Abstract
AbstractIn many U.S. companies, pollution prevention strategies coincide with economic interests. Typically a company strives to be the lowest‐cost producer, to be competitive, and to reduce wastes. In this paper, the author reviews pollution prevention strategies in the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)—polyvinyl chloride (PVC) industry, the current process technology and the pollution prevention practices to minimize all types of waste. This paper includes a review of the balanced oxychlorination process, the high temperature chlorination process, new EDC cracking techniques, modified EDC reactor designs, new catalysts, new separation technologies, and other alternative low‐waste process pathways and modifications.
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