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. ThhProjbcf Summery wee developed toy EAT* Wafer Engineering Roeeereh CaftoJvJpry, C/nc/nnatf, OH, to announce Key finding* of the proceed/riff* thet It 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 ------- 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 EPA/600/S9-87/012 OOOOJ29 PS AGENCr liniiilntiiiitiliiiUi.lil ------- |