Waste Treatment Technology News articles from February 1999

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from February 1999

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Citric Acid Removes Toxic Metals from Soil.
February 1, 1999... Researchers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (33 Lewis Rd., Upton, NY 11973; Tel: 516/282-4301) have developed a three-step process for the removal and recovery of contaminating radionuclides and/or toxic metals from soils, sludges,...

NEC Puts Sediment to Repeated Use.
February 1, 1999... NEC Corp. (Box 459, Verdi, NV 89439-0459; Tel: 702/345-0533) describes a method for treating wastewater containing a harmful ion such as a heavy metal ion or fluorine ion by the coagulation sedimentation method using an inorganic coagulant...

Underground Stripping Cleans Up In Record Time.
February 1, 1999... Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (7000 East Ave., PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550; Tel: 925/422-1100, Fax: 925/422-1370), report that dynamic underground stripping (DUS), a thermal waste treatment technology developed at...

Anions Removed from Host Medium.
February 1, 1999... Neil Graham Smart and other researchers at British Nuclear Fuels Plc (Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 6AS, U.K.; Tel: +44(0)1925 832000, Fax: +44(0)1925 822711) developed a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) technique that extracts...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS: Enzymes Trick Germs Into Chromium Hunger.
February 1, 1999... The Dept. of Energy (DOE) scientists have found a way to trick bacteria from contaminated soil into cleaning up the toxic heavy metal chromium. DOE awarded the collaborators funds to study the basic science behind this bacterial conversion....

Mollusks Have Appetite for Effluent.
February 1, 1999... If funds are approved by North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund (2313-B Executive Park Circle, Greenville, NC 27834; Tel: 252/830-3222, Fax: 252/830-3224) this month, more than a million oysters, clams and mussels could be...

Water Lilies Love Cadmium.
February 1, 1999... That delicate water lily floating on a pond may also be a tough little treatment plant for household and industrial wastes. Experiments conducted by a professor, Elisha Tel-Or, and Hebrew University (HU, Rehovot, Israel 76100; Tel: +972...

Difficult Florida Site Remediated.
February 1, 1999... Bioworld Biotechnology, Inc. (222 S US Highway 1, No. 202, Tequesta, FL 33469; Tel: 561/744-8550) has treated tetrachloroethylene contamination at a dry cleaning plant in south Florida. A full delineation of the tetrachloroethylene was not...

ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TREATMENTS Flow-Through Capacitor Cleans Sans Chemicals.
February 1, 1999... Biosource, Inc. (One Parkton Ave., Worcester, MA 01605; Tel: 508/853-8803, Fax: 508/853-8772) is banking on a newly patented technology with roots in the eighteenth century to treat wastewater without pollution-causing chemicals or excessive...

Advanced Containment Test Melter Starts Up.
February 1, 1999... GTS Duratek (10100 Old Columbia Rd., Columbia, MD 21046; Tel: 410/312-5100, Fax: 410/290-9112) is pilot testing a melter for eventual application at the nation's largest environmental clean-up project. The test melter, which is one-third the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Ceramic Catalysts Capture TVA Business.
February 1, 1999... Nitrogen oxide emitted by power plants is a major component of low-level ozone and smog. Cormetech, a joint venture between Corning, Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., bested eight other catalyst...

Med/Waste Snares Line of Credit.
February 1, 1999... Med/Waste, Inc. (3890 NW 132nd St., No. K, Opa Locka, FL 33054; Tel: 305/688-3931) announced it secured a $35 million line of credit with Union Planters Bank, N.A. as agent. The loan consists of a $10 million revolving credit for working...

BFI Bids Against Stericyle for Med-Tech.
February 1, 1999... Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. (757 N. Eldridge Pkwy., Houston, TX 77079; Tel: 713/870-8100) announced a cash offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Med-Tech Environmental, Ltd. (17 Melanie Dr., Brampton,...

Advanced Environmental Solutions Gets New Name.
February 1, 1999... Advanced Environmental Solutions, Inc. has changed its name to ChemiCorp International, Inc. (Ottawa, ON, Canada; Tel: 613/228-8704, Fax: 613/230-7748). Julian Romeskie, president of ChemiCorp, says the new name better reflects the company's...

INCINERATION: Trash-to-Electricity Reduces Dioxins.
February 1, 1999... A Japanese joint venture has developed a technology for compressing and solidifying raw organic matter and paper trash into a "waste-defined fuel" that burns with minimal production of dioxins. The company plans to generate electricity from...

