industry trends Ford Motor Co. has entered into contracts with Koppers Co., Inc., to reduce emissions at Ford's Rouge coke ovens. Contract calls for installation of automatic lid-lifters on openings where coal is fed to the ovens, and improvement of systems that control emissions during the coking cycle. B. F. Goodrlch Chemical Co. has started up operation of its $450,000 Avon Lake waste water treatment systems. System will treat wastes from a general chemicals plant (making PVC and other plastics) and the Development Center which does process R&D.
General Electric is working with the TVA'S Browns Ferry nuclear power plant to install advanced treatment systems for the plant's gaseous releases. TVA is aiming for a radiation dose of 3 mrem/ year-far less than the normal background count ofabout 115 mrems/year.
Cincinnati Drum (Ludlow, Ky.) has been commended for it's new air pollution controls by the Kentucky Air Pollution Control Commission. Cincinnati Drum recycles and reconditions steel and fiber containers. Esso Research and Engineering Co. says tests on its REsIDfining process show that 90 desulfurization of many of the most readily available residuurns is possible. This means refiners can meet legislative limits of 0.3-0Sz sulfur in fuel oil in many cases by direct desulfurization, Esso says. American Hydrotherm Corp. has received a $197,374 contract extension from the Office of Saline Water (osw) to operate a test and development facility at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. through August 1972. The company will provide information on design and performance of vertical tube evaporators.
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Envirotech Corp. has received a patent covering its Plural Purpose Furnace which combines lime reclamation and sewage sludge incineration. The device is said to eliminate the need for separate lime-reclaiming furnaces and disposal furnaces. Envirotech's incinerator uses sludge as fuel for process. AMETEK has become exclusive worldwide licensee of Ventron Corp.'s proprietary sodium borohydride process for mercury removal. The process appears to be applicable to other heavy metals as well as mercury. Beckman Instruments has supplied General Motors with seven complete emission measurement systems for end of assembly line testing of 1972 automobiles to be sold in California. The instruments monitor carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and nitric oxide on a continuous, automatic basis.
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Systems Research Laboratories, a Dayton, Ohio R&D firm, will purchase a controlling interest in Systems Technology Corp., also of Dayton. Systems technology is an environmental and pollution control company. North American Rockwell’s Science Center has received a $1.7 million contract from California’s Air Resources Board for a major air chemistry study in three of the state’s air basins. Several university and state agency scientists will collaborate with NR. Westinghouse Electric Corp. has signed an agreement with the Lybian Arab Republic to build a $15 million power generation and water desalination plant in Zuara, Lybia. The unit will provide 3 million gpd of potable water. Zurn Industries, Inc., has acquired Wilkins Regulator Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) for an undisclosed amount of cash and notes. Wilkins manufactures automatic pressure-reducing valves. Combustion Engineering has been given a $13.5 million contract by Illinois Power Co. for a 600-MW controlled circulation coal-fired steam generator.
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Quemetco, Inc. (City of Industry, Calif.) has ordered six more modular air filtration units from Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. (Mishawaka, Ind.) for use on two nonferrous recycling plants. The American Petroleum Institute has awarded a $152,201 contract to Ocean Design Engineering Corp. (Long Beach, Calif.) for testing of a device for recovery of oil-soaked adsorbents from oil spills. The company will test its Aquamarine Model H-650, originally designed as a weed harvester, to see if it can recover oil-laden straw and foamed polymers. Esso Research and Engineering Co., has been awarded a $200,000 one-year contract by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a continuing study on the sources of polynuclear aromatics (PNA) in auto exhaust and the fate of these compounds in emission control systems.
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