Improving the Viability of Aqueous Parts Washing for Air Force Maintenance Operations

摘要

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the U.S. military, and the government as a whole, made pollution prevention a primary focus. Concerns over ozone depletion, personnel exposure to carcinogenic materials, and the ever-increasing cost of hazardous waste disposal led to a significant amount of the military budget becoming dedicated to pollution prevention and/or elimination. With the adoption of the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which established as its goal the elimination of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) and the establishment of new volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) levels, military base environmental managers were forced to search for more environmentally compliant materials and processes.