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February/March '98 Vol. 11 No. 1

CONTENTS

Issued March, 1998

President STEVE DAVEY Publisher TOM DAVEY

Managing Editor SANDRA DAVEY Saies Manager PENNY DAVEY (905) 727-4666 Sales Representative DENISE SIMPSON Circulation Manager VIRGINIA MEYER Publisher's Asst. KATHLEEN CARIGNAN

Technical Advisory Board Robert B. Baker, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. Totten Sims Hubicki Associates

Jim Bishop Beak International Inc.

Alan Church, C.Chem., DEP. Church & Trought Inc.

George V. Crawford, P.Eng., M.A.Sc. CH2M G&S Dr. Howard Goodfellow Goodtellow Consultants Ltd.

Rod Holme, P.Eng. Proctor & Redtern Ltd.

Don Kemp, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. MacViro Consultants

Peter Laughton, M.Eng., P.Eng., DEE R.V. Anderson Associates

Barry Loescher, Ph.D. Philip Analytical Environmental Science & Engineering is a bi-monthiy business publication pub lished by Environmental Science & Engi neering Publications inc. An all Canadian publication, ES&E provides authoritative editorial coverage of Canada's municipal and industrial environmental control sys

tems and drinking \water treatment and dis tribution.

ES&E's readers include consulting engi neers, industrial plant managers and en gineers, key provincial and federal envi ronmental officials, water and wastewater treatment plant operators and contractors.

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While our oceans are dying, biilions are spent exploring dead worids in space. Editorial by Tom Davey WCW&WA attracts some 400 delegates

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JetMix wins WEF award

MOEE program couid speed marketing cycie for new technologies Popuiation growth and the price of water How to seiect an appropriate open channel wastewater flowmeter Metal-enhanced dechlorination process for in situ

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groundwater remediation

Advanced plasma arc technology for PCBs and other difficult-to-treat toxic ivasfes

PCB management- the current status How to generate electricity while reducing greenhouse gases

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Speedy diversion chamber installation allows Calgary siphon inspection Water filtration - fundamentals and design NASA evaluates water purification system Biogas scrubber can be used in municipal and food treatment applications 14/asfeivafer treatment control systems Why global warming may not devastate human health Reclaimed water from treatment plant now serving Florida residents The Plastimet fire and its toxic legacy Leachate treatment system is designed to last 300 years and extend landfill life

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Laboratory accreditation - does it result in improved data or is it mere window dressing? Selecting gas detectors for confined space entries - Part II Vitrifying toxic fly ash Catalytic converters for the next century

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Cover story: Vancouver will be an impressive focai point for environmentai scientists and engineers attending the Water Quality International Conference, June 21-26. This conference wiii blend pure research with some practical solutions for industry. Story on page 88. Vancouver was also the site of Globe '98. Photo - Tom Davey Information presented in ES&E is collected from a variety of sources presumed to be accurate and complete. ES&E cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information presented. Readers are encouraged to contact authors, agencies and companies directly for verification and/or clarification. Material in ES&E only conveys information and should not be considered as legal or professional advice. Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

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Editorial Comment

By Tom Davey

While our oceans are dying, biiiions are spent exploring dead worlds in space

Wewent to a Florida

beach in darkness to

see Athena II blast off

into space in a spec tacular display of pyrotechnics. After the orange glow of the launch we saw the booster rockets fall as

the rocket began its two day trek to the moon. While awe-inspiring to earthlings, as space shots go, this

ingenuity but this latest moon probe pales by comparison to earlier US successes. In the Athena II project, no human landed on the moon but

the diminutive Solar Prospector satellite was launched to begin its primary task of finding ice which could be used to provide water for later human settlers. This trip is rather inexpensive by past NASA

Churchill praised Link Trainers for their vital role in training WW11 RAF pilots. After several decades. Link

trainers are still used in military, civilian and space aviation training. No better use of his engineering versatility was demonstrated than when the Challenger space shuttle broke up shortly after take off from

mission was almost routine. Com

pared to the more recent Mars probe, this moon shot was like a trip to galactic suburbia. It was not always so. Some 35 years earlier, the Rus sians startled the Americans with

their orbiting satellite Sputnik, administering the coup de grace to stunned US politicians whenYuri Gagarin returned safely after completing three orbits of earth. Kruschev sneeringly pointed out

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that the diminutive US satellites

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resembled Florida grapefruits in size. A shaken JFK announced that

America accepted the space chal lenge to be the first to put a man on the moon. Displaying both the best rockets and repartee in the space race, Krushchev responded that Russia had already hit the moon with Luna II in 1959. The Russian

problem, he stressed, would be to de-moon a cosmonaut.

But the Russian gloating was short-lived. The US rapidly over

One of the early Link submersibles in front of a Harbor Branch research vessel recently returned from the Galapagos. Photo - T. Davey.

standards, a mere $63 million. Not far from where we watched

the moon probe lies the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute on the Indian River Lagoon {ES&E June 1996). Founded by Seward

Cape Canaveral a few years ago, killing the crew. It was a Link designed submersible from Harbor Branch which was sent out to locate

Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became

Johnson and Edwin Link, Harbor

the first humans to land on the moon

in 1969, ten years after Luna II had hit the moon. Many other US space trips followed and, being Ameri cans, they naturally took a car along

Branch has done pioneering oceano graphic research as far away as the Galapagos islands, and more re cently off the shores of Cuba with the encouragement of Fidel Castro.

and retrieve wreckage from the stricken space shuttle. There was an ironic juxtaposition to the 1998 space probe. That very same day, marine scientists in Washington, issued a report which contained a sombre warning about the alarming state of our oceans.

with them, the Lunar Rover - now

Institute research includes onshore

"The sea is in real trouble, much

easily the world's most expensive used car. Neil Armstrong went from outer space to become, of all things, an expert in leaking underground gas tanks. 1 met him after he gave a presentation at a seminar in Toronto some 15 years ago.

aquaculture experiments as well as deep sea exploration in submersibles designed by Edwin Link who was an astonishingly versatile inventor. The son of a player piano maker, Edwin Link developed a range of aviation trainers where pilots could

took the Russians and Neil

more than we previously thought", said Elliot Norse, founder of the

Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Redmond, Washington.

Biologist Patricia Norse told a news conference that while scientists are

The Rover is still there as a

train without hazard to themselves

not alarmists by nature, the fact that 1,600 experts from sixty five

tribute to American tenacity and

or scarce wartime planes. Winston

countries had endorsed a call for ac-

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Editorial Comment, conr tion was very significant. They want President Clinton to hold a White House Conference this

aquatic habitats have been ruined by pollution. Oyster beds have been contaminated from sewage and industrial discharges and lobster and crab, once sold at premium prices in

year on the rapid, unprecedented declines in fishing populations, and expressed concerns on the overall

restaurants, cannot be eaten with

health of our oceans.

confidence in some areas.

Congressman Curt Weldon, speaking on the same day as the moon shot, January 6, said: "It is appalling to me that we spend more

Many jurisdictions issue warn ings to anglers. The State of Florida, for example, now issues warnings of dangerous mercury

on the 'oceans of Mars' than we do on the oceans of earth".

In Canada we are painfully aware of the economic effects of oceanic

mismanagement. Cod have disap peared off the Grand Banks, once

levels in fish in certain areas, and

for years Ontario has issued warn ings and guidelines to freshwater anglers because of various polluted waterways.

whales, whose habitat was the St. Lawrence River, have been found to

We don't have to go to the moon to get the expertise to remediate the municipal and industrial pollution which is devastating the earth's waters. Technical capabilities are already here in abundance. What is missing is a willingness to spend money on proven environmental

be so contaminated they could be

remediation technology. But can we

considered as toxic waste, a maca

afford not to?

the richest fishing area on our planet. On our west coast salmon

are disappearing, with Alaska and British Columbia involved in hostile

confrontations. Dead Beluga

bre lesson in bioaccumulation.

Many other saltwater and freshwater

If all the economic costs of water

pollution were factored into the

equation, politicians would find there are great monetary savings to be gained from investing in water treatment projects. Clean water not only provides abundant and inex pensive food supplies, it can save vast sums in reducing our spiralling health costs. History shows that dirty water has killed or maimed more humans than all the wars of

recorded history. Personally, I support the idea of

space travel not only for its pursuit of knowledge but for its exciting economic possibilities. But because space travel is glamorous, priorities have become distorted. The tangi ble evidence of our deteriorating oceans and waterways are not

possibilities but grim portents of what will happen if we do not change our ways and priorities. From the moon itself we can get

the perfect word to describe a $63 million project to investigate the possibility of frozen water on a dead celestial world. The word is lunacy.

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Reader Feedback Dear Tom, On Tuesday, March 10th, about 90 graduating engineers will solemnly and voluntarily adopt a code of professional conduct, the Obligation, during the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, often referred to as the Iron Ring Cer emony. Following dinner,they will look forward to a Guest Speaker,one who can inspire them to anticipate exciting and rewarding careers, with the lifetime re minder of the obligation - their handhammered, cold iron rings. The Wardens of the Guelph Camp agreed that you would be an excellent speaker, with your global perspective on engineering issues, ethics and excellence. The Ritual was conceived by Profes sor Haultain of the University of To ronto, as an induction ceremony which would include something similar to the Hippocratic Oath. He asked Rudyard Kipling to compose the Ritual, which included a ring - one of the oldest hu man symbolic artifacts. The first Cana dian engineers were obligated, in Mon treal and Toronto, in 1925. Camp 17 was inaugurated in Guelph in 1968. The Kipling Ritual is unchanged,since 1925.

available to join us on March 10th. Guelph is an excellent School of Engi neering, from which many quality stu dents have graduated. Mike Garrett, the Megacity GAG (1969) and Ken Morri son (1972), whose John Street Pump ing Station is referred to in the ES&E December/January 1998 editorial, are among those who have avoided those potholes of mediocrity! R.J. Long,P.Eng., RPP Long Environmental Consultants Inc.

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Dear Mr. Davey, Let me be one of the first to congratu late you on two especially timely and insightful articles, in the November is sue of ES&E magazine. I am referring to your editorial Did Pax Verdis picket when Wren was building St. Paul's? and Confronting environmental fantasies with scientific realities by Dr. John K. Sutherland.

