Minimização do uso de solventes para limpeza em uma indústria química: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The use of solvents in the chemical industry is used on a large scale to increase production, as it is useful for products to be manufactured from cleaning using solvents. These solvents are responsible for purifying the place where the cleaning is performed. Thus, as causes of their use, the health of employees may be at risk, the increase in production costs can be increased and quality offered by being low. With this, the main objective of this work was to minimize the use of solvents for the cleaning of reactors in a chemical industry. The company is responsible for producing 25 products and, for this, some are not compatible after production, requiring the use of solvents after the end of production. The data pertinent to the research were collected during six months. To finish the objective, Excel software was used, along with the functions that minimization according to the defined problem. Thus, as a result, there was a considerable reduction in the number of reactors that lacked the use of solvents to proceed with production. This implies the quality of the service, the reduction of costs and the health benefit of employees.