INDUSTRY TRENDS The National Center for Resource Recovery (Washington, D.C.) has begun a training program for four Resource Recovery Fellows who are municipal officials. The program began in November and will end in March. Sea Solar Power, Inc. (York, Pa.) has received an ERDA contract to work up a design of a full-sized plant for power generation based on sea thermal differences. The company has already demonstrated a working model.
Reynolds Metals Co (Richmond, Va.) plans to operate 85 permanent facilities and 150 mobile units for aluminum recycling in 45 states when current program expansion is completed this year. AG Brown Boveri & C i a (Baden, Switzerland) said that use of coreless induction furnaces in iron foundries will reduce emission of dust and noise, and provide other cost-cutting benefits.
American Air Filter Co., Inc., has placed $20 million of promissory notes with institutional lenders. Blyth Eastman Dillion & Co., Inc., assisted in the negotiation of the private placement.
The Minges Associates, Inc. (Farmington, Conn.) is offering charts showing sun altitude, azimuth, shadow ratio, and other solar data for any part of the continental U.S., for solar building design. Charts are $12, or $50 for a five-chart set.
Fuller Co. (Catasauqua, Pa.) has received a $500 000 order to supply a Dracco Model 6000 modular dust collector system to Florida Steel Corp. (Tampa, Fla.). It will handle 240 000 cfm of fumes.
Envlronmental Elements Corp. (Baltimore, Md.) has a contract for two automatic backwash sand filters for a sewage treatment plant at Harriman, N.Y., in Orange County. Value: about $150 000.
Midrex Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) German licensees have signed with C.V.G. Siderurgica del Orinoco (Caracas, Venezuela) to supply three Direct Reduction modules.
The Amerlcan Consulting Engineers Councll (Washington, D.C.) is offering copies of parts of the Code of Federal Regulations applicable to cost principles of architect-engineer contracts with the federal government. Copies are $2 each.
Health-Chem Corp. (New York, N.Y.) has granted a license to S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. exclusive marketing rights to sell Raid Roach-Tape, a pesticide aimed at controlling cockroaches. Charmglow Products (Bristol, Wis.) has acquired Rid-0-Ray, a manufacturer of electric insect control systems, and has relocated Rid-0-Ray from Hudson, N.H., to Bristol, Wis. Reynolds, Smlth and Hlils (Jacksonville, Fla.) has formed an interdisciplinary Energy Systems Group to handle all advanced energy study and design activity for the company. Dravo Corp. has received a $1.5 million contract for design and procurement services on a denitrification filter system for the Gainesville, Fla., Kanapaha Waste Water Treatment Plant.
The Northwest Pulp and Paper Association (Seattle, Wash.) announced that the total value of pulp and paper products shipped from Oregon and Washington mills neared the $2 billion mark in 1974. Morbark Industries, Inc. (Detroit, Mich.) is working with the City of Detroit to use the company’s Total Chiparvestor to reduce damaged and diseased trees to chips to be burned for heat in a Detroit public school. Dalton.Daiton.Little.Newport (Cleveland, Ohio) has been selected by NASA to assess environmental impacts of a proposed ERDA coal conversion facility to convert 230 tpd of coal into 30 tpd of hydrogen at New Orleans, La.
Union Camp Corp. (Wayne, N.J.), a leading forest products firm, has donated 1700-acre Turtle Island, S.C., to The Nature Conservancy. PCI Ozone Corp. (West Caldwell, N.J.) will supply ozone-generating equipment for odor control of 300 000 cfm of odorous air from the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto, Canada. Copeland Systems Inc. (Oak Brook, Ill.) is designing dual sludge incineration systems for the Papillion Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, Omaha, Neb. Excess heat will be absorbed in a scrubbing system. Cambridge Wlre Cloth Co. (Cambridge, Md.) said that its stainless steel wire cloth filters have helped a North Carolina grain processor remove 95% of beeswings and large dust from the drying process. Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.) has completed a $10 million waste disposal unit that reclaims heat, produces steam, and recovers silver to help pay for itself. CHPM Hill is coordinating construction of the Rock Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (Hillsboro, Ore.), the nation’s largest EPA-funded plant to be built under phased design and construction. Metcalf & Eddy was selected to design critical additions to a 20-mgd secondary activated sludge facility for American Cyanamid’s Organic Chemicals Division at Bound Brook, N.J. National Marine Service (St. Louis, Mo.) has acquired patents and world marketing rights to the “Hydrovac” oil pollution control inventions patented by Cornelis in’t Veld of The Netherlands. The Electric Power Research institute (Palo Alto, Calif.) sees electric heat pumps as good alternatives to commonly used gas, oil, or electric resistance heating systems.
Acres Consuitlng Services Ltd. (Toronto, Canada) has a contract from Ontario Hydro to do a complete environmental study of the area of the proposed 800MW Marmion Lake generating station.
Andersen 2000 Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Koritsu Trading Co. (Tokyo, Japan) to manufacture HEAF and CHEAF air pollution sampling and control equipment.
The B.F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) said that the US. could save up to 1 billion gal of gasoline and diesel fuel this year if all heavy-duty highway trucks were running on radial-ply tires.
Chemapec, Inc. (Hoboken, N.J.) has a contract for fabrication and installation of FUNDA Filter radiation waste equipment for the Oyster Creek I Nuclear Station of Jersey Central Power and Light Co.
Leeds & Northrup Co. has been awarded a $1.6 million contract for instrumentation and computer controls in conjunction with expansion of the Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant near Fort Worth, Tex.
Environmental Resources Ltd. (London, England) has been assigned to conduct a study of recycling and reclamation economics and recommend financial and other incentives for the Commission of European Communities.
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