A scientific approach to the identification and control of toxic chemicals in industrial wastewaters

Conference · Wed Aug 22 04:00:00 EDT 1979 · AIChE Natl. Meet.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6631345

Berkau, E E; Frank, C E; Jefcoat, I A

A scientific approach to the identification and control of toxic chemicals in industrial wastewaters, developed by the Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (IERL), Cincinnati, is based on the classification of the 129 priority pollutants identified by the 1976 Flannery Consent Decree into 12 groups. The members of each group are expected to respond similarly to treatment techniques which were grouped into seven categories. An experimental program that is being conducted by IERL under a contract with Walk-Haydel Associates and Gulf South Research Institute, has been initiated by subjecting an untreated waste from an organic chemicals plant containing six aromatic (hydrocarbon and halohydrocarbon) priority pollutants at 0.04-5 ppm to steam stripping, carbon adsorption, biotreatment, resin treatment, and their combinations on a laboratory bench scale. Six other pollutant groups, phenols and polynuclear aromatics among them, will be studied to test the validity of the approach. After the completion of the initial phase by early 1980 at a cost of $200,000-$300,000 for each pollutant group, tests in pilot plants and at industrial field sites are planned to determine the economically optimal treatment sequence for each group.

• Research Organization: Indiana Environ. Res. Lab., Cincinnati
• OSTI ID: 6631345
• Report Number(s): CONF-790822-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIChE Natl. Meet.; (United States) Journal Volume: 7A
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400100 -- Analytical & Separations Chemistry
42 ENGINEERING
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520200* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CHEMICAL PLANTS
CLASSIFICATION
CONTROL
COST
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PILOT PLANTS
PLANNING
POLLUTANTS
POLLUTION CONTROL
PROCESSING
TESTING
TOXIC MATERIALS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES