CA1321943C - Paint removal using oil-in-water emulsions - Google Patents
Paint removal using oil-in-water emulsionsInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
Oversprayed paint particles in a paint spray booth are received in a sump by an oil-in-water emulsion comprising an organic liquid, an emulsifier and water. Build up of paint solids in the emulsion is allowed to continue until at least 5 parts by weight of paint solids have been received by the emulsion for every 100 parts by weight of organic liquid in the emulsion. After the amount of paint solids has reached at least 5 parts by weight, preferably at least 10 parts by weight, the paint solids are removed from the emulsion. The removed paint solids can be used as a fuel.
Oversprayed paint particles in a paint spray booth are received in a sump by an oil-in-water emulsion comprising an organic liquid, an emulsifier and water. Build up of paint solids in the emulsion is allowed to continue until at least 5 parts by weight of paint solids have been received by the emulsion for every 100 parts by weight of organic liquid in the emulsion. After the amount of paint solids has reached at least 5 parts by weight, preferably at least 10 parts by weight, the paint solids are removed from the emulsion. The removed paint solids can be used as a fuel.
Description
- l 13219~3 Great quantities of paints, lacquers, varnishes, base coats and clear coats, hereinafter referred to as paints, are used in the automobile, appliance, and allied industries to coat finished products. These materials are generally used in enclosed areas called paint spray booths. Substantial quantities of the paint are oversprayed, that is, are not transferred to the object being coated. Paint spray booths generally include a chamber, a duct system for passing air down through the chamber and a sump containing a circulating hydrophilic liquid located at the bottom of the chamber. The air flow is a wash stream that generally captures both oversprayed paint particles and volatile organic paint carriers present in the chamber's atmosphere and washes them into the sump where they are removed from the air stream contain-ing them.
Paint spray booths generally represent major items of capital expense and, as such, replacing paint spray booths with other systems which would enable more efficient removal of the oversprayed paint particles would be prohibitively expensive.
The subject invention i9 directed to a process for the efficient removal of oversprayed paint solids from paint spray booth systems. The process of this invention calls for the use of an oil-in-water emulsion which will detackify the paint solids.
United States Patent No. 4,378,235 is directed to recovering volatile organic paint carrier from paint spray booths by optimization of the amount of carrier received by the oil-in-water emulsion employed as the hydrophilic liquid in the sump and efficient recovery of the carrier from the emulsion, in order - ' : , '', ~ .
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The emulsions disclosed in United States Patent No.
4,378,235, detackify the oversprayed paint solids, rendering them nonadhesive to metal surfaces and thus easy to remove from the emulsion by filtration and/or skimming. As described in this patent, the oversprayed paint particles can be removed after breaking the emulsion. The paint particles are generally held in a sludge layer or phase which may contain, in addition to the paint solids, volatile oil carrier, the organic liquid of the emulsion, and water. The oil is generally the continuous component of the sludge layer.
For some paint spray booths the sludge containing the paint solids is more of a problem or hazard than the emission of volatile organic carriers. Incineration of paint solids recovered from such emulsions is known from United States Patent No.
4,378,235 and sludges having high BTU values may be used as auxiliary fuels. For a process such as disclosed in that patent continuously to reduce emissions of volatile organic carrier, the emulsion must at all times have the capacity for absorption of adaitional volatile carrier. Otherwise, as soon as its maximum loading is reached a steady-state condition exists and the volatile organic carrier will be emitted from the process without any abatement. Hence the hydrophilic liquid in the sump must be replaced with fresh before it is exhausted. As disclosed in United States Patent No. 4,378,235, the oil-in-water emulsion is broken by adjusting the pH of the emulsion to below 6.5, the volatile organic paint carrier is recovered from the oil phase, .: .,:
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and the oil and aqueous phases are recombined, thereby providing fresh emulsion. As is also disclosed in that patent, the paint sludge generated by this process also holds some of the volatile organic paint carrier. Given the detackified nature of the paint sludge, which makes the paint sludge easy to remove, there is no purpose in recombining the phases without sludge removal. This process requires frequent refreshing of the emulsion for emission abatement which requires the employment of a significant amount of fresh emulsion. Furthermore, the process may not generate sludge of sufficiently high BTU value to be used as an auxiliary fuel. Instead the sludge,if to be disposed of by incineration, may be an energy depleting factor in the overall process.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for the removal of oversprayed paint particles from paint spray booths that produces a sludge with a high BTU value, that permits efficient handling of the sludge, that is less sensitive to daily process load and surge loads of liquid paint, purge solvents, and clean up solvents, reduces the volume of scrubbing liquid required for cleaning up the booth, while leaving a potential for some overall reduction in volatile organic carrier and recovery of solvents derived from the paints or strippers or cleaners used in the spray booth.
The present invention provides in a method for the removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream for capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber and a sump located at the bottom of said chamber for containing - . :- .~ . :: :
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In another aspect, the invention provides a method for the continuous removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber, a sump located at the bottom of said chamber and containing a circulating oil-in-water emulsion receiving said oversprayed paint particles from said wash stream, said oil-in-water emulsion comprised of from 5 to 50 weight percent of anorganic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150F., from 1.0 to 20 weight percent based on said organic liquid of an oil-in-water emulsifier, and the balance water, and said oil-in-water emulsion being maintained at a pH value of from 7.5 to 12, the improvement which comprises: (a) continuing the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion until at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of ....
