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- Stench!
- When our mass finishing equipment is started after being shut down a week or more, an extreme stench emanates from the entire system. How can we control this problem?
Ask an Expert Published: 1/25/2012
- Nitric Acid Passivation and EH&S Impact
- I am looking for safety/environmental requirements to set up a nitric acid cleaning and passivation system.
Ask an Expert Published: 8/15/2011
- Caustic Piping Remedies
- When I reviewed our operations, I was struck by how many of our PVC and CPVC piping joints that carried either caustic for wastewater pretreatment or alkaline cleaner exhibited a crusty scale, apparently dried caustic residue.
Ask an Expert Published: 5/1/2011
- OSHA Regulations Regarding Safety Showers and Eyewash Stations
- It has been brought to my attention that our two safety showers and eyewash stations are in need of repair and/or replacement. It is my desire to provide the appropriate equipment, but I could use some help on determining what is required by OSHA. K...
Ask an Expert Published: 3/21/2011
- Decontamination of Metal Finishing Area
- We have a finishing room at one of our plants, and we have outsourced the plating. We also did pickling and bright dip in the room, and we now want to decontaminate it so that we can sell the equipment, or at least dispose of it properly. Our main c...
Ask an Expert Published: 1/11/2011
- Remove that Bleach Smell
- In our scrubber system for chlorination, we use caustic soda as the oxidation agent. This produces sodium hypochlorite, and unfortunately, sodium hypochlorite has an unpleasant smell.
Ask an Expert Published: 1/1/2010
- Stench!
- When our mass finishing equipment is started after being shut down a week or more, an extreme stench emanates from the entire system.
Ask an Expert Published: 4/1/2009
- Industrial Storm Water Runoff
- The other day during our annual inspection by the sewer district, they expressed concern over our "boneyard" behind the plant where we store used equipment, tanks, and scrap building materials, mainly metals. The inspectors then finished their typi...
Ask an Expert Published: 3/1/2009
- Flouride Removal
- Any recommendations on how we can easily remove fluoride without major modifications to our pretreatment system?
Ask an Expert Published: 1/1/2009
- Protection from Hex Chrome
- OSHA’s relatively new hexavalent chromium standard remains somewhat confusing when trying to implement at our plant. Could you provide some insight on how to obtain compliance?
Ask an Expert Published: 1/1/2009