Automotive products

The aerosol container has enjoyed commercial success ia a wide variety of product categories. Insecticide aerosols were iatroduced ia the late 1940s. Additional commodities, including shave foams, hair sprays, antiperspirants, deodorants, paints, spray starch, colognes, perfumes, whipped cream, and automotive products, followed ia the 1950s. Mediciaal metered-dose aerosol products have also been developed for use ia the treatment of asthma, migraine headaches, and angiaa. 

Personal products are the fastest growing segment of the aerosol industry and represent the largest of the categories. An iacrease in the use of hair spray as well as deodorants and antiperspirants accounts for the major growth. Increase in industrial aerosol automotive products was also large in the 1980s. 

For passenger car seating about 90% is made by the molded foam process. The transportation market has expedenced a decline since 1979 due to decreased automotive production and also because U.S. cars have been downsized, resulting in the use of less polyurethane foam per car. 

Over 68 aerosol products containing isopropyl alcohol solvent have been reported (145). Aerosol formulations include hair sprays (146), floor detergents (147), shoe poHshes (148), insecticides (149,150), bum ointments (151), window cleaners, waxes and poHshes, paints, automotive products (eg, windshield deicer), insect repellents, flea and tick spray, air refreshers, disinfectants, veterinary wound and pinkeye spray, first-aid spray, foot fungicide, and fabric-wrinMe remover (152) (see Aerosols). 

These thermoplastic natural mbber elastomers have a place in the modem world, where recycling has become so important, and when excessive heat is not found in service. Thus, footwear, gla2ing seals, sports goods, hose, domestic products, and a whole range of automotive products have already been identified for such use. It must be noted, however, that tines are not a potential market for these materials, because of the high temperatures which result from emergency braking. 

U.S. consumption of carbon black in 1988 by various market sectors is shown in Table 6. About 90% of total consumption is in the mbber industry and 69% for tires. About 10% is consumed for other automotive products and 11% for mbber products unrelated to the automotive industry. The automotive industry accounts for 79% of consumption. Pigment appHcations account for about 10% of consumption, most of this for plastics and printing inks. Western Europe consumes 74% in tires and other automotive products and almost 20% in other industrial mbber products. Pigment appHcations in Western Europe and Japan are 5—6% of consumption. 

Acrylic rubbers, as is the case for most specialty elastomers, are characterized by higher price and smaller consumption compared to general-purpose mbbers. The total mbber consumption ia 1991 was forecast (55) at 15.7 million t worldwide with a 66% share for synthetic elastomers (10.4 x 10 t). Acryhc elastomers consumption, as a minor amount of the total synthetic mbbers consumption, can hardly be estimated. As a first approximation, the ACM consumption is estimated to be 7000 t distributed among the United States, Western Europe, and Japan/Far East, where automotive production is significantly present. 

The requirements of the automotive industry are more demanding than some other industries. Automotive products have to be safe, reliable, and maintainable, protect the occupants, and have minimal impact on the environment in their manufacture, use, and disposal. The automotive sector is a very competitive market and as a consequence costs have to be optimized. There is little margin for excessive variation, as variation causes waste and waste costs money and time. Therefore several methods have evolved to reduce variation. Among them are SPC, FMEA, MSA, and many other techniques The automotive industry believes that the more their suppliers adopt such variation reduction techniques the more likely it will be that the resultant product will be brought to the market more quickly and its production process be more efficient. 

The principles outlined in the standard can be applied to any creative activity and while the standard primarily addresses the design of automotive products for onward sale to customers, the principles can be applied to internal systems such as an information technology system, an inventory control system, and even the quality system. 

VOCs are emitted indoors by building materials (e.g., paints, pressed wood products, adhesives, etc.), equipment (photocopying machines, printers, etc.), cleaning products, stored fuels and automotive products, hobby supplies, and combustion activities (cooking, unvented space heating, tobacco smoking, indoor vehicle use). 

Ford Expects Output of Flexible Fuel Vehicles to Represent 10% of its U.S. Automotive Production. Purchasing. 12S(9) 9. 

Fig. 1-13 An innovative design exercise to produce automotive products.

