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Progress Report of American
Electroplaters Society Research
Projects on Plating Room Waste
In Three Parts
PARTI
THE A.E.S. RESEARCH PROGRAM
w. l. pinner, Manager of Research
Houdaille-Hershey Corporation, and Vice Chairman, A.E.S.
Research Committee
Detroit, Michigan
This report is divided into three parts as to subject matter and
author as follows: (1) The A.E.S. Research Program—W. L. Pinner,
Vice Chairman, A.E.S. Research Committee; (2) A.E.S. Project,
No. 2, "The Determination of Impurities in Electroplating Solutions
and Plating Room Wastes"—Dr. Earl Serfass, Lehigh University,
Project Director; (3) A.E.S. Research Project No. 10, "Disposal
of Plating Room Waste"—Dr. B. F. Dodge, Yale University, Project
Director.
The research program of the A.E.S. is sponsored by approximately
300 business establishments, certain groups within the Society, and certain individuals. The larger part of the $35,000 available annually
for research, results from the maintenance of sustaining membership
in the Society by industry at a cost of at least $100 each. The
administration of the research program is carried out by appointed
members of the Society who voluntarily devote their time for the
purpose. As a generality the expense borne by these individuals is
paid by their respective companies so that virtually all of the available
fund for research is spent at a level no higher than the actual project
director. These research programs are placed in universities under
the direction of a faculty member, who, together with appointed
project committees, schedule, review and guide the progress of the
actual work, usually carried out by graduate or undergraduate students.
Several of the research programs have also been carried out at the
National Bureau of Standards.
These  research   programs  are  designed   to  seek   knowledge   of   a
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