INDUSTRY TRENDS fused aeration equipment for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment.
Unlon Carbide Corp. has announced that a $4 million wastewater treatment plant at its Marietta, Ohio, chemicals and plastics plant is on stream. The 1.7 mgd plant uses Union Carbide's UNOX treatment system.
The Carborundurn Co. is supplying a tertiary sewage treatment facility to the City of Sunnyvale, Calif., featuring the largest algae removal system in the U S . Completion is scheduled for early next year.
Ecodyne, Ltd., Canadian subsidiary of Ecodyne Corp., will provide more than $6 million worth of evaporator equ,ipment for ZaMady Celulozowo-Papiernicze, a paper company of Kwidzyn, Poland.
DCE Vokes, U.S., has been formed at Louisville, Ky., as specialists in industrial air pollution control and in-plant dust control. It is a branch of a British company, DCE Vokes, Inc.
Sasakl Associates, Inc. (Watertown, Mass.) has begun an intensive study of the environmental impact of constructing facilities for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y. Project cost is $250 000.
Commonwealth Associates (Jackson, Mich.) will do consulting and design work on an interconnected electric utility system for Empresa Nacional de Electricidad of Bolivia. Consultores Galindo Ltda. (Cochabamba, Bolivia) is working with Commonwealth on this project.
Lone Star Steel Co. (Dallas, Tex.) will provide its patented Steam-Hydro air cleaning equipment to Empire-Detroit Steel, Cyclops Corp., to handle 105 000 scfm. Expected efficiencies are 99.9 % for particulates, and 99% for S02.
Parsons & Whittemore, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) is general contractor for the $73 million refuse-recovery energy plant with which Long Island Lighting Co. will generate 250 million kW/yr from resultant
Envirex Inc. has been granted a patent on a new fiberglass rotary lift used with dif-
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fuel, and the City of Hempstead(N.Y.) will have its waste (11 000 t/wk) processed for resource recovery. Arthur W. Busch has established private practice of environmental engineering consulting in Dallas, Tex. Previously, Busch was chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering at Rice University, and regional administrator of EPA Region VI. Enviro-Test, Inc. has initiated operations at Westmont, Ill., to perform water analyses, general consulting, and general analytical services for the Chicago and midwest area. Public Service Co. of New Hampshirehas received a construction permit for a 2300-MW nuclear power plant at Seabrook, N.H., and has started site work. Full operation is expected by mid-1983. PCP, Inc. (West Palm Beach, Fla.) is now a licensee under patents in plasma chromatography owned by Franklin GNO Corp. of West Palm Beach. Plasma chromatography can detect and measure ultra-
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trace amounts of chemicals in the environment. Wyle Laboratories (El Segundo, Calif.) received a contract of about $2.2 million from IBM to test and evaluate a solar house with heating and cooling at NASA in Huntsville, Ala. Four systems can be tested. Dow Corning is "encouraged" by interest and action on its silicone-based PCBsubstitute transformer fluid, particularly by market response, and by EPA's not having found any adverse health or ecological effects.
Drew Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of U S . Filter Corp., offering products and services in water management and related fields, is expanding its Boonton, N.J., location by 16 000 fi2 to increase technical service and support, and enhance product development. Tracor, Inc. (Austin, Tex.) has received a $1 million contract from NOAA to develop and deliver 10 airborne systems for atmospheric research concerned with predicting the weather. ERT (Concord, Mass.) has received a one-yr extension of its contract with the
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Manufacturing Chemists Association (Washington, D.C.) to investigate possible effects of fluorocarbons on the stratospheric ozone layer. The Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, Calif.) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ERDA to provide for broad R&D cooperation between the two organizations. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. announced that the forecast cost of $7.7 billion, to complete the system to an initial design capacity of 1.2 million bbl/d, is a 10% increase that includes weld/x-ray problems, lower productivity than projected, and other unanticipated needs. Envirodyne, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) has signed a $2.4 million, 2-yr contract dealing with the expansion and modernization of the Northside Sewage Treatment Works (400 mgd) for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. Combustlon Englneerlng's C-E Power Systems is offering a new spray tower absorber system for flue gas SOz removal that has less horsepower requirements because of a low draft loss. Removal efficiency is over 90%, according to C-E. The American Water Works Association (Denver, Colo.) has approved Standard C708-76, which covers multijet water meters in 5/8-2-in. sizes. Enviroplan, Inc. (Rutherford, N.J.) will supply and run an air pollution and meteorological monitoring network, including quality control and training, for 4 coal-fired power plants of Cleveland (Ohio) Electric Illuminating Co. Fuller Co. (Catasauqua, Pa.) will furnish a pneumatic conveying system to Reynolds Metals Co. (Richmond, Va.) for $500 000.The system will handle bulk alumina used to scrub gases at a Reynolds plant in Troutdale, Ore. Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc. was awarded a multi-million dollar contract by American Cyanamid Co. for design of a 1600-tpd sulfuric acid plant at Westwego, La. SO2 emission standard compliance must be assured. UOP-Kavag (W. Germany) will supply air pollution control equipment to be used in six large incinerators (up to 50 000 m3/h) at a new mineral wool production complex near Lake Baikal, USSR. Nalco Chemical Co. is offering a new organic chemical binder, known as Nalco 8820, to reduce windage losses of coal, slag, flue dust, and other such materials when they are in transit. Clow Corp., maker of pipe, valves, and waste treatment equipment, has announced a $5 million plant modernization and expansion plan for its Foundry Division.
