Table of Contents
Pollution Prevention EvaluationChapter 1-1 provides process evaluation guidelines to review individual manufacturing operations, identify probable pollution generation sources, and investigate possible corrective measures. Examining this model allows exploring corrective action for raw materials selection, materials storage, feed preparation, manufacturing, product recovery, purification, finishing, packaging, solvent recovery, and support facilities, and suggests data and procedures appropriate for developing site-specific plans to implement pollution prevention, source correction, and waste minimization measures at actual facilities. Study results provide the basis for a complete facility waste management program. Preliminary Central Treatment EvaluationThe guidelines profile an overall waste facility control plan that incorporates waste management practices, segregated treatment systems, central treatment systems and effluent recycling. Central treatment facility development includes sewer segregation, selecting individual and central treatment technologies, equalization and pretreatment. Chapter 1-2 also includes discussion of procedures to verify selected treatment technologies and develop design criteria. Waste Treatment System Process DesignChapter 1-3 develops the resultant data into required waste treatment systems, treating the resulting sewer discharges, segregated waste streams, or both. Process development includes selecting ancillary facilities such as waste storage, chemical storage and feed, spill and emergency discharges, sludge treatment and air emission management, and exploring the limitations imposed by the site's location and physical characteristics. EqualizationChapter 1-4 discusses modulating highly variant industrial waste characteristics to acceptable downstream treatment limits, and relates influent effects on effluent variability and inherent process control to Statistical Quality Control (SQC) principles.
