INDUSTRY TRENDS J. F. Pritchard has signed a letter of intent with the Coastal States Energy Co. to construct a substitute natural gas (SNG) plant near Corpus Christi, Tex. The plant, subject to approval by the Federal Power Commission, will cost more than $30 million and will be the world's largest single-train SNG plant. Chemic0 has received a $9.25 million turn-key contract to design and build a sulfuric acid plant for Kennecott Copper's Hurley, N.M., smelter facility. The double absorption acid plant will serve as a pollution abatement facility. Ingersoll-Rand has created an environmental division with initial product and systems capabilities in waste water treatment. The division has plans for new products in solids separation late this year. Waste Resources Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.) has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission consisting of a
evaluation division to consolidate the atmospheric diffusion and model development activities of the company.
million shares of common stock. The company said the new registration was necessary when it became obvious that the original filing of 350,000 must be "substantially supplemented" to keep pace with planned expansion. Fluor Corp. and Lucas American Recyclers announced that Fluor Utah, a Fluor Corp. subsidiary, will have an exclusive license to market, design, and construct Lucas Cyclonic Waste Furnace Systems in the United States. Lucas American holds the patents for the Lucas system, developed in Wednesbury, England. Resources Conservation Co. (RCC) has begun a six-month test of its evaporative desalination process under an $80,000 contract from the Office of Saline Water. The test is being conducted at OSW's Roswell, N.M., facility. lntercomp Resource Development and Engineering, Inc. (Houston, Tex.), has formed an environmental
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Rollins International, Inc. has agreed to acquire Clark, Dietz & Associates Engineers, Inc., a national engineering firm specializing in environmental protection. Terms were not announced. Radiation and Environmental Materials, Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.) has changed its name to REM Scientific, Inc. REM makes a full line of air monitoring instruments, featuring chemiluminescence technology. Babcock and Wilcox has sold its 15th boiler to Central Power and Light Co.-this one a 105-mW steam generator with NOx control for the No. 3 unit of the Laredo Power Station, Laredo, Tex. The contract amounts to about $2.5 million. N O x control is by the gas recirculation method. American Society for Testing and Materials says it's compiling a list of coastal laboratories conducting seawater corrosion tests. Laboratories wishing to be included on the list should write Dr. Kenneth G. Compton, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 10 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami. Fla. 33149.
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