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Publisher Summary The organics control branch (OCB) of the U.S. environmental protection agency's (EPA's) air and energy engineering research laboratory (AEERL) is charged with developing and assessing pollution prevention (P2) techniques and add-on control technologies for reducing emissions of organic compounds to air—volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and air toxics. This chapter provides a brief overview of OCB's P2 research in three areas: 1) surface coating; 2) solvent cleaning; and 3) consumer/commercial products, including traditional consumer products and non-process solvent use in commercial operations. Each of the industries with which OCB is working has concerns about emissions from these areas. Most of these industries use surface coatings, solvents (to prepare surfaces for coating or to clean equipment), and a wide variety of prepackaged commercial products in their facilities. Generally, projects in each of the technical areas can be divided into four categories or types: (1) scoping studies that characterize an industry or process and its emissions and identify P2 opportunities to reduce those emissions, (2) technology assessment and development projects which evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of specific coating technologies or P2 techniques, (3) demonstration projects that investigate methods of reducing emissions in cooperation with industrial partners, and (4) technology transfer is an important project activity in OCB. |
