis                         20
         Holding Tank                            20
         Sedimentation                           25
         Cooling Tower                           15
         Evaporation Lagoon                      25

The life of any alternative was determined by calculating a  cost
weighted  average  (dividing  the sum of the products of cost and
useful life for each process by the sum of the costs).  This  can
be expressed as:


Years = ($xYears) = ($C.PxYr C.P.) + ($VFxYr VF) + (SFxYrF) +...
            $           $C.P.      +   $VF      +   $F      + $...

The  installed  cost  plus  contingencies  were  depreciated on a
straight line basis for the calculated life of each alternative.
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Operation and Maintenance Labor.  Estimates of  the  annual  man-
hours  required  to operate and maintain the various systems were
developed from the literature   (129,  164) .   A  productive  work
value of 6.5 hr/man/dayr or 1,500 hr/yr/man was assumed (164).  A
rate  of  $15/hr  was used as the total cost for wages, benefits,
and overhead expenses.   Supervisory,  administrative,  clerical,
and  laboratory  man-hours were developed and are included in the
OSM labor costs.  Figure VIII- 4 shows how  the  wage  rates  will
vary  with  location throughout the U.S.  The factors  (165) shown
can be multiplied by the assumed rate of  $15/hr  to  obtain  the
wage rate at that location.

Maintenance  Materials .   The annual costs of materials and parts
needed  to  maintain  each  process  were  developed   from   the
literature and equipment manufacturers.  (129, 131, 100, 99, 138,
139, mo,
Chemicals.    To   determine   the  chemical  cost  for  chemical
precipitation, lime was chosen as the  precipitant.   The  annual
use  for  a  given  installation  was  determined  by  the  cases
described under Chemical Precipitation which  correspond  to  the
wastewater characteristics .

Sulfuric  acid   (66°Be')  and  sodium hydroxide  (50$ liquid)  were
assumed to be used for pH adjustment.  A dosage of 0.5 pounds  of
acid  or  caustic  per  1,000  gallons  of  flow  was  used  as a
conservative assumption.

For chlorine oxidation  of  cyanide  a  dosage  of  800  mg/1  of
chlorine was assumed, while 3,04)0 mg/1 of chlorine was assumed as
the dosage for oxidation of ammonia.

Activated alumina chemical usage includes sulfuric acid  (66° Be')
and   sodium   hydroxide    (50%  liquid)  for  regeneration,  and
replacement of activated alumina.   For  regeneration,  four  bed
volumes  of  1fl  NaOH and one bed volume of .05N H2SO4 are needed
every two days.  An attrition rate of 10% per year for  activated
alumina was assumed.

The  activated  carbon  process  incurs  chemical  costs  for the
replacement of carbon.   For  small  plants  that  find  it  more
economical  to  discard  the  carbon after exhaustion, the entire
carbon inventory is replaced according to  the  exhaustion  rate.
For  those  plants  that  utilize  on-site  regeneration,  it was
assumed that 8% of the carbon is lost  during  each  regeneration
and must be replaced.

The  chemical  costs  for  reverse  osmosis  include the membrane
cleaning chemicals.  These costs were taken from literature  (139,
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     149).  The costs of chemicals (166) were assumed  to  be  as
follows:

Chemical                Cost ($/ton)

Lime (CaO)                   30
SO2                         180
Activated Alumina           340
Activated Carbon           1000
NaOH (50% liquid)           160
H2SO4 (66° Be1)              47

Energy  and  Power.   Operating time for all equipment of all the
treatment alternatives, with the exception of vacuum  filtration,
was  assumed  to  be  24 hrs/day and 300 days/yr.  Vacuum filters
were sized to operate 10 hrs/day, 300 days/yr.

Annual electrical energy consumption values  for  each  component
were  developed  utilizing  technical  literature (167, 168, 169,
170, 146) and equipment manufacturers' specifications  (145) .   In
developing the costs, all electric motors were assumed to have an
efficiency  of  88%  (171) and the cost of electricity was assumed
to be 3.32/kwh.  This cost value is  an  average  value  for  the
entire  U.S.  taken  from  the industry data collection portfolio
responses.

Fuel oil and natural gas  costs  were  developed  from  the  data
collection   portfolio   responses   and   applicable   technical
literature  (134).  National average costs were determined  to  be
24£/therm for fuel oil and 182/therm for natural gas.

Vacuum  filtration  energy  consumption  varies with filter area.
The area, or size of the filter, is dependent on  the  amount  of
sludge  to  be  dewatered  which  is  a  function of the chemical
precipitation and filtration cases, and of the  flow  rate  being
evaluated.   Consequently,  energy  consumption  is  dependent on
these criteria also.

Energy consumption for activated carbon is dependent on the  flow
and  whether  the  exhausted  carbon is regenerated or discarded.
The remaining technologies1 consumption is based solely on flow.

Sludge Disposal.  Sludge disposal costs cover  hauling  dewatered
sludge,   exhausted  activated  carbon,  and  concentrated reverse
osmosis brine, when applicable, to an approved sanitary landfill.
The hauling costs were obtained from literature  (172,  173) ,  and
plotted  as  tons/yr of dry sludge hauled vs. $/dry ton.  A round
trip hauling distance of 10 miles was assumed.   (See Figure VIII-
5).
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Sludge disposal costs are related  to  the  cases  developed  for
chemical   precipitation   and   filtration.   Recycle  of  spent
activated alumina regenerant to the chemical  precipitation  unit
increases the amount of sludge.

Costs  to  dispose of spent activated carbon are based on hauling
to a landfill.  It was assumed that the carbon would be dewatered
to 50% solids, i.e., containing its own weight in water.

Monitoring.   Monitoring   costs   include   outside   laboratory
analytical  charges  and time for reporting results to regulatory
agencies.  The costs associated with  collecting  and  delivering
samples are included under operation and maintenance labor.

Sampling  frequency  was  assumed to be once per week of both the
influent and effluent.  Criteria pollutants are analyzed once per
week and priority pollutants are analyzed once per month.

Laboratory cost estimates were based on  current   (Jan.  -  June,
1978) commercial laboratory price lists  (17U, 175, 176, 177, 178,
179,  180) .   Reporting  costs were based on $15/hr and allowed 2
hr/week for compiling data plus 8 hr/month for preparing reports.

Plant Costs

In the nonferrous metals industry, each subcategory  possesses  a
set  of  wastewater  streams  that  must  be  treated  to  remove
pollutants or for recycle.  Most plants differs from  each  other
in  the  combination of streams and/or the flow rate.  Wastewater
characteristics play an important role in  determining  treatment
alternatives and these characteristics are primarily dependent on
the  combination  of  streams existing at each plant.  Therefore,
the various subcategories in the nonferrous metals  industry  are
discussed  separately  in  order  to present the wastewaters, the
combinations of wastewaters, the rate of flow, and the  treatment
alternatives.

To  determine  a  specific  plant's  costs,  first  calculate the
process wastewater flow in gal/day.   The rate used  for  contact
cooling  water  should  be  5%  of the plant's use, or the amount
discharged,  whichever  is  less.   Rainfall   runoff   was   not
considered  as  a  process wastewater, nor was noncontact cooling
water.  The annual  costs  can  then  be  read  easily  from  the
appropriate curves.

For  example,  assume  a primary aluminum plant has the following
discharged flows:

                           Actual Flow      Flow for Costing
Anode bake plant             10,000         10,000
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Potline scrubber             60,000         60,000
Casting (use=discharge)     140,000          7,000
Noncontact cooling          100,000	0_
                                            77,000

This plant would be included in  Combination  3.   Going  to  the
appropriate cost curves, the incremental annual costs would be as
follows:

Alternative 1      $150,000
Alternative 2       210,000
Alternative 3       320,000
Alternative H       250,000

and the total annualized costs would be as follows;

Alternative 1      $150,000
Alternative 2       360,000
Alternative 3       680,000
Alternative 4       610,000

The  treatment alternatives assume 95% recycle of contact cooling
water, after a  cooling  tower  or  a  holding  tank,  which  are
included  in  the  costs.  All other process wastewater presently
discharged is assumed to be treated  by  each  alternative.   For
example,  it  was assumed that the hypothetical plant above would
treat all its present effluent through  each  alternative,  i.e.,
77,000 gpd would be treated by reverse osmosis in Alternative 3.

Obviously,  where  recycle  is  employed  it is less expensive to
treat the recycled wastewater only to  the  extent  necessary  to
prevent  plugging,  fouling, or other problems.  The hypothetical
plant  above  could  recycle  50%  of  its  flow  after  chemical
precipitation, and 50% of the remainder after filtration, leaving
only  about  20,000  gpd  to be treated by reverse osmosis.  This
would result in annual savings of about $250,000.

Determination of the Benefits of Treatment

The wastewater concentrations for each waste stream given in  the
tables  below  were  determined  from  sampling data presented in
Section V.  The effluent quality from each treatment  alternative
was determined from information presented in Sections V and VII.

For each subcategory's waste streams, the water use and discharge
levels  (in  gallons  per  production  normalizing unit) for each
plant were calculated, as shown in Section VII.  BAT  flow  rates
were  selected  for  each.   In  all  cases,  wastewater flow and
production data  obtained  from  the  data  collection  portfolio
responses,  NPDES  Discharge  Monitoring  Reports, and the sample
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collection program were considered in determining the appropriate
BAT flow rate.

PrimarY  Aluminum.   Four  groups  of  wastewaters  exist in this
subcategory.  These streams are:

    1.   Paste, bake plant, and cathode making wastewater
    2.   Air pollution control wastewater
    3.   Contact cooling water
    £*»   Cathode reprocessing wastewater with cryolite recovery

These four streams are  found  in  eight  different  combinations
throughout  the  subcategory.   The  first five combinations were
chosen for the cost analysis, because  they  cover  most  of  the
subcategory.  The combinations are tabulated below.  The costs of
treatment  for  plants  in  combination  6 are represented by the
costs  given  for  combination  5.   Combinations  7  and  8  are
represented by combination 3.

