Solvent Recycling

The challenge as we see it

Organizations and industries generate solvents that can either be disposed of as waste, or recycled into a usable resource. Solvent recycling can minimize waste and cut down on disposal costs.

Our differentiated value

We offer customizable on-site and off-site services to help your organization recycle solvents used in industrial applications, while reducing waste, transportation and disposal costs. We will work with your organization to determine which solvent recycling methods are best for your business. These include:

• Tolling, which cleans your solvent to predetermined specifications and returns it to your business for reuse — helping you reduce costs.
• Beneficial reuse, which converts used solvents into products for re-use in manufacturing commercial products, helping you minimize overall waste volumes.
• Reclamation, in which used solvents are cleaned to our specifications and delivered to third parties who use it as a replacement for virgin solvent.

Our solutions for solvent recycling

Veolia owns and operates four solvent recycling facilities providing a nationwide network of industry leading services. Our qualification process includes a sample analysis to quantify the content of the waste material including GC/Mass specifications, GC/FID, pH residue upon evaporation and flashpoint. We’ll also provide recovered product samples that are representative of full-scale production.

Because purity is of key importance when solvents are reused in critical applications, we use the most state-of-the-art technologies, including glass fractionating equipment to avoid accidental contamination of high-value solvents, batch fractional distillation columns for mixed solvent separation with high purity results and thin film evaporators for solids separation and recovery. Our solvents reach up to 99.5 percent minimum purity for selected products and a water content of under 500 parts per million.

As required by law, we maintain fully-funded closure plans for our four facilities. Our facilities meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, as well as all applicable state regulations. 

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