Beneficial reuse of treated media from remediation at an industrial site
- Smith Environmental Technologies, Plymouth Meeting, PA (United States)
- Occidental Chemical Corp., Niagara Falls, NY (United States)
- Occidental Chemical Corp., Houston, TX (United States)
Remediation at an active PVC resin manufacturing plant in southeastern Pennsylvania has involved closure of lagoons under a RCRA plan and design of a groundwater pump and treat program under CERCLA. Both the CERCLA and RCRA programs involve beneficial reuse of the treated media, which in effect has offset some costs of the remediation. The lagoons were used to settle the PVC residual material from wastewater generated by the facility. Analysis of the residual material showed that the polymer content would allow it to be used as a low-grade PVC resin after drying. The treatment process selected for the RCRA lagoon closure involved indirect steam stripping and filter pressing which produced a filter cake that was both nonhazardous and marketable. Approximately 6,000 tons of product was sent to market from the lagoons. The groundwater, which will be remediated at the site, contains trichlorethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), and other volatile organic compounds. An average 400 gpm of groundwater will be extracted and treated by carbon absorbents and an air stripper. The groundwater will be used by the plant in the production process after it is treated by the CERCLA remediation system.
- OSTI ID:
- 435458
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606300-; TRN: IM9710%%116
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: HazMat International `96. 14. Annual environmental management and technology conference international, Atlantic City, NJ (United States), 18-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Fourteenth annual environmental management and technology conference international: Technical papers; PB: 527 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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