                                           CONTACT
                   PASTE                   COOLING    CRYOLITE
    COMBINATION    PLANT     SCRUBBERS     WATER      RECOVERY

        1           X                        X
        2                                    x
        3           x           x            x
        4                       XX
        5           x           x            xx
        6                       xxx
        7           x           x
        8                       x

Three  levels  of treatment were developed for combinations 1 and
2, and four levels of treatment were developed  for  combinations
3,   4,  and  5.    The  alternatives  are  described  below  and
schematically presented in Figure VIII-6.

Level 1. For combinations 1 and 2 — 95% of the  contact  cooling
water  is  recycled  through  a cooling tower, and a five percent
blowdown is combined with the other stream for combination 1  and
treated by chlorine oxidation, lime precipitation, and filtration
followed  by recycle.  For combinations 3, 4, and 5 — 95% of the
contact cooling water is recycled through a cooling tower, and  a
five  percent  blowdown  is  combined  with the other streams for
treatment by chlorine oxidation and lime precipitation,  followed
by recycle.

Level 2. For combinations 1 and 2 — reverse osmosis is added  to
level  1  and  the effluent is completely recycled.  For combina-
tions 3, U, and 5 — filtration and activated alumina  are  added
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•to  level  1,  followed by recycle.  For combination 3, costs may
tend to be conservative for those plants which  practice  recycle
of reduction scrubber wastewater following lime precipitation.

Level 3. For combinations 1 and 2 — activated carbon is added to
level 1, followed by recycle.  For combinations 3, 4,  and  5
reverse  osmosis  is  added  to  level  2 with the effluent being
completely recycled.

Level 4. For combinations 3, 4, and  5  —  activated  carbon  is
added to level 2, followed by recycle.

The  cost versus pollution reduction summary includes a summation
curve  for  each  level  of  treatment   of   each   combination,
accompanied  by  a  table showing the effluent quality (77 to 83,
110, 118 121, 122, 125, 147 and 181  to  190)  achieved  for  the
significant  pollutants  at  each  level  of treatment.  The cost
curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The  summaries
of  the associated pollution reduction are shown in Tables VIII-1
to 6.

         COMBINATION     FIGURES VIII-

              1              7-9
              2             10-12
              3             13-16
              4             17-20
              5             13-16

Secondary Aluminum.  Three wastewaters exist in this subcategory.
The streams are:

    1.   Dross milling wastewater
    2.   Demagging scrubber wastewater
    3.   Contact cooling water

These three streams are  found  in  five  different  combinations
throughout  the  subcategory.   The first three combinations have
been  chosen  for  the  cost  analysis.   The  combinations   are
tabulated  below.  Combination 4 is represented by combination 1,
and combination 5 is represented by combination 2.

                        DROSS                 CONTACT
         COMBINATION    MILLING   SCRUBBER    COOLING

             1            XX
             2                      xx
             3                                   x
             4            x
             5                      x
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Four levels of treatment were developed for combinations 1 and 2,
and three levels of treatment were developed for  combination  3.
The  treatment alternatives are described below and schematically
presented in Figure VIII-21.

Level 1. For  combination  1—settling  of  the   dross   milling
effluent   and  treating  the  supernatant  by  steam  stripping,
followed by combining the effluent with the  scrubber  wastewater
for treatment by lime precipitation followed by recycle.  For the
remaining  combinations, the combined streams are treated by lime
precipitation followed by recycle.

Level 2. Gravity filtration is added to the components  of  level
1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle of the effluent  is
added  to  the  components  of  level 2 for combinations 1 and 2.
Activated carbon is added to level 2 for combination  3  followed
by recycle.

Level H. Activated carbon is added to level 2 for combinations  1
and 2 followed by recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The
summaries of the associated  pollution  reduction  are  shown  in
Tables VIII-7 to 10.

              COMBINATION       FIGURES VIII-

                  1                22-25
                  2                26-29
                  3                30-32

CQlumbium-Tantalutn.  For costing purposes, the columbium-tantalum
industry  has  been  divided  into  two  groups.   The groups are
defined as:  ore to salt or metal; and salt to metal.

Ore to Salt/Metal

Three plants exist in this group and there are two  combinations.
Each combination consists of the following wastewaters:

1.  Digestion air pollution control wastewater
2.  Extraction raffinate and gangue washwater
3.  Precipitation supernatant
H.  Salt drying air pollution control wastewater
5.  Reduction air pollution control and leachate
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Combination  1  represents  those  plants  which  practice  steam
stripping  of   ammonia-laden   streams   and   at   least   lime
precipitation  of  the  overall  combined wastes.  Four levels of
treatment are presented.  The alternatives  are  described  below
and schematically presented in Figure VIII-33.

Level  1.  Oxidation  of  the  precipitation supernatant and salt
drying wastewater by  chlorination  and  filtration  followed  by
recycle, as appropriate.

Level  2.  Activated  alumina  is  added  to level 1, followed by
recycle, if necessary.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle of the effluent are
added to level 2.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle, if appropriate.

Combination  2  consists  of  a  plant  that  does  not treat its
ammonia-laden streams.  Five levels of treatment  are  presented.
The  alternatives are described below and schematically presented
in Figure VIII-33.

Level 1. Steam stripping and oxidation by chlorine  are  used  to
treat  the  precipation  supernatant  and  salt  drying effluent,
followed by recycle, if necessary.

Level 2. The   combined   wastewaters   are   treated   by   lime
precipitation and filtration, followed by recycle if necessary.

Level 3. Activated alumina is added to the  components  described
for level 2, followed by recycle if necessary.

Level t. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle of the effluent are
added to level 3.

Level 5. Activated carbon is added to  the  components  specified
for level 3, followed by recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The
summaries of the associated  pollution  reduction  are  shown  in
Table VIII-11.

              COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-

                  1               34-37
                  2               38-42

Salt to Metal


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Two  plants  exist  in  this  group.  One plant performs tantalum
reduction with wastewaters from reduction air  pollution  control
and  leaching.   The  other  plant discharges wastewater from air
pollution control of columbium salt drying after  lime  treatment
and  sedimentation.   Treatment  costs  and removal summaries are
based on the former plant.  It is anticipated that the raw  waste
characteristics  of  the  salt  drying scrubber stream will be no
worse than those of the tantalum reduction streams, thus the cost
and  removal  estimates  for   the   columbium   plant   may   be
conservative.

The  plant  considered  in this combination discharges wastewater
from  the  reduction  process  without  lime  treatment  of   the
wastewater.   Tantalum  recovery  is  practiced,  but substantial
concentrations of fluoride are discharged.  As  a  result,  three
levels   of   treatment  are  presented.   The  alternatives  are
described below and schematically presented in Figure VIII-43.

Level 1. Treatment  is  provided  by   lime   precipitation   and
filtration, followed by recycle if necessary.

Level 2. Treatment of the combined streams from  level  1  is  by
activated alumina, followed by recycle, if necessary.

Level 3. Activated carbon is added to level 2, and  the  effluent
may be recycled.

The  cost  curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The
summaries of the associated  pollution  reduction  are  shown  in
Table VIII-12.

         COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-

              1               44 - 46

Primary Copper.  The wastewaters are:

1.  Acid  plant  blowdown  and  related  air  pollution   control
wastewater
2.  Slag granulation wastewater
3.  Contact cooling water

Four combinations of these streams  exist  in  this  group.   The
combinations are shown in the following tabulation:
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                   ACID                CONTACT
    COMBINATION    PLANT     SLAG      COOLING   ELECTROLYTE

        1                                 x
        2            xx           xx
        3                     xx
        4            xx           x

Combinations 1 and 2 represent the group, with combinations 3 and
4 being included in combination 2.

Three  levels of treatment were developed for combination 1.   The
alternatives are described below and schematically  presented  in
Figure VIII-47:

Level 1. Recycle of the contact cooling water after cooling,   and
treatment  of  a  five  percent  blowdown  is  provided  by  .lime
precipitation followed by recycle.

Level 2. Filtration is added to level 1 prior to recycle.

Level 3. Activated carbon is added to level 2 prior to recycle.

Three levels of treatment are presented for combination  2.   The
alternatives  are  described below and presented schematically in
Figure VIII-51.

Level 1. Recycle of contact cooling water is provided combining a
five percent blowdown with the other streams prior  to  treatment
by lime precipitation and recycle.

Level 2. Filtration is added to level 1 prior to recycle.

Level 3. Activated carbon is added to level 2 prior to recycle.

The cost curves are presented in the figures listed  below.   The
summaries  of  the  associated  pollution  reduction are shown in
Tables 13 and 28.

         COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-

            1                48-50
            2                51-53

A fourth level of treatment at primary copper plants can be added
to or used in place of any of the above alternatives provided the
plant  is  located  in  an  area  of  net   evaporation,   mamely
evaporation  lagoons.   The costs for lagoons in areas of 10, 20,
and 30 inches net effective evaporation per year are presented in
Figures VIII-58, 59, and 60 respectively.
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Secondary  Copper.   Four  wastewater  streams  exist   in   this
subcategory.  The streams are:

1.  Slaq milling and granulation
2.  Scrubber wastewater
3.  Electrolyte
4.  Contact cooling water

These  streams  exist  in  five  combinations in the subcategory.
These combinations are:

                    SLAG                              CONTACT
     COMBINATION    MILLING   SCRUBBER  ELECTROLYTE    COOLING

       1             x                                   x
       2                                                 x
       3                        x                        x
       4                        x
       5                        xxx

Three levels of treatment were developed  for  each  combination.
The  treatment alternatives are described below and schematically
presented  in Figure VIII-61.

Level 1. For Combination 1—the supernatant  from primary settling
of the t'.lag milling water is combined with   the  contact  cooling
water  for treatment by lime precipitation prior to recycle.  For
Combination 2--the contact  cooling  water   is  treated  by  lime
precipitation  prior  to recycle.  For Combination 3—the contact
coolin-g and scrubber water  are  treated  by lime  precipitation
prior  to  recycle.   For  Combination  4—the  scrubber water is
treated by lime precipitation prior to recycle.  For  Combination
5—the  contact   cooling  water is recyled through a holding tank
and a five percent blowdown is combined with the  other  streams
for treatment by  lime precipitation prior to recycle.

Level 2. Gravity  filtration  is  added  to  level  1  for   each
combination, followed by recycle.

Level 3,. For Combination 1 and 2—the effluent from  level  2  is
pumped  to a holding tank for recycle.  For  Combination 3, 4, and
5—activated carbon is added to level 2, followed by recycle.

The cost; curves are presented in the figures listed  below.   The
summaries  of  the  associated  pollution  reduction are shown in
Tables VIII-14 to 18.
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         COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-  TABLE VIII-

             1               62-64         15
             2               65-67         16
             3               65, 66, 68      17
             4               65, 66, 68      18
             5               69-71         19

Primary Lead.  There are only  three  primary  lead  plants  that
discharge  any  wastewater.   All three plants have at least lime
precipitation in place.  Therefore, the stream to be  treated  is
the  effluent  from  the  existing  treatment.   Three  levels of
treatment are presented as add on to existing  treatment.   These
alternatives  are  described below and schematically presented in
Figure VIII-72.

Level 1. Filtration is added to the existing treatment,  followed
by recycle.
Level 2. Activated carbon added to level 1, followed by recycle.
Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
         2.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-73 to 75, while the
summary  of  the  associated  pollution reduction is presented in
Tables VIII-19 and 28.

Secondary Lead. There are three sources of wastewater which  form
three  combinations in the group.  The combinations are presented
in the following tabulation:

                                                 CONTACT COOLING
                    BATTERY ACID    CONTACT         AND/OR
    COMBINATION     6 SAW WATER     COOLING        SCRUBBER

        1               x
        2               x                             x
        3               xx

Combinations 2 and 3 will be considered as one combination.

Four levels of treatment are presented  for  these  combinations.
The  alternatives are described below and schematically presented
in Figure VIII-76.

Level 1. The   combined   wastewaters   are   treated   by   lime
precipitation and filtration prior to recycle.
Level 2. Activated alumina is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.
Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.
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Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The
summaries of the associated  pollution  reduction  are  shown  in
Tables VIII-20 and 21.

         COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-

             1               77-80
             2               ei - en

Secondary  Silver.   This  industry  has  been  divided  into two
subcategories.  These subcategories are:

Photographic

In this group there are five wastewater streams.  The wastewaters
are:

1.  Precipitation supernatant
2.  Solution treating supernatant
3.  Furnace air pollution control wastewater
4.  Electrolysis wastewater
5.  Contact cooling water


Four levels of treatment are presented for all combinations.  The
alternatives are described below -and schematically  presented  in
Figure VIII-85.

Level 1. The  precipitation  supernatant  is  treated  by   steam
stripping, followed by recycle if applicable.

Level 2. The combined effluent is treated by  lime  precipitation
prior to recycle.

Level 3. Filtration is added to level 2, followed by recycle.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  3,  followed  by
recycle.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-86 to 89, while the
summary  of  the  associated  pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-22.

Non-Photographic

The streams present in this group are the same as those found  in
the  photographic group except that the first stream is leaching.
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precipitation and filtration supernatant, and the second  is  air
pollution control wastewater from precipitation and leaching.

Three  levels  of treatment are presented for these combinations.
The alternatives are described below and schematically  presented
in Figure VIII-90.

Level 1. The leaching, precipitation and  filtration  supernatant
    is treated by steam stripping, followed by recycle.

Level 2. The combined streams are treated by  lime  precipitation
    and filtration prior to recycle.

Level 3. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-91 to 93, while the
summary  of  the  associated  pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-23.

Primary Tungsten.  This industry is divided into two groups based
on plant configuration.  These are:

Ore to Salt/Metal

In this group there are three plants that  discharge  wastewater.
All  three  plants  have  the equivalent of lime precipitation in
place.  Substantial concentrations of ammonia may exist, however,
in the treated effluent.  This situation required the development
of two combinations.  Combination 1 includes those plants that do
not have excessive ammonia in their discharge.  Three  levels  of
treatment   have   been  developed  for  this  combination.   The
alternatives are described below and presented  schematically  in
Figure VIII-94.

Level 1. The combined effluent is treated by filtration, followed
by recycle if appropriate.

Level 2. Reverse osmosis with complete recycle is added to  level
1.

Level 3. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle if appropriate.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-95 to 97, while the
summary  of  the  associated  pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-24.

Combination 2 includes those plants that have significant ammonia
concentrations  in  their  combined  effluent.   Four  levels  of
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treatment  are  presented.   The alternatives are described below
and schematically presented in Figure VIII-94.

Level 1. The combined effluent is  treated  by  steam  stripping,
followed by recycle if appropriate.

Level 2. Filtration is added to level 1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Level H. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves  are presented in Figures VIII-98 to 101, while
the summaries of the associated pollution reduction are presented
in Tables VIII-26 and 27.

Salt to metal

Two levels of treatment  are  presented.   The  alternatives  are
described below and presented schematically in Figure VIII-102.

Level 1. The combined wastewaters are treated by steam  stripping
and filtration prior to recycle.

Level 2. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-103 to 104, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-25.

Primary Zinc.  All the plants in this subcategory have  at  least
the  equivalent of lime precipitation in place.  As a result, the
effluent stream from the existing treatment is the only discharge
stream.

Three levels of treatment were developed to add to  the  existing
treatment.   These  alternatives  are  described  below  and  are
schematically presented in Figure VIII-105.

Level 1. Filtration  and  activated  alumina  are  added  to  the
existing treatment, followed by recycle.

Level 2. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
1.

Level   3.   Activated  carbon  is  added  to level 1, followed by
recycle.
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The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-106 to  108,  while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-28.

Metallurgical  Acid  Plants.   It  was assumed that blowdown from
metallurgical acid plants would be treated  in  conjunction  with
the  other process wastewater at the plant.  Therefore, the costs
of treatment are included in the costs of treatment  for  Primary
Copper,  Lead  and  Zinc.   The associated pollution reduction is
presented in Table VIII-28.

NEW SOURCES

New sources, as opposed to existing sources/ are defined  in  the
Act  as "any source, the construction of which is commenced after
publication of proposed regulations  prescribing  a  standard  of
performance."   The new source cost information presented in this
section includes only end-of-pipe treatment and control and  does
not  include  in-plant  control  measures, as these costs will be
incorporated in the production plant construction costs.  A  cost
comparison  was  made  on  the  use of dry air pollution controls
versus wet air pollution controls  and  it  was  found  that  the
initial  investment  was  higher  for  dry systems but the annual
costs were higher for wet systems.

In-Plant Control Measures

New sources are expected to employ in-plant controls  extensively
to  reduce  the  quantity  of pollutants discharged, and possibly
eliminate some wastewaters found in existing  sources.   In-plant
control measures, as presented in Section VII, can greatly affect
the  type  and  size,  and  subsequently the cost, of end-of-pipe
treatment alternatives.

Treatment and Control Technologies

The technologies developed to meet new source standards  are  the
same  as  those developed for existing sources.  A description of
each technology and the assumptions used  to  develop  costs  are
presented  in the "Existing Sources" portion of this section.  As
with existing sources, new source  costs  will  be  presented  by
discussing each subcategory separately including a description of
the wastewaters, the various combinations of the streams, and the
recommended   treatment  alternatives.   The  ratio  of  mass  of
pollutants to mass of product was determined  by  evaluating  the
methods  that  existing  plants  have used to reduce or eliminate
wastewater flow.
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Primary Aluminum.  By use of in-plant controls and utilizing  dry
scrubbing  methods, new sources will have two wastewater streams.
These streams are:

    1.   Contact cooling water
    2.   Cathode reprocessing with cryolite recovery

The following combinations could exist:

         COMBINATION    CONTACT COOLING     CRYOLITE

              1                XX
              2                x

Four levels of treatment were developed  for  combination  1  and
three  levels  for combination 2.  The alternatives are described
below  and  schematically  presented  in  Figure  VII-109.    The
alternatives  for combination 2 are the same as for combination 2
for existing sources, and are described there.

Level 1. For Combination 1—recycle of the contact cooling  water
and  combining  a five percent blowdown with the other stream for
treatment by chlorine oxidation and lime precipitation,  followed
by recycle.

Level 2. For Combination 1—filtration and activated alumina  are
added to level 1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. For Combination 1—reverse osmosis and complete  recycle
are added to level 2.

Level 1. For Combination 1—activated carbon is added to level 2,
followed by recycle.

The cost curves are presented in the figures listed  below.   The
summaries  of  the  associated  pollution  reduction are shown in
Tables VIII

         COMBINATION      FIGURES VIII-  TABLE VIII-

             1               110 - 113        29
             2                10-12         5

Secondary Aluminum.  New sources in this  subcategory  will  have
two possible wastewaters.  These streams are:

    1.   Slag milling wastewater
    2.   Scrubber wastewater

The following combinations of these streams could exist:
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         COMBINATION    MILLING   SCRUBBERS

             1            xx
             2                       x
             3            x

The   following  levels  of  treatment  are  presented  for  each
combination with a  schematic  presentation  provided  in  Figure
VIII-117.

Level 1. For Combination 1—the slag milling water is  completely
recycled  after  primary settling.  The scrubber water is treated
by lime precipitation, followed by recycle.

         For Combination 2—the scrubber effluent is  treated  by
lime precipitation prior to recycle.

         For  Combination  3—the  slag  milling water is totally
recycled after primary settling.

Level 2.  For Combinations 1 and 2—filtration is added to  level
1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. For Combinatons 1 and 2—reverse  osmosis  and  complete
recycle are added to level 2.

Level 4. For Combinations 1 and 2—activated carbon is  added  to
level 2, followed by recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in the figures listed below.  The
summaries of the associated  pollution  reduction  are  shown  in
Tables VIII

         COMBINATION       FIGURES VIII-  TABLE VIII-

             1               118 - 121        31
             2               122 - 125        32
             3                  126

Columbium-Tantalum.   The  columbium-tantalum  industry  has been
divided into groups based on plant configuration.   These  groups
are:   ore to salt/metal, and salt to metal.

Ore to salt/metal

New  sources  in this group will have streams similar to those in
existing sources.  Five levels of treatment have been  developed.
The  alternatives are described below and schematically presented
in Figure VIII-127.
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Level 1. Steam stripping and oxidation by chlorine  are  provided
for  treatment  of  the  precipitation  supernatant  and the salt
drying scrubber effluent, prior to recycle.

