Waste Treatment Technology News articles from April 2002

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from April 2002

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS Biofilter Cleans Runway Runoff.
April 1, 2002... BIFS Technologies Corp., (2075 Fruitville Rd., Suite 200, Sarasota, FL 34237; Tel: 941/343-9300, Fax: 941/343-0404) has developed a biofiltration system that captures and treats airport stormwater runoff containing hazardous glycol-based...

Underground Storage Mashes Microbes.
April 1, 2002... CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Bag 10, Clayton South, VIC 3169, Australia; Tel: 613-0036-3400, Fax: 61-3-9545-2175) scientists have found disease- causing microbes can effectively be eliminated...

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS: Sorbent Suitable for 90% of Power Plants.
April 1, 2002... A simple carbon sorbent process developed at ADA-ES (8100 SouthPark Way, B-2, Littleton, CO 80120; Tel: 303/734-1727, Fax: 303/734-0330) can remove more mercury from large coal plants burning subbituminous coal and using electrostatic...

Ferrous Nanoparticles: Water Cleanup Wonders.
April 1, 2002... Lehigh University (Fritz Engineering Laboratory, 13 East Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015; Tel: 610/758-5318) scientists have found that magnetic iron particles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair might be safer, cheaper and faster for...

HAZWASTE: Irradiation Cuts Decay Time.
April 1, 2002... Nuclear Solutions, Inc. (1530 E. Commercial Ave., 109 Meridian, ID 83642; Tel: 208/846-7868, Fax: 208/846-7865) is developing an x- ray-based photodisintegration process for stabilizing nuclear waste that triggers sub-critical reactions that...

TESTING & MONITORING: Fluorescence Flushes Out Missing NOx.
April 1, 2002... Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley (Dept. of Chemistry, B45 Hildebrand Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720; Tel: 510/642- 2735, Fax: 510/643-2156) think they have found missing nitrogen oxides with the aid of "the most sensitive detector...

Isotopic Ratios Yield Fingerprints.
April 1, 2002... Scientists at the University of Illinois (Department of Geology, 245 Natural History Building, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801; Tel: 217/333-3540, Fax: 217/244-4996) have discovered a simple, but effective, method for monitoring...

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION Co-Firing Cuts Coal Emissions.
April 1, 2002... Co-firing coal with local biomass resources, such as crop or forestry waste, could help small-scale power plants reduce toxic emissions, decrease expense for pollution control equipment and slash operating costs, while lessening the burden on...

Percarbonate Expands Chlorine Alternatives.
April 1, 2002... Natural Choices Home Safe Products, LLC (9525 South 60th St., Franklin, WI 53132; Tel: 414/421-9394, Fax: 414/421-9903) has introduced two OxyBoost cleansers to its line of environmentally safe household, laundry and janitorial cleaning...

Where the Rubber Becomes the Road.
April 1, 2002... Researchers at the University of Massachusetts' (UMass, Room A125, Conte Research Center, 120 Governors Dr., Amherst, MA 01003; Tel: 413/577-3125; Fax: 413/545-0082) Polymer Science and Engineering Department are working on two separate...

LEGISLATION/LITIGATION Aerojet Signs Superfund Deal.
April 1, 2002... Aerojet-General Corp. (P.O. Box 13222, Sacremento, CA 95813; Tel: 916/355-4000, Fax: 916/351-8667), a subsidiary of GenCorp. (Hwy. 50 and Aerojet Rd., P.O. Box 537012, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670; Tel: 916/355-4000), has signed a comprehensive...

EPA Resolves Pole Zero Complaint.
April 1, 2002... U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 (Chicago, IL) has reached an agreement with Pole Zero Corp. (5530 Union Centre Dr., West Chester, OH 45069; Tel: 513/870-9060, Fax: 513/870-9064) that resolves an EPA administrative complaint...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Wastewater Market to Exceed $4.5 Billion.
April 1, 2002... According to a soon-to-be-released study from Business Communications Co., Inc. (25 Van Zant St., Norwalk, CT 068551781; Tel: 203/853-4266, Fax: 203/853-0348), RE-111 Advanced Waste Water Treatment for Global Markets, the total value of the...

EEC Aligns with J. May Equipment.
April 1, 2002... Environmental Elements Corp. (3700 Koppers St., Baltimore, MD 21227; Tel: 410/368-7000, Fax: 410/368-6896) has entered into an exclusive alliance with the J. May Equipment Group (Dallas, TX) to market urea solutions for the power generation...

Waste Management Cuts 2000 Jobs.
April 1, 2002... Waste Management, Inc. (WMI, 1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002; Tel: 713/512-6200) has announced it will eliminate one management layer and cut 2000 jobs (3.5% of its workforce) in an attempt to rein in costs during the economic...

Waste Management Cans Arthur Anderson.
April 1, 2002... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002; Tel: 713/512-6200) says it will replace Arthur Andersen (33 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603; Tel: 312/580-0033, Fax: 312/507- 6748) with Ernst & Young LLP (1285 Avenue of the...

Osmonics Debuts Specialty Line.
April 1, 2002... Osmonics, Inc. (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343; Tel: 612/933-2277, Fax: 612/933-0141) has established a Specialty Separations Equipment product line based on the company's WasteWizard fluid recycling system. Osmonics recently...

Earth Tech Gets WTE Contract.
April 1, 2002... Earth Tech (100 W. Broadway, No. 240, Long Beach, CA 90802; Tel: 562/951-2000, Fax: 562/951-2100), a business unit of Tyco International, Ltd. (The Zurich Centre, Second Floor, 90 Pitts Bay Rd., Pembroke HM 08, Bermuda; Tel: 441/292-8674),...

Perma-Fix Awarded Remediation Project.
April 1, 2002... Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (1940 NW 67th Place, Gainesville, FL 32653; Tel: 352/373-4200, Fax: 352/373-0040) has obtained a contract with a southeastern university to remediate the university's research waste site. The...

Army Awards Big Contract.
April 1, 2002... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, has awarded a 10-year, $100 million Total Environmental Restoration Contract to Environmental Chemical Corp. (1240 Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010; Tel: 650/347-1555, Fax:...

Waste Connections Goes Shopping.
April 1, 2002... Waste Connections, Inc. (620 Coolidge Dr., No. 350, Folsom, CA 95630; Tel: 916/608-8200, Fax: 916/772-2920) has closed or signed definitive agreements for an additional 6 acquisitions in the first quarter, with total annualized revenues of...

Briefly Noted:.
April 1, 2002... * Metalclad Corp. (Minneapolis, MN) reports a profit of $5,579,000 for 2001, compared to a loss of $1,765,000 for 2000. Revenues from operations in 2001 were $18,008,000 compared to $17,769,000 in 2000. Brian Niebur, Metalclad's recently...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 2002... June 23-27, Air & Waste Management Association's 95th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD. Contact: AWMA, One Gateway Center, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; Tel: 301/493-5500, Fax: 301/493-5705....