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Title: Toxic remediation

Abstract

What is disclosed is a novel toxic waste remediation system designed to provide on-site destruction of a wide variety of hazardous organic volatile hydrocarbons, including but not limited to halogenated and aromatic hydrocarbons in the vapor phase. This invention utilizes a detoxification plenum and radiation treatment which transforms hazardous organic compounds into non-hazardous substances.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Alamed County, CA
  2. Santa Clara County, CA
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
869342
Patent Number(s):
5319211
Assignee:
Schonberg Radiation Corp. (Santa Clara, CA); Regents of University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A62 - LIFE-SAVING A62D - CHEMICAL MEANS FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRES OR FOR COMBATING OR PROTECTING AGAINST HARMFUL CHEMICAL AGENTS
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01D - SEPARATION
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
toxic; remediation; disclosed; novel; waste; designed; provide; on-site; destruction; wide; variety; hazardous; organic; volatile; hydrocarbons; including; limited; halogenated; aromatic; vapor; phase; utilizes; detoxification; plenum; radiation; treatment; transforms; compounds; non-hazardous; substances; aromatic hydrocarbons; organic compound; organic compounds; wide variety; vapor phase; aromatic hydrocarbon; volatile hydrocarbons; waste remediation; hazardous organic; toxic waste; volatile hydrocarbon; /250/204/

Citation Formats

Matthews, Stephen M, Schonberg, Russell G, and Fadness, David R. Toxic remediation. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Matthews, Stephen M, Schonberg, Russell G, & Fadness, David R. Toxic remediation. United States.
Matthews, Stephen M, Schonberg, Russell G, and Fadness, David R. Sat . "Toxic remediation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/869342.
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abstractNote = {What is disclosed is a novel toxic waste remediation system designed to provide on-site destruction of a wide variety of hazardous organic volatile hydrocarbons, including but not limited to halogenated and aromatic hydrocarbons in the vapor phase. This invention utilizes a detoxification plenum and radiation treatment which transforms hazardous organic compounds into non-hazardous substances.},
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year = {1994},
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