Level 2. The combined streams are treated by  lime  precipitation
and filtration, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Activated alumina is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

Level H. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
3.

Level 5. Activated carbon added to level 3, followed by recycle.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII- 128 to  132,  while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-33.

Salt to Metal

New  plants will have wastewaters from the reduction scrubber and
leachate processes.  Five levels of treatment are presented.  The
alternatives are described below and presented  schematically  in
Figure VIII-133.

Level 1. The combined streams are treated by lime  precipitation,
followed by recycle.

Level 2. Filtration is added to level 1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Activated alumina is added to level 2.

Level 4. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
3.

Level 5. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  3,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-134 to 138, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-34.

        Copper .  The primary copper industry has been  segregated
into  two  groups  based  on  plant  configuration.   They are as
follows:

Smelting and Refining
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New sources belonging  to  this  group  will  have  two  possible
wastewaters: air pollution control wastewater and contact cooling
water.   Four  levels  of  treatment  have  been  developed.  The
alternatives are described below and schematically  presented  in
Figure VIII-139.

Level 1. The  supernatant  from  primary  settling  of  the   air
pollution control wastewater is combined with the contact cooling
water for treatment by lime precipitation and filtration prior to
recycle.

Level 2. Activated alumina is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-140 to 143, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-35.

Refining

New sources in this group will have only contact cooling water as
a wastewater.  Four  levels  of  treatment  are  presented.   The
alternatives  are  described below and schematically presented in
Figure VIII-144.

Level 1. Recycle of the contact cooling water and treatment of  a
five  percent blowdown by lime precipitation and filtration prior
to recycle.

Level 2. Activated alumina is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-145 to 148, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-36.

An additional level of treatment can be added on to  or  used  in
place  of  the  alternatives given for both subcategories for any
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plant located in an area of net evaporation.   For  such  plants,
the  alternative is an evaporation lagoon.  The cost for a lagoon
located in an area of 20 inches  net  effective  evaporation  per
year is presented in Figure VIII-59.

Secondary  Copper.  New sources in this subcategory will have two
possible wastewater sources.  They are contact cooling water  and
slag milling wastewater.  Two possible combinations can exist and
are shown in the following tabulation.
         COMBINATION

             1
             2
CONTACT COOLING

     x
     X
MILLING
Alternatives  for  combinations  1  and  2  are  the  same as for
combinations 1 and 2, respectively, for  existing  sources.   The
alternatives are schematically presented in Figure VIII-87.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-62 to 67, while the
summaries  of the associated pollution reduction are presented in
Tables VIII-14 and 15.

Primary Lead.  New sources in  this  subcategory  will  have  one
waste  stream:  blowdown from the acid plant.  Two conditions may
exist for this subcategory:  areas of net precipitation and areas
of net evaporation.

For all plants, three levels of  treatment  are  presented.   The
alternatives  are described below and are presented schematically
in Figure VIII-157.

Level 1. Lime precipitation and filtration, prior to recycle.

Level 2. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Another  level  of alternative treatment for new sources built in
an area of net evaporation is evaporation lagoons.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-158 to  160,  while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table  VIII-39.   The costs for a lagoon located in an area of 20
inches net effective evaporation per year is presented in  Figure
VIII-59.
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Secondary  Lead. New sources in this group may have the following
wastewaters in the following combinations:

                           BATTERY ACID AND
         COMBINATION          SAW WATER          SCRUBBER WATER

              1                   X
              2                   x                   x
Alternatives for combinations  1  and  2  are  the  same  as  for
combinations  1  and  2, respectively, for existing sources.  The
alternatives are schematically presented in Figure VIII-76.

The cost curves are presented in the figures listed  below.   The
summaries  of  the  associated  pollution  reduction are shown in
Tables VIII

         COMBINATION       FIGURES VIII-    TABLE VIII-

              1               77-80            20
              2               81-84            21

Secondary Silver.   This  industry  has  been  divided  into  two
subcategories.  These subcategories are:

Photographic

New  sources  in this group will have three possible wastewaters;
precipitation/filtration  supernatant,  stripping  air  pollution
control,  and  furnace air pollution control.  These alternatives
are the same  as  for  existing  sources  and  are  schematically
presented in Figure VIII-85.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-86 to 89, while the
summary  of  the  associated  pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-22.

Non-Photographic

New sources in this group will have the same wastewaters  as  the
photographic  group.   alternatives  are the same as for existing
sources and are schematically presented in Figure VIII-90.

The cost curves are presented in Figures VIII-91 to 93, while the
summary of the associated pollution  reduction  is  presented  in
Table VIII-23.

Primary  Tungsten.   This  industry  has been segregated into two
groups based on plant configuration.  The groups are:
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Ore to Salt/Metal

New sources in this group will have the same wastewaters  as  the
existing  sources.   Two  possible combinations could result, one
being those plants which do not have  significant  concentrations
of  ammonia  in their wastewater and the other being those plants
that do.

Three levels of treatment are presented for combination  1.   The
alternatives are:

Level 1. The combined streams are treated by  lime  precipitation
and filtration, followed by recycle.

Level 2. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
1.

Level 3. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  1,  followed  by
recycle.

Four  levels  of  treatment are presented for combination 2.  The
alternatives are:

Level 1. The high ammonia streams are treated by steam stripping,
prior to recycle.

Level 2. Chemical precipitation and filtration are added to level
1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The   alternatives   for   both  combinations  are  schematically
presented in Figure VIII-179.

The cost curves are presented in the figures listed  below.   The
summaries  of the associated pollution reduction are shown in the
tables.

         COMBINATION       FIGURES VIII- TABLE VIII-

               1               180 -  182       44
              2               183 -  186       45

Salt to Metal
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New sources in this group will have the same wastewaters  as  the
existing  sources.  Four levels of treatment have been developed.
The alternatives are described below and schematically  presented
in Figure VIII-187.

Level 1. steam  stripping  is  provided  for  treatment  of  high
ammonia streams, prior to recycle.

Level 2. Lime  precipitation  is  used  to  treat  the   combined
streams, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Filtration is added to level 2, followed by recycle.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  3,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-188 to 191, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-46.

Primary  Zinc.   New  sources  in  this  subcategory  will   have
wastewater  from  two  sources:  blowdown from the acid plant and
wastewater from air pollution control of the leaching  operation.
These  two  streams can be combined and treated by four levels of
treatment.    The   alternatives   are   described   below    and
schematically presented in Figure VIII-192.

Level 1. Lime precipitation is used for treatment of the combined
streams prior to recycle.

Level 2. Filtration is added to level 1, followed by recycle.

Level 3. Reverse osmosis and complete recycle are added to  level
2.

Level 4. Activated carbon  is  added  to  level  2,  followed  by
recycle.

The  cost  curves are presented in Figures VIII-193 to 196, while
the summary of the associated pollution reduction is presented in
Table VIII-47.

ENERGY ASPECTS

An  investigation  was  made  to  determine  the   added   energy
requirement   for  a  plant  caused  by  the  installation  of  a
wastewater treatment system.  The energy consumption reported  in
the data collection portfolios was tabulated and the median total
plant  energy  consumption  was  calculated  and  is  reported as
Btu*s/year for each industry group.  For each group,  the  median
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sized plant was determined, based on flow rate.  The most complex
set  of  treatment alternatives for each group, and corresponding
energy requirement for each level of  treatment  was  determined.
These  requirements are expressed as the maximum percent increase
in   energy  requirements  caused  by  the  installation   of   a
wastewater treatment system.  This investigation is summarized in
Table  VIII-48.  By reviewing this table, it can be seen that the
added energy requirement is less  than  1X  of  the  total  plant
energy  requirement  for  a  majority of the alternatives.  Those
alternatives that require an increase  greater  than  1%*  include
reverse osmosis in the treatment sequence.

NON-WATER QUALITY ASPECTS

Sludge

Sludge  disposal  is  a  problem  in  this industry.  As shown in
previous sections, the waste  streams  being  discharged  contain
large  quantities  of  heavy  metals;  the  most common method of
removing the metals  is  by  lime  precipitation.   Consequently,
large volumes of heavy metal-laden sludge are generated that must
be  disposed  of.  Table VIII-49 summarizes the methods currently
in use, along with their frequency of  occurrence,  for  treating
and disposing of sludges.

The technologies that directly generate sludge are:

1.  Chemical precipitation
2.  Multi-media filtration
3.  Primary sedimentation
4.  Reverse osmosis

Sludge is also indirectly generated by the recycling of the spent
activated  alumina regenerant, containing fluoride or arsenic, to
the chemical precipitation unit.

The sludge resulting from the four technologies listed above will
vary  in  characteristics  depending  on  the   subcategory   and
combination  of  streams  being treated.  However, in most cases,
the majority of the sludge  produced  is  a  result  of  chemical
precipitation.   This  sludge  will,  in  general,  contain large
quantities of calcium salts, due to the use of  lime,  and  large
quantities   of   precipitated  metals.   The  sludge  indirectly
generated from activated alumina will contain large quantities of
fluoride or arsenic.  The estimated characteristics of the sludge
generated by the sets of alternatives presented for BAT are given
in Table VIII-50.

A major concern in the disposal of sludges is  the  contamination
of  soils,  plants,  and animals by the heavy metals contained in
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sludge.  The leaching of heavy metals from sludge and  subsequent
movement through soils is enhanced by acidic conditions.  Sludges
treated  with  lime  prior to disposal possess high pH values and
exhibit little loss of metals (110).  Since the largest amount of
sludge that results from the alternatives presented previously is
generated by lime precipitation, it is not that the  metals  will
be  readily  leached  from  the sludge.  Disposal of sludges in a
lined sanitary landfill will further reduce  the  possibility  of
heavy metals contamination of soil, plants and animals.

Other  methods of treating and disposing of sludge are available.
Table VIII-49 shows that one method currently  being  used  at  a
number  of plants is reuse or recycle, usually to recover metals.
Table VIII-50 shows that the metal concentrations in some sludges
may be substantial.  Consequently, it may be cost  effective  for
some  plants to recover the metal fraction of their sludges prior
to disposal.