After reading these two articles,I was relieved to find a voice of reason among the cacophony of ignorance, that passes for environmental consciousness. At the

same time, I was struck by the parallels in the human condition of the 1600's and It saddens me that we are still ma

apply the appropriate preventive meas ures to real hazards are given the short shrift.

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tion system,the quality of the water was as high as when it originally left the plant. According to researchers, this study represents only a first sounding of the city's network of pipes. The part of the distribution system sampled is relatively

Montreal's water distribution mains

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Environmental Harmonization, each

nated manner. Each government will undertake clearly defined responsibility for environmental performance and will report publicly on its results. The ministers of Canada, nine prov inces and the territories, also signed subagreements dealing with environmental assessment, inspection activities, and development of Canada-wide standards in areas such as air, water and soil qual ity.

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nology Award, sponsored by Philip Services Corp., "recognizes a new Ca nadian technology either contributing to the reduction or elimination of pollution at its source or providing for cost-effec tive remediation of environmental con tamination."

Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

Oxygen and ozone solutions

Cost savings and environmental benefits with ozone Ozone (O3), with its oxidative capabil ity, is an ideal component in the envi ronmental treatment of waste and proc ess water, the purification of drinking water, pulp bleaching, and remediation. In the treatment of waste and proc ess water, ozone is used for colour re moval, and the reduction of BOD/COD

and pH. For drinking water, ozone is

systems, have formed a worldwide alli ance to provide customers with total ozone solutions that deliver cost savings

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and environmental benefits. Praxair-

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used for disinfection and deodorization.

In remediation applications, it is used to facilitate soil remediation, sludge di gestion, and leachate treatment. Ozone is the bleaching agent of choice for TCP (totally chlorine free) pulp production and has the potential to play a key role in closed pulping systems. Advanced oxidation processes combine ozone with ultra-violet(UV), catalysts, and hydro

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Improved oxygen wastewater treatment More restrictive environmental regula tions have many industries looking for ways to improve their wastewater treat ment systems. Oxygen-based systems, like Praxair's new I-SO (In-Situ Oxygenation) unit, together with an on-site VPSA (Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption) oxygen plant, offer a cost-effective and efficient solution. When used to upgrade an existing air-based treatment plant, the I-SO/VPSA combination can be as little

as half the capital costs and use a third less power than the air-based alternative. I-SO was developed in response to the need for an improved way of dissolving oxygen into wastewater and delivers an oxygen utilization rate greater than 90%.

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Industry Update Water Quality Network created Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

waterfront municipalities in the United States and Canada can now work to

gether more efficiently through the Mu nicipal Water Quality Network. This Network allows municipalities to share data on the quality of water from their wastewater treatment and filtration

plants. The member municipalities can also compare treatment methods, prob lems they have faced and solutions brought forward. More than 80 municipalities have already indicated their intention to join the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Munici

pal Water Quality Network. It is man aged by the Biosphere in Montreal, Canada's first Ecowatch Centre.

All data gathered by network mem bers is available on the Internet at:

www.wul.qc.doe.ca/biospher.

First green power agreement signed Environment Canada has signed an agreement with ENMAX, Calgary's Electric System, which will supply all

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graduate student in the Department of

Alberta. The contract is the first insti

Civil Engineering. The firm was founded by two U of T

tutional purchase of green power in

Civil Engineering professors, Oscar Mai'shall and Harold Macklin, and was

Canada.

Green power is electricity generated in a sustainable fashion from renewable

later joined by another U of T graduate, Pat Monaghan.

energy sources such as wind, water, so SAIT launches

lar and biomass. Environment Canada is committed to

purchasing 15-20% of its electricity as green power by 2010.

environmental centre

fundralsing campaign The Southern Alberta Institute of Tech

nology(SAIT)and its industry partners,

U of T scholarship

have launched a $3.2 million fundraising

endowed Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited

and its present and past employees,have contributed $30,000 to the scholarship endowment fund of the Faculty of Ap

plied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, to establish in perpetuity,the Marshall Macklin Mona ghan Scholarship. Under matching programs by the

campaign to establish the PanCanadian Environmental Technology Centre. The campaign will seek investment partners from oil and gas producers, mining,for estry, instrumentation, and waste man agement sectors, and utility companies. The Centre will provide state of the

practice environmental training to busi ness and industry clients as well as day program and continuing education stu

University of Toronto and the Ontario govemment, this gift will be tripled to

dents, to set new standards in environ mental technology.

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Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

Date Pad March 28-31, 1998. 1998 Annual

Conference, Whistler, EC. Contact:

Water Environment Association of

Catherine Gibson,(604)540-0111,Fax: (604)540-4077.

Ontario Technical Symposium,Toronto, ON. Contact: WEAO, Tel: (416) 5021440, Fax:(416)502-1786. Aprill-3,1998. Reseau Environnement Trade Show and Conference, Quebec. Contact: Jean Pierre Dubois, Tel: (514) 270-7110, Fax:(514)270-7154. April 5-8, 1998. North American No-

Dig '98, Albuquerque, NM. Sponsored by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology. Contact:(312) 644-0828, Fax:(312)644-8557. April 8-9,1998. Environmental Com pliance '98. Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, ON. Environmental Science &

Engineering magazine will be sponsor ing the Environmental Compliance Con

ference for the 6th consecutive year in 1998. Contact: ES&E for information

(905) 727-4666, Fax: (905) 841-7271, E-mail: esemag@istar.ca.

