INDUSTRY TRENDS Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, MO) will design/construct a 125-tpd sulfuric acid plant and gascleaning facility for Molycorp, Inc. for $ 1o miilion. D.R. Technology, Inc. (Clarksburg, N J ) will offer filter, baghouse, and scrubber designs, as well as engineering and other services, especially for smaller sources not amenable to utility-scale flue-gas desulfurization. Environmental Research Group, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) is expanding its analytical capabilities to meet the growing national need for hazardous waste monitoring and has added gas chromatographic and mass “spec” equipment to its facilities. Brown and Caldwell (Walnut Creek, CA) is preparing a preliminary design for a 200-tpd plant for Southern California Edison to gasify refuse and use the gas to generate electricity. Dames & Moore (Los Angeles, C A ) has completed an extensive study for EPA on emission and control of radioactive gases and particles. The study covered nuclear waste disposal, uranium mills, and many other such facilities. SCS Engineers (Covington, KY) has been retained by the Dept. of Energy (DOE) and Argonne National Laboratory to investigate methods for enhancing the production of combustible gases from sanitary landfills. S C S will study 16 sites. Southern California Edison has requested funding from the California Public Utilities Commission to implement solar-oriented energy conservation programs, including subsidized financing of solar “backfits” for 26 000 electric water heater customers. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) and its partners have entered into a contract with the National Power Corp. (Philippines) for delivery of three 35.5-MW geothermal turbogenerators for Leyte Island. 736
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International Institute of Technology, Inc. has been formed at Downers Grove, IL to provide environmental monitoring, analytical, training, manual writing, health/safety, troubleshooting, and similar services.
Victoreen, Inc., a subsidiary of Sheller-Globe Corp. (Cleveland, OH), will supply all-digital, microprocessorbased radiation monitoring systems for use by Korea Electric Co. at nuclear plants near Pusan.
FMC Corp. is transferring its wastewater treatment equipment operations from its Itasca, IL facility to its plant a t Colmar, PA and is selling its pump/comminution products business to Clow Corp. FMC’s pure oxygen and biological contactor activities are also to be sold.
Sanders & Thomas, Inc. (Pottstown, PA) will provide architecture, engineering, design, and construction management services for a proposed $9.3-million “waste-to-energy” plant ( 1 50 tpd) at Gallatin, T N .
Infilco Degremont Inc. (Richmond, VA) has a $5.5-million contract for 6 condensate polishing systems from Middle South Services, Inc. of h e w Orleans, LA. Each will flow I 1 000 gpm. Woodward-Clyde Consultants (San Francisco, CA) has been retained by Sunoco Energy Development Co. for environmental studies for a proposed surface coal mine in Sweetwater County, WY. Full baseline studies will be made. ARC0 Environmental Co., Inc. has established the Aqueonics Division to engineer, install, and provide operational support/services for its series of custom-engineered prefabricated waste treatment plants. Emery Industries, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) announced that its EmerzonerM ozone treatment system will be used at Brookings, SD. There will be 2 systems that can generate 250 Ib/d of ozone to disinfect 3 million gpd of secondary effluent.
Andersen 2000 Inc. (Atlanta, G A ) has a more than $2-million (Canadian) contract to install a proprietary wet emission control system for an elemental phosphorus plant of ERCO Industries Ltd. in Varennes, Quebec. Research-Cottrell, Inc. (Somerville, N J ) has an EPA contract for a pilotplant study of a spray dryer/fabricfilter system for dry flue-gas desulfurization (FGD). Waste products will be examined. The study is to be completed by next February. International trading consequences of hazardous substances regulations concerning export will be closely reviewed by the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, Reuben Askew, U S . Trade Representative, told a Chemical Manufacturers Association forum, EG&G, Inc. (Wellesley, MA) is supporting Sandia Laboratories in constructing the world’s largest particle beam fusion accelerator, PBFA- 1, now nearing completion.
The Tampella Co. (Tampere, Finland) and Zurn Industries, Inc. (Erie, PA) will market pulp/paper mill recovery boilers which can generate energy from waste liquor and recover chemicals used for process.
Bioassay Systems Corp. (Cambridge, MA) opened their new 21 000-ft2 toxicology testing laboratory in Woburn, MA. The company conducts animal toxicology, teratologb , genetic and plant toxicology. and short-term mutagenicity studies.
En\irotech/Buell (Pittsburgh. PA) will provide $2 million worth of air pollution control equipment to Ohio Edison Co. to handle more than 1 million acfm (total) of flue gas. The equipment will update existing electrostatic precipitators.
Air Pollution Technology, Inc. (San Diego, CA) has a 2 1 /2-year, $966 000 DOE contract for developing a commercially viable pressurized fluidized-bed combustion process for coal. The firm plans to use its Dry Plate Scrubber”’ to clean up gas.
