Waste Treatment Technology News articles from July 1999

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from July 1999

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS Orbit Tests Containment Polymer.
July 1, 1999... Under a contract awarded by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co., Orbit Technologies (Carlsbad, CA; Tel: 760/918-9168) expands laboratory-scale evaluation of its polymer encapsulation process by preparing a calcine- containing blend to...

Robots Remediate Radioactive Tank Sludge.
July 1, 1999... A robotic cleaning system has successfully completed the first field-scale cleaning of underground radioactive waste storage tanks at Oak Ridge National Labs (Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6266; Tel: 423/574-7065, Fax: 423/574-4624), putting the...

INCINERATION: Two-Stage Vortex Burns Clean.
July 1, 1999... Leslie Technologies, Inc. (2454 Centerville Rd., P.O. Box 13405, Tallahassee, FL 32317; Tel. 850/422-0099) has teamed with Grun Tec, Ltd. (Britain) to create a low-pollutant system for waste materials treatment using a process chamber for...

ADVANCED CONTAINMENT Sandia Deploys Landfill Cover Leader.
July 1, 1999... An alternative landfill cover demonstration (ALCD) at Sandia National Laboratory (P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185; Tel: 505/843-4164) has identified an alternative landfill cover it says is an effective and low-cost option for stemming...

Oak Ridge Builds Wall of Bacteria.
July 1, 1999... Oak Ridge National Laboratory (P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831; Tel: 423/ 576-4221) scientists are gathering basic knowledge about the optimal conditions for bacteria to immobilize certain contaminants that can significantly shorten the...

HAZWASTE: Japan, Russia Test Plutonium Reuse.
July 1, 1999... The Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (4-49, Muramatsu, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan 319-1194; Tel: 03-3586-3311; Washington Office: 2600 Virginia Ave. N.W. #715, Washington, DC 20037; Tel: 202/338-3770, Fax: 202/333- 1097)...

Japanese Convert Americium Oxide.
July 1, 1999... The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Fukoku Seimei Bldg., 2-2-2 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) has developed a way to convert americium oxide in high-level radioactive waste, which decomposes easily when exposed to high...

DOE Sponsors Mercury Bakeoff.
July 1, 1999... The DOE is sponsoring a bakeoff. While great desserts won't be created, this bakeoff will produce waste forms to provide a basis of comparison among different processes for stabilizing mercury concentrations in excess of 260 ppm. Up to three...

Bacteria-Resistant Alloys May Package Yucca Waste.
July 1, 1999... Nuclear waste packaging materials are being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550-9234, Tel: 925/422-1100, Fax: 925/422-1370; or Sue Martin; Tel: 925/422-7083) with the microorganisms...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Gundle Buys Thai Geomembrane Trade.
July 1, 1999... Gundle/SLT Environmental, Inc. (19103 Gundle Rd. Houston, TX 77073; Tel: 281/443-8564) has signed a letter of intent to acquire the geomembrane business of C. T. Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (Bangkok, Thailand). Gundle expects the addition to...

Perma-Fix Completes Chem-Con Acquisition.
July 1, 1999... Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (6075 Roswell Rd. N.E., Atlanta, GA 30328; Tel: 404/847-9990) has completed the acquisition of Chemical Conservation Corp., Chemical Conservation of Georgia, Inc., and Chem-Met Services, Inc.,...

Dynamox Commercializes Supersaturation Technology.
July 1, 1999... DynamOx Corp. has been formed to produce a patented industrial oxygenation system for the treatment of water or wastewater. The DynamOx supersaturated oxygen system is capable of cost effectively transferring oxygen into liquids at...

Westinghouse Technology Proves a Washout.
July 1, 1999... After more than 16 years of failed fixes, the DOE is banishing Westinghouse Government Services (Energy Center Site, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146) and its tank remediation technology from the Savannah River site at Aiken,...

U.S. Poseidon Largest Mexico Water Investor.
July 1, 1999... Continuing its Mexico investment program, Poseidon Resources Corp. (1055 Washington Blvd., Stamford CT 06901; Tel: 203/327-7740, Fax: 203/327-5563) has been given the go-ahead on 2 Mexican wastewater projects. Poseidon and affiliate,...

Vivendi to Buy Superior.
July 1, 1999... Fresh from a shopping spree that resulted in the purchase of U.S. Filter Corp. (40-004 Cook St., Palm Desert, CA 92211; Tel: 760/340-0098, Fax: 760/341-9368), Vivendi SA (42, Avenue de Friedland 75380, Paris Cedex 08), the world's largest...