April 27-29,1998. Health & Safety '98 lAPA Conference & Trade Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Contact:

1-800-669-4939, Fax:(416)506-8880. April 28, 1998. Ontario Society for Environmental Management Annual Spring Conference - The State ofEnvi ronmental Protection in Ontario:Is Our

Health at Risk? Burlington. Contact: Sue Ruggero, (416) 746-9076, Fax: (416) 743-6171. May 3-6,1998. Ontario Section Ameri

national Trade Fair for Recycling and Waste Disposal, Cologne, Germany. Contact: Edel Wichmann, Cologne In ternational Trade Shows (416) 5983343, Fax:(416)598-1840. June 5-6, 1998. Federation of Cana dian Municipalities 61st Armual Confer ence and Municipal Expo, Regina, SK. Contact: Vicki Nash-Moore,(905)3392047, Fax:(905) 339-2043. June 10-12, 1998. Canadian Water Resources Association 51st Annual Conference - Mountains To Sea: Human

Interaction with the Hydrologic Cycle,

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April 26-29, 1998. British Columbia

Canadian Institute of Mining, Metal lurgy and Petroleum, 1-800-558-5335, Fax:(514)939-2714.

Water and Waste Association Annual

May 12-16,1998. Entsorga '98 - Inter-

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Industry Update University of Houston researches wastewater

pipe corrosion

treatment plant. The organisms in the pipes use available oxygen generating anaerobic conditions where hydrogen sulfide H,S is produced. The gaseous

an engineered fashion rather than wait ing for nature to haphazardly kill some of the bacteria."

Six percent decline in poiiutants

Cities all over the world are facing ma jor problems with wastewater systems that were installed 50 years ago when

and is consumed by other bacteria liv ing on the crown. The H,S is used by

The amount of pollutants released into

World War II ended and communities

the bacteria to make sulfuric acid which

the Canadian environment in 1995 de

entered an unprecedented growth pe

stations and treatment plants, forcing shutdowns and producing environmen

corrodes the concrete of the pipes. To control bacteria on pipes, manu facturers have tried adding biocides or antibiotics to the concrete, but as they wash out, they can affect the organisms that are supposed to be in the sewage

clined by 6 percent from 1994 levels, according to the National Pollutant Re lease Inventory. A total of 169,070 tonnes of pollut ants were reported released by 1,758 facilities in 1995,according to the NPRI.

tal hazards.

for treatment at the end.

Releases of toxic substances and known

Deborah Roberts, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering

Producers have also tried spraying pipes with chemicals, but this must be done about every six months and can be both difficult and expensive. Roberts plans to grow a specific biological agent that attacks only those organisms that

or suspected carcinogens, were down by 9 percent from 1994, including a 570

riod. Corrosion of the concrete is the

culprit, creating leaks and allowing in filtration of rainwater that overloads lift

at the University of Houston, is part of a team of researchers who are address

ing wastewater system renewal. Roberts' task is to identify the causes of pipe corrosion and the factors which determine how fast different materials

corrode. Roberts is currently testing three different concrete materials for

corrosion damage. Collection systems accumulate wastewater which includes organic com pounds designed to be treated in the

HjS escapes to the headspace of the pipe

cause corrosion.

"The biological product we're look ing at is a specific virus called a phage and will only attack those bacteria," Roberts says. "The phage is natural and occurs all the time. We'll isolate the

phage from the sewer, grow it in pure culture in large numbers and apply it in

tonne decrease in lead emissions and a

460 tonne drop in releases of benzene. Environment Canada maintains that

technological advances and federal and provincial pollution control programs over the last few years mean that the amount of pollutants released is likely to continue to decline. Future reports of the NPRI are projected to show de creases from 1995 levels of 14 percent in 1996, 18 percent in 1997 and 20 per cent in 1998.

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INSITUFORM solves your pipe problems using nondisrupUve, cost-effective solutions. The most difficult part about some pipe problems is just getting access to the pipe itself. Insltuform Technologies specializes in reha bilitating pressure and gravity pipes which are underground, submerged or located In hard-to-reach places. Using our leading-edge technologies, we repair pipes from the Inside, In most cases with out man-entry or excavation. Extensive independent and internal testing consis tently confirms the success of our methods.

We take sole-source responsibility tor solving your problem, from the develop ment and manufacturing of proprietary products, to the engineering and installa tion of a solution at your site. Our ISO 9000 quality system assures high quality every step of the way. With experts in ail facets of pipe rehabilitation on staff, we have the project manage ment expertise and trained installers to solve your problems quickly, Our

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Industry Update Pulp & Paper Industry posts record shipments Canada's pulp and paper producers posted record shipments in 1997 as the industry continued to focus on cost re ductions, restructuring and consolida tion to become internationally competi tive and financially successful. Pulp and paper shipments increased 5.1% over 1996 to reach a record 29.4

million tonnes, with most of the growth coming from an 8.0% increase in ship ments to the US. Overseas shipments

in net exports in 1997,contributing $30

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billion to the country's balance of trade. Direct employment in the sector in creased 4%, adding 10,000 additional jobs.

