Environmental Elements Corp. (Baltimore, MD) has named Douglas Scientific Co. (Englewood, CO) to be Environmental Elements’ ColoradoWyoming sales representative. Allied Chemical has made an agreement with a West German firm to store 350 drums of arsenic wastes, and 600 drums of Kepone in a rock salt structure 2000 ft below ground. The German firm is Kali und Salz. Met-Pro Corp. is now marketing a compact filter unit for sink faucets, to remove unpleasant tastes and odors from drinking water. Dames & Moore will examine rock mechanics and hydrology to help the Swedish Nuclear Fuel Safety Project find the best ways to dispose of and store radioactive wastes. Research-Cottrell, Inc. will supply an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) to St. Regis Paper Co. (Monticello, MS), to handle 400 000 acfm on a combination oil, gas, and bark-fired power boiler. Equity Oil Co. (Cleveland, O H ) has licensed Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. to market a patented Grate Electric Process for converting “red mud” to steel. Red mud is an aluminum-making by-product. The process leads to environmental improvement. EG&G Automotive Research Inc. (Alexandria, VA) is conducting vehicle emission tests for EPA in the Washington, D C area, using vehicles belonging to volunteers whose cars meet certain requirements. Gilbert/Commonwealth has opened an office in Oak Ridge, T N , to serve governmental and industrial clients in the South. Fossil energy will be one of the main fields addressed. Racal Safety Limited (Wembley, England) has received NIOSH approval for helmets that protect workers against dusts and mists, including those of cotton, asbestos, and other materials. 112
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Zurn Industries, Inc. has a cooling tower order from Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co. for about $5 million. The round, multi-fan, mechanical draft tower will handle 650 M W near Muscatine, IA, Peabody Process Systems has announced the successful startup of a flue gas desulfurization (FGD) system at Unit 2, Tombigbee Power Station, of Alabama Electric Cooperative, near Leroy, A L . It will service two 225-MW boilers. Ecodyne Cooling Products Division of Ecodyne Corp. will furnish two concrete mechanical draft cooling towers to Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility, at Georgetown, SC. They will cool 360 mgd, service 560 M W , and cost more than $3 million. Brown & Root, Inc. (Houston, TX) has an agreement with Nippon Steel Corp. (Japan) to construct coke plants in North America. Anti-pollution needs and modernization of equipment were motivating factors for the agreement. Research-Cottrell and Komline-Sanderson Engineering Corp. have agreed to combine their technology and experience to develop a new type of dry scrubber system for particulate and SO2 removal. Allis-Chalmers says that its merger with American Air Filter Co., Inc., provides Allis-Chalmers with an entirely new capability for the processing of gases. Dames & Moore (Los Angeles, CA) has finished an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a site for a coalfired power plant ( 2 units, each 700 M W ) in Independence County, AR. Long Island Lighting Co. (LILCO, Mineola, N Y ) will obtain 60 vehicles, use 40, and sell 20, as part of a Department of Energy (DOE) demonstration project. Roberts & Schaefer Resource Service, Inc. has a permit from the City of
Rolling Meadows, IL, to build the first aluminum recovery plant in the US., using the Heavy Medium Cyclone technique designed to recover aluminum from municipal refuse.