Hazardous Wastes

EPA recently proposed hazardous waste guidelines and  regulations
(December 18, 1978, 43 FR 58946-59027).  These proposals covered:

1)   criteria   for  identifying  and  listing  hazardous  waste,
identification methods, and a hazardous waste list;
2)  standards  applicable  to  generators  of  such   waste   for
recordkeeping,  labelling,  containerizing, and using a transport
manifest;
3)   performance  standards  for   hazardous   waste   management
facilities.

The  proposed  regulations  create a "cradle-to-grave" management
control system for hazardous waste.  Solid  waste  which  is  not
subject to the hazardous waste regulations will be subject to the
requirements  of  Subtitle  D  of  the  Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976, under which open dumping is prohibited  and
environmentally acceptable practices are required.

A   hazardous  waste  is  a  waste  which  is  toxic,  ignitable,
corrosive, or reactive, or which is listed in  40 CFR 250.14.   A
toxic  waste  is defined as one, which after undergoing an acetic
acid extraction, has more than the following  contaminant  levels
in  the  extract.   The  contaminants  and extract levels of most
concern to the nonferrous metals industry are:
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Contaminant        Extract Level (mg/1)

Arsenic                 0.50
Barium                 10.00
Cadmium                 0.10
Chromium                0.50
Lead                    0.50
Mercury                 0.02
Selenium                0. 10
Silver                  0.50

The specific hazardous wastes from the nonferrous metals industry
listed in 40 CFR 250.14 are the following, by SIC code:

3331     Primary copper smelting and refining electric
         furnace slag, converter dust, acid plant sludge, and
         reverberatory dust
3332     Primary lead blast furnace dust
3332     Primary lead lagoon dredging from smelter
3333     Zinc acid plant blowdown lime treatment:
         gypsum cake  (acid cooling tower and neutral
         cooling tower)
3333     Zinc production: oxide furnace
         residue and acid plant sludge
3333     Zinc anode sludge
3339     Primary antimony-electrolytic sludge
3339     Primary tungsten-digestion residues
3339     Primary lead sinter dust scrubbing sludge
3339     Primary antimony-pyrometallurgical
         blast furnace slag
3341     Secondary lead, scrubber sludge from
         SO2 emission control, soft lead production
3341     Secondary lead-white metal production
         furnace dust
3341     Secondary copper-pyrometallurgical blast
         furnace slag
3341     Secondary copper-electrolytic refining
         wastewater treatment sludge
3341     Secondary aluminum dross smelting-high
         salt slag plant residue

Spent potliners (or cathodes) from  primary  aluminum  reduction,
and  other  nonferrous metals industry wastes, were added to this
list in a proposal published  August  22,  1979  in  the  Federal
Register.

Air Pollution

Various  forms  of both wet and dry air pollution control methods
are utilized throughout the industry.  Replacement of wet systems
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by dry systems will reduce the pollutant loading discharged by  a
plant.  The alternatives for BAT presented in this section assume
that  those  plants  presently  using  wet  air pollution control
systems would not change to dry systems since it may be more cost
effective to treat and recycle the wastewater from the wet system
than to replace it with a dry system.  For those plants where  it
is  not  more  cost  effective,  the cost estimates presented are
conservative estimates.  It was assumed that  new  sources  would
install  dry  systems  instead  of  wet  systems when it has been
established that dry systems could sufficiently control  the  air
quality of a given process operation.

At  this  time there are no other known non-water quality aspects
in terms of soil infiltration, air pollution, noise or  radiation
that   may   result   from   the  application  of  the  treatment
alternatives presented.
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                             491

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Subcategory =  SECONDARY COPPER



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Cu
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Cd
Cr
Cu
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0.01
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160,000
76,000
76,000
2
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0.001
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0.001
0.001
0.2
0.1
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0.0001
0.1
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1

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180,000
104,000
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TSS
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Sb
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Cu
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Zn
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TSS
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= 1; Contact Cooling, Cryolite
TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT

TSS
NH3
Phenolics
Cyanide
Sb
As
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Zn

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thene
Raw
mg/1
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30
0.2
100
0.1
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0.2
0.2
2
0.0001
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0.02
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0.2
0.05
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0.0001
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0.005
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20
2
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2
2
0.1
4
0.001
0.001
0.002
0.2
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1
       530

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Subcategory =  SECONDARY ALUMINUM (New Sources)

Combination = 1; Milling, Scrubber
                                          TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
             Raw
             mg/1
                           2              3
                             Effluent mg/1
TSS
NH3
Sb
As
Be
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Se
Tl
Zn
2000
1
0.1
0.01
0.2
0.5
0.05
0.2
2
0.001
0.01
0.1
3
60
1
0.001
0.002
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0.02
0.05
0.05
0.2
0.0001
0.005
0.05
0.5
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0.05
0.05
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0.02
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0.5
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0.001
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0.002
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0.0001
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0.001
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0.0001
0.001
0.001
0.02
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3

5
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                                    531

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                             TABLE VI I I -32
Subcategory =  SECONDARY ALUMINUM (New Sources)

Combination = 2; Fume Scrubber


                                TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
Raw 1
mg/1
2 3
Effluent mg/1
4
TSS
NH3
Sb
As
Be
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Se
Tl
Zn
2000
1
0.1
0.01
0.2
0.5
0.05
0.2
2
0.001
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0.2
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0.005
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0.5
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0.002
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0.05
0.05
0.05
0.0001
0.005
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3

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1

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                                    532

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                                  TABLE VIII-33

                                     EJS1T
Subcategory =  COLUMBIUM/TANTALUM (ORE TO SALT/METAL - New Sources)

Combination = 1 ; Combined Wastewater


                                        TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT    Raw
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Effluent mg/1
TSS 90
NH3 6000**
Fluoride 8000
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Cd 0.1
Cr 0.1
Cu 0.02
Pb 4
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Ni 0.5
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Zn 2
ug/1
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phthalate 200
Tetrachloro-
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                                     533

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                                  TABLE VIII-34

                                 EK1T  
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                                  TABLE VIII-35
Subcategory = PRIMARY COPPER (SMELTING, AND SMELTING AND REFINING
              New Sources)

Combination = 1; Scrubber, Contact Cooling
                                        TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
TSS
Sb
As
Cd
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Tl
Zn
Raw
mg/1
3000
2
2000
7
300
100
0.05
6
0.01
0.5
0.1
90
1
10
0.01
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0.2
1
1
0.0005
0.1
0.005
0.2
0.05
0.5
2
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10
0.01
0.5
0.2
1
1
0.0005
0.1
0.001
0.01
0.05
0.5
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0.5
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0.01
0.01
0.05
0.05
0.0001
0.005
0.001
0.001
0.002
0.02
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0.5
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.05
0.05
0.0001
0.005
0.001
0.001
0.002
0.02
* Quality of treated water available for recycle, no discharge
                                     535

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                                  TABLE VIII-36
Subcategory =  PRIMARY COPPER (REFINING - New Sources)

Combination = 1; Contact Cooling


                                        TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
Raw
mg/1
123
Effluent mg/1
4
TSS
Sb
As
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Tl
Zn
400
1
0.2
0.1
0.2
30
0.5
0.01
0.4
0.3
0.5
2
0.6
20
0.01
0.02
0.001
0.2
0.1
0.05
0.0002
0.05
0.02
0.01
0.5
0.2
10
0.01
0.001
0.001
0.2
0.1
0.05
0.0002
0.05
0.02
0.01
0.5
0.2
0.5
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.01
0.01
0.001
0.0001
0.005
0.005
0.01
0.1
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0.5
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.01
0.01
0.001
0.0001
0.005
0.005
0.01
0.1
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                                         536

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                                 TABLE VIII-39
                                            da.uAL.iTy
Subcategory =  PRIMARY LEAD  (New Sources)
Combination = 1;  Acid Plant, Sinter Scrubber
                                          TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
NH3
Sb
As
Be
Cd
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Zn
Raw
mg/1
2
0.01
0.2
0.001
0.3
2
40
0.0002
0.02
0.005
0.001
60
1 2
Effluent mg/1
1
0.001
0.02
0.001
0.01
0.1
0.5
0.0001
0.02
0..002
0.001
0.3
0.05
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.002
0.01
0.01
0.0001
0.005
0.002
0.001
0.01
3*
0.05
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.002
0.01
0.01
0.0001
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.005
* Quality of treated water  available for recycle, no discharge
                                       537

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                                  TABLE  VIII-44
Subcateeorv =
Combination =

POLLUTANT

TSS
Cyanide
As
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Tl
Zn
PRIMARY TUNGSTEN (ORE
1; Combined Wastewater

Raw
mg/1
200
0.01
4
0.05
0.05
0.1
10
0.002
0.1
0.02
0.05
0.5
2
TO SALT/METAL)

TREATMENT
1


ALTERNATIVE
2



3
Effluent mg/1
10
0.2
0.005
0.02
0.005
0.5
0.05
0.005
0.05
0.02
0.01
0.1
0.2
0.5
0.01
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.05
0.002
0.0002
0.002
0.002
0.001
0.005
0.01
0.5
0.01
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.05
0.002
0.0002
0.002
0.002
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0.005
0.01
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                                  538

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                                  TABLE VIII-45
Subcategory =  PRIMARY TUNGSTEN (ORE TO SALT/METAL - New Sources)



Combination = 2; Combined Wastewater



                                        TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE
POLLUTANT
TSS
NH3
Cyanide
As
Cd
Cr
Cu
Pb
Hg
Ni
Se
Ag
Tl
Zn
Raw
mg/1
200
800
0.01
4
0.05
0.05
0.1
11
0.002
0.1
0.02
0.05
0.5
2
1
200
40
0.01
4
0.05
0.05
0.1
11
0.002
0.1
0.02
0.05
0.5
2
2
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10
20
0.2
0.005
0.02
0.005
0.5
0.05
0.005
0.05
0.02
0.01
0.1
0.2
3*
0.5
1
0.01
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.05
0.002
0.0002
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                           SECTION IX

               BEST PRACTICABLE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
                       CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
The best practicable control technology currently available  (BPT)
has been  established  for  a  number  of  subcategories  in  the
nonferrous  metals industry.  In accordance with the Act, BPT was
to be implemented by all industrial dischargers by July 1, 1978.