Ontario's environment

1997 was also a year in which the industry continued its drive towards en vironmental improvement and sustainability. More than 15 Canadian forestry companies have taken steps toward cer tification under CSA standards for sus

tainable forest management. Canadian mills will meet their year

industry A number of publications are available through Ontario's Green Industry office: Business Development Resources: a Business Guide for Ontario's Environ ment Industry, outlines programs, serv ices and other resources for business

support and technology development as sistance. Marketing to the Ontario Public Service - a Guidefor Ontario's Environment Industry, provides infor

increased 2.8% to 9.7 million tonnes,

2000 targets for reducing toxic emis

mation and key contacts for Ontario

with Latin America showing an impres sive 41% gain to reach 1.2 million

sions and will hold their greenhouse gas emissions well below 1990 levels. In

based environment industry suppliers who are targeting the Ontario Govern

addition, in 1997 the industry introduced

ment market. Economic Assessment:

tonnes.

"The good news is pulp and paper an Environmental Profile Data Sheet shipments reached record levels," said (EPDS)which plays a role similar to the Lise Lachapelle, Canadian Pulp and nutrition advisories on food packaging. Paper Association(CPPA)President and The profile sheet provides customers

it could lead to softer demand in 1998.

with audited information on the life-cy cle environmental attributes of particu lar products.

The Asian economic crisis depressed demand for Canadian newsprint, pulp and paperboard in that region in the fourth quarter of 1997." Forest products were Canada's leader

On the recycling front, Canadian mills continued to increase consumption of recovered paper, using 4.7 million tonnes of recovered paper in 1997,a 4% increase over the previous year.

CEO. "The bad news is that market

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Straub couplings are finding a niche with Contractors and Consuiting Engineers, specificaiiy: • In valve chambers instead of shouidered or piain end coupiings. Why? Less expensive, quicker and easier to instaii. 316 stainiess steei or gaivanized avaiiable. • On buried pipes outside walls as alternate to Dresser style couplings. Why? Gaivanized or stainiess steei materiais as standard. Easier to Denso wrap.

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Oxford County, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada recently selected a Gorman-Rupp above ground lift station for a new residential development in Dimmbo, Ontario. Tony chose a Gorman-Rupp lift station because of it solids handling abihty and reUabihty. "The Gorman-Rupp T Series lift station is easy to maintain and comes equipped the way I want. I had a lot of problems in the past with seiwicing other pumps and I don't

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Industry Update Climate Change Reports released Three regional reports of the Canada Country Study were released in Novem ber 1997.

According to the report Responding to Global Climate Change in the Prai ries, average potential crop yields may fall by 10-30%; however, new crop va rieties could be developed which would diversify the economy. While the growth and productivity within the boreal forest ecosystem could improve in the central and northern regions, it is likely that there will also be increased disturbances such as fire, insects and diseases.

Hydroelectric production will com pete with other uses (primarily agricul tural) for diminishing water. Reduced hydropower production could lead to more dependency on thermal power pro duction, bringing higher fossil fuel con sumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The report on Climate Change and Climate Variability in Atlantic Canada, identifies regional susceptibilities to the impact of climate change and variabil ity. The social and economic conditions

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Potential impacts in the Atlantic re gion include; accelerated rise in sealevel,causing flood risk, coastal erosion,

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of people who live in Atlantic Canada depend greatly on the need to sustain natural resources.

mentation; increased storm frequency and intensity; cooling trends in parts of Atlantic Canada; shifts in the distribu

tion of fish species and migration pat terns; and an increase in insects and/or

disease affecting agriculture. The third report. Responding to Global Climate Change in Canada's Arctic, says the region will be suscepti ble to the impacts of climate change and variability, affecting every major human activity in the Arctic. Some of these changes will bring economic benefits, which may, however, be offset by new problems. A major potential impact of climate change on the Arctic region is that a doubling of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere may cause winter temperatures over the mainland of the Canadian Arctic to rise by 5-7째C over the next century. Summer temperatures

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Landfill project award Vaughan Environmental Consultants, along with Eastcan Geomatics Limited, was awarded an Award of Merit by Ca nadian Consulting Engineer Magazine and the Association of Consulting En gineers of Canada, for their efforts in the Halifax Landfill Siting Process and their contribution to the Halifax Solid

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WCW&WA attracts some 400 delegates ozone oxidation and reverse osmosis

have been proven in pilot tests and field tests as effective treatment technologies for organic contaminants, while reverse osmosis, ion exchange, carbon adsorp tion, and aeration have been tested for

the removal of inorganic contaminants, including some radioactive elements. Current status of drinking water treat ment technologies and potential for the application ofemerging technologies for

WEF President Elect Rhonda Harris,

addresses the meeting. Rhonda is a popular figure at Canadian meetings.

