Chemical Recovery
Chemical Recycling requires a specialized set of skills including chemistry knowledge and experience in identifying and handling
liquids, powders, gaseous materials and chemicals in all forms.
Hazardous Materials Safety and documentation procedures need to be strictly followed to insure full compliance to all regulations.
For information about Chemical Recycling of plastics please check out
Hydrocarbon Recovery
Solvent Recovery
If you wish to buy or sell Surplus or Spent Solvents,
please feel free to
ADD an inquiry
to the Solvent Recovery exchange.
The exchange service has been successfully matching producers of waste solvents with solvent regenerators and re-users
online since 1995.
Solvent recovery is the process of extracting useful materials from waste or by-product solvents generated during
the manufacturing process.
Solvent Recovery/Distillation Equipment
takes liquid waste or sewage and extracts
useful solvents and raw materials back out of the process waste stream.
This can reduce the demand for purchase of new solvents by recovering chemicals that can be reused in production.
Solvent recycling and recovery is designed to help your facility reduce liquid waste disposal expenses.
Pigment, Paint and Ink Recycling
If you wish to deal in Surplus or Spent Pigment, Paint or Ink,
please feel free to ADD an inquiry to the
Pigment Recycling
Exchange.
The exchange service has been online since 1995, successfully matching buyers and sellers.
Surplus Toner,
Spent Toner,
Surplus Printing Inks,
Waste Printing Inks,
Surplus Paint,
Bulk Paint,
Old Paint,
Old Paint Cans,
Paint Chips & Bottoms,
Surplus Dyes,
Spent Dyes,
Surplus Pigments & Dry Colorants,
Spent Pigments & Dry Colorants, and other Scrap Pigments
some links to other
Industrial Minerals Recovery
Acid Waste
If you wish to reclaim Surplus or Spent Acid please
ADD
your own inquiry to the Acid Recovery Exchange.
The exchange service is a neutral platform that allows generators of Acid Wastes to connect directly with
users that can reuse or regenerate these materials.
Sulfuric Acid
Sulfuric Acid,
Hydrochloric Acid
Surplus Hydrochloric Acid,
Spent Hydrochloric Acid,
Nitric Acid
While
Nitrogen
is an essential, safe inert gas that makes up over 78% of earths ambient air,
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) is a highly corrosive oxidant and is considered a toxic gas.
Nitric Acid may be formed when Nitrogen Dioxide is dissolved in water.
A market exists to trade in
Surplus
Nitric Acid and their are outlets for the safe treatment and handling of
Spent
Nitric Acid Wastes.
Nitric Acid is useful in the separation and the
refining process
of metals.
Dissolving specific metals in Nitric Acid to form Metal Nitrates that may be further converted into pure metal
is one recovery approach.
Closed Nitrogen loops allow for the capture of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) exhaust that may be sparged into a water column
for regeneration as fresh Nitric Acid.
Acid Neutralization
It is common practice to neutralize metal containing acids such as spent pickling liquors and plating bathes
with the use of caustic base materials like
lime.
The neutralizing slurry is typically separated into a neutral dischargeable liquid fraction and a wet solid fraction
in a vacuum filter press.
The wet solids are referred to as a filter cake and typically contain the metal residues.
Filter Cake
Acid
neutralization
filter cakes typically retain a high moisture content with the bulk of the solids consisting of
the mineral base materials such as calcium/lime along with all the residual metals.
Further treatment of the filter cakes for the recovery of strategic
metal values
and trace heavy metals may be preformed.
This recovery treatment may provide the opportunity to conserve the
water
content and regenerate the
minerals
as the Concentration & Selective
Extraction
of the metal residues takes place.
Antifreeze, Coolant & Refrigerant Recovery
If you wish to reclaim Antifreeze, Coolants or Refrigerants,
please
ADD a Listing
to the online exchange to connect with waiting buyers & sellers.
Refrigerants are chemicals used for cooling in air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, coolers and dehumidifiers.
To recycle refrigerant it is cleaned using oil separation and single or multiple passes through devices,
such as replaceable core filter-driers, which reduce moisture,
acidity and particulate matter.
Antifreeze & Coolant
Machine coolants, also known as cutting fluids or antifreeze,
are used to cool tools and parts that are being fabricated to minimize overheating during machining and grinding applications.
Eventually coolants break down or get too dirty and therefore become less effective and need to be changed.
The coolant is now "spent", creating antifreeze waste.
All waste antifreeze recycling methods involve two steps:
1) Removing contaminants either by filtration, distillation, reverse osmosis, or ion exchange
2) Restoring critical antifreeze properties with additives. Additives typically contain chemicals that raise and stabilize pH, inhibit rust and corrosion, reduce water scaling, and slow the breakdown of ethylene glycol.
