Environmental Protection Agency research demonstration

Three years research conducted jointly by 6 departments at Iowa State University and sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has demonstrated that wastes from over 45 pesticides were safely disposed of by containment in a concrete pit allowing evaporation of the liquid component, and biodegradation, and other forms of pesticide decay. 

Speth, T.F. and Swanson, G.R., Demonstration of the HiPOx Advanced Oxidation Technology for the Treatment of MTBE-Contaminated Groundwater, EPA/600/R-02/098, U.S. EPA National Risk Management, Research Laboratory, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. September 2002. 

EPA. 1996i. Urban soil lead abatement demonstration project. United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C. EPA/600/P-93/001af. 

Steinle, R. R., 1993, An Inventory of Research and Field Demonstrations and Strategies for Improving Ground Water Remediation. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 500/K-93/001. 

HPT Research, Inc., developed the ISM process to remove heavy metals, sulfate ions, and acidity from AMD. According to the vendor, HPT Research, Inc., has conducted research and development and third-party testing with the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California State University Lresno, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This technology has been demonstrated on a bench scale. The process and proprietary chemical additives are patented. HPT Research, Inc., is seeking opportunities to demonstrate the ISM process on a pilot scale. 

The term green chemistry, describes an area of research and chemical practice that arises from scientific discoveries about pollution and ecological interdependence. Green chemistry is not necessarily environmental chemistry, although it may involve some of this. It is chemistry for the environment. The term, which was coined at the Environmental Protection Agency by Paul Anastas, advances the belief that environmentally benign chemical processes are possible and desirable. This supposition has been demonstrated to be trae in a number of significant cases. 

The chemical analytical data on which Table I and Figures 2-5 are based were determined by the Analytical Chemistry Section of the Illinois State Geological Survey. The Survey research reported is sponsored, in part, by Grant No. R-800059 and Contract No. 68-02-0246 from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Demonstration Projects Branch, Control Systems Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, N. C. 

TJecent interest in the trace element content of coal has increased the need for rapid and accurate analytical methods for their determination. Because x-ray fluorescence analysis has demonstrated its usefulness in determining major, minor, and trace elements in numerous other types of materials, it was felt that this method could be extended to trace element determinations in whole coal. In the past, such analyses were seriously hampered by the lack of standard samples. However, research being conducted in our laboratories under the sponsorship of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency produced a large number of coal samples for which trace elements had been determined by two or more independent analytical procedures, for example, optical emission, neutron activation, atomic absorption, and wet chemical methods. These coals were used as standards to develop an x-ray fluorescence method that would determine many trace and minor elements in pressed whole coal samples. 

Use of nitrate as an alternative electron acceptor for in situ treatment in an anaerobic biorestoration field demonstration project was reported by researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (54, 55). A shallow aquifer contaminated with jet fuel spill was the study site in which BTX removal by nitrate addition, along with other essential nutrients, was examined. Significant depletion of benzene, toluene, and m- and p-xylenes (but not o-xylene) were observed. Benzene loss was attributed to oxygen, whereas toluene and xylene losses appeared to be related to the nitrate and nutrient additions (54, 55). 

Most of the effort at China Lake was directed toward demonstrating, at the bench scale, that polymer gasoline could indeed be made noncatalytically from the olefins formed by the selective pyrolysis of municipal solid waste (MSW). Funding for the bench-scale demonstration was provided by the Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (IERL) of the Environmental Protection Agency, beginning in 1975 (EPA-IAG-D6-0781). 

CSI Resource Systems and Solid Waste Association of North America, Evaluation of Oxygen-Enriched MSW/Sewage Sludge Co-Incineration Demonstration Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report EPA/600/R-94/145, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 1994. 

Recent amendments to the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Act have discouraged the disposal of dioxin-containing wastes on land and encouraged the development of unique treatment technologies. The 1984 Amendments make provisions for the waiver of research development and demonstration (RD D) permit requirements by Environmental Protection Agency regional administrators to facilitate and expedite critically needed research (pilot-scale and prototype testing). 

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