Waste Treatment Technology News articles from December 1998

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from December 1998

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Surfactants Mobilize Colloidal Iron Oxides.
December 1, 1998... Research at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) of the University of Georgia (2 Canebrake Rd., Savannah, GA 31419-9298; Tel: 912/921-5461) has resulted in the development of an in situ means for controlling the mobilization and...

Borealis AB to Use Wet Air Oxidation.
December 1, 1998... U.S. Filter Corp. (40-004 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211; Tel: 760/340- 0098, Fax: 760/341-9368) has received a $3 million order to supply a Zimpro wet-air-oxidation system to Borealis AB, Sweden. The modular system, designed and...

NUCLEAR/HAZARDOUS: ARIES Converts Surplus Plutonium.
December 1, 1998... A technology demonstration for separating the plutonium components from remaining nuclear weapons received a green light from DOE in early November and is now underway at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Box #-1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544-0600;...

ATG Lands Contract for Safglas Technology.
December 1, 1998... ComEd, a Chicago based electric utility, has awarded a general services contract and an initial order of several million dollars to Allied Technology Group, (ATG), Inc. (47375 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538; Tel: 510/490-3008, Fax:...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Waste Management Environmental Trial Set.
December 1, 1998... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002; Tel: 713/512-6200), Eastern Environmental Services, Inc. (100 Crawford Place, No. 400, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054; Tel: 609/235-6009) and federal attorneys agreed to a Jan. 13...

USA Biomass Considers Cuts.
December 1, 1998... USA Biomass Corp. (52300 Enterprise Way, Coachella, CA 92236-2707; Tel: 760/398-9520) is determining whether to discontinue certain of its operations, to focus on its rapidly growing waste transport and greenwaste operations. The company had...

BFI, Allied Waste Trade Assets.
December 1, 1998... Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. (757 N. Eldridge, Houston, TX 77079; Tel: 281/780-8100) and Allied Waste Industries, Inc. (15880 N. Greenway Hayden Loop, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; Tel: 602/423-2946) have signed a letter of intent involving the...

BFI Bids for Med-Tech.
December 1, 1998... Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. (757 N. Eldridge, Houston, TX 77079; Tel: 281/780-8100) extended its cash offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Med-Tech Environmental, Ltd. at the previously announced price per...

EEC Garners $1.2 Mil in New Contracts.
December 1, 1998... Environmental Elements Corp. (3700 Koppers St., Baltimore, MD 21227- 1022; Tel: 410/368-7000) has received three contracts to provide air pollution control equipment and services for North American companies serving the power, cement, and...

Eastern Environ Sees 170% Income Increase.
December 1, 1998... Eastern Environmental Services, Inc. (100 Crawford Place, No. 400, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054; Tel: 609/235-6009) reports a 170% increase in operating income. Operating income for the third quarter of 1998 was $18.4 million compared to $6.8...

Catalytica and GE Agree to Commercialize XONON.
December 1, 1998... Catalytica Combustion Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Catalytica, Inc. (430 Ferguson Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043-5215; Tel: 650/960-3000), has announced that GE Power Systems, a business unit of General Electric Co. (3135 Easton Turnpike,...

U.S. Filter Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan.
December 1, 1998... U.S. Filter Corp. (40-004 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211; Tel: 760/340- 0098, Fax: 760/341-9368) announced that its board of directors adopted a stockholder rights plan in which rights will be distributed as a dividend at the rate of one...

Waste Management Reports 87% Growth.
December 1, 1998... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002; Tel: 713/512-6200), saw its income jump 87% in the third quarter. The company reports that its adjusted net income increased to $291.3 million from $156.2 million in the...

WASTEWATER: Praxair Debuts Portable Ozone Unit.
December 1, 1998... Ozone is an extremely powerful oxidizing agent that reacts rapidly and completely with a variety of chemical compounds. Praxair, Inc. (39 Old Ridgebury Rd., Danbury, CT 06810-5113; Tel: 203/837-2705) has introduced a new portable pilot...

Microbar Saves Chip Maker Water.
December 1, 1998... Microbar, Inc., (1252 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1137; Tel: 408/541-1040, Fax: 408/541-1441) is introducing a new chemical management system for the semiconductor industry. Called EnChem, the proprietary polymer filtration process...

INCINERATION: Vitrification Turns Sewage into Slag.
December 1, 1998... A vitrification process for the treatment of sewage sludge and incineration ash is described in the November Journal of Air and Waste Management by the University of Helsinki (Yliopistonkatu 4, Finland-00014; Tel: 358-0-1911) researcher,...