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(b) separating said oversprayed paint solids from said oil-in-water emulsion; (c) recovering said oversprayed paint solids; (d) adding additional hydrocarbon liquid and oil-in-water emulsifier to maintain the composition of said emulsion; and (e) continuing with steps (a) through (d~ above.
This invention is directed to a method for the removal of paint solids from paint spray booth systems. The paint spray booth may be of a wet wall, centre draft, or other construction.
Paint spray booths of these types operate, in a sense, as large gas scrubbers with air passing through the booth picking up paint particles that do not meet the object being painted. Volatile organic carriers are also picked up with the paint particles.
The air, after picking up the materials, passes into a sump or the like where it is intimately contacted with a hydrophilic fluid which is generally recirculated throughout the paint spray booth. The hydrophilic fluid receives oversprayed paint particles to prevent their release into the atmosphere and also serves to some extent to trap the organic vapours collected from the booth.
This invention uses an oil-in-water emulsion as the hydrophilic liquid. The circulation of the oil-in-water emulsion is continued, without treatment to recover any material therefrom, until at least 5 parts by weight of the oversprayed paint solids have been received by the emulsion for every 100 parts by weight of the organic liquid in the emulsion. In a preferred embodiment, circulation is continued until at least 10 parts by weight of the oversprayed paint solids have been received by the emulsion per - 6 - 1321~3 100 parts by weight of the organic liquid in the emulsion.
The use of the method of the present invention drastic-ally reduces the amount of emulsion required as compared to the fresh emulsion demand in volatile organic carrier emission abatement methods. For instance, a typical equilibrium concentra-tion of a volatile organic carrier in a typical organic liquid used in the emulsion is 12,000 ppm or 1.2 weight percent. For effective abatement of emissions this concentration of volatile organic carrier in the emulsion cannot be exceeded. Hence the emulsion must be freshened by replacement or by recycling and removal of the volatile organic carrier, for instance by distillation or stream stripping or the like. In the present method, wherein circulation is continued without such recovery of volatile organic carrier or other material from the emulsion until the emulsion is loaded with at least 5 parts of paint solids by weight for every 100 parts weight of organic liquid, in a process spraying a paint containing about 50 weight percent solids with about a 50 percent transfer efficiency, the fresh emulsion demand is reduced to about one-third that required for volatile organic carrier abatement at the level of 25 percent.
In comparison to volatile organic carrier abatement at the level of 50 percent, other factors being the same, the fresh emulsion demand is reduced to one-fifth. As used herein the term fresh emulsion means an emulsion that does not contain volatile organic carrier, such as freshly prepared emulsion or emulsion from which volatile organic carriers have been removed.
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paint formulations the equilibrium concentration of the volatile organic carrier in the emulsion's organic liquid will be exceeded.
Hence, by virtue of the steady state condition that will exist, an amount of such carrier will be released from the emulsion as the circulation continues. The volatile organic carrier will not be recovered from the emulsion, such as by breaking the emulsion and subjecting the organic liquid phase to recovery steps, until the minimum paint solids load is met, if then.
In the method of the present invention, the emulsion detackifies and disperses the paint solids, which remain generally in fluid state until separated from the water and oil phases.
For a given level of emulsion the load handling capacity is at least three-fold that in a 25 percent emission abatement method and hence surge loads of liquid paint or purge solvents or clean-up solvents can be handled without performance decay.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the wash stream is an emulsion of the same formulation which softens and dissolves oil paint deposits on the paint booth and carries such oversprayed paint solvents into the emulsion in the sump.
The organic carriers that are generally encountered in paint spray booths of the type described are those commonly used as carriers in industrial finishes such as paints and lacquexs and may consist of aromatic materials such as benzene, xylene, toluene, low-boiling ethers, esters, alcohols, ketones such as methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl amyl ketone, and mixtures thereof.
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paint carriers. It is more important, however, in the use of this invention that the oversprayed paint solids be detackified.
This means essentially that the individual particles must not stick to the sides of the booth, process equipment, or agglomerate with themselves to form materials which cannot be easily handled.
Hence an emulsion that detackifies the paint solids but is not an effective solvent for the paint carrier may be employed in the method of the present invention. The oversprayed paint solids should be detackified to the point where they can be readily separated from the emulsion being employed. This separation step may be done by filtration, flotation, coagulation, or the like.
The oil-in-water emulsion system comprises an organic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150F., an oil-in-water emulsifier, and water.
Before further describing the process of this invention in which the oil-in-water emulsions are utilized, the following explanation is presented for each of the components of the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention.
The Organic Liquid The organic liquid component of the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention is a non-volatile, water-immiscible, hydrocarbon material which optionally may act as a solvent for volatile organic paint carrier used in the paint being employed in paint spray booth. Organic liquids employed may be primarily aliphatic, paraffinic, aromatic or mixtures thereof. The organic liquids may either be halogenated or non-halogenated and should general]y have a boiling point greater than 150F. and, preferably : ' '~ ` ' .
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66530-~51 200F., and most preferably, above 300F. Viscosities of materials used may range from that of a 100 SEC primarily aliphatic petroleum process oil to that of a highly chlorinated paraffinic material having a viscosity in excess of 20,000 cps.
Typical materials which can be employed include Telura 323, a process oil manufactured by Exxon Company, U. S. A., which is categorized as having a boiling point of from 545-884F., negligible solubility in water, a specific gravity of .903 at 60F., a Cleveland open cup flash point of 330F. and a viscosity at 100F. of 105-115 SUS. This oil is believed to be a complex mixture of aliphatic and aromatic petroleum hydrocarbons. Also useful are various chlorinated paraffinic materials such as those ~A designated Kloro 6000, Kloro 7000, CW 52, CW 170, CW 8560 from the Ke 1 Chemical Division of the Ferro Corporation; as well as Isopar M, a branched paraffinic material available from the Humble Oil & Refinery Company; LOPS, a low odor paraffinic solvent purchased from the Exxon Company, U. S. A.; and Marcol 82, a highly aliphatic viscous white oil available from Exxon Company, U. S. A.
