UPDATES ON CHOICES OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR CONTROL OF VOC EMISSIONS

摘要

As the federal, state, and local agencies have promulgated regulations that require greater control for emissions of volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants, new technologies and new strategies for controlling air pollutant emissions have developed. This article updates an earlier article published in Metal Finishing (page 238, vol. 92, no. 5A, 1994) to include some recent developments in air pollutant emission control for solvents used in metal finishing. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) have specific regulatory definitions; but for the purpose of this article, organic compounds that are subject to regulatory control as either VOCs or HAPs will be called VOCs, since they are subject to the same types of emission control.