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Chemical neutralisation of bright dip

Hello,

As part of our process we use a chemical called Nickel/Iron Bright to clean our components. This is a mixture of acetic, nitric and hydrochloric acid at about pH 1. What would be the safest way to neutralise this without putting anyone at risk?

Mark McKinnon
Materials Technician - Rugby, United Kingdom
February 22, 2011

Mark,

This will depend on the volumes you are talking about. If it is a bulk chemical and you do not have waste treatment facilities I strongly recommend you get specialist waste management people in to tanker the waste away.

If it is on a small scale I would probably go for sodium hydrogen carbonate.

Brian Terry
Aerospace - Yeovil, Somerset, UK
February 25, 2011

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