For safety purposes, the organic liquid employed in the oil-in-water emulsion of this invention should be substantially non-toxic and have a flash point greater than 250F. A preferred organic liquid for use in this invention is Telura ~ 323 described above.
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motor oil may be satisfactorily employed as the oil phase of the oil-in-water emulsion.
The Oil-In-Water Emulsifiers The use~ul oil-in-water emulsifiers are those capable of forming a relatively stable oil-in-water emulsion with the organic liquid selected. Generally these materials will have an HLB value ranging from about 6 to about 40 and most preferably from about 10 to 30. The HLB system is defined in the Atlas HLB
Surfactant Selector. Since the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention do not have to be broken, ease of breakability is not an important criteria. The emulsifier may be any water-soluble anionic, cationic, nonionic, or mixture of emulsifiers falling within the above criteria. Useful emulsifiers for use in this invention are saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and alkali metal salts thereof containing 12-30 and, preferably, 16-24 carbon atoms. Other oil-in-water emulsifiers such as the condensation product of cocoamine reacted with 2 moles of ethylene oxide may be used. The preferred emulsifiers of the invention form emulsions which break when made acidic which permits efficient recovery of the sludge portion. It is expected, however, that oil-in-water emulsifiers other than those specifically enumerated herein may be employed. A particularly useful emulsifier for the method of this invention is oleic acid.
Water The water used to form the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention should preferably not contain more than 150 ppm hardness as Ca 2 or Mg 2 It has been found that excessive ~, . . ~ . . i. .
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Formulation of the Emulsion The components of the emulsion used in this invention are used in the following weight percentages:
A. Hydrocarbon Liquid Generally 1-50 percent by weight of the emulsion Preferably 10 to 40 percent by weight of the emulsion Most Preferably 10 to 30 percent by weight of the emulsion B. Emulsifier Generally 0.1 to 20 percent by weight of the hydro-carbon liquid Preferably 1-20 percent by weight of the hydrocarbon liquid Most Preferably 1.5-10 percent by weight of the hydrocarbon liquid C. Water balance The emulsion is formed by simply mixing the above-mentioned ingredients together. In formulating the emulsions ofthe subject invention we have generally found that emulsions having an alkaline aqueous phase of from pH 7.5-12 and preferably a pH 8-11 are preferred due to their greater ability to detackify the paint materials used. The pH adjustment of the emulsion can be accomplished by merely adding a small quantity of an alkaline '.'. - :: :
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metal hydroxide, preferably sodium or potassium hydroxide to water prior to mixing to form the emulsion. The emulsion can contain minor amounts of ingredients such as biocides and anti-foam agents.
Once the emulsion has been formed, it may be used in the spray booth as the hydrophilic liquid to capture the volatile organic paint carrier materials and oversprayed paints present in the paint spray booth. We have found that at the load levels mentioned above the oversprayed paint (including lacquers) particles are detackified and do not exhaust the emulsion's capacity. These detackified materials, which additionally generally contain an amount of the volatile organic paint carrier, may then separate from the oil-in-water emulsion and the emulsion can then be recycled. Due to the fact that the separation process or processes will also carry with them some of the oil-in-water emulsion, it has been found generally that additional quantities of the hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier may need to be added to maintain the initial composition of the oil-in-water emulsion.
The oil-in-water emulsion may be reused indefinitely and continuously recirculated in the paint spray booth so long as additional quantities of materials are added to replace what is lost with the oversprayed paint particles~
The detackified oversprayed paint particles can be removed from the oil-in-water emulsion by flotation, skimming, or the like. If the detackified paint overspray sludge floats on the surface of the emulsion, removal may be readily accomplished by skimming using known means. Saturation is, of course, also - . . :
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allowable, and may be employed. The method of separation employed is not critical to this invention and other means known to those skilled in the art may be employed. In some instances it may be preferable to break the emulsion prior to removing the sludge.
When the process of this invention is employed on enamel and/or base coat/clear coat materials, oily sludges may be produced which may tend to sink to the bottom of the sludge removal system, and then means for removing sludge from the bottom of the sludge removal system should be provided.
The recovered detackified oversprayed paint particles in this invention may be further treated to recover the volatile organic component, pigment, and other paint components, or may advantageously be used as a high B.T.U. fuel. Due to the fact that loading of the emulsion with oversprayed paint solids is high, the process is economical, and hydrocarbon oil losses are kept at a minimum level. The emulsion employed need not be breakable, and does not have to be subjected to processing steps to recover the volatile organic material or the oversprayed paint solids.
Although the level of hydrocarbon liquid in the emulsion, as stated above, can be as low as one weight percent based on total emulsion, since the capacity of the emulsion for paint solids loading is believed to be principally dependent on the ratio of paint solids to hydrocarbon liquid, there is seldom any practical reason for conducting the present process at such low level of hydrocarbon liquid in the emulsion. In some instances, however, it may be desirable to begin the present ., . :
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process with a given amount of water to which is charged initially such a low level of hydrocarbon liquid, which then is increased as the paint solids loading in the emulsion increases whereby the amount of hydrocarbon liquid being employed in the emulsion at any time follows the paint solids loading. In a batch process, this approach may be convenient when the paint spraying may be terminated short of the original target and to charge initially the hydrocarbon liquid in the amount desired for the target paint spraying would be wasteful. Where the hydrocarbon liquid is charged to the water in increments during an ongoing process, it is particularly convenient to incorporate the desired emulsifier into the hydrocarbon liquid, and hence convenient to define the emulsifier level based on hydrocarbon liquid, as given above.