Air Liquide America Forms Alliance.
July 1, 1999... Air Liquide America Corp. (2700 Post Oak Blvd., Houston, TX 77056-5705; Tel: 713/624-8000) and American Combustion Inc. have agreed to cooperate in the field of oxy-fuel combustion applications, including markets as diversified as waste...

Stericycle Acquires More Competitors.
July 1, 1999... Stericycle, Inc. (1419 Lake Cook Rd., No. 140, Deerfield, IL 60015-5228; Tel: 847/945-6550) has acquired assets of 2 medical waste service companies, Environmental Guardian Inc. and Foster Environmental Service Corp., using a combination of...

Waste Industries Expands Collections.
July 1, 1999... Waste Industries, Inc. (3949 Browning Pl., Raleigh, NC 27609-6504; Tel: 919/782- 0095), a regional, nonhazardous solid waste services company, has acquired 3 Tennessee-based collection companies: Keith's Disposal Service, K & S Sanitation,...

LEGISLATION & REGULATIONS RCRA Reforms Affect Cleanup.
July 1, 1999... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its plan for reforming the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) cleanup program to focus on flexibility and ways that the agency and states can meet a set of self-imposed remedial...

EPA Reports Residual Risk.
July 1, 1999... The EPA will submit a residual risk report to Congress. Under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAA Amendments), the EPA must develop a toxic air pollutant control program to regulate sources of designated hazardous air pollutants...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS AstraZeneca Bacteria Break Down DDT.
July 1, 1999... Scientists at the life science firm AstraZeneca (15 Stanhope Gate, London W1Y 6LN, U.K.; Tel: +44 171 304 5000, Fax: +44 171 304 5151) have used chicken and cow manure, old newspapers, straw, and wood chips to clean up land contaminated with...

Superactivation Reactor Purifies Water.
July 1, 1999... Lyonnaise Des Eaux-Dumez S.A. (Nanterre, France) has developed a method of purifying wastewater biologically that allows use of older sludge but maintains high reaction rates. The biological reaction is performed in a reactor containing...

Hungry Microbes Munch BTX.
July 1, 1999... A bioreactor system that serves up pollutants to "hungry" bacteria promises to clean up "unprecedented" levels of toxic organic chemicals classified as "priority pollutants" by the EPA in contaminated sites and old chemical supplies,...

DynamOx Provides Supersaturation.
July 1, 1999... DynamOx Corp. (425 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1147; Tel: 734/663-3213, Fax: 734/663-7358) has produced an industrial oxygenation system capable of transferring oxygen into liquids at concentrations an order of magnitude beyond current...

A Silk Purse of Soil from Horse Manure.
July 1, 1999... U.S. Microbics, Inc., (5922-B Farnsworth Ct., Carlsbad, CA 92008; Tel: 760/918- 1860, Fax: 760/918-1855) has used its Bio-Raptor process and proprietary microbial mixtures to successfully reduced offensive odors, pathogens, and seeds from...

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION: Bubble-Mining Yields High-Value Plastics.
July 1, 1999... Argonne's (9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439; Tel: 800/627-2596, Fax: 630/252-5230) froth flotation, a process that separates equivalent-density plastics, is returning discarded automotive plastics to vehicles and saving landfill space....

DOE Plan Poses Potential for Harm.
July 1, 1999... A decision by U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has found that the Department of Energy's ongoing recycling of thousands of tons radioactive metals for commercial uses (including eating utensils, hip replacements, baby carriages or...

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Navy Orders Molten Salt Technology.
July 1, 1999... Molten Salt Oxidation Corp. (4201 Blvd. #303, Bensalem, PA 19020; Tel: 215/947- 5340) is preparing to deliver a small-scale oxidation unit, the MSO-V3, to the Naval Surface Warfare Center (101 Strauss Ave., Indian Head, MD 20640-6035; Tel:...

Biofine Converts Cellulosic Biomass.
July 1, 1999... Biofine, Inc. (300 Bear Hill Rd., Waltham, MA 02154) received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award for its design of a process that converts cellulosic biomass, such as paper mill sludge, municipal solid waste, unrecyclable waste...

Environmental Deploys NOx Control Systems.
July 1, 1999... Environmental Elements Corp. (3700 Koppers St., Baltimore, MD 21227-1022; Tel: 410/368-7000) has acquired the rights to deploy state-of-the-art technology in supplying ammonia for use in NOx control systems, a move that will significantly...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 1999... September 21-24, 1999, Pollutec, the 15th International Exhibition of Environmental Equipment, Paris Nord Villeprint, France. Contact: Miller Freeman International Sales; Tel: 800/321-3269, ext. 2925. September 27-29, 1999, The Second...