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BioForce Services Full Service Parts Washing Program
BioForce Services will help with the setup & in maintaining your parts washing
system & chemistry. With services including parts washing, waste
handling & disposal, & special waste treatment.
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State-of-the-art parts washers & chemicals.
Non-flammable cleaning formulas that are
non-hazardous.
Regularly scheduled on-site service
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Reduced or eliminated VOC concerns (Improved air quality).
Dramatic reduction of waste liability & paperwork.
Chemicals, equipment, & services designed for use in manual
& automatic parts washers.
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THE BIOFORCE SERVICES PARTNERSHIP IDEA...
The BioForce parts washing process enables our customers to participate in publicly monitored Very Small Quantity Generator Collection Programs. This means that by working in partnership with our customers, we can keep the costs of maintaining an aqueous cleaning & degreasing systems very reasonable (& profitable) for our customers.
PARTNERSHIP BENEFITS:
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Significantly reduces wastes.
Reduces regulatory requirements.
Reduces waste, reduces the handling of paper
work, and provides employee training.
Promotes worker safety.
Generates consistent waste product.
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Eliminates liability, 100% financial indemnification.
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Reduces permit fees.
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Parts washing & environmental question hotline: 888-591-7047
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Assist & track public agent requirements.
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BIOFORCE SERVICES AGREES TO:
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS...
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BioForce Services will, as an integral part of it`s program, determine your parts cleaning & degreasing needs within your facilty.
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We will setup & mainain your parts washing system & chemistry.
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We then identify & analyze the range & types of degreasing & parts cleaning wastes, & their handling & disposal.
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Using this information, we can put together a complete aqueous parts cleaning & degreasing program; & setup a scheduled maintenance service tailored to your specific needs.
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1. Provide & maintain the cleaning system at
regular intervals to assure a constant level
of performance.
2. Collect waste oil products generated by
customer.
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3. Dispose of oily wastes through Energy
Recovery & Incineration (See BioForce
Waste Identification Process).
4. Provide training & assistance required to
all designated customer employees for the
effective operation & maintenance of our
parts washing
machine(s).
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CUSTOMER AGREES TO:
1. Maintain proper liquid level; adding water only.
2. Observe common sense practices & refrain from mixing any brake cleaner, carburetor cleaner, flammable/hazardous wastes and/or chlorinated solvents into the machine, except as unavoidable through normal cleaning processes.
3. Enjoy freedom from health & environmental risks associated with hands-on use of hazardous solvents.
AUTOMOTIVE WASTE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS
1. The commonality of these products is that they are all oil based.
2. If these products were disposed of as a waste in their original form, all except gasoline/fuels, would be handled as a non-hazardous off spec. waste oil.
3. Gasoline/fuels would be handled as a hazardous or combustible solvent waste.
(A) Question: What part does these oil based products play in creating a waste stream during the parts cleaning process when repairs and maintenance are done?
1. If a part is unusable, it is disposed of in the general garbage or saved for pickup by a salvage company for recycling steel, etc...
2. If a part is repairable, it must be cleaned.
EXAMPLE (Valve Cover)
3. The example above is representative of all automotive, truck, bus or car parts.
(B) Question: What other possible contaminants may have been introduced into the oil, grease and dirt that could make the combined waste hazardous?
1. Engine oil will pick up some heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, lead)from the alloys found in pistons, rings, bearings and cylinder walls as these components wear. The oil based lubricants may vary depending on where the vehicle part was taken from. However, the soil to be cleaned remains the same [oil, grease, dirt].
2. Grease typically does not pick up heavy metals.
3. Dirt is not hazardous but becomes contaminated with oil and grease.
(C) Question: Does the cleaning solution introduce a hazardous element, like solvents or initiate any chemical action that would leach out further heavy metals from an automotive part during the cleaning process.
NO. The cleaning solution is basically water with a non-hazardous trade secret surfactant package that quickly penetrates and detackifies oil, grease and dirt. The cleaning solution has a 9.5 pH which is not high enough to attack the substrate surface of a metal so as to leach out any alloy that may contain heavy metals. It actually leaves a micro film on the part that inhibits corrosion.
(D) Question: Does the cleaning solution become contaminated, with oil, grease and dirt like a solvent, or an emulsifying detergent product, thus becoming a hazardous waste as in the case of a solvent or a possible hazardous waste as in the case of an emulsifying detergent?
NO. The cleaning solution is based on phase separation technology. While it will initially break up and detackify soils the emulsification that might initially take place destabilizes when the solution is returned to the parts washer reservoir. This action causes all hydrocarbon or petro chemical products to break out of their original form. As a result the cleaning solution never loses its cleaning strength.
(E) Question: What happens if a hazardous substance like solvents, gasoline, carb cleaners, etc.. are introduced into the machine during the cleaning process?
1. All of these products are high evaporants. If any of these products are introduced into the machine they will evaporate almost instantly. The parts washer cleaning solution is heated to 115º aiding evaporation and is incompatible with these types of products. In other words, they will not mix with the cleaning solution (See Question D).
(F) Question: Is there a possible combustible situation present as these solvent products evaporate?
NO. The heated solution gives off water vapor. This action acts as a vapor flash suppressant. The only evaporant in the cleaning solution is water. This ensures that no other component could possibly combine with a possible solvent evaporant to create or support combustion.
IDENTIFYING ALL POTENTIAL AUTOMOTIVE WASTE COMPONENTS
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CONCLUSION
All waste generated through the cleaning process is an oil based waste. Depending on the type of automotive business, there will be heavy metals in the used oil as is common in used motor oil. Bioforce Services parts washing wastes managed as oily waste and transported to an energy recover facility for incineration.
CURRENT NON-SOLVENT CLEANING AND WASTE DISPOSAL PRACTICES
1. Manual Cleaning
a. Free oils are poured into oil receptacle for disposal.
b. Free oils that spill on floor are soaked up with floor dry sorbent and disposed of as general garbage.
c. Oil film on parts are wiped off with oil absorbent rag and sent to a laundry or disposed of as general garbage.
d. Dirt mixed with oil and grease as found in automotive, truck, etc.. situations are scraped off with a putty knife or facsimile thereof and disposed of as general garbage.
2. High Pressure Water Based Spray Washing (Manual) Cold and Heated
This method is used to wash off engine compartments or used to clean parts on the floor or outside. Prespray caustic concentrate generally used to loosen contaminants.
a. All free oils, grease and dirt are broken up together and liquefied. This portion will run down a drain or if outside, run off on the ground.
b. Any solids, such as dirt contaminated with oil and grease, are either swept up and disposed of as general garbage or if outside, mixed with ground soil.
3. Water Based Caustic High Pressure Spray Cabinets (Automatic)
a. Free oils are skimmed from the top of the chemical reservoir and disposed of
b. Settlings of grease, dirt and heavy oil is disposed of as general garbage.
c. When the caustic is spent, it is poured down the drain after the oil is skimmed and the settlings are removed.
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