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TABLE 3-17 COMPLETED PROJECTS: AIR EMISSIONS/OFF-GAS TREATMENT |
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Anniston
Army Depot, AL
1999 Wayne Sisk wesisk@aec.apgea.army.mil
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Biofiltration:
U.S. Army Environmental Center |
Air | TCE | Remediation of Air Streams Contaminated with Trichloroethylene Using Biofiltration at Anniston Army Depot [fact sheet] aec.army.mil/ | |||
EPA DEMO SITE Emerging Technology Naomi
Barkley |
Biofiltration:
"bioscrubber" (Membrane Technology and Process, Inc.) |
Air | Beginning levels: 10-20 ppm Toluene Attained: > 95% removal |
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EPA
DEMO SITE Emerging Technology Fred Bishop |
Immobilized film bioreactor (gas- phase biofilter) | Air | Beginning levels: 10-1,000 ppm VOCs | ||||
EPA
Demo 1989 Ronald Lewis |
ChemtactTM gaseous waste treatment | Gaseous waste streams | Organic and inorganics 85-100% removal of hydrocarbons 94% removal of phenol and formaldehyde | Once through system with droplet size less than 10 microns and a longer retention time | Gas scrubber | Low volumes of liquid condensate | Three mobile units currently available. |
EPA
Demo Hamilton Harbor, Canada 1992 Gordon Evans |
Thermal gas phase reduction | Soil, sludge, liquids, & gases | Organics and chlorinated organics | 850 °C or higher | Hydrogen reduces organics to smaller lighter hydrocarbons. | Gas stream scrubber | No dioxin or furan production. |
DOE
Integrated Demo DOE Hanford Reservation Steve Stein |
Integrated demo includes many technologies - no specific parameters given | Arid zones or environ- ments with large vadose zones | VOCs (TCE, PCE) at arid sites | Technologies include steam reforming, supported liquid membrane separation, in situ heating, and corona destruction. | |||
DOE Savannah River | High Energy Corona | Air | Field Scale Process | ||||
DOE
Hanford Reservation Steve Stein |
Membrane Separation | Air | Beginning levels: 1000 ppm VOC Attained: 95% removal |
Field Testing | $2.5M cap; $6K annual |
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Installation Restoration (IR) Site 9, NAS Northern Island, San Diego, CA | Zenon cross-flow pervaporation system | Groundwater | TCE concentrations were reduced on average from 200 milligrams per liter [mg/L] to less than 2 mg/L with 99% removal | ||||
Dover
AFB Maj. Mark Smith |
Catalytic oxidation system | Air | TCE emissions from air strippers | Field test of various catalysts in a catalytic oxidation system | |||
Stamina
Mills Superfund Site, N. Smithfield, RI
1999 James Kittrell 413-549-5506 |
Photocatalytic
Destruction
KSE, Inc. Amhurst, MA |
Air | VOCs | AIR II Photocatalytic Technology for Air Streams [An EPA SITE Program document will be produced.] | |||
Naval
Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) Port Hueneme, CA
1998 John Talley 805-982-5081 |
Photolytic
Destruction
Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) Port Hueneme, CA |
Air | Chlorinated Solvents | Photolytic Destruction Technology for Chlorinated & Petroleum Hydrocarbons TDS-2056-ENV | |||
Former
Fire Training Area, Plattsburgh AFB, NY
1997
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Flameless
Thermal Oxidation
Thermatrix, Inc. Knoxville, TN |
Air | CAHs, TCE, PCE | “Performance and Cost Evaluation of Flameless Thermal Oxidation for Vapor-Phase VOC Treatment,” Third Tri-Service Environmental Technology Workshop, 1998 | |||
Wurtsmith AFB | Oxidation | Air & Ground water | TCE | Inconjunction with Air stripping | |||
Former
gasoline service station, Santa Monica, CA |
Oxidation | Air & Ground water | BTEX | Dual extraction | |||
Installation Restoration (IR) Site 11, NAS Northern Island, San Diego, CA | Terra Vac pilot SVE/ Air Sparging/ Catalytic Oxidation System | Contaminated air from soil washing | Up to 250 pounds (33 gallons) per day of VOCs was effectively removed from the vadose zone and subsequently destroyed. |