Waste Treatment Technology News articles from June 1999

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from June 1999

INCINERATION: Battelle Converter Self-powered, Tunable.
June 1, 1999... Researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/375-3837, Fax: 509/375- 6550) say they have developed a relatively compact self-powered, tunable waste conversion...

Plasma Converter Passes Army Weapons Test.
June 1, 1999... Startech Environmental Corp. (79 Old Ridgefield Rd., Wilton, CT 06897; Tel: 203/762-2499) showed that its plasma waste converter could successfully process an array of chemical weapons in a U.S. Army field test, according to Startech...

Underwater Arc Process Certified.
June 1, 1999... Toups Technology Licensing, Inc.'s (TTL, 7887 Bryan Dairy Rd., No. 105, Largo, FL 33777; Tel: 727/548-0918, Fax: 727/549-8138) alternative to fossil fuels, its AquaFuel production process, has been certified to treat a wide variety of...

ENCAPSULATION: Orbit Technologies Evaluates PET.
June 1, 1999... Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co. (Lockheed Martin, 805 West Idaho St., No. 301, Boise, ID 83702; Tel: 208/334-9572, Fax: 208/334-9575) has contracted Orbit Technologies, Inc. (5950 LaPlace Ct., No. 140, Carlsbad, CA 92008; Tel: 760/918-...

HAZWASTE: Los Alamos Offers Mining Pollution Solution.
June 1, 1999... The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, Box #1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544-0600; Tel: 505/665-9090) scientists have developed a technology, known as polymer filtration, more efficient than conventional ion-exchange resin processes for removing...

Kodak Designs Safe at-Home Disposal.
June 1, 1999... Eastman Kodak Co. (901 Elmgrove Rd., Rochester, NY 14653; Tel: 716/724-4000) has designed a device, with its own treatment solution and waste receptacle, for treating photographic lab processing waste. While commercial photographic film...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Waste Operations Exit Mexico.
June 1, 1999... The Wall Street Journal reports that Waste Management Inc. (WMI, 1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002-6711; Tel: 713/512-6200) and every other major U.S. waste company that entered the Mexican market have either left the country...

Allied Waste Earnings Rise after Acquisitions.
June 1, 1999... On the heels of its $171-million acquisition of Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. (757 N. Eldridge Pkwy., Houston, TX 77079; Tel: 713/870-8100) Allied Waste Industries, Inc. (15880 N. Greenway Hayden Loop, No. 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; Tel:...

KTI Revives Merger Talks with Casella.
June 1, 1999... Shares of KTI Inc. (7000 Boulevard East, Guttenberg, NJ 07093; Tel: 201/854- 7777) have risen 57% since mid-April amid speculation that the trash-disposal company is negotiating a revamped merger agreement with Casella Waste Systems Inc. (25...

U.S. Microbics Licenses Contractor Network.
June 1, 1999... U.S. Microbics, Inc. (5922-B Farnsworth Ct., Carlsbad, CA 92008; Tel: 760/918- 1860, Fax: 760/918/1855) reports that subsidiary Sub Surface Waste Management, Inc. has licensed Builders Referral Inc. (19782 MacArthur Blvd., No. 280, Irvine, CA...

Environmental Scores EPA-Based Profits.
June 1, 1999... Environmental Elements Corp. (3700 Koppers St., Baltimore, MD 21227-1022; Tel: 410/368-7000) reported a strong profit gain for its fiscal year ended March 31, 1999, and continued increases in its order backlog buoyed by strong sales of spare...

LEGISLATION & REGULATIONS Staging Pile Free of Land Disposal Regs.
June 1, 1999... A staging pile is a hazardous-waste-management unit that can be used for the temporary storage of hazardous wastes without the full regulatory burden typical of hazardous-waste storage piles. Specifically, wastes can be temporarily stored in...

EPA Amends Rule to Allow Arc Furnaces.
June 1, 1999... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended its new source performance standards (NSPSs) for alternative monitoring options for air pollution control systems that reduce particulate matter emissions from electric arc furnaces (EAFs)....

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION Modern Test a Success with Landfill Mining.
June 1, 1999... Construction and demolition debris buried at a Florida landfill for nearly 18 years have been reclaimed and successfully recycled, according to a test by Modern Recycling Inc. (24278 Production Circle, Bonita Springs, FL 34135; Tel:...

Sorbent Filtration Traps Dental Mercury.
June 1, 1999... Dental Recycling North America Inc. (952 Main St., Hackensack, NJ; Tel: 800/360- 1001, Fax: 201/489-4740) has introduced an advanced sorbent filtration system designed to reduce dissolved dental mercury to undetectable levels. Dental...

Fluid Turns VOCs into Dry Ink.
June 1, 1999... Paratherm Corp. (1050 Colwell Rd., Conshohocken, PA 19428; Tel: 610/941-4900) has unveiled an environmentally safe heat transfer fluid that the company says makes hot air recycling from incinerated volatile organic compounds VOCs possible....

CRTZ Rolls Out Scrap Tire Plans.
June 1, 1999... After a successful series of testing, Creative Recycling Technologies, Inc., (Bronxville, NY; Tel: 914/771-5217) is bringing to the market its pyrolytic scrap-tire recycling process, capable of producing near-commercial grade carbon black....

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS Heme Form Follows Function.
June 1, 1999... Physicist John Shelnutt of Sandia National Laboratories (11728 Linn Ave. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87123-2943; Tel: 505/844-0948) has discovered the correlation between the shape of a protein unit called a "heme" and protein function that may...

Ethanol, MTBE Blends Don't Reduce Smog.
June 1, 1999... The two principal types of oxygen additives used in reformulated gasolines in the U.S. contribute little to reducing ozone pollution, says a report by a committee of the National Research Council. In a study to examine the differences between...

ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN Lasagna Recipe Adds TCE Layer.
June 1, 1999... Two field tests have been successfully completed of the Lasagna process - so named for its layers (often horizontal) of treatment components - on an armament site in Paducah, Kentucky, contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE) that percolated...

SVE Augmented with Heat.
June 1, 1999... Two international studies have refined application and understanding of a promising technology for toxic site soil remediation. Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories (P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/375-3837, Fax: 509/375- 6550)...

PHYSICAL TREATMENT: Trisorbent Snuffs Out Smoke Odors.
June 1, 1999... Airsopure, Inc (5535 Cameron Forest Pkwy., Alpharetta, GA 30022-6039; Tel: 770/664-6467, Fax: 770/664-7788) is unveiling an air purification unit designed to eliminate odors from hotel rooms designated for smokers. The Airsopure S-15...

MONITORING: Fiber-Optic Sensor Sniffs Out Chlorine, Fluorine.
June 1, 1999... Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/372-4355, Fax: 509/375-3778) is seeking an industrial partner for the commercialization of what it calls "HaloSnif" technology that detects minute...

CALENDAR.
June 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...