The process of the present invention may be conducted as a batch process, wherein the emulsion, when loaded to the extent desired, is removed from the spray booth in bulk, to be processed for instance to recover the sludge of paint solids while a fresh emulsion is placed into the sump. Alternatively, the process may be conducted as a continuous process wherein the emulsion, or a portion thereof, is recycled after removal of the sludge after at least the minimum loading of paint solids is reached~
The paint solids loading is defined herein as a minimum and it is believed that loadings of up to possibly 40 parts of paint solids, or more, per 100 parts of hydrocarbon liquid, by weight, may be achieved.
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For a given commercial installation, the solids level of the paint sprayed and the transfer efficiency of the process will be known with sufficient precision to determine the desired change of hydrocarbon liquid for the oversprayed paint solids to be removed from the spray booth in detackified form.
In an embodiment of the present invention the wash stream employed is comprised of a portion of the emulsion itself to cleanse the booth of paint solids adhering to the surfaces of the booth.
The resultant sludges contain from about 10 to 60 percent solids, from about 15 to 60 percent weight percent of the emulsion's hydrocarbon liquid, the balance being paint carrier and water, with the hydrocarbon liquid being the continuous phase.
Upon breaking the emulsion the sludge layer forms between the sludge-free hydrocarbon layer and the sludge-free water layer .
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Example A
The following exemplifies the use of the method of the present invention in a typical commercial spray paint booth. In a commercial paint spray booth 350 gal. of water containing 83,700 g. hydrocarbon liquid (SEC oil) and 6,300 g. oleic acid, as an oil-in-water emulsion with a pH of 8.5-9.0, is introduced into the sump and therein circulated. A 27 weight percent solids lacquer is then sprayed at a rate of 60 grams per minute and with a transfer efficiency of 50 percent, while a downward air stream is held at a flow rate of 1980 cu.ft./minute. The spraying is continued for 10.3 hours (620 min.) at which time 37,200 grams of paint has been sprayed and 5,022 grams of oversprayed paint solids has been carried by the air stream to the sump and there received by the emulsion. The loading of oversprayed paint solids to hydrocarbon liquid of the emulsion is 6 parts by weight paint solids per 100 parts by weight of hydrocarbon liquid. The emulsion is then removed from the sump, broken by a downward adjustment of pH, and the sludge layer, containing paint solids, hydrocarbon liquid, paint carrier and water is removed for use as an auxiliary ~uel. The sludge-free hydrocarbon liquid and water layers are recombined together with an additional amount of hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier for future use.
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The procedure of Example A is followed except that the spraying is continued for 20.7 hours (1240 min.) at which time 74,400 grams of paint has been sprayed and 10,444 grams of over-.
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Example C
The procedure of Example A is followed except that after ten hours of spraying 25 percent of the emulsion is removed from the sump, broken by pH adjustment, and then recombined after removal of the sludge layer and the addition of the amount of hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier contained in the sludge layer, and the spraying is continued for additional hours.
Example D
The procedure of Example A is followed except that prior to the commencement of spraying the walls of the booth are cleansed of adhering paint solids by a wash stream comprised of a 30 gal. aliquot of the emulsion.
Example E
The procedure of Example A is followed except that in place of the 83,700 grams SEC oil and 6,300 grams of oleic acid, 180,000 grams of formulated composition containing the hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier, having a composition as set forth below, is used.
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Formulated Composition 70.0% Oil, Naphthenic 100 sec neutral 3.7% Tall oil, fatty acid, 26% rosin 1.3% Chlorinated paraffin wax 10.7% Sodium petroleum sulfonate 4.7% Sulfonated castor oil 3.7% Fatty acid (waste stream) 3.3% Isopropanol amine (mixed) 1.~% Biocide .001% Anti-foam Example F
The procedure of Example E is followed except that only 30,000 of the 180,000 grams of formulated hydrocarbon liquid/-emulsifier composition is initially charged, the remainder being added at intervals over the 10.3 hour spraying period.
The term "paint" is used herein generically for the various coating compositions employed in paint spray booths, including clear coats, lacquers, enamels, and the like.
All percentages set forth herein, unless expressly indicated otherwise, are percentages based on weight.
The above examples illustrate how the method of the present invention may be utilized to remove oversprayed paint particles in a detackified form and provide a system whereby the disposal of the paint solids, particularly by use as an auxiliary fuel, reduces the hazards and problems attendant thereon and the amount of fresh emulsion employed for given spraying conditions and periods is reduced. These examples are not given as any type of limitation of the invention.
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Paint spray booths generally represent major items of capital expense and, as such, replacing paint spray booths with other systems which would enable more efficient removal of the oversprayed paint particles would be prohibitively expensive.
The subject invention i9 directed to a process for the efficient removal of oversprayed paint solids from paint spray booth systems. The process of this invention calls for the use of an oil-in-water emulsion which will detackify the paint solids.
United States Patent No. 4,378,235 is directed to recovering volatile organic paint carrier from paint spray booths by optimization of the amount of carrier received by the oil-in-water emulsion employed as the hydrophilic liquid in the sump and efficient recovery of the carrier from the emulsion, in order - ' : , '', ~ .