Plant Cools Radioactivity.
February 1, 1999... Researchers at Service Protection Environnement Ingenierie et Construction (SPEIC, France) have developed a method and plant for cleaning lightly radioactive waste incineration gases, such as waste generated by the nuclear industry,...

Power Plant Wants More Tires to Burn.
February 1, 1999... An Alcona County, Michigan, power plant designed principally for burning wood chips and sawdust is producing less pollution than expected from burning shredded-tire discards. Viking Energy (Lincoln, MI) is seeking a state permit to burn...

HAZWASTE: Physicists Attempt to Neutralize Radioactivity.
February 1, 1999... European and American physicists are vying to be the first to develop a viable way to transmute nuclear waste with neutron treatment, eradicating its radioactivity. According to a report in New Scientist, researchers have renewed interest in...

Containers May Fail in Less than 30 Years.
February 1, 1999... Experts with Russia's Emergencies Ministry have established that a number of containers with solid radioactive waste dumped in the Kara Sea in the '60s have depressurized. The leaks are creating radiation levels from several dozen to 100...

DOE Tracks Legacy of Russian Radioactivity.
February 1, 1999... Although the Cold War has ended, its legacy lives on in Russia's West Siberian Basin as radioactive waste from nuclear weapons material production travels in the groundwater and may be threatening the health of humans and the ecosystem...

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION Styro Solve System Melts Pipeline Waste.
February 1, 1999... ARCO Alaska, one of Alaska's main oil pipeline companies, says it can dramatically reduce the costs associated with long distance polystyrene disposal. Huge amounts of polystyrene (Styrofoam) waste are created on the Alaska pipeline....

Urine as a Valued Resource.
February 1, 1999... CSIRO (Australia; Tel: 02-6276 6545, Fax: 02-6276 6273) environmental scientist Rhys Leeming says Australian and Swedish researchers have developed a healthy and environmentally sound water-saving system that retrieves urine as a valuable...

Miller Beer Bottle Draws Criticism.
February 1, 1999... The Miller Brewing Co.'s (3939 W. Highland Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53208-2688; Tel: 414/931-2000, Fax: 414/931-3735) new plastic beer bottle being test marketed in Los Angeles and five other markets could devastate plastics recycling, public...

Landfill Gas Fires Food Plant Boilers.
February 1, 1999... Organic Waste Technologies (OWT, 7550 Lucerne Dr., Suite 110, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130; Tel: 444/891-0300, Fax: 444/891-8288) project development coordinator, Vince Little, says that the economics of recycling landfill gas for beneficial...

Gums, Glues Turn Chips into Beams.
February 1, 1999... CSIRO (Private Bag 16, Sneydes Rd., Werribee, Victoria, 3030 Australia; Tel: 02-6276 6545) scientists developed a man-made hardwood beam equivalent to the product of a 100-year-old eucalyptus tree. Sawmill wastes and poorer quality hardwood...

Phosphate Binder Patches Pavement.
February 1, 1999... Fewer tooth-jarring potholes may challenge your winter driving thanks to technology originally developed at Argonne National Laboratory (9700 S. Cass Ave., Chicago, IL 60439; Tel: 630/252-2000) with funding from OST's Mixed Waste Focus Area....

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS Phenol Effluent Treated with RO.
February 1, 1999... A commercial thin-film-composite polyamide RO membrane was used to separate an aqueous phenol-water binary system at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (Chemical Engineering Dept., Hauzkhas, New Delhi, 110016, India). Z.V.P. Murthy...

GROUNDWATER: Redox Manipulation Removes Contaminants.
February 1, 1999... A technique developed at the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/375-2121, FAX: 509/372-4791) has the possibility of the cheap and easy removal of contaminants from groundwater. Pacific...

Stripping Protects Water Utilities.
February 1, 1999... Los Alamos National Laboratory (Box #1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544-0600; Tel: 505/665-9090), researchers discovered a nitrate-stripping technology with the potential to protect the groundwater sources used by drinking water utilities. The...

CALENDAR.
February 1, 1999... March 21-25. Contaminated Site Remediation Conference: Challenges Posed by Urban & Industrial Contaminants, Fremantle, Western Australia. Contact: Center for Groundwater Studies; Tel: 61 8 8303 8753. April 13-16. Environment India '99 will...