Enviornmental emissions from two wood-treating operations

摘要

This study compared environmental emissions from a wood-treating plant using ammoniacal copper/quaternary ammonium compound, Type B formulation (ACQ-B) as an alternative wood preservative to chromated copper arsenate (CCA). The most obvious cnage in environmental emissions was the elimination of arsenic (As) and chromium (Cr), which eliminated the generation of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) wastes and the risk of contaminating the environment with these RCRA-regulated methods.