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The emulsions disclosed in United States Patent No.
4,378,235, detackify the oversprayed paint solids, rendering them nonadhesive to metal surfaces and thus easy to remove from the emulsion by filtration and/or skimming. As described in this patent, the oversprayed paint particles can be removed after breaking the emulsion. The paint particles are generally held in a sludge layer or phase which may contain, in addition to the paint solids, volatile oil carrier, the organic liquid of the emulsion, and water. The oil is generally the continuous component of the sludge layer.
For some paint spray booths the sludge containing the paint solids is more of a problem or hazard than the emission of volatile organic carriers. Incineration of paint solids recovered from such emulsions is known from United States Patent No.
4,378,235 and sludges having high BTU values may be used as auxiliary fuels. For a process such as disclosed in that patent continuously to reduce emissions of volatile organic carrier, the emulsion must at all times have the capacity for absorption of adaitional volatile carrier. Otherwise, as soon as its maximum loading is reached a steady-state condition exists and the volatile organic carrier will be emitted from the process without any abatement. Hence the hydrophilic liquid in the sump must be replaced with fresh before it is exhausted. As disclosed in United States Patent No. 4,378,235, the oil-in-water emulsion is broken by adjusting the pH of the emulsion to below 6.5, the volatile organic paint carrier is recovered from the oil phase, .: .,:
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and the oil and aqueous phases are recombined, thereby providing fresh emulsion. As is also disclosed in that patent, the paint sludge generated by this process also holds some of the volatile organic paint carrier. Given the detackified nature of the paint sludge, which makes the paint sludge easy to remove, there is no purpose in recombining the phases without sludge removal. This process requires frequent refreshing of the emulsion for emission abatement which requires the employment of a significant amount of fresh emulsion. Furthermore, the process may not generate sludge of sufficiently high BTU value to be used as an auxiliary fuel. Instead the sludge,if to be disposed of by incineration, may be an energy depleting factor in the overall process.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for the removal of oversprayed paint particles from paint spray booths that produces a sludge with a high BTU value, that permits efficient handling of the sludge, that is less sensitive to daily process load and surge loads of liquid paint, purge solvents, and clean up solvents, reduces the volume of scrubbing liquid required for cleaning up the booth, while leaving a potential for some overall reduction in volatile organic carrier and recovery of solvents derived from the paints or strippers or cleaners used in the spray booth.
The present invention provides in a method for the removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream for capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber and a sump located at the bottom of said chamber for containing - . :- .~ . :: :
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In another aspect, the invention provides a method for the continuous removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber, a sump located at the bottom of said chamber and containing a circulating oil-in-water emulsion receiving said oversprayed paint particles from said wash stream, said oil-in-water emulsion comprised of from 5 to 50 weight percent of anorganic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150F., from 1.0 to 20 weight percent based on said organic liquid of an oil-in-water emulsifier, and the balance water, and said oil-in-water emulsion being maintained at a pH value of from 7.5 to 12, the improvement which comprises: (a) continuing the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion until at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of ....
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(b) separating said oversprayed paint solids from said oil-in-water emulsion; (c) recovering said oversprayed paint solids; (d) adding additional hydrocarbon liquid and oil-in-water emulsifier to maintain the composition of said emulsion; and (e) continuing with steps (a) through (d~ above.
This invention is directed to a method for the removal of paint solids from paint spray booth systems. The paint spray booth may be of a wet wall, centre draft, or other construction.
Paint spray booths of these types operate, in a sense, as large gas scrubbers with air passing through the booth picking up paint particles that do not meet the object being painted. Volatile organic carriers are also picked up with the paint particles.
The air, after picking up the materials, passes into a sump or the like where it is intimately contacted with a hydrophilic fluid which is generally recirculated throughout the paint spray booth. The hydrophilic fluid receives oversprayed paint particles to prevent their release into the atmosphere and also serves to some extent to trap the organic vapours collected from the booth.
This invention uses an oil-in-water emulsion as the hydrophilic liquid. The circulation of the oil-in-water emulsion is continued, without treatment to recover any material therefrom, until at least 5 parts by weight of the oversprayed paint solids have been received by the emulsion for every 100 parts by weight of the organic liquid in the emulsion. In a preferred embodiment, circulation is continued until at least 10 parts by weight of the oversprayed paint solids have been received by the emulsion per - 6 - 1321~3 100 parts by weight of the organic liquid in the emulsion.
The use of the method of the present invention drastic-ally reduces the amount of emulsion required as compared to the fresh emulsion demand in volatile organic carrier emission abatement methods. For instance, a typical equilibrium concentra-tion of a volatile organic carrier in a typical organic liquid used in the emulsion is 12,000 ppm or 1.2 weight percent. For effective abatement of emissions this concentration of volatile organic carrier in the emulsion cannot be exceeded. Hence the emulsion must be freshened by replacement or by recycling and removal of the volatile organic carrier, for instance by distillation or stream stripping or the like. In the present method, wherein circulation is continued without such recovery of volatile organic carrier or other material from the emulsion until the emulsion is loaded with at least 5 parts of paint solids by weight for every 100 parts weight of organic liquid, in a process spraying a paint containing about 50 weight percent solids with about a 50 percent transfer efficiency, the fresh emulsion demand is reduced to about one-third that required for volatile organic carrier abatement at the level of 25 percent.