Klein Associates, Inc. (Salem, N H ) , which manufactures certain oceanographic and sonar instruments, has appointed representatives in Brazil, Egypt, and Portugal. Kelley Co., Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) sees savings of $92 OOO/y for Wis-Pak, through using Kelley’s waste-fueled furnace. Almost all natural gas needs are eliminated. Wis-Pak is owned by 22 Pepsi-Cola franchisees. Camp Dresser & McKee has delivered a comprehensive 3-volume draft plan and environmental assessment to the City of New York, for a citywide sludge management program to meet the 198 1 deadline for an end to ocean disposal. United McCill Corp. (Columbus, O H ) has completed installation of their first ESP applied to a coal-fired boiler at North Carolina Finishing Co. (Salisbury, N C ) . They handle 99 000 dry scfm of flue gas. The Research Corp. of New England has announced the opening of a second business center for environmental consulting at Englewood, CO. Exxon Research and Engineering Co. (Florham Park, NJ) and DOE have a $16.8 million agreement for R & D of an Exxon-invented process for producing pipeline-quality gas from coal. BCla G . Lipthk Associates has been formed at Stamford, C T , to do environmental consulting in a variety of fields. Energy and process consulting are also part of the firm’s services. Brown and Caldwell has received the national ‘‘Excellence in Engineering Design Award” for work on expansion of the City of Corvallis (OR) Wastewater Reclamation Plant.
AG Brown, Boveri & Cie. (Switzerland) is conducting research in better ways to produce hydrogen as an energy source. One technique being tried is high-pressure electrolysis of water at up to 160 “ C .
Here’s how an ISCO flow meter gives you more accuracv.
American Air Filter says that its fabric collectors recover up to 150 tpd of coal dust at the Jeffery Energy Center near S t . Mary’s, KS. GenRad, Inc. (Concord, MA) has order, for more than $ 1 tnillion worth of jound-level meter5 from the Department of Labor
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Davy Powergas Inc. (Lakeland, FL) is General Contractor for Phase I I of Occidental Chemicals Co.’s planned expansion of superphosphoric acid production facilities in northern Florida. Zimpro Inc. will provide two ZimpressTMsludge dewatering systems to the City of Gainesville. GA, to handle 2500 Ib/d of sludge. Zimpro will also supply certain ancillary equipment.
The Turbodyne Corp. (Minneapolis. Mh’) will provide three 30 000-kW generators. for $6.75 million to the City of Columbus, O H , to make electricity from a combination of coal and municipal refuse. United Air Specialists, Inc. has a $500 000 order for I O S M O G - H O G Air Pollution Control Systems from Ford Motor (c’o.’s Canton Forge Plant. TR Systems, Inc. (Bloom field. C T ) will supply incineration technology for a research program designed to help the EPA set standards for hazardous waste incineration. Acurex Corp. has begun building a $100 000 faci1it.y for testing/demonstrating solar energy collectors, at Mountain View. CA. Collectors made for many purposes will be tested. FMC Corp. will supply a dual-throat venturi scrubber t o a mill at Alabama Kraft Co. (Mahart, AL). The scrubber will remove particulates from 140 000 saturated acfm from a bark- and oilfired boiler. Stanley Consultants, Inc. will conduct a comprehensive feasibility study to find the best possible method to dispose of ash and sludge waste resulting from FG D processes.
I t ’ s all done with optically coded discs which reproduce any IevelIflow relationship in weirs, flumes, or open streams- and give you better than 0.2% conversion accuracy. One easily changed disc works with all V-notch weirs (any angle, any size); another with all Cipolletti weirs; and more than 230 others are stocked for a variety of other installations. If we don’t have one for your setup, we’ll make it for you at no extra charge. There are two models of ISCO flow meters. The bubbler-tube Model 1700 hasa built-in compressor, and is ideal for temporary setups such as surveys or inflow and infiltration studies. The economical, float-operated Model 1530 is your best bet for permanent installation. Both models operate on either AC or rechargeable batteries and interface easily with an ISCO automatic sampler for flow proportional sample collection. A digital counter directly displays total flow in any desired volumetric unit: gallons, 1000 gallons, cubic feet, or whatever. A n accessory battery operated printer directly records accumulated volume. A 4” analog strip chart recorder is also available. For more information on ISCO water monitoring instruments, send for your catalog today. Or dial direct, toll free (800) 228-4250 (continental U.S.A. except Nebraska) for the name of your nearest ISCO representative. Instrumentation Specialties Company, P.O. Box 5347, Lincoln, Nebraska 68505.
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