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Murdock Engineering Company
Year Submitted: 2003 |
Process: Electroplating |
Industry: Metal Fabrication |
Wastes Reduced: Wastewater |
Substance: Hexavalent Chromium |
Location: Irving, Dallas County TX |
No. of employees: 212 |
Description:
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P2 Application:
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Environmental Benefits:
The environmental impact from use of the HCRU is very significant in that the process solution is never depleted due to normal process contaminants.
Specific benefits are:
* Oxidizes trivalent chromium to the hexavalent state
* Extracts dissolved metal contaminants from the process solution
* Maintains consistency of process solution resulting in uniform processing
* Lowers solution viscosity which reduces rinsewater dragout contamination
* Eliminates downtime due to spent solution change out
* Eliminates fresh bath make-up chemical cost
* Eliminates the ever increasing cost of hazardous waste disposal and associated liabilities
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Details of Reductions
Additional Information :
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