In comparison to volatile organic carrier abatement at the level of 50 percent, other factors being the same, the fresh emulsion demand is reduced to one-fifth. As used herein the term fresh emulsion means an emulsion that does not contain volatile organic carrier, such as freshly prepared emulsion or emulsion from which volatile organic carriers have been removed.
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Hence, by virtue of the steady state condition that will exist, an amount of such carrier will be released from the emulsion as the circulation continues. The volatile organic carrier will not be recovered from the emulsion, such as by breaking the emulsion and subjecting the organic liquid phase to recovery steps, until the minimum paint solids load is met, if then.
In the method of the present invention, the emulsion detackifies and disperses the paint solids, which remain generally in fluid state until separated from the water and oil phases.
For a given level of emulsion the load handling capacity is at least three-fold that in a 25 percent emission abatement method and hence surge loads of liquid paint or purge solvents or clean-up solvents can be handled without performance decay.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the wash stream is an emulsion of the same formulation which softens and dissolves oil paint deposits on the paint booth and carries such oversprayed paint solvents into the emulsion in the sump.
The organic carriers that are generally encountered in paint spray booths of the type described are those commonly used as carriers in industrial finishes such as paints and lacquexs and may consist of aromatic materials such as benzene, xylene, toluene, low-boiling ethers, esters, alcohols, ketones such as methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl amyl ketone, and mixtures thereof.
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paint carriers. It is more important, however, in the use of this invention that the oversprayed paint solids be detackified.
This means essentially that the individual particles must not stick to the sides of the booth, process equipment, or agglomerate with themselves to form materials which cannot be easily handled.
Hence an emulsion that detackifies the paint solids but is not an effective solvent for the paint carrier may be employed in the method of the present invention. The oversprayed paint solids should be detackified to the point where they can be readily separated from the emulsion being employed. This separation step may be done by filtration, flotation, coagulation, or the like.
The oil-in-water emulsion system comprises an organic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150F., an oil-in-water emulsifier, and water.
Before further describing the process of this invention in which the oil-in-water emulsions are utilized, the following explanation is presented for each of the components of the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention.
The Organic Liquid The organic liquid component of the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention is a non-volatile, water-immiscible, hydrocarbon material which optionally may act as a solvent for volatile organic paint carrier used in the paint being employed in paint spray booth. Organic liquids employed may be primarily aliphatic, paraffinic, aromatic or mixtures thereof. The organic liquids may either be halogenated or non-halogenated and should general]y have a boiling point greater than 150F. and, preferably : ' '~ ` ' .
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66530-~51 200F., and most preferably, above 300F. Viscosities of materials used may range from that of a 100 SEC primarily aliphatic petroleum process oil to that of a highly chlorinated paraffinic material having a viscosity in excess of 20,000 cps.
Typical materials which can be employed include Telura 323, a process oil manufactured by Exxon Company, U. S. A., which is categorized as having a boiling point of from 545-884F., negligible solubility in water, a specific gravity of .903 at 60F., a Cleveland open cup flash point of 330F. and a viscosity at 100F. of 105-115 SUS. This oil is believed to be a complex mixture of aliphatic and aromatic petroleum hydrocarbons. Also useful are various chlorinated paraffinic materials such as those ~A designated Kloro 6000, Kloro 7000, CW 52, CW 170, CW 8560 from the Ke 1 Chemical Division of the Ferro Corporation; as well as Isopar M, a branched paraffinic material available from the Humble Oil & Refinery Company; LOPS, a low odor paraffinic solvent purchased from the Exxon Company, U. S. A.; and Marcol 82, a highly aliphatic viscous white oil available from Exxon Company, U. S. A.
For safety purposes, the organic liquid employed in the oil-in-water emulsion of this invention should be substantially non-toxic and have a flash point greater than 250F. A preferred organic liquid for use in this invention is Telura ~ 323 described above.
It will be seen, however, that substantial variations in organic liquids can be accomplished without varying from the spirit and intent of this invention. As an example, 10 weight r~
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motor oil may be satisfactorily employed as the oil phase of the oil-in-water emulsion.
The Oil-In-Water Emulsifiers The use~ul oil-in-water emulsifiers are those capable of forming a relatively stable oil-in-water emulsion with the organic liquid selected. Generally these materials will have an HLB value ranging from about 6 to about 40 and most preferably from about 10 to 30. The HLB system is defined in the Atlas HLB
Surfactant Selector. Since the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention do not have to be broken, ease of breakability is not an important criteria. The emulsifier may be any water-soluble anionic, cationic, nonionic, or mixture of emulsifiers falling within the above criteria. Useful emulsifiers for use in this invention are saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and alkali metal salts thereof containing 12-30 and, preferably, 16-24 carbon atoms. Other oil-in-water emulsifiers such as the condensation product of cocoamine reacted with 2 moles of ethylene oxide may be used. The preferred emulsifiers of the invention form emulsions which break when made acidic which permits efficient recovery of the sludge portion. It is expected, however, that oil-in-water emulsifiers other than those specifically enumerated herein may be employed. A particularly useful emulsifier for the method of this invention is oleic acid.
Water The water used to form the oil-in-water emulsions of this invention should preferably not contain more than 150 ppm hardness as Ca 2 or Mg 2 It has been found that excessive ~, . . ~ . . i. .
