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Document ID (ISN)32259
CIS number 79-1655
ISSN - Serial title Cahiers de notes documentaires - Sécurité et hygiène du travail
Year 1979
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Muller J., Hervé-Bazin B., Ferrari P., Pfleger A.
Title Environmental control in foundries - Chemical hazards
Original title Salubrité dans les ateliers de fonderie - Nuisances d'ordre chimique. [in French]
Bibliographic information 3rd quarter 1979, No.96, Note No.1200-96-79, p.415-423. 33 ref.
Abstract The authors describe the principal moulding and core-making processes in French foundries and deal with the toxicological hazards involved in using certain products, especially synthetic binders (polyurethane-phenol, furan and phenol resins, "alkyd-isocyanate" resin). Laboratory tests have led to the identification of the main compounds of the binder resins and the major pollutants likely to be given off during their thermal degradation. In-plant air sampling has also provided quantitative data for most of the moulding processes. Laboratory analysis techniques and on-site air sampling methods are summarised. Some preventive mesures are suggested: avoid stocking large quantities of binders near the moulding and core-making processes; protective gloves; transport of treated sand by airtight piping; avoid skin contact with sand.
Descriptors (primary) moulding and coremaking; core binders; foundries; toxic substances
Descriptors (secondary) organic polymers; polyurethanes; phenol-furfuraldehyde polymers; sampling and analysis; pyrolysis products; health engineering; isocyanates
Document type -
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Foundries, metalcasting and forging operations