Veolia Environmental Services can help your organization recycle solvents used in industrial applications, while minimizing waste, transportation and disposal costs. Whether you choose customizable on-site recycling services or off-site services, we offer proven, sustainable processes that help you maintain safety and track regulatory compliance for handling, transfer and recycling.
Recycling Industrial Solvents
Turning Waste into a Resource
Veolia works with your organization to determine which recycling methods are best for your business. Our qualification process includes:
- A sample analysis to quantify the content of the waste material including GC/Mass specifications, GC/FID, pH residue upon evaporation and flashpoint
- Providing recovered product samples that are representative of full-scale production
Because purity is of key importance when solvents are reused in critical applications, Veolia uses state-of-the-art technologies:
- Glass fractionating equipment to avoid accidental contamination of high-value solvents
- Batch fractional distillation columns for mixed solvent separation with high purity results—up to 99.5 percent minimum purity for selected products and a water content of under 500 parts per million
- Thin film evaporators for solids separation and recovery
Services
Processes That Add Value and Minimize Waste
Veolia Environmental Services can customize an on-site recycling program that meets your requirements, including the installation and management of recycling equipment.
If an off-site recycling solution makes sense for your business, Veolia can help. Our innovative process solutions add value to and minimize solvent waste, including:
- Tolling which cleans your solvent to predetermined specifications and returns it to your business for reuse, helping you reduce costs
- Beneficial reuse and convert waste to product recycling to convert used solvents for re-use in manufacturing commerical products, minimizing waste
- Reclamation in which used solvents are cleaned to our specifications and delivered to third parties who use it as a replacement for virgin solvent
Locations
A Veolia facility near you provides off-site, solvent recycling services to help your organization minimize waste and maintain regulatory compliance. As required by law, Veolia maintains fully-funded closure plans for these facilities. Our facilities meet US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, as well as all applicable state regulations.
Azusa, CA
Equipment available:
- Continuous feed thin film evaporator
- Batch fractional distillation column
- Glass fractional distillation column
- Vacuum distillation
Henderson, CO
Equipment available:
- Thin film evaporator with integral fractionation column
- Batch fractionation column
- Liquid-liquid extractor
- Vacuum distillation
Middlesex, NJ
Equipment available:
- Simple and fractional distillation
- Thin film evaporation
- Vacuum distillation
- Molecular sieve
West Carrollton, OH
(operational late 2011)
Equipment available:
- Thin film evaporator with integral fractionation column
- Thin film evaporator
- Batch fractional distillation column
- Molecular sieve dryer
Shipping and Receiving Methods for Off-Site Services
Mode: Truck or rail
Containers: Drums, tanker totes, railcars, isotainers
Quantities: Any amount
Veolia offers:
- Company-owned transportation
- An audited network of approved third-party transporters
- Thirty-six (36) 10-day in-transit facilities
Items Accepted
Veolia accepts recoverable solvents, including (partial list):
- Acetic acid
- Acetone
- ACN (acetonitrile)
- Automotive purge solvent
- Butanol D-limonene
- Dibasic ester
- DMF (dimethylformamide)
- DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide)
- Ethanol
- Ethyl acetate
- Ethylene glycol
- Ethyl lactate
- G-butyrolactone (BLO)
- IPA (isopropyl alcohol)
- Isoamyl acetate
- Propylene glycol
- Sulfolane
- THF (tetrahydrofuran)
- 1.1.1-trichloroethane
- Trichloroethylene
- All Asahiklin® solvents
- All Vertrel® solvents
- Toluene
- N-propylene bromide
- Methylene chloride
- NEP (n-ethyl pyrrolidone)
- NMP (n-methyl pyrrolidone)
- PGMEA (propylene glycol methyl ether acetate)
- Methanol
- Fomblin®
- MED
- Isobutyl acetate
- Isopropylacetate Freon® solvents
- Krytox® oil
Compliance
Veolia Environmental Services maintains a proven record of compliance with health, safety and environmental regulations. We can help you:
- Track regulatory compliance via our Customer Information Management Solutions (CIMS) system
- Ensure that the handling, transport, recycling, reuse and disposal of all waste products meets state and federal regulations
- Protect against liability
Industries Served
- Automotive
- Chemical
- Construction
- Governmental
- Manufacturing
- Petrochemical and refinery
- Pharmaceutical
- Power
- Pulp and paper
- Semiconductor and metals
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