The Western Canada Water & Wastewater Association an

nual conference took place at Winnipeg's Crowne Plaza Hotel. Some 78 exhibitors displayed their equipment and services and almost 400 people attended. The prestigious Fuller Award went to Tom Pearson of Winnipeg.The Bedell Award went to Edmonton's Terry Higo. Other award winners were:

• Al Reimer Award - Alan Jamieson, Minnedosa, MB. • Fl.C. Lindsten Award - Mike Van Den

Bosch, Winnipeg, MB. •Fl.M. Bailey Award - Brent Amy,Win nipeg, MB. In the technical program. Dr. Dinko Tuhtar, P.Eng., from BOMA Environ mental & Safety Inc., touched on new and emerging water treatment technolo gies that address inorganic, organic and microbiological contaminants under the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality. An overview of the se lection process and new technological solutions for each contaminant category was provided. Process selection and design considerations are dependent on the drinking water supply source (sur face water vi. ground water), with pref erence given to those treatment tech nologies that can control multiple con

withdrawal of approximately 30 ML/ day and that the aquifer should be fur ther investigated as a supplemental sup ply. The Phase II study is near comple tion and was designed to determine if the aquifer has the capacity and quality of water required, and to identify any impacts that the proposed withdrawal may have on this or other aquifers. A hydrological/wetlands assessment is also being performed as part of Phase

the Province of Manitoba were dis

II, to further define the wetland charac

cussed.

teristics and to refine the water balance

In a paper by Warren Gendzelevich and Ed Wolowich, Wardrop Engineer ing Inc., Grant Mohr, Tetr£5 Consult ants Inc., and Duane Griffin, City of Winnipeg,the authors traced the City of Winnipeg's groundwater feasibility study. The City of Winnipeg engaged Wardrop Engineering and TetrES Con sultants to provide engineering services in the evaluation of the feasibility of uti lizing a sand and gravel aquifer as a costeffective interim supplemental source to the City's water supply. The aquifer be ing considered (the Sandilands Aquifer) is located near Ross, Manitoba,approxi mately 50 km east-southeast of Winni peg. A three-phase investigation pro gram was developed to evaluate the po tential aquifer yield, water quality, im pacts on wetland ecosystems and wetland-dependent wildlife, and any impacts on local domestic water wells. The project began in January 1993. The Phase I study completed in 1993, concluded that the aquifer likely con tains sufficient water for the proposed

model developed in Phase I, in order to address possible impacts on water lev els and vegetation in the wetlands. The results of the Phase I and II pro grams have shown that the sand and gravel aquifer is very extensive through out the area. Preliminary aquifer char acteristics indicate that the proposed withdrawal rates are feasible. Detailed

aquifer modeling is being performed to determine the impacts of various pump ing schemes and to conceptually design a suitable well field. Additional bore

hole drilling, water level monitoring, groundwater sampling, and aquifer modeling will be conducted during the Phase III study, as part of a preliminary approval to obtain Water Rights licens ing. A detailed Environmental Impact Assessment will be conducted follow

ing the Phase III study, and should the aquifer prove to be a feasible supple mental water supply, applications to obtain Environment Act and Water

Rights licensing will be filed. Ken Skaftfeld, UMA Engineering, Continued overleaf

taminants.

It is shown that the conventional

process train (chemical feed, rapid mix, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration

and disinfection) can often be upgraded to meet the more stringent control lev els. Granular activated carbon (GAG), ultrafiltration, packed tower aeration, Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

Bill Boriase represented the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Public Works Association at the conference. 25

WEF Award

JetMix wins WEF award

TheJetMix Vortex Mixing Sys tem won the Innovative Tech

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For nearly a decade,the JetMix Sys tem has been used by both municipali ties and industrial wastewater experts. Its unique mixing pattern allows for the suspension ofinorganic and organic sol ids to produce a homogenous tank through the application of intermittent mixing. The JetMix System has the ability to produce a completely homogenous tank with only 2-4 days of operation with no prior mixing for as long as 5-7 months before further handling of the biosolids. In the case of anaerobic digesters, the JetMix System is capable of intermit-

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WCW&WA,continuedfrom page 25 Winnipeg and Jack Zhao, National Re search Council, Canada, presented a paper on the use of geotextile and granu lar ballast to prevent flotation of the City of Winnipeg's Shoal Lake Aqueduct. Crushed granular ballast has been placed on a trial basis along a portion of the City of Winnipeg Shoal Lake Aque duct, constructed through swampy ter

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New Technologies

MOEE program could speed marketing cycle for new technologies

The Ontario Ministry of the

Environment is piloting a new program to help smooth the way for new environmen tal technologies going to market in Ontario. "We're creating a win-win situ

To be eligible for the pilot program, a technology must target one of five environmental sectors: drinking water treatment and supply, municipal and in dustrial wastewater treatment, air pol lution, hazardous waste management,or

ation for the environment and for

site remediation.

Ontario's environment industries," said

The ministry covers its cost for pro viding the evaluations under a two-tier

Environment Minister Norm Sterling (centre), when he launched the program in May. "Strict environmental standards promote the development of new and

fee structure:

•$500 to evaluate a chemical, chemical

monitored by ministry staff and by the

coating or construction material used in the processing, treatment, or supply of drinking water.