Process Removes Dioxins from Gases.
December 1, 1998... Japanese firm Kabushiki Kaisha Kawasaki Giken has a technology for removing dioxins in a waste incineration plant by cooling combustion gases (U.S. Patent 5,843,205). Many cities have tried to deal with the load of increased wastes by...

Bottled Lightning Zaps Warfare Agents.
December 1, 1998... Startech Environmental Corp.(79 Old Ridgefield Rd., Wilton, CT 06897, Tel: 203/762-2499, Fax: 203/ 761-0839) has begun installation of its trademarked Plasma Waste Converter System at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. As...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS Bion NMS System Bioconverts Dairy Waste.
December 1, 1998... Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc., (555 17th St., Suite 3310, Denver, CO 80202; Tel: 303/294-0750, Fax: 800/769-7205) has launched a waste handling system for a 3,960 finishing hog farm in Harnett County, North Carolina. The patented NMS...

Michigan Composting PCB-Contaminated Soils.
December 1, 1998... The Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality sponsored a project at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University (MSU, 1322 Michigan Ave., East Lansing, MI 48823-4024; Tel: 517/484-1395) to...

Closed Loop System Recycles Dairy Waste.
December 1, 1998... Environmental Products & Technologies Corp. (5380 North Sterling Center Dr., Westlake Village, CA 91361; Tel: 818/ 865-2205, Fax: 818/ 865-2210) has set manufacturing and delivery schedules for its new closed loop waste management system in...

Aerojet Plant First to Treat Perchlorate.
December 1, 1998... Aerojet (PO Box 1322, Sacramento, CA 95813; Tel: 916/355-1000) has opened the first-ever, $5.0 million perchlorate groundwater treatment plant at its Rancho Cordova, California, site. Perchlorate is used as an oxidizer in solid rocket...

Passive RUCK System Removes Nitrogen.
December 1, 1998... The RUCK septic system from Innovation RUCK Systems, Inc. (200 Main St., Room 201, Falmouth, MA 02540; Tel: 508/548-3564, Fax: 508/548- 9672) uses passive, natural treatment to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater. The company...

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS: Ag Drain Water Treated with MF.
December 1, 1998... U.S. Filter Corp. (40-004 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211; Tel: 760/340 -0098, Fax: 760/341-9368) is using microfiltration technology to test its ability to remove harmful elements from agricultural drain water so that it can be safely...

Steam, Chopping Turns Red-bag Waste Inert.
December 1, 1998... A medical waste system that superheats, sterilizes, chops, chews and shreds red-bag waste into a confetti-like non-hazardous material has completed beta testing and is ready for the marketplace. In the Antaeus Group's (10626 York Rd., Suite...

Sensitive Area to Be Protected.
December 1, 1998... U.S. Filter Corp. (40-004 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211; Tel: 760/340- 0098, Fax: 760/341-9368) has received a contract from Yorkshire Water to provide a wastewater treatment system for use in an environmentally sensitive area near the...

TESTING & SAMPLING: Bugs, Fish Monitor Army Munitions Dump.
December 1, 1998... The Army is using honeybees and bluegills for environmental monitoring at the its Aberdeen Proving Ground's (Gunpowder, MD 21010; Tel: 410/278-7455) old O-Field. The dumping ground for chemical warfare agents, unexploded ordnance and...

Los Alamos Tools Safely Inspect Waste.
December 1, 1998... Scientists at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory (Box #-1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544-0600; Tel: 505/665-4159) designed a trio of sampling tools capable of extracting liquid, gas, or powder samples from sealed containers and permanently...

Lab Turns Well Inside-Out.
December 1, 1998... Researchers at DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL, 2525 Fremont Ave., Idaho Falls, ID 83415) developed a combination well for simultaneous gas and ground water sampling through the same borehole. Design of...

Remote Sensing for Phytoremediation.
December 1, 1998... Remote sensing is used increasingly to assess agricultural conditions at phytoremediation sites. At the Anaconda Co. Smelter Site in Montana, South Dakota State University (SDSU, 219 Agr Hall #- 20207, Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 605/688-5131)...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 1998... February 28-March 4, 1999. The 25th Anniversary of Waste Management '99: HLW, LLW Mixed Wastes and Environmental Restoration- Working Toward a Cleaner Environment, University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Sponsoring organizations include the...