Glass emission

Corrosion Resistant Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP). Fiber glass reinforcement bonded with furfuryl alcohol thermosetting resias provides plastics with unique properties. Excellent resistance to corrosion and heat distortion coupled with low flame spread and low smoke emission are characteristics that make them valuable as laminating resins with fiber glass (75,76). Another valuable property of furan FRP is its strength at elevated temperature. Hand-layup, spray-up, and filament-win ding techniques are employed to produce an array of corrosion-resistant equipment, pipes, tanks, vats, ducts, scmbbers, stacks, and reaction vessels for industrial appHcations throughout the world. 

Elemental chemical analysis provides information regarding the formulation and coloring oxides of glazes and glasses. Energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometry is very convenient. However, using this technique the analysis for elements of low atomic numbers is quite difficult, even when vacuum or helium paths are used. The electron-beam microprobe has proven to be an extremely useful tool for this purpose (106). Emission spectroscopy and activation analysis have also been appHed successfully in these studies (101). 

More recentiy, sulfuric acid mists have been satisfactorily controlled by passing gas streams through equipment containing beds or mats of small-diameter glass or Teflon fibers. Such units are called mist eliminators (see Airpollution control methods). Use of this type of equipment has been a significant factor in making the double absorption process economical and in reducing stack emissions of acid mist to tolerably low levels. 

Vinyl compares favorably to other packaging materials. In 1992, a lifecycle assessment comparison of specific packages made from glass, paperboard, paper, and selected plastics concluded that vinyl was the material that has the lowest production energy and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the lowest fossil fuel and raw material requirements of the plastics studied (169). Vinyl saves more than 34 million Btu per 1000 pounds manufactured compared to the highest energy-consuming plastic (170). 

It has been suggested that cesium may be useflil in the fixation of radioactive waste in a cesium-based glass and in detoxification procedures for fugitive Cs emissions, such as at Chernobyl, Ukraine. 

The PEEK resia is gray, crystalline, and has excellent chemical resistance T is ca 185°C, and it melts at 288°C. The unfilled resia has an HPT of 165°C, which can be iacreased to near its melting poiat by incorporating glass filler. The resia is thermally stable, and maintains ductiUty for over one week after being heated to 320°C it can be kept for years at 200°C. Hydrolytic stabiUty is excellent. The resia is flame retardant, has low smoke emission, and can be processed at 340—400°C. Crystallinity is a function of mold temperature and can reach 30—35% at mold temperatures of 160°C. Recycled material can be safely processed. Properties are given ia Table 16. 

Gaseous and particulate pollutants are withdrawn isoldnetically from an emission source and collected in a multicomponent sampling train. Principal components of the train include a high-efficiency glass- or quartz-fiber filter and a packed bed of porous polymeric adsorbent resin (typically XAD-2 or polyurethane foam for PCBs). The filter is used to collect organic-laden particulate materials and the porous polymeric resin to adsorb semivolatile organic species (com-... 

During the manufacture of glass, considerable dust, with particles averaging about 300 /xm in size, will be emitted. Some dusts may also be emitted from the handling of the raw materials involved. Control of this dust to prevent a nuisance problem outside the plant is a necessity. When glass is blown or formed into the finished product, smoke and gases can be released from the contact of the molten glass with lubricated molds. These emissions are quite dense but of a relatively short duration. 

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