United States
                    Environmental Protection
                    Agency       	
Water Engineering
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati OH 45268
                    Research and Development
EPA/600/S9-87/012 Sept.  1987
ŁEPA          Project Summary
                    8th  AESF/EPA Conference on
                    Pollution  Control  for  the  Metal
                    Finishing  Industry

                    J. Howard Schumacher, Jr., and Roger C. Wilmoth
                      The 8th Annual AESF/EPA Confer-
                    ence and Exhibit on Pollution Control
                    for the Metal  Finishing Industry was
                    held  in San Diego, CA, February 9
                    through  11, 1987. The program was
                    organized by  Dr. Rebecca  Spearot,
                    member of the American Electroplater*
                    and Surface Finishers Environmental
                    Committee and Roger Wilmoth of the
                    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
                    Water Engineering Research Laboratory,
                    Manufacturing and Service Industries
                    Branch.
                      The primary objective of  the con-
                    ference was to continue the dialogue
                    established  by the  first AESF/EPA
                    Conference in 1978 between key mem-
                    bers of the Agency and the metal finish-
                    ing industry. The program featured key
                    EPA representatives who explained and
                    discussed regulatory guidelines in detail.
                    In addition, leading industrial experts
                    discussed efforts to effectively address
                    the ramfficatiejis of the EPA regulations.
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                    toy EAT* Wafer Engineering Roeeereh
                    CaftoJvJpry, C/nc/nnatf, OH, to announce
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                    fully documented In • separate report of
                    the same title (eee Pro/ect Report order-
                    ing Informetlon et beck).

                      The U.S.  Environmental Protection
                    Agency's Office of Research and Develop-
                    ment and the American Electroplaters
                    and Surface Finishers Society have co-
                    operated over the years in an annual
                    "Conference on Pollution Control for the
                    Metal Finishing Industry."
                      The eighth conference was held in
                    January 1987 in San Diego and consisted
                    of 26 technical presentations covering a
wide variety of topics of interest to the
surface finishing industry. The presenta-
tions ranged from updates on the air,
water, and hazardous waste regulations
by EPA representatives to the results of
research studies and case histories of
waste reduction efforts in metal finishing
facilities.
  The conference was attended by over
425 individuals  interested in environ-
mental problems. These proceedings are
published in order that the important
material presented can be of benefit to as
many people as possible. The regulatory
papers were not available for publication
so the Society arranged to tape the ses-
sions and the subsequent panel discus-
sions. These cassettes may be ordered
from the AESF Book Department, in care
of AESF Headquarters, 12644 Research
Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826.
  The EPA and the AESF are pleased to
continue this mutual endeavor which has
improved  communications and which
should promote continued research and
sound technical solutions to the environ-
mental problems of the surface finishers.
The ninth conference is planned for late
January 1988 in Orlando, FL.
  The following is  a title listing of the
papers included in the proceedings of the
Eighth Conference:
  Hazardous Waste Research Pertaining
    to Metal Finishing
  Treatment of Aqueous Metal Bearing
    Hazardous Wastes
  Optimizing Transfer Efficiency of Spray
    Painting Operations
  Pilot Scale Results of Metal Value Re-
    covery From Mixed Metal Hydroxide
    Sludges
  Plating Waste Sludge Metal Recovery

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    Why Not Simplify Wastewater Compli-
      ance?
    Liability for  Managing  Hazardous
      Wastes: Past, Present, and Future
    How Clean Is Clean? (What Constitutes
      the Clean Closure  of a Hazardous
      Waste Land Management Facility?)
    Installation  of New Nickel/Chromium
      Plating Facility
    Pollution Control  Using Room Tem-
      perature Evaporators
    Howard Plating Cleans Up Their Act
      with Magnesium Hydroxide
    Metal Finishing Wastewater Treatment
      Upgrade  with an Insoluble  Sulfide
      Precipitation Process
    The Performance of Analytical Test Kits
      of  Metal Finishing Wastewater
      Samples
    Application of Statistical Process Con-
      trol to Wastewater Pretreatment
    Wastewater Reduction in Metal Fabri-
      cations Operations
         Wastewater Treatment: Optimizing an
           Existing System
         Electrolytic Recovery: Theory, Applica-
           tion, Advantages
         Waste  Treatment and  Recycling of
           Mixed Wastewater From a  Metal
           Finishing Company
         Environmental Auditing: Management's
           Key  to  Effective  Environmental
           Compliance
         Successful In-House Recovery of Sol-
           vent
         Calpurnia and the Strip Barn
         Emissions from Chrome Plating Scrub-
           bers as a Function of Scrubber Liquor
           Concentration

         This report was submitted in fulfillment
       of CR-810787-01-0 by  the American
       Electroplaters and Surface Finishers En-
       vironmental Committee under the spon-
       sorship of the U.S. Environmental Protec-
       tion Agency.
     J.  Howard Schumacher, Jr.  is with American Electroplaters  and Surface
       Finishers, Orlando, FL 32826; the EPA author, Roger Wilmoth (also the EPA
       Project Officer, see below), is with Water Engineering Research Laboratory,
       Cincinnati. OH 45268.
     The complete report, entitled "8th AESF/EPA Conference on Pollution Control
       for the Metal Finishing Industry." (Order No. PB 87-208 807/AS;C^st: $30.95.
       subject to change/ will be available only from:
            National Technical Information Service
            5285 Port Royal Road
            Springfield, VA 22161
             Telephone: 703-487-4650
     The EPA Officer can be contacted at:
             Water Engineering Research Laboratory
            U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
            Cincinnati, OH 45268
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Center for Environmental Research
Information
Cincinnati OH 45268
Official Business
Penalty for Private Use $300

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