BPT effluent limitations are based on the  average  of  the  best
performance  by  exemplary  plants  found in the industry, taking
into account:

1.  The total cost of application of the technology  in  relation
to  the  effluent  reduction  benefits  to  be achieved from such
application.
2.  The age of the equipment and plant facilities involved.
3.  The production process employed.
H.  The engineering aspects of the application of  various  types
of control techniques.
5.  Process changes.
6.  Non-water  quality  environmental  impact  (including  energy
requirements).

While  BPT normally emphasizes end-of-pipe treatment, it may also
include the control technologies  within  the  process  that  are
considered normal practice within the industry.

PRESENT STATUS OF BPT LIMITATION GUIDELINES

Effluent   limitations   representing  the  degree  of  reduction
attainable by the application of BPT have  been  promulgated  for
several  of  the  subcategories  within  the  industry.  Effluent
limitations for bauxite, primary aluminum, and secondary aluminum
were published the  Federal  Register  on  April  4,  1974.   BPT
limitations  for  primary  copper, secondary copper, primary lead
and primary zinc were published on February 27, 1975.

BPT alternatives  for  the  columbium-tantalum,  secondary  lead,
secondary  silver,  and  tungsten subcategories, are evaluated in
this report.

BEST PRACTICABLE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

Alternatives For Best Practicable Control Technologies

The  purpose  of  this   report   is   to   evaluate   wastewater
characteristics   and  control  and  treatment  methods  for  the
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industry,  and  to  present  alternative  treatment  and  control
schemes that yield various levels of effluent quality.  For those
subcategories  of  the  nonferrous  metals industry for which BPT
limitations have been published, the data  base  accumulated  for
this  report  was  reviewed  to evaluate those BPT limitations in
light of the Clean Water Act (PL  95-217).   In  all  cases,  the
existing BPT limitations were judged adequate.

For  those  subcategories  for  which  BPT limitations were never
established,  alternative  treatment  technologies  for  BPT  are
presented  herein.   In  each case, the effluent quality from the
application  of  the  given  alternative  is   presented.    This
information  could  serve  as  an  input  to the selection of BPT
limitations.

The alternatives for BPT effluent limitations are  based  on  the
average of the best plants in the subcategory.
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Primary  Coljinbiuin--T_antaluin  JC)re to  SaltJL-,   Alternatives 1 and 2
may be used for BPT«  Theso  alternatives  include  oteam  stripping
and  chlorine  oxidation  or  high  ammonia  streams,  and chemical
precipitation and filtration of the combined  streams.   Effluent
mass loadings are presented  oelow.
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        CJ                      *iOd,              30,
       Cr-                      Z ft            20$"
                                 x%              o.l
                                100.
 These  loadings   are   based  on  a  flow  rate  of  15  gal/lb  of
 precipitation capacity,  achieved by  2 out of 3 plants.
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Primary Columbium-Tantalum (Salt to Metal).   Alternative 1 may be
used  for  BPT  for  treating the reduction  scrubber and leachate
wastewater.  This alternative  includes  lime  precipitation  and
filtration.  The effluent mass loadings are  presented  below.
                                   Ai-Tf£RMA-

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                                      0.02.
                                      S.
                                      0.2.
                                      0.2.
                                      0.2.
 These loadings are based on a flow rate of 16  gal/lb  of  reduction
 capacity, achieved by  2 out of 4 plants.
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  Secondary  Lead.   Alternative  1  may  be   used   for  BPT.   This
  alternative includes lime precipitation  and  filtration  and  is
  utilized  to  treat the battery acid and saw water.   The effluent
  mass loadings are presented below.

  Battery Cracking
                                         H

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These  loadings  are  based 6n a  flow  rate  of 100  gal/ton of lead
produced by the cracking operation,  achieved  by  17  out  of  32
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Reverb & Blast Furnace Scrubbers
                                          •'
 These loadings  are based on a flow rate  of  165  gal/ton of  furnace
 capacity,  achieved by 3  out of 1  plants, including the plant with"
 the highest water use.

 Kettle and Other Furnace Scrubbers

 Tentative   BPT   effluent  limitations   are  zero  discharge  of
 pollutants, achieved by 1 out of  9 plants.

 Casting

 Tentative  BPT  effluent  limitations  are  zero   discharge   of
 pollutants, achieved by 6 out of 8 plants.

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 Secondary Silver (Photographic).  Alternatives 1, 2, and  3 may  be
 used for BPT.   These alternatives include steam stripping of  the
 high  ammonia   stream and combining the wastewaters for treatment
 by chemical precipitation  and  filtration.   The  effluent  mass
 loadings are presented below.

Film Stripping and Precipitation
        7-JFS
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                           0.01
   These  loadings  are  based  on  a  flow rate of  50  gal/1000  troy
   ounces silver produced by the operation, achieved by 3  out  of   4
   plants.
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Solution Silver Recovery
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Electrolytic Refining
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These   loadings  are  based  on  a   flow  rate of 20 gal/1000 troy
ounces  refined silver, achieved by  12  out of 15 plants.
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Casting
                                          1-0
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These   loadings  are   based  on  a   flow rate of 12  gal/1000 troy
ounces  of silver cast,  achieved by  4  out of 7 plants  using water.
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 Secondary Silver  (Non-Photographic).  Alternatives  1 and  2 may be
 used   for   BPT.    The alternatives  are  used  to  treat the  combined
 wastewaters and include chemical  precipitation  and   filtration.
 The effluent mass  loadings  are  presented below.

Leaching/Precipitation/Filtration
 These loadings  are  based on a flow  rate   of   240   gal/1000   troy
 ounces of  silver recovered, achieved by   5 out of  13  plants.
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Leaching/Precipitation/Filtration Scrubbers
                                                      ATI i/i=:
                                                       .2.
                                     e. -ff
                                                   I   I  I

 These   loadings   are  based  on  a flow rate of 515 gal/1000 trov
 ounces  silver recovered,  achieved by 5 out of 10 plants.
Furnace Scrubbers

Tentative   BPT   effluent  limitations  are  zero
pollutants,  achieved by 5  out of 6  plants.
discharge   of
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 Electrolytic Refining
These loadings are based on a  flow  rate  of  20  gal/1000  troy
ounces refined silver, achieved by 12 out of 15 plants.
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Primary Tungsten  (Ore to Salt).  Alternatives 1 and 2 may be used
for  BPT.   The  alternatives  are  used  to  treat  the combined
wastewaters and include  steam  stripping  and  filtration.   The
effluent mass loadings are presented below.


 Ore to Salt
 These_loadings  are  based  on  a  flow  rate   of  11.5  qal/lb  of
 aminonxum paratungstate  capacity,  achieved by 4  out of 5 plants.
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Primary  Tungsten JSalt to Metal).  Alternative 1 may be used for
BPT.  This alternative includes  steam stripping and filtration of
the  combined  wastewater.   The effluent  mass   loadings   are
presented below.

Salt to Metal
                                      £ F f
                                             To
          Cr
          Pb                                a.
These  loadings  are  based  on  a  flow  rate  of 1.12 gal/lb of
tungsten metal, achieved by 3 out of 5 plants,
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                            SECTION X

           ALTERNATIVES FOR BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY
               FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT DISCHARGERS
The  effluent  limitations that must be achieved by July 1, 1984,
are to  specify  the  degree  of  effluent  reduction  attainable
through   the   application  of  the  best  available  technology
economically achievable (BAT).

Consideration must also be given to:

1.  The age of equipment and facilities involved
2.  The process employed
3.  The engineering aspects of the application of  various  types
of control techniques
4.  Process changes
5.  Cost of achieving the required effluent reduction
6.  Non-water  quality  environmental  impact  (including  energy
requirements)

BAT  assesses the availability of in-process controls, as well as
control or additional treatment techniques employed at the end of
a production process.

INDIRECT DISCHARGERS

Industrial wastewaters discharged  to  publicly  owned  treatment
works  (POTWs)  are  regulated  by  301(b)  of  the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act as  amended  in  1977.   Such  sources  are
obligated  to  comply  with  pretreatment  standards  promulgated
pursuant to Section 307  of  the  Act.   The  objectives  of  the
Federal  Pretreatment  Standards  as  outlined  in  The  National
Pretreatment Stategy, 40 CFR 403, are:

1.  To prevent  inhibition/interference  with  the  operation  of
POTWs, including contamination of municipal sludge,
2.  To correct inadequate treatment by industry and  by  POTW  of
many pollutants prior to their release to the environment, and
3.  To improve opportunities to recycle and  reclaim  wastewaters
and the sludges resulting from wastewater treatment.

In  order  to  achieve  these objectives, EPA has established two
sets of pretreatment standards:   Prohibited-Discharge  Standards
and  Categorical  Pretreatment standards.  These are specified in
the General Pretreatment Standards, 40 CFR 403.

Prohibited-discharge standards prohibit the discharge by  a  user
of  a  publicly  owned  treatment  work of any non-domestic waste
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containing pollutants that would substantially interfere with the
operation of the POTW.  All industrial users, regardless of  size
or industrial subcategory, are subject to these regulations.  The
Prohibited-Discharge    Standards   specifically   prohibit   the
introduction of the following pollutants into POTWs:

1.  Pollutants that create a fire or explosion hazard in the POTW
2.  Pollutants  that  will  cause  corrosive  structural  damage,
unless  the  POTW  is  specifically  designed to accommodate such
discharges
3.  Solid or  viscous  pollutants  in  amounts  that  will  cause
obstruction   in   sewers   or   otherwise  interfere  with  POTW
operations.
4.  Discharges of pollutants, including oxygen  demand,  in  such
volume  or  concentration  that they interfere with the treatment
process
5.  Heat in amounts that  will  inhibit  biological  activity  in
POTWs;  in  no  case  can  temperature  at the influent to a POTW
exceed 40°C.

