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Clermont Engineering Co., Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) will help Mannington Mills, Inc. (Salem, N J ) to remove plasticizer mist from vinyl chloridecoating line exhaust. Awards are for more than $1 million, to handle 45 000-55 000 scfm of gas flow. Combustion & Energy Corp. (Runnemede, N J ) has announced a new system to emulsify oil and water into an efficiently combustible mixture. About 5-15% of the mixture is water. The firm says that combustion often approximates that of natural gas. Rexnord Inc. (Milwaukee, W I ) has acquired Dictaphone Corp.‘s gas detection business, which makes lines of instruments for measuring toxic and combustible gases which will be marketed under the “Rex” name. American Air Filter Co., Inc. (Louisville, KY) has an “AAF-Elex” electrostatic precipitator (ESP) handling 306 000 cfm of air for Inland Cement Industries, Ltd. (Canada). Efficiency of removal of more than 78 000 Ib/h of dust is rated at 99.99+%. Research-Cottrell, Inc. (Somerville, N J ) has a $16 million order to rebuild 12 ESP’s for TVA at Cumberland, T N . They ser;iice two 1300-MW boilers. This is the largest ESP rebuilding order ever let, the firm says. Entironmental Elements Corp. (Baltimore, MD) has a turn-key contract in excess of $5.5 million for two ENELCOB RIGITRODETMESP‘s with Atlantic City ( N J ) Electric Co. Micrometrics Instrument Corp. (Norcross, G A ) has sold about $300 000 worth of particle technology and liquid chromatography instruments to the People‘s Republic of China. Consolidation Coal Co. has formally petitioned the EPA to relax SO2 standards from 80 p g / m 3 to 160 pg/m3, which the company says can be done without damaging health.
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The National Center for Resource Recovery (Washington, DC) has a Dept. of Energy (DOE) contract for a project to convert office waste paper
into storable pellets, and burn the pellets as a supplemental fuel.
Arizona Public Service Co. will study a geothermal electric plant in Mexico under a $ 3 0 0 0 0 contract with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI, Palo Alto, CA). Lummus GmbH (Germany), a subsidiary of C-E Lummus, will provide engineering designs for pollution abatement programs to the U S . Army Corps of Engineers, for various U S . Army installations in West Germany. LFE Environmental Analysis Laboratories (Richmond, CA) has a $200 000 EPA contract to measure potential air contaminants from geo t her m a 1 we I1 s . EG&G, Inc. (Wellesley, MA) is preparing information on solar radiation, weather. hazards to solar systems, and other pertinent matter, for DOE. Publication is expected early next year. BlueBird Enterprises (Fresno, C A ) says that acoustical systems, properly installed and operated, can discourage wildlife from using contaminated ponds, and can save much money over netting systems. Environmental Control ’Technology Corp. (Ann Arbor, M I ) has a $121 000 EPA contract to validate equivalency of proposed alternative analytical procedures to those currently approved by EPA. Engineering-Science Companies is working on a combined program of treatability studies, operations assistance, and training for wastewater treatment for Eli Lilly and Co.. at Mayagiiez, PR Zurn Industries, Inc. has a letter of intent from Louisville Gas & Electric for a 346 500-gpm natural draft cooling tower. UOP Inc. (Des Plaines, I L ) says that the uorld’s largest reverse osmosis systern. which UOP provided. is desalting 3.2 mgd of‘ Red Sea water for drinking water a t Jeddah. Saudi Arabia.
Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Co. (Richmond, VA) has raised the price it will pay to the public for beverage cans and other scrap aluminum from 17$/lb to 20$/lb. MacDermid of Bristol (Bristol, CT), maker of WASTESAVER plating chemical recovery systems, is adding 10 000 ft2 of production space to its facilities. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Union Carbide) has been named by DOE’S Office of Fusion Energy to be the host site for an Engineering Test Facility Design Center. Zimpro Inc. has an order for 12 wet air oxidation units to treat 600-700 tpd of sewage sludge a t the Newark Bay ( N J ) Treatment Plant. I t will handle up to 187 200 gph of primary and waste oxygen-activated sludge. Public Service Electric and Gas Co. ( N J ) has decided to cancel a contract to purchase four floating nuclear power plants from Offshore Power Systems (Jacksonville, FL). Reason given was less-than-anticipated growth in peak demand.
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American Air Filter Co., Inc. (Louisville, KY) has a $ 1 million order for a melt shop ventilation system to control air pollution at Hyudai International, Inc. (Kyunggi-do, Republic of Korea). It will use fabric dust collectors, fume controls, and associated equipment. I
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