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. |
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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
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Foundries, metalcasting and forging operations
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