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GB2063096A
GB2063096A GB8035439A GB8035439A GB2063096A GB 2063096 A GB2063096 A GB 2063096A GB 8035439 A GB8035439 A GB 8035439A GB 8035439 A GB8035439 A GB 8035439A GB 2063096 A GB2063096 A GB 2063096A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D47/00Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by liquid as separating agent
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D61/00Processes of separation using semi-permeable membranes, e.g. dialysis, osmosis or ultrafiltration; Apparatus, accessories or auxiliary operations specially adapted therefor
    • B01D61/14Ultrafiltration; Microfiltration
    • B01D61/145Ultrafiltration
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D61/00Processes of separation using semi-permeable membranes, e.g. dialysis, osmosis or ultrafiltration; Apparatus, accessories or auxiliary operations specially adapted therefor
    • B01D61/14Ultrafiltration; Microfiltration
    • B01D61/18Apparatus therefor
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D63/00Apparatus in general for separation processes using semi-permeable membranes
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B14/00Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material
    • B05B14/40Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths
    • B05B14/46Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths by washing the air charged with excess material
    • B05B14/462Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths by washing the air charged with excess material and separating the excess material from the washing liquid, e.g. for recovery
    • B05B14/463Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths by washing the air charged with excess material and separating the excess material from the washing liquid, e.g. for recovery by means of ultrafiltration
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B14/00Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material
    • B05B14/40Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths
    • B05B14/46Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths by washing the air charged with excess material
    • B05B14/462Arrangements for collecting, re-using or eliminating excess spraying material for use in spray booths by washing the air charged with excess material and separating the excess material from the washing liquid, e.g. for recovery
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y02P70/00Climate change mitigation technologies in the production process for final industrial or consumer products
    • Y02P70/10Greenhouse gas [GHG] capture, material saving, heat recovery or other energy efficient measures, e.g. motor control, characterised by manufacturing processes, e.g. for rolling metal or metal working

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Abstract

In a process for purifying exhaust air from paint-spraying-booths by scrubbing the spray mist with a scrubbing medium, particularly water, the spray particles are emulsified in the scrubbing medium with the addition of an emulsifier, at least a part of the emulsion is subjected to ultrafiltration and the ultra-filtrate is re-used as scrubbing medium. Among substances which can be used as emulsifier, are paraffin-sulphonates, olefin- sulphonates, alkylbenzenesulphonates, polyhydric alcohols, and diethylene glycol.