Gasses and Compressed Gas Recovery
If you wish to deal in
Recovered Gasses and Compressed Gas
please add your own inquiry to the Gas Recovery exchange.
The exchange service is a neutral platform that connects generators of waste gases directly with
industrial consumers that can utilize these materials.
Old Propane,
Domestic Propane Cylinders,
Automotive Propane Cylinders,
Aerosol Can Scrap,
Old Compressed Gasses,
Old Compressed Gas Cylinders,
Old Compressed Gas Tanks,
Neon Light Scrap
Biogas Recovery
The recovery of gases from natural or industrial sources such as
Pyrolytic Gases
or
BioGas Recovery
in the form of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) is an increasingly strategic energy source.
Surplus Chemicals
Connecting buyers and sellers with direct access to the market for
Surplus Chemical
Inventory. ADD you requirements NOW !
Buy or Sell surplus, over-aged and off-spec chemical inventory such as
cleaning products, cosmetic ingredients, solvents, waxes, personal care ingredients, lubricants, paints and coatings,
surfactants, fragrances, resins, gums, pigments, dyes, plasticizers, food ingredients, adhesives
Please feel free to ADD a Wanted to Buy or Available for Sale listing to the online exchange or check-out & respond to Current Inquiries. You may also wish to directly contact traders and dealers.
Soap and Detergent Recovery
If you wish to deal in
Recovered Soap and Detergent
please ADD your request into the online exchange.
The exchange service connects buyers & sellers worldwide and since 1995 has been online providing direct business matchmaking.
Wax Scrap & Waste
If you wish to recycle
Wax Wastes
you may ADD a listing into the online exchange.
The exchange service links generators of wax wastes directly with end users interested in scrap and wax by-products.
Oil and Petrochemical Recycling
Oil is somewhat of a generic term that can refer to a number of different materials.
Oil Recycling is commonly understood as
Used Motor Oil
but is also used as a term for
Used Vegetable Oils.
More recently the term recycled oil is utilized when referring to
Pyrolytic Oil Recovery.
Two common uses of waste oils are for
Oil Re-Refining
into rejuvenated Petrochemical products and as
Waste Fuels.
Used Motor Oil
If you wish to deal in
Used Motor Oil (UMO)
please add an inquiry to the Oil Recycling exchange.
The exchange service is a neutral platform that allows buyers and sellers to directly connect online.
Used Motor Oil and
Used Oil Filters
are just two items generated as common recyclable materials from the
Automotive
Industry.
Used Oil Filters
Oil Filters typically consist of a metal (steel) canister filled with a filtration medium.
As oil is pumped through the filter dirt, sludge and contamination is trapped in the filter.
After a period of time the filter starts to plug up and becomes less efficient so it is swapped out for a new canister
and the old used filter canisters are discarded.
The old
Used Oil Filters
may be collected for recycling. During the recycling process the whole canisters are
compressed,
which squeezes and extracts the excess oil from the densified steel canisters.
Briquetted Oil Filters
Oil Filter Briquettes shall contain used or spent automotive or industrial oil filters that have been
saturated with motor oil and have been compressed to a minimum weight density of 75 lb./cubic foot.
The densified
Oil Filter Briquettes
are sold as a common grade of
scrap steel.
Oil Re-Refining
Used oil can be re-refined into lubricants,
processed into fuel oils and used as raw material for the refining and petrochemical industries.
Motor oil doesn't wear out, it just gets dirty, so recycling it saves a valuable resource.
To recycle used oil, processors and refiners remove water, insolubles, dust, heavy metals,
nitrogen, chlorine, and oxygenated compounds.
The resulting product is called “re-refined” oil and needs to meet the identical stringent refining,
compounding, and performance requirements as virgin oil.
Waste Oil Fuels
Capturing the BTU values from waste oil by burning as a fuel in small scale waste oil heat stoves
to larger scale industrial uses as a part of a
Waste to Energy
strategy.
Waste Oils can be used as a component source in lower grade fuel oils, bunker oil and marine fuels.
Oil and Petrochemical Waste Prices
We track the Daily Spot Market Price of several grades of oil and petrochemical wastes from across our network and
prepare a number of Market Price Reports.
If you are interested in a longer term overview of historical prices, please check-out the
Multi-Year Summary
Reports.
We offer a number of other
price reports
that provide market intelligence across the spectrum of secondary commodities and scrap materials.
The Multi-Year Spot Market Price Summaries
Annual price summaries of the historical high, low and yearly average of the spot market prices for
Oils and Petrochemical Recycling,
by specific grade of material.