TPUs are more successful than ever and are used in a wide variety of applications, including automotive products, sports equipment, tool housings, and films. 

Hexane is contained in a variety of products commonly used in household settings. Given its volatility, this creates possibilities for exposures from inhalation as well as by dermal contact and ingestion. In a study of over 1,000 common household products, -hexanc was detected in 101 products, about the same detection rate as for BTEX compounds (e g., benzene, toluene, xylene or ethylbenzene) and other normal alkanes. -Hexane was detected in more than 10% of the items sampled in the following product categories automotive products oils, greases and lubricants and adhesive-related products (Sack et al. 1992). 

Uses Solvent for waxes, casein, dyes, and resins manufacture of rubber additives, various pharmaceuticals, paper chemicals, plasticizers, corrosion inhibitors, emulsifiers, pesticides solvent optical brightener for detergents hair conditioners additive to boiler water preservation of book paper ingredient in various automotive products including brake cleaners and waxes organic synthesis. 

Wire and cable insulation, hose footwear, mechanical automotive products. Good resistance to oil and fire, good weatherability Seals, gaskets, wire, and cable insulation. Good resistance to chemicals Cable insulation, window strips. Outstanding... 

Copolymers of ethylene with up to 15-20% acrylic or methacrylic acid offer improved adhesion, abrasion resistance, toughness, and low-temperature flexibility compared to EVA. Applications include extrusion coatings on aluminum foil for pouches, wire and cable, packaging film, laminations with metal and glass fibers (building and automotive products) and polyurethane (carpet backing). 

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) is defined by the U.S. EPA as solid wastes, discarded from homes or similar sources, that are either hazardous wastes or wastes that exhibit any of the following characteristics ignitabiUty, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity. A significant fraction of HHW is generated by home mechanics who use such products as motor oil, cleaners and solvents, refrigerants, and batteries. The results indicate that most of the survey respondents perceive automotive products to pose significant health and environmental risks, and they tend to dispose of these wastes in an environmentally conscious manner. There is qnite often a discrepancy between human perception and scientific reality (see table 8.2) (Shorten et al., 1995). 

In a survey of volatile organic chemicals in 1159 household items including household cleaners and polishes, paint-related products, fabric and leather treatments, cleaners for electronic equipment, oils, greases and lubricants, adhesive-related products, automotive products and miscellaneous products, ethylbenzene was identified in 157 of 658 (24%) of the products tested. The highest mean concentrations and percentage of products in each category in which ethylbenzene was found were as follows 7.2% w/w in 7.5% of automotive products, 2.4% w/w in 47.8% of paint-related... 

The authors thank the Automotive Products sector of Du Pont for allowing publication of this work. Dr. N. J. Darmon synthesized the NNA macromers. We thank Dr. N. J. Nahon for his scientific and editorial assistance. Naryann Silva performed all of the mass spectrometric experiments. Audrey Lockton, Christie Connolly, Nary Clavin and Eileen Brennan are acknowledged for their clerical assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. 

Alcohols are important commercially and include uses as solvents, drugs, and disinfectants. The most widely used alcohols are methanol or methyl alcohol, CH3OH, ethanol or ethyl alcohol, CH3CH2OH, and 2-propanol or isopropyl alcohol, (CH3)2CHOH. Methyl alcohol is found in automotive products such as antifreeze and dry gas. Ethyl alcohol is used as a solvent for drugs and chemicals, but is more popularly known for its effects as an alcoholic beverage. Isopropyl alcohol, also known as rubbing alcohol, is an antiseptic. 

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Combustion of fuels produces and releases pollutants such as hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Air pollutants are also released by some household products—for instance, paints, paint strippers, solvents, wood preservatives, aerosol sprays, cleansers and disinfectants, moth repellents, stored fuels, and automotive products. 

Most of the 300+ organic vapors that may be found in indoor pollution are derived from paints, paint strippers and other solvents, wood preservatives, aerosol sprays, cleansers and disinfectants, moth repellents, air fresheners, in addition to fuels and automotive products, and dry-cleaners. Many of these compounds are halogenated hydrocarbons, PAH, ketones and aldehydes, which exhibit different degrees of toxicity. 

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