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Regional Resources: Pollution Control Grant Opportunities

The right pollution control equipment can help you operate more efficiently, remain in compliance with federal and state regulations, and avoid downtime; it can even help you recapture operating costs when paired with energy recovery systems used to provide heat to other applications.
Overcoming Cost Challenges in Pollution Control
While many manufacturers see long term benefits from the move to update their air pollution control equipment, the capital equipment costs are often prohibitive. As we discussed in our last blog, US manufacturers spend over $24 billion per year in pollution abatement and continue to bear a significant burden in environmental regulatory […]

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    Staying EPA Compliant With Proper Abatement Equipment Maintenance

Staying EPA Compliant With Proper Abatement Equipment Maintenance

For many manufacturing plants, following EPA’s requirements on pollution control and staying within the demands of EPA’s operating permits can be both costly and challenging.

Plant managers not only have to ensure compliance but also tackle various human errors and material limitations regarding the operation of the abatement equipment and volatile organic compound (VOC) control systems, such as:

Unintentional adjustment of the equipment that causes sub-optimal functioning.
Lack of knowledge in the pollution control procedure that leads to the shutting down of a production process.
Equipment fatigue and failure that causes a device to shut down or operate under unsafe […]

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    How To Reduce the Cost Of Pollution Abatement In Manufacturing

How To Reduce the Cost Of Pollution Abatement In Manufacturing

US manufacturers spend over $24 billion per year in pollution abatement and continue to bear a significant burden in environmental regulatory costs for waste disposal, wastewater treatment, and air pollution abatement.

In order to reduce cost and stay competitive, manufacturers need to reduce the cost of controlling pollution so they can become more profitable. Here are a few key areas to focus on:
Lowering Cost Of Waste Disposal
One of the most effective ways to lower the cost of waste disposal is to reduce the production and volume of manufacturing wastes and the resources required to process them:

Increase the efficiency of […]

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    How to Learn More about Your State’s Pollution Control Requirements

How to Learn More about Your State’s Pollution Control Requirements

The United States is built on the idea that different states have different needs, and one-size-fits-all regulations are rarely the best option. With 3.5 million square miles of landmass, varying altitudes, and a wide range of population densities and industries, implementing any massive regulatory change pertaining to air pollution would be implausible and ineffective.

Simply put, applying the same standard to a manufacturer in Iowa and California wouldn’t take into consideration the needs of either business or the community surrounding it. An overarching standard would be too strict for one and too lax for the other and would fail to […]

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    Keeping it Clean: Oxidizer Maintenance Tips for Efficiency and Effectiveness

Keeping it Clean: Oxidizer Maintenance Tips for Efficiency and Effectiveness

Thermal and Catalytic Oxidizers are expensive pieces of equipment both initially and over the course of their decades-long useful life. While expensive to install and operate, they play a vital role in your compliance efforts. For these two reasons alone, it pays to keep these pollution control solutions not only operational, but efficient as well. Therefore, keeping your air pollution control solution well maintained is critical to reduce costs, maintain compliance, and ultimately keep your operations running.
Dangers of Unplanned Downtime: Costly Repairs, Potential Penalties
When air pollution control systems such as thermal or catalytic oxidizers shut down unexpectedly, the entire […]

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    Reducing Emissions: The Most Effective HAP Abatement Systems

Reducing Emissions: The Most Effective HAP Abatement Systems

The reduction of air pollution has become one of the biggest global talking points for several decades. World leaders have held a great deal of meetings with the sole purpose of addressing environmental pollution. These have led to established entities like the EPA, which is now in charge of monitoring and regulating air pollution emissions in the US.

Although current emissions are much lower than the last 5 decades, a significant amount of pollution enters our atmosphere on a daily basis. These include dangerous compounds like hazardous air pollutants, which have harmful effects on the general public health and the […]

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    How to Reduce Air Pollution from Factories and Industrial Operations

How to Reduce Air Pollution from Factories and Industrial Operations

There are thousands of industrial facilities around the world, all of which contribute to producing billions of consumer products. While these products may be extremely helpful, their production also puts a huge amount of stress on the environment and our health.

For this reason, the reduction of air pollution has become one of the hottest debate topics in the last 60 years. This article will talk about the different ways that factories and other industrial operations can reduce air pollution and destroy these compounds before they enter our atmosphere.
Common airborne pollutants generated by industrial operations
There are hundreds of different air […]

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    Five Reasons it May be Time to Start Looking at a New Industrial Oven

Five Reasons it May be Time to Start Looking at a New Industrial Oven

Industrial ovens and dryers are among the most reliable pieces of equipment at a manufacturing facility. Often giving an organization a decade or more of reliable service, these pieces of equipment often live longer than employees stay at your company, so if you’re a production supervisor or manager, you may have to dig through the books to find when your current equipment was bought.

That said, even the most reliable pieces of equipment have a limited shelf life, and if you begin to see any of the following signs, it may be time to start looking at your options.
Inefficient to […]

When is it Time to Consider a New Conveyor System?

For manufacturing facilities, the conveyor belt is the circulatory system of the entire operation. Carrying the products you make from raw material to end result, the conveyor system plays a vital part of the manufacturing process, but maintenance budgets often go towards larger, more prominent, or more expensive pieces of equipment.

Of course, there is a reason for this, conveyor systems are reliable and have a long useful life; a properly maintained system can give you years or decades of service. Knowing this, if your conveyor system goes down, your entire manufacturing process comes to a screeching halt. Downtime on […]

Understanding Harmful Chemicals: Air Pollution Abatement

Even the smallest industrial operations can release different types of dangerous air pollutants. While all factories should implement ways to treat these emissions before they enter the atmosphere, it’s also important to choose the right machinery.

The best way to choose the best air pollution abatement systems is to understand the emissions your factory generates. In this article, we’ll go over the common types of air pollutants that most factories generate and discuss the impact they may cause.
The impact of pollution
Factories can generate solid waste, liquid residues, and airborne pollutants. All of these are very dangerous and must be handled […]