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Article: A green approach to paint sludge: a new paint detackifier provides an environmentally responsible alternative to conventional chemistries while offering performance gains, greater ease of operation and overall system cost savings.(PAINT SLUDGE: GREEN DETACKIFIER)
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- Finishing Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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In traditional automotive manufacturing wet paint-spraying operations, only 50 to 80% of the paint actually reaches the vehicle. The remaining 20 to 50% is carried away in the booth air-stream and subsequently removed by the recirculating water wash (see Figure 1). Paint denaturants, also referred to as "paint detackifiers," are added to the water wash to detackify (make it nonsticky), coagulate and flocculate this oversprayed paint, enabling it to be removed from the water in either a continuous or batch process.
Two of the industry's most frequently used paint detackifiers are based on either melamine-formaldehyde or an acrylic ...
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