Ultra filtration of oily wastewaters at the Watervliet Arsenal
- Watervliet Arsenal, NY (United States). Advanced Technology Design Div.
Watervliet Arsenal is the Army`s Materiel Command manufacturer for large diameter cannon and components. The arsenal is located on the banks of the Hudson River five miles North of Albany, NY. The machining operations to produce these major components generate large amounts of oily wastewater as a by product. These wastewaters are currently chemically treated and the water is discharged to the Hudson River. Watervliet Arsenal has been and is still seeking alternative technologies/processes to minimize it`s effect on the environment. During the fall of 1992, Watervliet Arsenal was approached by the Environmental Protection Agency`s Risk Reduction Laboratory to conduct a demonstration under the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program. Watervliet Arsenal was seeking remediation technologies to treat Petroleum Oil and Lubricant (POL) contaminated areas caused by past industrial activity. EPA stated that the treatment of these sites did not meet the criteria of the SITE program. Watervliet Arsenal and Zenon Environmental Services Inc. negotiated a revised project plan for the treatment of oily waste waters generated by machining operations. Watervliet Arsenal and Zenon Environmental Inc. signed a no cost contract in December of 1992 to jointly conduct a demonstration of Zenon`s ZenoGem (membrane-biological) waste water treatment process. The primary objective of this demonstration was to carry out an on-site evaluation of the ZenoGem Process for spent soluble oils.
- OSTI ID:
- 49343
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941189--; ISBN 1-56590-016-2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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