In the early 1980’s, when the field of environmental consulting was just starting, the United States Congress was busy developing guidance documents to direct how site investigations and cleanup would be conducted. The science was new and there wasn’t a lot of data to draw from with respect to how chemicals “behaved” in the subsurface. […]
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A Dry Cleaning Gem by: Jackie Smith
In the early 1980s, I went to work for Henderson Insurance Agency. They specialized, as they do now, in insuring dry cleaners. At that time, men dominated the dry cleaning industry. All meetings or seminars I attended, I found myself to be one of the few women there. That world changed for me when I […]
Cooling 103 – Cool As A Ghoul By: Bruce Grossman
In last month’s installment we covered how heat exchanging took place during the drying cycle within your dry cleaning machine. This month we are going to cover heat exchange during the distillation process. What Is Distillation? In dry cleaning, there are two main types of soil or impurities removed from the garment during dry cleaning. […]