Ontario Centre of Environmental Tech

•$2,000 for evaluation of new technolo

nology Advancement to determine its value and to assess the need for any changes. NETE targets unproven technologies and proven technologies new to Ontario. As such, it complements the recently

gies or new applications unproven in Ontario that require approval under the

better environmental solutions. This

initiative will help get those solutions working,and then help Ontario sell them to other jurisdictions." Under the New Environmental Tech

nologies Evaluation (NETE) program, companies can have new or unproven technologies evaluated by ministry staff. The ministry provides a letter of opin ion on the applicability of the technol ogy in Ontario, as well as its ability to meet provincial regulations. One advan tage of having the letter is accelerated technical approvals. The written opin ion significantly speeds up the review required for a company to obtain a Cer tificate of Approval to demonstrate their technology. "Before NETE, the technical evalu

ations process for new technologies could take considerable time," says Edward Turner, who heads technical

services for the ministry's standards de velopment branch. "Using this new service, companies can have their tech nologies reviewed and a written opin ion provided within one month." Evalu ations for more complex technologies could take slightly longer. The letter also works in other ways to compress the time it takes to bring new technologies to market. Compa nies with a written opinion from the ministry should have an easier time building confidence in their products with potential clients. The letter of opin ion from Ontario is also an advantage to companies marketing their products abroad, particularly in developing coun

announced federal Environmental Tech

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Environmental Protection Act or the Ontario Water Resources Act.

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Stormwater Runoff

By Graliam J. Bryant, M.Sc., P.Eng.*

Population growth and the price of water

Thereis a growing trend toward

viewing water as a commod ity, as exportable as lumber or oil and natural gas. So what are the factors influencing the market ability of water? The simple answer is population growth. World population is increasing by 50 million to 100 million people per year(US Bureau of Census,

etc.) were considered in the study. Most of the benefits were monetarily assessed based on a "willingness to pay" princi ple (for example, if an environmental benefit adds $50 to timber productivity as a result of increased forest growth,

opment.

A growing concern with ponds that have a dual purpose (stormwater man agement and community amenity),is the potential for bio-accumulation(accumu lation of pollutants in the tissue of ani we should be willing to pay $50 for this mals), in wildfowl (Canadian Wildlife benefit). The estimated average annual Service, 1996), that may use the pond, value of the benefits provided to humans and aesthetic problems related to litter 1997). by the environment was(US)$33 tril and oil or gasoline spills. These prob The spiraling population growth is lion (1994$). lems are prevalent where industrial or increasing the demand for and reducing This value is approximately 1.8 times commercial areas drain into ponds and the supply of clean freshwater resources. the global gross national product(GNP) have prompted several municipalities to Demand is increasing for drinking wa which is approximately (US) $18 tril investigate a treatment train approach to stormwater management where up ter, residential uses (showers, watering lion. This valuation is by no means ex lawns, etc.), and industrial processes, act and there are, no doubt, many peo stream sediment and spill control de while the supply is decreasing due to ple who would contest this figure. The vices, such as the StormceptorÂŽ, are point source and non-point source pol simple fact that economists are trying implemented for industrial and commer lution. Pending demands for water ex to value the services/benefits provided cial sites prior to the municipal storm port from the United States are further by the environment, however, indicates drain network, and hence the pond. fueling interest in the value of water by that people are beginning to recognize The value of water and the scarcity legislators and the general public the linkages between a healthy economy of clean water will only increase as the (Lethbridge Herald, 1997). Humans use and a healthy ecology. world population increases and the ef 54% of freshwater runoff globally, The valuation of water is readily fects that humans have on its quality are which means that less than half of the demonstrated by the cost of properties better understood. This increased value freshwater runoff is available to main near water. Within urban developments, can only strengthen legislative and vol tain ecosystem functions that cleanse homes and offices located in close prox untary efforts to ensure that the quality and purify water so that humans do not imity to clean water have been shown of freshwater resources is protected. contract water-home diseases(Stanford, to have an increased value up to 30% Accordingly, requirements to enhance 1997). (EPA, 1995). The strong affinity of peo the quality of stormwater from urban This heightened interest in water,due ple to water has enabled engineers to developments will continue to be a to its economic value and importance to design stormwater quality/quantity wet prevalent issue, and the day is in sight societal health, is one of the driving ponds and wetlands within subdivisions where stormwater runoff will be viewed forces behind non-point source pollution which are not only functional but pro as the valuable resource nature intended control. Yet, many people still question vide a sense of community and are eco it to be. the need to control non-point source nomically justifiable in terms of the For more information, pollution since they do not view storm- overall revenue generated by a devel circle reply card No. 126 water runoff as a valuable re

source/commodity. People do not question the need for flood control (water quantity) measures since the damages due to flooding without

World Population

the measures, and hence the eco nomic benefits of flood controls,

are readily quantified. The calcu lation of economic benefits related

to stormwater quality measures are not as easily quantified, and are, therefore, much more contentious. So what are the economic ben

efits of clean water? Recently an attempt was made(Costanza et al, 1997) to value the benefits pro vided by the environment to hu mankind. Direct(food, water sup ply, etc.) and indirect benefits (cli mate regulation, erosion control. Year

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Instrumentation

How to select an appropriate open channel wastewater flowmeter

In North America alone hundreds

of millions of dollars are spent an nually in an attempt to better quan tify open channel wastewater

flows. All too often the end-user is left

with an ill-suited instrument for the job at hand. Reasons for this range from poor planning to "loose" manufacturer's product specifications to the municipal

bidding system itself. While the typical

features are truly useful and which are simply niceties. Temporary or portable tlowmeters are likely to be battery pow ered, and should have an integral data logger. If the user intends to place the entire flowmeter in a manhole it is im

portant that the enclosure be completely submersible. Permanent flowmeters are

usually AC or solar powered, very ac curate and reliable, and offer analog (4-

user of a wastewater flow-

meter may have little or no control over many of these problematic areas, there are some simple guidelines that, if followed, will drastically increase the likelihood of an

appropriate flowmeter pur chase.

