Small Business Assistance - Permit Primer

Miscellaneous Processes

Material Substitution/Pollution Prevention

There are several ways to save money and minimize permitting paperwork depending on whether your business can substitute a process or material to a more environmentally-friendly alternative.If your business has any of the following operations or uses any of the following materials, please read on!

NOTE: For any topic below that does not have a specific link, please check Green Profit : Measures http://www.greenprofit.net/measures.html (Exit DNR)

Chromium Electroplating

One of the most successful alternatives to hard chromium electroplating for line-of-sight applications has been High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) technology. See the Hard Chrome Alternatives Team website at http://www.hcat.org/about.html (Exit DNR).

The Joint Group on Pollution Prevention has several active projects relating to the replacement of hard chromium electroplating.

See http://www.jgpp.com/projects/projects_index.html (Exit DNR).

McDermott Technology Inc. is promoting a concept that incorporates grain-refinement and Hall-Petch strengthening techniques with cobalt-based electrolytes. An article revealing the intended implementation at U.S. Dept. of Defense rework, maintenance and manufacturing facilities may be found at http://www.serdp.org/research/PP/PP-1152.pdf (Exit DNR).

Laboratories

Microscaling is a technique used in graduate and undergraduate chemistry laboratories that significantly reduces the amount of air pollution and hazardous waste generated. It is, by definition, a source reduction program. This means that hazardous waste is reduced by avoiding and minimizing its generation. Microscaling is a process that uses smaller (micro) amounts of chemicals where much larger amounts were previously used. (see the following)

Waste Minimization - Laboratories (Exit DNR)