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Formulation of the Emulsion The components of the emulsion used in this invention are used in the following weight percentages:
A. Hydrocarbon Liquid Generally 1-50 percent by weight of the emulsion Preferably 10 to 40 percent by weight of the emulsion Most Preferably 10 to 30 percent by weight of the emulsion B. Emulsifier Generally 0.1 to 20 percent by weight of the hydro-carbon liquid Preferably 1-20 percent by weight of the hydrocarbon liquid Most Preferably 1.5-10 percent by weight of the hydrocarbon liquid C. Water balance The emulsion is formed by simply mixing the above-mentioned ingredients together. In formulating the emulsions ofthe subject invention we have generally found that emulsions having an alkaline aqueous phase of from pH 7.5-12 and preferably a pH 8-11 are preferred due to their greater ability to detackify the paint materials used. The pH adjustment of the emulsion can be accomplished by merely adding a small quantity of an alkaline '.'. - :: :
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Once the emulsion has been formed, it may be used in the spray booth as the hydrophilic liquid to capture the volatile organic paint carrier materials and oversprayed paints present in the paint spray booth. We have found that at the load levels mentioned above the oversprayed paint (including lacquers) particles are detackified and do not exhaust the emulsion's capacity. These detackified materials, which additionally generally contain an amount of the volatile organic paint carrier, may then separate from the oil-in-water emulsion and the emulsion can then be recycled. Due to the fact that the separation process or processes will also carry with them some of the oil-in-water emulsion, it has been found generally that additional quantities of the hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier may need to be added to maintain the initial composition of the oil-in-water emulsion.
The oil-in-water emulsion may be reused indefinitely and continuously recirculated in the paint spray booth so long as additional quantities of materials are added to replace what is lost with the oversprayed paint particles~
The detackified oversprayed paint particles can be removed from the oil-in-water emulsion by flotation, skimming, or the like. If the detackified paint overspray sludge floats on the surface of the emulsion, removal may be readily accomplished by skimming using known means. Saturation is, of course, also - . . :
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When the process of this invention is employed on enamel and/or base coat/clear coat materials, oily sludges may be produced which may tend to sink to the bottom of the sludge removal system, and then means for removing sludge from the bottom of the sludge removal system should be provided.
The recovered detackified oversprayed paint particles in this invention may be further treated to recover the volatile organic component, pigment, and other paint components, or may advantageously be used as a high B.T.U. fuel. Due to the fact that loading of the emulsion with oversprayed paint solids is high, the process is economical, and hydrocarbon oil losses are kept at a minimum level. The emulsion employed need not be breakable, and does not have to be subjected to processing steps to recover the volatile organic material or the oversprayed paint solids.
Although the level of hydrocarbon liquid in the emulsion, as stated above, can be as low as one weight percent based on total emulsion, since the capacity of the emulsion for paint solids loading is believed to be principally dependent on the ratio of paint solids to hydrocarbon liquid, there is seldom any practical reason for conducting the present process at such low level of hydrocarbon liquid in the emulsion. In some instances, however, it may be desirable to begin the present ., . :
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process with a given amount of water to which is charged initially such a low level of hydrocarbon liquid, which then is increased as the paint solids loading in the emulsion increases whereby the amount of hydrocarbon liquid being employed in the emulsion at any time follows the paint solids loading. In a batch process, this approach may be convenient when the paint spraying may be terminated short of the original target and to charge initially the hydrocarbon liquid in the amount desired for the target paint spraying would be wasteful. Where the hydrocarbon liquid is charged to the water in increments during an ongoing process, it is particularly convenient to incorporate the desired emulsifier into the hydrocarbon liquid, and hence convenient to define the emulsifier level based on hydrocarbon liquid, as given above.
The process of the present invention may be conducted as a batch process, wherein the emulsion, when loaded to the extent desired, is removed from the spray booth in bulk, to be processed for instance to recover the sludge of paint solids while a fresh emulsion is placed into the sump. Alternatively, the process may be conducted as a continuous process wherein the emulsion, or a portion thereof, is recycled after removal of the sludge after at least the minimum loading of paint solids is reached~
The paint solids loading is defined herein as a minimum and it is believed that loadings of up to possibly 40 parts of paint solids, or more, per 100 parts of hydrocarbon liquid, by weight, may be achieved.
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For a given commercial installation, the solids level of the paint sprayed and the transfer efficiency of the process will be known with sufficient precision to determine the desired change of hydrocarbon liquid for the oversprayed paint solids to be removed from the spray booth in detackified form.
In an embodiment of the present invention the wash stream employed is comprised of a portion of the emulsion itself to cleanse the booth of paint solids adhering to the surfaces of the booth.
The resultant sludges contain from about 10 to 60 percent solids, from about 15 to 60 percent weight percent of the emulsion's hydrocarbon liquid, the balance being paint carrier and water, with the hydrocarbon liquid being the continuous phase.
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The following exemplifies the use of the method of the present invention in a typical commercial spray paint booth. In a commercial paint spray booth 350 gal. of water containing 83,700 g. hydrocarbon liquid (SEC oil) and 6,300 g. oleic acid, as an oil-in-water emulsion with a pH of 8.5-9.0, is introduced into the sump and therein circulated. A 27 weight percent solids lacquer is then sprayed at a rate of 60 grams per minute and with a transfer efficiency of 50 percent, while a downward air stream is held at a flow rate of 1980 cu.ft./minute. The spraying is continued for 10.3 hours (620 min.) at which time 37,200 grams of paint has been sprayed and 5,022 grams of oversprayed paint solids has been carried by the air stream to the sump and there received by the emulsion. The loading of oversprayed paint solids to hydrocarbon liquid of the emulsion is 6 parts by weight paint solids per 100 parts by weight of hydrocarbon liquid. The emulsion is then removed from the sump, broken by a downward adjustment of pH, and the sludge layer, containing paint solids, hydrocarbon liquid, paint carrier and water is removed for use as an auxiliary ~uel. The sludge-free hydrocarbon liquid and water layers are recombined together with an additional amount of hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier for future use.