The categorical pretreatment standards apply to existing and  new
sources  in  a  specific industrial category.  In compliance with
the consent decree, the 65 classes of toxic pollutants are to  be
reviewed and standards set for any of the pollutants found not to
be susceptible to treatment by POTWs, or which interfere with the
operation  of the POTW.  The wastewaters of the nonferrous metals
industry contain significant concentrations of toxic  pollutants.
It  is  known that heavy metals can inhibit biological wastewater
treatment.  If the metals are not in high  enough  concentrations
to  inhibit  biological  treatment,  they  may concentrate in the
sludge or may pass through the POTW essentially  untreated   (28).
Many  of  the  organics  that  pose  potential  problems  in  the
nonferrous metals industry are not biodegradable  and  thus  will
pass   through   a  POTW.   Therefore,  it  is  recommended  that
wastewaters  from  the  nonferrous  metals  industry   that   are
discharged   to   POTWs   must  receive  the  same  treatment  as
wastewaters discharged directly to  rivers  and  lakes.   Indeed,
many  municipalities have already issued very strict pretreatment
regulations governing some priority pollutants  (28).   Thus,  the
treatment  technologies  for  indirect  and  direct  dischargers,
contained in this report are identical.

This report has  presented  the  wastewater  characteristics  and
several  wastewater  treatment  alternatives  for  the nonferrous
metals industry.  Each combination of wastewaters  is  associated
with  a  series  of treatment alternatives.  The alternatives are
arranged so that  unit  operations  are  added  to  the  previous
alternative  to  improve  effluent quality.  Thus, each series of
alternative  treatment  schemes  presents  a  range  of  effluent
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quality.   Furthermore,  the  cost  of  the  treatment  generally
increases as the effluent quality is improved.

This section presents a summary by subcategory of the alternative
treatment schemes and the effluent loadings associated with  each
scheme.

BEST AVAILABLE TREATMENT

BAT Treatment Alternatives

Each subcategory in the nonferrous metals industry is composed of
a  wide  variety  of  plants that produce specific metals by many
different processes.  Each process may have a unique  combination
of  wastewaters.  Sections VII and VIII of this report present in
detail the treatment methods for each combination of  wastewaters
and  the  cost  of  each treatment method (alternative).  Section
VIII also indicates the quality of the wastewater treated by each
method.

Following is a presentation of the effluent mass loading per unit
production produced by treatment alternatives that  are  suitable
for BAT for each subcategory.  In some subcategories. Alternative
1  is  equivalent  to  BPT;  these are omitted from the following
presentation and discussed in Section IX.  In all cases,  recycle
of  process  wastewater  is  included  as  part  of the treatment
scheme.  In some subcategories, the level of recycle may be  less
than in others.
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Primary  Aluminum.   The  various alternative levels of treatment
include:

1.   Chlorine oxidation and chemical precipitation,
2.  Filtration and activated alumina added to level 1,
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2,
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

Paste Plant
                                   *     2--"     3
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  These loadings are based on a flow rate of 60 gal/ton  of  paste,
  achieved by 1 of the four plants.
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Anode  Baking
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          TSS.            £               0-0C3
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These  loadings  are based  on a flow  rate of 20  gal/ton of baked
anodes,  achieved  by 1 out of 9 plants.
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 These loadings are based on a flow rate  of  65  gal/ton of aluminum
 production, achieved by four  out  of  six  plants   using  w^ter
 Aluminum  production,  in  this case, means the  production at all
 the plants from which the spent cathodes came.
 Cathode Making
 this operation.                           ans wl<   use water for
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 Primary Potline Scrubbing
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        "P0UUT/WT
                               Effluent _
         rss  ,         200.        7.      $
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These loadings are based on a flow rate of  225 gal/ton   aluminum,
achieved by 8 out of  12 plants.

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Secondary Potroom Scrubbing
           rss              30.

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aluminum produced in  the potroom, achieved by three out of  seven
olan-t-c:.
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Tentative  BAT  effluent  limitations  are  zero
pollutants, achieved by  11 out of 12 plants.
                                                      discharge    of
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 Secondary Aluminunu  The various levels of treatment include:
                  steam stripping of slag milling water; and lime
              of the combined streams;
2.   Filtration added to level  1;
3.  -Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2- and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.


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   aluminum, achieved by 5 out of 10 plants.
   Dross Milling
   Tentative   BAT   effluent  limitations  are  zero  discharge  of
   pollutants, achieved by 3 out of 4 plants that use water for this
   process.
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Casting
Tentative  BAT  effluent  limitations  are  zero   discharge   of
pollutants,  achieved  by  9  out of 14 plants that use water for
this process.
Aluminum Fluoride Demagging
Tentative  BAT  effluent  limitations  are  zero   discharge   of
pollutants.
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Primary Columbium-Iantalum (Ore to Salt).   The  alternative levels
of treatment include:

1.   Steam stripping and chlorine oxidation of  the  high  ammonia
streams;
2.    Chemical  precipitation  and  filtration   of  the  combined
streams;
3.   Activated alumina added to level 2;
4.   Reverse osmosis and complete recycle  added to  level 3; and
5.   Activated carbon  added to level 3.
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  precipitation  capacity, achieved by 2 out of 3 plants.
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Primary Col umbiuin-Iant alum   (Salt  to  Metal)
levels of treatment include:

1.   Chemical precipitation and filtration;
2   Activated alumina added to level 1 ; and
3.   Activated carbon added to level 2.
                                                  The   alternative
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          Copper  (Smelting).   The alternative leve^ -  jf treatment
      Chemical precipitation with recycle;
 2.   Filtration and recycle added to level 1;  and
 3.   Activated carbon and recycle added to level 2.

 Tentative  BAT  effluent   limitations   are  zero   discharge   of
 pollutants.
Primary Copper  (Refining).  The alternative levels  of  treatment
include:

1.  Recycle of contact cooling water with a blowdown  treated  by
chemical precipitation;
2.   Filtration added to level 1; and
3.   Activated carbon added to level 2.
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 supernatant combined with the contact cooling water for treatment
 by  chemical precipitation;
 2,  Filtration is added to  level 1; and
 3.   Storage in a holding tank


 Tentative   BAT   effluent  limitations  are  zero  discharge  of
 pollutants.
 Primary Lead.  The alternative levels of treatment include:

 1.   Filtration;
 2.   Activated carbon added to level 1; and
 3.   Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2.


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Secondary  Lead.   The  various   alternative  levels of treatment
include:

1.   Chemical precipitation  and  filtration;
2.   Activated alumina added to  level 1;
3.   Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
H.   Activated carbon added  to level 2.

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These loadings are based on a flow  rate of 165 gal/ton of furnace
capacity, achieved by 3 out of 7 plants, including the plant with
the highest water use.


Kettle  and Other Furnace Scrubbers

Tentative  BAT  effluent  limitations  are   zero   discharge   of
pollutants, achieved by 7 out of 9  plants.
 Casting

 Tentative    BAT   effluent  limitations  are  zero  discharge  of
 pollutants,  achieved by 6 out of 8 plants.
                                 583

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Secondary Silver (Photographic).
subcategory  include:
The treatment levels  for  this
1.   Steam  stripping of the high ammonia streams;
2.  chemical  precipitation of the combined streams;
3.  Filtration  added to level 2; and
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                                 584

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                                  585

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                              587

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 treatment include:
 1.  Steam stripping of the high  ammonia streams;
 2.  Chemical  precipitation  and  filtration  of
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                                  588

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  Tentative   BAT    effluent  limitations   are   zero   discharge   of

  pollutants,  achieved by  5  out  of  6  plants.
                                   589

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                                  590

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treatment levels are:

1.   Steam stripping;
2.  Filtration added to level one;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.
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Primary Tungsten  (Salt to Metall*  The levels  of  treatment  for
this subcategory  are:

I.   Steam stripping and filtration;  and
2.  Activated carbon added to level 1.
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tungsten metal, achieved by 3 out of 5 plants.
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Primary Zinc.  The  levels  of  treatment for this subcategory are:

1.  Filtration and  activated  alumina;
2.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level  1; and  3.
Activated carbon added to  level 1.
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subcategory are the same  as those discussed under—Primary Zinc.
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                           SECTION XI

                  ALTERNATIVES FOR NEW SOURCES


                          INTRODUCTION

A  new  source  is  defined  in  the  Act  as  "any  source,  the
construction  of which is commenced after publication of proposed
regulations  prescribing  a  standard   of   performance."    .The
alternatives  developed for new sources discharging directly to a
stream, river,  etc.,  are  identical  to  the  alternatives  for
indirect  dischargers.  A discussion of the reasoning for this is
given in the beginning of Section X.

New source treatment alternatives are  developed  by  determining
what  higher levels of pollution control and treatment beyond BAT
are available through the use of  improved  production  processes
and/or  treatment  techniques.   Thus, in addition to considering
the best in-plant and end-of-pipe controls  and  treatments,  new
source  technology  is based upon an analysis of how the effluent
load may be reduced by changing the  production  process  itself.
Alternative  processes,  operating methods, or other alternatives
must be considered.  Consideration must  also  be  given  to  the
applicability  of  a  no discharge of pollutants standard for new
sources.

The  following  production  process  factors  are  considered  in
assessing new source treatment technology:

1.  The type of process employed and/or employable;
2.  Operating methods;
3.  Batch as opposed to continuous operations;
4.  Use of alternative raw materials and mixes of raw materials;
5.  Use of dry rather than wet processes.

NEW SOURCE PRETREATMENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

Alternative Technologies

The   purpose   of   this   report   is  to  evaluate  wastewater
characteristics, and control and treatment methods.  In addition,
alternative control and  treatment  schemes  that  yield  various
levels  of  effluent  quality are presented with tabulations that
describe the effluent quality for each subcategory.

Primary Aluminum.  The various alternative  levels  of  treatment
for new sources include:
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1.  Recycle of contact cooling with a blowdown combined with  the
cryolite  stream  for  treatment  by  chlorine oxidation and lime
prec ip itat i on;
2.  Filtration and activated alumina added to level 1;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

The control techniques applicable to primary aluminum plants  are
the  elimination  of potline scrubbing, paste plant scrubbing and
anode bake plant scrubbing wastewater by the use of baghouses  or
dry  scrubbing.  Additionally, by the use of the best hooding and
primary control techniques,  the  need  for  secondary  (potroom)
scrubbing  can  be eliminated.  Possible new source standards for
these operations are zero discharge of pollutants.  Possible  new
source  standards for contact cooling water and cryolite recovery
are the same as for BAT.

