Emissions control from resins
Emissions control from resins
Still on the subject of emissions control, BIP Ltd, the West Midlands resin manufacturer, is offering a specialist monitoring and consultancy service to companies facing their own emission problems.
A major proportion of BIP's output at its Oldbury factory are amino-based plastics moulding powders, specialist coating, textile and paper treatment resins (also based on aminos) and unsaturated polyester resins.
In anticipation of the new legislation discussed above on emissions to atmosphere, BIP set up its own,specialist Analytical and Environmental Monitoring Unit under Dr Adrian Murphy,who brought with him many years of experience in chemical analysis. Once set up,the unit "stood back and looked at the source of the problem". BIP reports that by measuring and monitoring the various processes and clearly identifying the precise causes of the emissions, Dr Murphy's team proceeded to devise effective and economic answers. In processes such as methylating and butylating amino resins and the manufacture of polyester resins, the anticipated abatement schemes have been replaced with systems of process control frequently costing less than one tenth of the initially projected figures. At the same time,emissions have been reduced by as much as 80 per cent. Industrial processes which can benefit include paint manufacture.
The special capability of the Analytical and Environmental Monitoring Unit is demonstrated in how it overcame emissions to air of volatile organic compounds from its own amino moulding powder factory at Oldbury. Having researched a number of techniques,the unit identified a novel bioreactor system as both the most suitable and the most cost effective. Its novelty it had until then only functioned as a pilot operation was influential in BIP attracting funding from the European Union.
