Formulating VOC-compliant coatings with exempt solvents: A case study on tertiary-butyl acetate (TBAc™)

Paint and Coatings Industry

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 84-100

  Pourreau, D B ^a   Kelly, G B ^a   Junker, L J ^a   Wojcik, R T ^a   Goldstein, S L ^a   Morgan, M J ^a  

^a LYONDELL CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 0040438067     PISSN: 08843848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (11)

1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page. http://www.epa.gov/ttncaaa1/t1/meta/ m17900.html.
2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page, http://www.epa.gov/ttnu~ atw1/183e/arc/arcpg.html.
3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/wood/riw ood.html.
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page. http://www.epa.gov/ttncaaa1/t1/meta/ m25550.html.
5. Proceedings of the First Photochemical Reactivity Workshop, U.S. EPA, May 12-14, 1998.
6. The EPA is proposing to use the reactivity of ethane on a per-mole basis as the criterion for VOC-exemptions. Previous EPA policy documents had stated that the exemption criterion should be the reactivity ethane on a per gram basis.
7. Proposed rule CFR 64-FR-52731.
8. California Air Resources Board Home Page. http://www.arb.ca.gov/consprod/regact/reactsub/reactsub.htm.
9. MIRs for many industrial chemicals and solvents can be downloaded from Dr. William Carter's website at http://cert.ucr.edu/~carter/bycarter.ht m
10. The full text of Dr. William Carter's report on TBAc reactivity can be down-loaded from his website. 9 11 A data sheet detailing the environmental properties of TBAc is available from Lyondell Chemical by calling 888/777.0232
11. See, for example, Coatings, VI, A Multiple-Client Study, Skeist Incorporated, Whippany, NJ, October 1998.