Pollution prevention opportunities

Assessment Phase The assessment phase aims to collect data needed to identify and analyze pollution-prevention opportunities. Assessment of the facility s waste-reduction needs includes the examination of hazardous waste streams, process operations, and the identification of techniques that often promise the reduction of waste generation. Information is often derived from obsei vations made during a facihty walk-through, interviews with employees (e.g., operators, line workers), and review of site or regulatory records. One professional organization suggests the following information sources be reviewed, as available (Ref. 7) ... 

Continuing with Question 2, which sources eould potentially be the focus of a pollution prevention opportunity ... 

What are some pollution prevention opportunities you could focus on in an indoor air quality audit. 

The following references will help you develop techniques for applying pollution prevention audits. Use the examples in Chapter 2 as a basis to tailor audit questions and to focus on areas of opportunities. Finally, Chapter 8 will help you in developing the tools needed to assess the financial attractiveness of the pollution prevention opportunities you identify. 

This chapter focuses on hardware. The intent is to provide a working description of pollution control hardware, and to highlight technologies and equipment that may be applicable to pollution prevention opportunities. 

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Checklists Case Studies, September 1993 832/F-93-006 NSCEP 832/F-93-006 ERIC W543. 

Charging and tapping emissions are controlled by a variety of evacuation systems and operating practices. Charging hoods, tapside enclosures, and full furnace enclosures are used in the industry to capture these emissions and send them to either the primary hood gas cleaner or a second gas cleaner.1516 Pollution prevention opportunities for the reduction of heavy metals at the BOF are limited as heavy metals are an inherent part of the iron ore material stream, so the higher the iron production, the greater will be the use of the ore. 

P2AD, An Analysis of Pollution Prevention Opportunities and Impediments in the Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Sector in Georgia, Pollution Prevention Assistance Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, April 1, 1996. 

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Reduced (Ib/yr) Percent Savings Cost (yr)... 

D197186, Joint Service Pollution Prevention Opportunity Handbook, 1997... 

Pollution Prevention Opportunities Assessment Control Technologies Assessment... 

Stimulate the development and implementation of technologies and processes that result in reduced pollution. Numerous pollution prevention opportunities exist in manufacturing, mining, agricultural, and service processes. This goal addresses the need to focus research activities on these processes to enable broad-scale reduction in pollution generation. 

The emission control requirements of the existing as well as future regulations require an understanding of the NO c-emitting sources, pollution prevention opportunities, emission reduction technologies, costs of controls, and impacts on existing operations and plant safety. This entry discusses a number of aspects of NOx control ... 

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessment Histology Laboratory Xylene Use Fort Carson, Colorado... 

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessment for Two Laboratories at Sandia National Laboratories... 

Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessment USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland... 

The previous section described how the flows of individual materials can be tracked from their initial acquisition to their final disposition in a product or a waste stream. Even relatively simple materials generally have a multitude of uses, which creates interesting opportunities for recycling. While the identification of such pollution prevention opportunities is most readily done by tracking individual materials, an alternative approach that is gaining considerable popularity considers an individual product and maps the flows of energy and raw materials that were required to create the product. These studies, commonly referred to as life cycles analyses, follow a basic framework, which is summarized in Fig. 12. 

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