Secondary Aluminum.  The various levels of treatment include:

1.  Complete   recycle   of   slag   milling   water    following
sedimentation, and lime precipitation;
2.  Filtration added to level 1;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

Possible new source standards  for  chlorine  demagging  scrubber
process  wastewater  are  the same as for BAT for this operation.
Possible new source standards for the other operations  are  zero
discharge of pollutants.

Primary Columbium-Tantalum  (Ore to Salt) .  The alternative levels
of treatment include:

1.  Steam stripping and chlorine oxidation of  the  high  ammonia
streams;
2.  Chemical  precipitation  and  filtration  of   the   combined
streams;
3.  Activated alumina added to level  2;
4.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 3; and
5.  Activated carbon added to level 3.

Possible new source standards are the same as for BAT.

Primary Columbium-Tantalum   (Salt  to  Metal).   The  alternative
levels  of treatment include:

1.  Chemical precipitation;
2.  Filtration added to level 1;
3.   Activated alumina added to level 2;
4.   Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 3; and
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5.   Activated carbon added to level 3.

Possible  new source standards corresponding to alternatives 2, 3
and 5 are the same as for BAT alternatives 1, 2 and 3.   Possible
new  source  standards  for  alternative  4 are zero discharge of
pollutants.

Primary CopjDer   (Smelting) .  The alternative levels of  treatment
include:

1.  Primary settling of the scrubber water with  the  supernatant
combined   with   the   cooling   water   followed   by  chemical
precipitation, filtration and recycle;
2.  Activated alumina added to level 1, followed by recycle;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
H.  Activated carbon added to level 2, followed by recycle.

Possible new source  standards  for  this  subcategory  are  zero
discharge of pollutants.

Primary  Conger   (Refining).  The alternative levels of treatment
include:

1.  Recycle of contact cooling water with a blowdown  treated  by
chemical precipitation, filtration and recycle;
2.  Activated alumina added to level 1, followed by recycle;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
>4.  Activated carbon added to level 2, followed by recycle.

Possible new source standards for alternatives 1 and  4  are  the
same  as  for  BAT  alternatives  2  and  3.  Possible new source
standards for alternative 3 are zero discharge of pollutants.

Secondary Copper.  The alternative levels of treatment include:

1.  Primary  settling  of  the  slag  milling  water,  with   the
supernatant combined with the contact cooling water for treatment
by chemical precipitation;
2.  Filtration is added to level 1; and
3.  Storage in a holding tank for complete recycle.

Possible new source standards are zero discharge  of  pollutants,
the same as for BAT.

Primary  Lead...   Possible new 'source standards are zero discharge
of pollutants.  All wastewater, apart from acid  plant  blowdown,
can be eliminated.
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Secondary  Lead.   The  various  alternative  levels of treatment
include:

1.  Chemical precipitation and filtration;
2.  Activated alumina added to level 1;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
1.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

Possible new source standards are the same as for BAT.

Secondary Silver (Photographic) .  The treatment levels  for  this
subcategory include:

1.   Steam stripping of the high ammonia streams;
2.  Chemical precipitation of the combined streams;
3.  Filtration added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 3.

Possible  new  source  standards  for  electrolytic  refining and
casting  are  zero  discharge  of  pollutants.   For  the   other
operations,  possible  new  source  standards are the same as for
BAT.

          Silver (Non-Photographic).  The alternative  levels  of
treatment include:

1.  Steam stripping of the high ammonia streams;
2.  Chemical  precipitation  and  filtration  of   the   combined
streams; and
3.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

Possible new  source  standards  for  electrolytic  refining  and
casting   are  zero  discharge  of  pollutants.   For  the  other
operations, possible new source standards are  the  same  as  for
BAT.

Primacy   Tungsten    (Ore  to  Salt).   The  various  alternative
treatment levels are:

1.  Steam stripping;
2.  Chemical precipitation and filtration added to level 1;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2, and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

Possible new source standards are the same as for BAT.

Primary Tungsten  (Salt to Metal).  The levels  of  treatment  for
this subcategory are:

1.  Steam stripping;
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2.  Chemical precipitation added to level 1;
3.  Filtration added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 3.

Possible new source standards are the same as for BAT.

Primary Zinc.  The levels of treatment for this subcategory are:

1.  Chemical precipitation;
2.  Filtration added to level 1;
3.  Reverse osmosis and complete recycle added to level 2; and
4.  Activated carbon added to level 2.

For  electrolytic   plants,   possible   new   source   standards
corresponding  to alternatives 2, 3 and 4 are the same as for BAT
alternatives 1,  2  and  3.   For  pyrolytic  and  electrothermic
plants, possible new source standards are zero discharge.

Metallurgical Acid Plants.  The alternative treatment and control
levels  for  this subcategory, and the corresponding possible new
source standards, are the same as for BAT.
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                           SECTION XII

                        ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author is grateful  to  the  hundreds  of  people  that  have
assisted  in  the development of this report.  It is not possible
to acknowledge all of them  by  name,  but  some  who  have  been
especially helpful are recognized below.

Mr.  Ernst  Hall of the Effluent Guidelines Division who provided
project guidance and valuable insights throughout the study.

The personnel of Sverdrup & Parcel and  Associates,  particularly
Dr.  James Buzzell, Dr. Donald Washington and Mr. Garry Aronberg,
who directed and performed much of the work associated with  this
study.

Ms.  Ellen  Gonter and Ms. Linda Deans of the Analytical Services
Laboratory of NUS Corporation.

Mr. Jack Eagan of  Vulcan  Materials  Company  and  the  Aluminum
Recycling Association, and Mr. Seymour G. Epstein of the Aluminum
Association.

We  acknowledge  with  appreciation  the  hundreds  of nonferrous
metals  industry  personnel   who   completed   data   collection
portfolios and assisted during sampling visits.
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                          SECTION XIII

                           REFERENCES
1.  Sampling & Analysis Procedures for  Screening  of  Industrial
Effluents for Priority Pollutants, USEPA Environmental Monitoring
and  Support  Laboratory,  Cincinnati,  OH   45268   (March, 1977,
revised April, 1977).

2.  "Mineral Facts and Problems," Bureau of Mines  Bulletin  667,
Washington, D.C., Department of the Interior (1975).

3.  Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines  and
New   Source  Performance  Standards  for  the  Primary  Aluminum
Smelting Subcategory, EPA-440/l-74-019d, Environmental Protection
Agency  (March, 1974) .

4.  Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines  and
New  Source  Performance  Standards  for  the  Secondary Aluminum
Subcategory, EPA-400/l-74-019e, Environmental  Protection  Agency
(March, 1974).

5.  Development Document for Interim Final  Effluent  Limitations
Guidelines  and Proposed New Source Performance Standards for the
Primary Copper Smelting Subcategory and Primary  Copper  Refining
Subcategory,  EPA-440/l-75/032b,  Environmental Protection Agency
(February, 1975) .

6.  Development Document for Interim Final  Effluent  Limitations
Guidelines  and Proposed New Source Performance Standards for the
Secondary Copper  Subcategory,  EPA-440/l-75/032c,  Environmental
Protection Agency (February, 1975).

7.  Development Document for Interim Final  Effluent  Limitations
Guidelines  and Proposed New Source Performance Standards for the
Lead Segment,  EPA-440/l-75/032a, Environmental Protection  Agency
(February, 1975) .

8.  Development Document for Interim Final  Effluent  Limitations
Guidelines  and Proposed New Source Performance Standards for the
Zinc Segment,  EPA-440/1-75/0.32, Environmental  Protection  Agency
(February, 1975) .

9.  Draft   Development   Document   for   Effluent   Limitations
Guidelines   and   New   Source  Performance  Standards  for  the
Miscellaneous  Nonferrous   Metals   Segment,   EPA-440/1-76/067,
Environmental Protection Agency (March, 1977).
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10. "Natural Resources Defense Council v.  Train,"  Environmental
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81. Jenkins, S. N., Knight, D. G., and  Humphreys,  R.  E.,  "The
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89. Schlauch, R.  M., and  Epstein,  A.  C.,  Treatment  of  Metal
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90. Coleman, R. T., Colley, D. J., Klausmeier, R. F., Malish,  D.
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91. Bettler,  C.  R.,   "Lime   Neutralization   of   Low-Acidity
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96. Scott, M.  (Senior Marketing  Specialist,  Permutit  Company),
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Industrial  Environmental  Research  Laboratory,  Cincinnati,  OH
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97. Development Document for Interim Final and Proposed  Effluent
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the  Ore  Mining   and   Dressing   Industry,   EPA-440/1-75-061,
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99. Maltson, M. E., "Membrane Desalting Gets Big Push,"  Water  &
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100.  Cruver, J. E., "Reverse  Osmosis  For  Water  Reuse,"  Gulf
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103.  Donnelly, R. G., Goldsmith, R. L., McNulty, K.  J.,  Grant,
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105.  Rook, J. J.,  "Formation of Haloforms During Chlorination of
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106.  Trussell, R. R. and  Umphres,  M.  D.,  "The  Formation  of
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107.  Nebel, C., Goltschling, R. D., Holmes, J.  L.,  and  Unangst,
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108.  Rosen, H. M., "Wastewater Ozonation: a Process  Whose  Time
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115.  Gulp, G. L. and Shuckrow, A. J., "What lies ahead for PAC,"
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118.  Bishop, P. L. and  Sansovey,  G.,  "Fluoride  Removal  from
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119.  Harmon, J. A. and  Kalichman,  S.  G.,  "Defluoridation  of
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121.   Bellack, E.f "Arsenic Removal From Potable Water,"  Journal
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122.   Gupta,  S.  K.  and  Chen,  K.  Y. ,  "Arsenic  Removal   by
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134.  Process Design Manual For Carbon Adsorption, EPA  625/1-71-
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149.  Richardson,  "1978-79  Process   Equipment,   Vol.   4   of
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164.  CH2-M-H111, "Estimating Staffing for  Municipal  Wastewater
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178.  Ecology Audits, Inc.,  "Laboratory  Services  -  Individual
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