April 2002
Environmental Technology
Verification Center for
P2, Recycling, and Waste
Treatment Technologies
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has instituted the Environmental Technology Verification
Program (ETV) to verify the performance of innovative technical solutions to problems that may affect human health
or the environment. ETV was created to substantially accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies
into the domestic and international marketplace. It will supply technology purchasers and vendors, consulting
engineers, states, and EPA regions with high-quality data on the performance of new technologies. This will allow
more rapid protection of the environment with better and less expensive approaches.
Currently the Center consists of two pilot programs, one in metal finishing pollution prevention technologies and
one in innovative coatings and coating equipment technologies. Both pilots are operated by Concurrent
Technologies Corporation. The EPA plans to transition this Center into one with a much wider scope, covering
more pollution prevention and recycling technologies, as well as waste treatment technologies. More industry and
economic sectors will also be included. To accomplish this, EPA plans to conduct a competitive solicitation and
award process in 2003.
Verifications Process and Benefits to Vendors and Purchasers
The verification process involves:
Identifying critical areas requiring P2, recycling, or waste treatment solutions;
Identifying innovative technologies that address the critical areas;
Soliciting commercial-ready technologies for verification testing;
Conducting verification testing of those technologies in industry, under actual operating conditions; and
Disseminating the verification results through an extensive distribution network.
Benefits of the ETV Center for P2, Recycling, and Waste Treatment Technologies include:
• Identifying promising and innovative P2, recycling, and waste treatment technologies;
• Generating confidence in innovative technologies and enhancing their deployment in industry;
• Increasing market penetration of less-polluting products;
• Accelerating the development and commercialization of technologies;
• Providing objective performance data to buyers of environmental technologies; and
• Facilitating technology acceptance and permitting at the state and local levels.
Metal Finishing
Coatings and Coating Equipment
Metal finishing processes include electroplating,
electroless plating, anodizing, coating (chromating,
phosphating, and coloring), chemical etching and
milling, cleaning, and printed circuit board
manufacturing. The performance of technologies
that can prevent pollution, recycle bath chemistries
or rinse water, and more effectively treat wastes
from these processes will be verified.
Innovative coatings are environmentally friendly by
virtue of their composition or their curing process,
such as near-zero VOC liquids, powder coatings, and
UV/EB curable coatings. Innovative equipment
generates less pollution by expanding the use of
innovative coatings or by applying coatings more
efficiently, such as applying powder coatings to metal
coils, high transfer efficiency spray equipment, and
laser targeting devices. Innovative technologies that
are associated with surface preparation, coating
application, and cleanup processes in finishing
operations will be verified.
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Metal Finishing Verificatioi
Coatings and Coating
Equipment Verifications
Focus Areas:
Acid Bath Maintenance
Water Use Reduction/Recycle
Energy Use Reduction
Metal Recovery/Recycle
Sludge Reduction
Electroless Nickel Bath Maintenance
Chromate Conversion Coating Solution
Maintenance
Aqueous Cleaner Bath Maintenance
Verifications to Date:
Microfiltration
Biological Degreasing System
Organoclay Filtration
Electrodialysis
Reverse Osmosis
Evaporation
Tank Covers for Energy Use Reduction
Ion Exchange
Electrocoagulation
Dissolved Air Flotation/Flocculation
Donn Brown
CTC P2 Metal Finishing Program Manager
7935 114th Avenue
Largo, FL 33773
(727) 549-7007
browndw@ctcgsc.orq
Dr. George Moore, Ph.D.
EPA P2 Metal Finishing Program Manager
26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, MS 445
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513)569-7991
moore.georqe@epa.gov
Focus Areas:
Low VOC and/or HAP liquid coatings
High transfer efficiency coating application
equipment
Spray Painter Training Devices
UV/EB curable coatings
Innovative coating process technologies
Low VOC and/or HAP cleaning technologies
Equipment and/or line cleaning technologies
Innovative pretreatment technologies
Powder coatings
Verifications to Date:
High-volume, low-pressure spray guns (4 products)
Laser targeting and training device
Architectural/industrial liquid coating
Contact Information
Brian Schweitzer
CTC Coatings and Coating Equipment Program
Manager
100 CTC Drive
Johnstown, PA 15904
(814)269-2772
schweitz@ctcgsc.org
Michael Kosusko
EPA Coatings and Coating Equipment Program
Manager
Mail Code E-343-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
(919)541-2734
kosusko.mike@epa.gov
Invitation to Participate
Vendors and purchasers of innovative P2, recycling, and waste treatment technologies that are interested in
participating in the ETV Center for P2, Recycling, and Waste Treatment Technologies, or would like to be placed on
our mailing list, should call the EPA or Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) program offices listed.
Additional information is also available by accessing the following website:
http://www.epa.gov/etv
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