Description

SPECIFICATION Process for purifying exhaust air from spraying booths This invention relates to a process for purifying exhaust air from booths for the spraying of paint, lacquer, varnish or the like coating material, hereinafter referred to as paint, by scrubbing the paint mist with water or other scrubbing medium.
In such spraying booths, the atomised paint mist which does not pass onto the component to be coated is extracted from the booth together with air in the booth. For environmental-hygenic reasons, the paint mist must be removed from this air before the air passes into the open. In general, this is effected by scrubbing with water. The air is mixed intensively with the scrubbing water, the paint particles remaining in the water. The water contains a coagulating agent which causes the small paint particles to coalesce, i.e. to coagulate, into larger units, reduces the tackiness of the small particles in order to avoid agglutination and contamination in the scrubbing installation and causes the particles to float up orto sink down in a settling basin.
With the continuing progress in the development of coating materials, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to coagulate the particles to an adequate extent and this leads to extensive agglutination and contamination in the scrubbing installation. To ensure reliable functioning of the installation, such agglutinations and contaminations must be removed by laborious and expensive manual cleaning.
The present invention seeks to provide a process for purifying exhaust air from spraying booths, by scrubbing the spray mist with water or other scrubbing medium, with which contamination and agglutination due to deposition of paint within the scrubbing installation substantially no longer occur.
According to the invention, in a process for purifying exhaust air from paint-spraying booths by scrubbing the spray mist with a scrubbing medium, the spray particles are emulsified in the scrubbing medium with the addition of an emulsifier, at least a part of the emulsion is subjected to ultrafiltration and the ultrafiltrate is re-used as scrubbing medium.
In contrast with the hitherto customary process, the small paint particles in the scrubbing water are no longer coagulated, that is to say caused to coalesce and disagglutinate, but are emulsified by means of an emulsifier, that is coalescence of the dispersed particles is deliberately prevented, the stability of the dispersion is increased and creaming and phase separation are avoided. After the ultrafiltrate has been recycled to the scrubbing installation, the paint concentrate or retentate may be dumped as hitherto or reprocessed into paint which can be reused on some parts of a vehicle body, such as internal components, cavities and the like.
The emulsifiers used are such as are customary in industry. Emulsifiers of the anionic type, for example salts of higher-molecular fatty acids (C8-C18), salts of sulphuric acid esters, such as Na lauryl-sulphate.
Na salts of sulphosuccinic acid dialkyl esters or sulphuric acid esters of ethoxylated fatty alchohols and alkylphenols, or salts of sulphonic acids, such as alkylbenzene-sulphonates, xylene- and napthanlene- sulphonates, alkylnapthalene-sulphonates, paraffinor olefin-sulphonates, or the products of an addition reaction of fatty acids with various hydrophilic groups, such as protein or albumen condensation products or phosphates.
Furthermore, use may be made of cationic emulsifiers, for example fatty amines, quaternary ammonium compounds and the like, and ampholytic compounds, such as long-chain substituted amino acids, for example N-alkyl-di(aminoethyl)-glycine or N-alkyl-2-aminopropionate or betaines, for example (3-acylamino-propyl)-dimethylglycine or alkylimidazolium betaines.
Afurther known group of emulsifiers, which can be used, consists of non-ionic compounds, for example partial esters of polyalcohols, such as glycerol mono-di-stearates and glycerol mono- dioleates, sorbitol mono-stearate and -oleate, ethylene oxide or propyiene oxide adducts with fatty acids, fatty alcohols, partial fatty acids or fatty acid esters of polyvalent or polyhydric alcohols or alkylphenols, or polyalkylene glycols. Other known emulsifiers, such as cellulose derivatives (cellulose ethers and the like) or synthetic high polymers, such as polyvinyl alcohols, can also be employed. In many cases, it is also advantageious to employ mixtures of different emulsifiers, provided they are chemically compatible with one another.
It is also advantageous to employ solubilisers, such as polyvalent or polyhydric alcohols, for example glycols. These compounds may be used together with other emulsifiers, but may advantageously ne used by themselves, since they possess good emulsifying activity and, on filtration remain in the permeate. In some cases, it may also be advantageous to use, as an emulsifier in addition to the other emulsifiers or by itself, high-polymeric types, such a polyvinyl alcohols (PVA) or carboxyvinyl polymers, since they produce less foam. To avoid excessive foaming of the scrubbing water and hence an adverse effect on the capacity of the scrubbing installation, it may become necessary to add appropriate quantities of conventional foam inhibitors to the scrubbing water, for example long-chain alchohols, highly polymeric glycols, fatty acid polyglycol esters and the like.If the paint is to be recovered from the retentate, silicone-containing foam inhibitors should not be used, since they have a disadvantageous influence on the quality of the paint.
Instead of water, it is possible to employ other liquids in which the paint can be dispersed.
The quantity of emulsifier required for emulsification, that is to say the quantity which effects adequate stabilisation of the paint particles in the scrubbing medium and prevents fouling of the scrubbing installation, depends on the type of paint and on the emulsifier used. Any skilled person can readily determine this quantity by a few preliminary experiments. For paints of the polybutadienel styrene type, at present customarily used in the motor-vehicle industry, an emulsifier concentration of about 1 to 5% by weight in the scrubbing water suffices when diethylene glycol is used as emulsifier.
However, this range can only be taken as a guide.
Exact values must be determined individually for every paint/emulsifier system.
Since the scrubbing water is customarily circulated in the scrubbing installation, the paint concentration in the water (emulsion) would rise in the course of a period of operation. In order to hold the paint concentration in the emulsion down to a desirable low level of about 1 to 5% by weight, a partial flow is withdrawn from the circulating emulsion and is subjected to ultrafiltration. The filtration of a partial flow is generally sufficient for maintaining a predetermined paint concentration in the emulsion and is normally less espensive than filtration of all the scrubbing water in every cycle.
Occasionally, however, the latter may be necessary.
In rate of the partial flow is made such that the same quantity of paint per unit of time is introduced into the scrubbing into the scrubbing water with the exhaust air from the booths as is removed with the partial flow.
From the ultrafiltration, a filtrate (permeate), which consists of pure scrubbing water and is recycled to the scrubbing water circulation and a highly concentrated paint emulsion (retentate) are obtained. The paint concentration in the retentate will amount to 20 to 30% by weight and, with multistage ultrafiltration, it may be as high as 40%. The ultrafiltration can be carried out in one of the numerous commercially available ultrafiltration units. Modern, commercially available, anisotropic plastic membranes which allow a high rate of filtration under low pressure, up to about 12 atmospheres, are preferred. The pore size of the membranes depends on the size of the small paint particles in the scrubbing water and can be readily determined by an experienced person. In general, membranes having pore sizes of less than 0.1 um will be used.
The primary advantages which can be achieved by the invention are that fouling of the scrubbing installation and resultant expensive cleaning operations are avoided as a result of the emulsifying action. Moreover, the addition of emulsifier to the scrubbing water promotes the scrubbing of the paint particles out of the air from the booths, so that less expensive scrubbing apparatus can be used for the same degree of separation, or, with unchanged provision of apparatus, considerably more effective purification of the exhaust air can be achieved.
Furthermore, very little pollution of the environment is caused and the process is highly economical, as the ultrafiltrate is reused and water or chemicals have to be replaced only to the extent to which they are discharged with the retentate from the scrubbing installation.

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1. A process for purifying exhaust air from paint-spraying-booths by scrubbing the spray mist with a scrubbing medium, wherein the spray parti cles are emulsified in the scrubbing medium with the addition of an emulsifier, at least a part of the emulsion is subjected to ultrafiltration and the ultra4iltrate is re-used as scrubbing medium.
2. A process according to Claim 1, wherein paraffin-sulphonates, olefin-sulphonates or alkylbenzene-sulphonates are added as emulsifier.
3. A process according to Claim 1 wherein polyhydric alcohols are added as emulsifier.
4. A process according to Claim 3, wherein diethylene glycol is added as emulsifier.
5. A process for purifying exhaust air from paint-spraying booths substantially as hereinbefore described.
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