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The procedure of Example A is followed except that the spraying is continued for 20.7 hours (1240 min.) at which time 74,400 grams of paint has been sprayed and 10,444 grams of over-.
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The procedure of Example A is followed except that after ten hours of spraying 25 percent of the emulsion is removed from the sump, broken by pH adjustment, and then recombined after removal of the sludge layer and the addition of the amount of hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier contained in the sludge layer, and the spraying is continued for additional hours.
Example D
The procedure of Example A is followed except that prior to the commencement of spraying the walls of the booth are cleansed of adhering paint solids by a wash stream comprised of a 30 gal. aliquot of the emulsion.
Example E
The procedure of Example A is followed except that in place of the 83,700 grams SEC oil and 6,300 grams of oleic acid, 180,000 grams of formulated composition containing the hydrocarbon liquid and emulsifier, having a composition as set forth below, is used.
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The procedure of Example E is followed except that only 30,000 of the 180,000 grams of formulated hydrocarbon liquid/-emulsifier composition is initially charged, the remainder being added at intervals over the 10.3 hour spraying period.
The term "paint" is used herein generically for the various coating compositions employed in paint spray booths, including clear coats, lacquers, enamels, and the like.
All percentages set forth herein, unless expressly indicated otherwise, are percentages based on weight.
The above examples illustrate how the method of the present invention may be utilized to remove oversprayed paint particles in a detackified form and provide a system whereby the disposal of the paint solids, particularly by use as an auxiliary fuel, reduces the hazards and problems attendant thereon and the amount of fresh emulsion employed for given spraying conditions and periods is reduced. These examples are not given as any type of limitation of the invention.
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Claims (17)
1. In a method for the removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream for capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber and a sump located at the bottom of said chamber for containing a circulating oil-in-water emulsion for receiving said oversprayed paint particles from said wash stream, said oil-in-water emulsion comprising from 5 to 50 weight percent of an organic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150°F., from 1.0 to 20 weight percent based on the organic liquid of an oil-in-water emulsifier, and the balance water, and said oil-in-water emulsion being maintained at a pH value of from 7. 5 to 12, the improvement which comprises: continuing the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion until at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid are received by said oil-in-water emulsion prior to recovery of any material from said emulsion.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said wash stream is an air stream.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said wash stream is a mixture of an air stream and a stream of an oil-in-water emulsion as defined in claim 1.
4. The method of claim 1 including the further steps of removal of particles of said oversprayed paint from said oil-in-water emulsion and then recycling said oil-in-water emulsion, without separate recovery of any volatile organic paint carrier that may be contained therein.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said oil-in-water emulsion contains from 10 to 30 weight percent of said organic liquid.
6. The method of claim 1 or 5 wherein said oil-in-water emulsion contains from 1.5 to 10 weight percent of emulsifier based on said hydrocarbon liquid.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion is continued until at least 10 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid are received by said oil-in-water emulsion, prior to recovery of any material from said emulsion.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the paint solids are recovered from the emulsion as a sludge containing some of said hydrocarbon liquid.
9. The method of claim 8 including the further step of employing said sludge as an auxiliary fuel.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein said oil-in-water emulsion, after having received at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid, is broken to provide a separate sludge layer containing said oversprayed paint solids.
11. A method for the continuous removal of oversprayed paint particles from a paint spray booth comprising a chamber, means for passing a wash stream capturing oversprayed paint particles down through said chamber, a sump located at the bottom of said chamber and containing a circulating oil-in-water emulsion receiving said oversprayed paint particles from said wash stream, said oil-in-water emulsion comprised of from 5 to 50 weight percent of an organic liquid having a boiling point of at least 150°F., from 1.0 to 20 weight percent based on said organic liquid of an oil-in-water emulsifier, and the balance water, and said oil-in-water emulsion being maintained at a pH
value of from 7.5 to 12, the improvement which comprises: (a) continuing the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion until at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid are received by said oil-in-water emulsion; (b) separating said oversprayed paint solids from said oil-in-water emulsion; (c) recovering said oversprayed paint solids; (d) adding additional hydrocarbon liquid and oil-in-water emulsifier to maintain the composition of said emulsion; and (e) continuing with steps (a) through (d) above.
value of from 7.5 to 12, the improvement which comprises: (a) continuing the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion until at least 5 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid are received by said oil-in-water emulsion; (b) separating said oversprayed paint solids from said oil-in-water emulsion; (c) recovering said oversprayed paint solids; (d) adding additional hydrocarbon liquid and oil-in-water emulsifier to maintain the composition of said emulsion; and (e) continuing with steps (a) through (d) above.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein said oil-in-water emulsion contains from 10 to 30 weight percent of said organic liquid.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein said oil-in-water emulsion contains from 1.5 to 10 weight percent of emulsifier based on said hydrocarbon liquid.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein the circulation of said oil-in-water emulsion in step (a) is continued until at least 10 parts by weight of said oversprayed paint solids for every 100 parts by weight of said organic liquid are received by said oil-in-water emulsion.
15. The method of claim 10 wherein the paint solids are recovered from the emulsion as a sludge containing some of said hydrocarbon liquid.
16. The method of claim 11 including a further step (f) of employing said sludge as an auxiliary fuel.
17. The method of claim 11 wherein in step (b) said organic liquid is broken to provide a separate sludge layer containing said oversprayed paint solids.
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