VOCs in non-arid soils ID at the Savannah River Site
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Technology Development
- Battelle, Richland, WA (United States)
- Science Applications International Corp., Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
The Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, a nuclear materials production facility, was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Development in 1989 to evaluate innovative remediation technologies using the integrated demonstration (ID) approach. The contaminants targeted at the SRS are solvents (TCE and PCE) classified as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). The principal objective of the ID at the SRS is to establish, validate and implement systems of technologies for full-scale use in the remediation of soils and groundwater contaminated with VOCS. This is accomplished through collaborative partnership with the DOE laboratories, universities, Federal Agencies, and private industries. Several remediation technologies involving the use of directionally drilled wells for extraction and delivery, innovative monitoring and characterization technologies, in-situ heating for the removal of adsorbed contaminants from clay-rich horizons, and off-gas treatment technologies have been successfully demonstrated, and their performance, safety, and cost effectiveness are evaluated against that of existing baseline technologies. To achieve these and similar projected savings, a critical step in the ID program is implementation of the successfully demonstrated technologies by DOE`s Environmental Restoration organizations, and transfer of these technologies to other governmental agencies and the public sector. This has been accomplished by granting user licenses to the private industry in the areas of in situ air stripping via horizontal wells, sensors and bioremediation. Following the successful completion of its mission, the ID is slated for close-out at the end of Fiscal Year 1994.
- OSTI ID:
- 113215
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940499-; ISBN 1-56590-014-6; TRN: 95:022497
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Federal environmental restoration and waste minimization conference and exhibition, New Orleans, LA (United States), 25-29 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of 1994 Federal environmental restoration III and waste minimization II conference and exhibition: Proceedings. Volume 1; PB: 783 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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