Waste Treatment Technology News articles from September 2002

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from September 2002

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS PAM Prevents Farm Runoff.
September 1, 2002... Environmentally friendly polyacrylamide, or PAM, a compound routinely applied in wastewater treatment, may have use in keeping fertilizer nutrients from leaving fields or farms and entering lakes, streams, and rivers as pollutants. ...

Injections Lower TCE Levels.
September 1, 2002... In demonstrations of ARS Technologies' (John Liskowitz, 114 North Ward St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901; Tel: 732/296-6620, Fax: 732/296-6625) Ferox process, underground injections of atomized zero valent iron (ZVI) decreased trichloroethene...

Artificial Photosynthesis Could Capture CO2.
September 1, 2002... Using self-assembled solar films fabricated through nanotechnology, scientists from CSIRO's Biomimetic Engineering Research Group hope to create artificial photosynthesis and capture CO2 and other atmospheric pollutants. Although the...

DuPont Unveils Greener Conversion.
September 1, 2002... DuPont (1007 Market St., Wilmington, DE 19898; Tel: 302/774-1000, Fax: 302/773-2631) senior scientists Mas Subramanian and Leo E. Manzer have unveiled their innovative process for converting hydrocarbons to fluorocarbons without generating...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS Mulch Biowall Degrades TCE.
September 1, 2002... Air Force researchers have found that a permeable reactive wall incorporating organic mulch as the electron donor successfully promotes biological reductive dechlorination of groundwater contaminated with trichloroethene (TCE). The low...

Microbes Band Together.
September 1, 2002... According to the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA, 1901 Research Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850; Tel: 301/309- 3460, Fax: 301/309-3434), it is very likely that the humble microbe will solve some of the world's more difficult...

SRS Tests Bioreactor.
September 1, 2002... Naturally occurring soil microbes have been found at the Czechowice Oil Refinery in southern Poland. The microbes have adapted over the course of a century to use petroleum hydrocarbons as food and are now quite efficient at degrading these...

TESTING & MONITORING Nanobots Could Sense Danger at Sea.
September 1, 2002... Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC, Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781; Tel: 213/740-4502, Fax: 213/740-7512) hope to construct and deploy armies of nanoscale...

HAZWASTE: MIT Team Studies Arsenic Behavior.
September 1, 2002... Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, MA) researchers have shown that nitrate, a common pollutant, strongly impacts the behavior of arsenic and possibly other toxic metals in some lakes. The study has added to scientists'...

WIDE System Remediates Cesium.
September 1, 2002... Researchers at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV), and the NILEX Corp. (5629 E. Minnesota Dr., Denver, CO 80224; Tel: 303/909-2245, Fax: 303/418- 0855) have developed a closed-loop Well...

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION Recovering Precious Metal Catalysts.
September 1, 2002... Researchers from Johnson Matthey (Joni Bishop, Catalytic Systems Division, 456 Devon Park Dr., Wayne, PA 19087; Tel: 610/341-8300) and Chematur Engineering have devised a process to recover precious metal catalysts without incineration....

NORIT Launches Water Project.
September 1, 2002... The WaterDome in Johannesburg, which began parallel to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, marks the starting point for a demonstration project on water recycling in Robertson, the South African region that is famous for its...

Mine Waste Used to Generate Power.
September 1, 2002... The Australian Minister for Industry, Tourism, and Resources, the Honorable Ian Macfarlane, launched a technique for generating power from coal mining waste at CSIRO (P.O. Box 225, Dickson, ACT 2602, Australia; Tel: 61-2-6276-6766, Fax:...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Stericycle Settles with AZ Attorney General.
September 1, 2002... In response to rumors, Stericycle, Inc. (28161 N. Keith Dr., Lake Forest, IL 60045; Tel: 847/367-5910, Fax: 847/945-6583) announced that it had reached an agreement in principle to settle an antitrust investigation by the Arizona Attorney...

Waste Volumes Predicted to Fall.
September 1, 2002... According to a new study from Business Communications Co., Inc. (Website: www.bccresearch.com), the commercial hazardous waste containment and disposition industry entered a new period in the 1990s after a period of dynamic growth in the...

Met-Pro Wins $1 Million Order.
September 1, 2002... Met-Pro Corp. (160 Cassell Rd., Harleysville, PA 19438; Tel: 215/723-6751, Fax; 215/723-6758) says that its Systems Division (Kulpsville, PA) has received an order in excess of $1 million for a unique integrated system, combining a Systems...

Beechport Capital Sells Granulators.
September 1, 2002... ITec Environmental Systems, Inc. (ITec), a division of Beechport Capital Corp. (132 S. Third St., Oakdale, CA 95361; Tel: 209/848- 3900), announced the sale of 3 specially designed granulators to two California counties. The company also has...

Briefly Noted:.
September 1, 2002... * Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Rutland, VT) has released financial results for the first quarter of its 2003 fiscal year. For the quarter ended July 31, 2002, the company reported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and...

Waste Industries Buys Two Operations.
September 1, 2002... Waste Industries USA, Inc. (Raleigh, NC) has completed two acquisitions. The first, Pelican Container, Inc., services the southern coastal counties of New Hanover and Brunswick in North Carolina. Pelican Container provides an opportunity to...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2002... November 3-8, 2002. 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN. Contact: AIChE, 3 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016- 5991; Tel: 212/591-7338, Fax: 212/591-8894;...