Hazardous waste treatment technologies: An inventory

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Hazmat World; (United States)

OSTI ID:6043634

Apte, N ^[1]

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1. Foster Wheeler Environmental Services, Livingston, NJ (United States)

Project managers seeking appropriate technologies for hazardous waste site remediation face a wide array of treatment options. Project goals generally dictate choosing technologies that permanently destroy or immobilize toxic substances, resulting in reductions of their mobility, toxicity or volume. The principal treatment categories, in roughly ascending order of cost, are biological, physical, solidification or stabilization, chemical, and thermal. Additional options include containment and monitoring. The following inventory describes technologies in the five major categories. They are: biological treatment; physical treatment; stabilization and solidification; chemical treatment; and thermal destruction.

• OSTI ID: 6043634
• Journal Information: Hazmat World; (United States), Journal Name: Hazmat World; (United States) Vol. 6:8; ISSN HMWOED; ISSN 0898-5685
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540220 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
540320 -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
560300* -- Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ADSORPTION
BIODEGRADATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
EXTRACTION
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
INVENTORIES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MONITORING
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PROCESSING
REMEDIAL ACTION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLIDIFICATION
SORPTION
STABILIZATION
THERMAL DEGRADATION
TOXIC MATERIALS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING