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Applied Process Technology, Inc. Makes European Debut
Paris, France—February 15, 2005—Applied Process Technology, Inc. (Applied), a leading U.S. supplier of advanced water treatment technologies, is making its European debut by participating at the Intersol 2005 environmental trade show to be held April 19-21, 2005, in Paris. Applied will participate at the U.S. Pavilion exhibit area organized by the U.S. Ambassy’s office of U.S. Commercial Service France. Information pertaining to Applied’s innovative chemical oxidation and reduction technologies will be available at the U.S. Pavilion.
Applied’s HiPOx and PulseOx chemical oxidation products have received significant media attention in recent months. Some of these reports include the following:
Applied’s HiPOx technology was featured in Water Conditioning & Purification magazine when a 1,500 gallons-per-minute (GPM) HiPOx system restored a South Lake Tahoe drinking water well that had been shut down due contamination by the gasoline oxygenates methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA). This was the second drinking water well in South Lake Tahoe to be restored by HiPOx and the second HiPOx system purchased by the South Tahoe Public Utility District, which had shut down 13 MTBE-impacted wells in 1998. HiPOx was the first ever advanced oxidation process (AOP) approved by the California Department of Health Services to completely remove MTBE from drinking water. HiPOx does not generate waste streams and is characterized by its ability to control the formation of bromate. Its aesthetic appearance, compact footprint (8 feet by 40 feet), low profile, and quite operation also assisted in securing these two sales, because both well sites are located in residential neighborhoods.
Applied’s HiPOx technology was featured in Pollution Engineering magazine and in Water & Wastewater International because if its success in remediating groundwater impacted by the recalcitrant solvent stabilizer 1,4-dioxane, a compound that cannot be adequately removed by carbon adsorption or air stripping. One of many such systems was installed on the Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (MEW) Superfund site in Mountain View, California. Applied was awarded the contract after an exhaustive technology search and subsequent onsite testing indicated that HiPOx would provide the most effective and economical solution for removing contaminants such as 1,4-dioxane, trichloroethylene (TCE), 1,2 dichloroethylene, (1,2 DCE) and vinyl chloride. The HiPOx system at the MEW site is designed to treat up to 50 gallons-per-minute (gpm) of groundwater. The compact HiPOx “cabinet unit” with a footprint that measures approximately 8 feet by 4 feet has been operating flawlessly for over a year.
A few weeks ago, Applied announced that its PulseOx technology had been used to completely eliminate an 800-foot plume of petroleum constituents within a five month period. PulseOx equipment aggressively oxidized groundwater contaminants at a site in the state of Delaware by pulsing and cycling four different reagents—ozone, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen, and air—in precise, pre-programmed dosages, sequences, and combinations into special injection wells designed by Applied’s business partner Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES). The cleanup process was started in October 2002. Within five months, there were no detectable contaminants in soil or water, exceeding even the original estimates of an aggressive nine-month treatment. Regulators at Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) approved site closure in July 2004, after one year of groundwater monitoring showed no rebound in contaminants.
The unique hydrogen-based, hollow-fiber membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) being developed by Applied was featured in Journal AWWA for its ability to reduce nitrate and perchlorate concentrations in drinking water. Although technologies such as biological reduction, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis (RO) are able to remove nitrate to meet drinking water discharge standards (10 ug/l as N), the MBfR shows great promise in overcoming some of the drawbacks of existing treatment systems. Unlike RO, ion exchange, and heterotrophic biological reduction, the autotrophic MBfR reduces nitrate, perchlorate, and other contaminants without creating waste streams or leaving donor residuals that require special handling. As an added bonus, in commercial applications the MBfR is anticipated to cost substantially less than all of these processes. The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Applied a Small Business Innovative Research Grant to further examine the MBfR’s cost-effectiveness in removing nitrate from drinking water. The research is being conducted in cooperation with MBfR inventor Bruce Rittmann and California State University, Fresno.
Applied Process Technology, Inc. (Applied) (www.aptwater.com) provides technically superior pump-and-treat and in-situ water treatment solutions and services to the water industry. Applied specializes in treatment technologies that do not generate byproducts or waste streams. HiPOx products utilize advanced oxidation and chemical oxidation processes to perform disinfection, treat Geosmin, odor, taste, and color contaminants, and destroy a wide variety of VOCs and microcontaminants. PulseOx in-situ chemical oxidation technology treats groundwater contamination directly in the aquifer. The novel MBfR technology utilizes autotrophic biological reduction to treat perchlorate, nitrate, and chlorinated solvents, etc.
Contact: Chuck Borg
Applied Process Technology, Inc.
925-977-1811, ext. 206
cborg@aptwater.com
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