Why measure flovr? The first and most funda

sold today are equipped with piezo-resistive pressure transducers. These sen sors can be quite accurate and reliable, provided that they are equipped with adequate temperature compensation. Errors due to temperature changes in the flow media can be significant(especially at low levels) and the user should take care to determine what level of tempera ture compensation is required. Gener ally speaking, if the flow media are not likely to fluc tuate more than 10 degrees, a sensor with passive (or re sistive) compensation may be adequate. If greater tem perature fluctuations(due to heavy inflow or industrial source flow)are anticipated, a sensor with active (or dig ital) compensation is war

mental question that needs to be addressed is "why do I

ranted.

"Bubbler" pressure trans ducers are not affected by temperature but do require a source of pressurized air.

need to measure flow?" Un

derstanding what the real needs are will go a long way toward choosing the right instrument. Some of the most common reasons for

This can be in the form of a

A band/sensor installation tool is used for above ground, no man hole entry Installations.

measuring flow are: • Inflow and infiltration studies.

• Capacity studies. • Custody transfer billing. • Regulatory compliance. • Process control.

Each of these applications carries with it implicit requirements regarding accuracy, reliability, ease of use, and needs for maintenance. I&I studies,for

example, usually require flowmeters that ai-e very portable, simple to oper ate, and accurate to within 5-10%. At

the other end of the spectrum, billing meters are usually the most accurate available and, as a result, are often more

difficult to install (installation difficulty is usually offset by the fact that it is in stalled only once). The application will also drive your need for product features and function ality. Modem electronics make possi ble an unbelievable number of"bells and

whistles" even on products as seemingly mundane as wastewater flowmeters. It

is very important to determine which *Marsh-McBirney, Inc. 30

pressurized canister or an electric pump. Another consideration

20 mA or VDC) outputs for use in re cording data and/or SCADA systems. The right technology This article will focus on velocity/ area open channel flowmeters. For years these were available from only one or two manufacturers. However,a number

of new products have become available in recent years, making the decision as to which instrument is best quite diffi cult.

The fundamental principle under which each of these velocity/area flow meters operates is the Continuity Equa tion Q=VA where Q (flow) is equal to V (mean velocity) multiplied by A (cross-sectional area). The difference between many of the available products lies in the method by which mean ve locity and area are measured and how those values are processed in an attempt to accurately represent flow rate. Area measurement is accomplished either by a submerged pressure trans

when choosing a submerged pressure transducer is whether it has been de

signed to reduce the effects of velocity on depth measurement. A well designed depth sensor will exhibit little or no ad verse effect as flow media passing the sensors increase in speed. Poorly de signed sensors may exhibit a great deal of erroneous fluctuation (especially at high velocities). "Look-down" ultrasonic depth sen sors offer the advantage of being nonintrusive and, therefore, unaffected by water velocity. These sensors do have "dead-bands"(distances near the trans ducer where depth readings are not pos sible) that can significantly restrict the

range of flows that can be measured. Additionally, the speed of sound varies with ambient air temperature and some reliable form of temperature compensa tion should be provided. The methods available for measur

ducer or a "look-down" non-contact ul

ing velocity have increased in recent years. New methods mean more choices

trasonic transducer. It should be noted

for the user but also add another dimen

that the great majority of instruments

sion of difficulty in choosing the appro-

Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

By Kevin Marsh* priate technology. Electromagnetic(EM)sensors have been used widely for almost 20 years. EM sensors utilize Faraday's Law, ac curately measuring the speed of a con ductive fluid as it passes through a mag netic field. As the fluid velocity is al ways measured at the same location (just above the sensor) it is possible to deter mine site specific relationships between the velocity at the sensor and mean ve locity. Site profiling and calibration usually produce data that can provide the user with a flow accuracy of +!- 5%. Where site profiling is not used, look up tables can produce calibration coef ficients that can provide the user with a flow accuracy of+/-10%. An additional advantage to this sensing technology lies in the fact that velocity and area are measured on the same plane,thereby in creasing overall accuracy. Because EM sensors work only in conductive fluids, they are inappropri ate for the measurement of hydrocar bons, ultra-pure water,or other non-con ductive media. Additionally, if the sens ing electrodes are covered by grease or paper, accurate readings will not be pos sible. Some EM sensor designs address

this problem through non-fouling and/ or debris shedding sensor designs. Another class of sensor employs con tinuous wave(CW)ultrasound and the Doppler principle in determining veloc ity. Basically a continuous wave of

wastewater and stormwater applications impractical. Like CW Doppler sensors, coating of the transducer by grease, paper, or other material will interfere with proper signal transmission and re ception, resulting in erratic readings.

sound is transmitted into the flow me

Finally, we have seen ultrasonic tran sit-time technology, once limited to full pipes, applied to large open channels. With this technology transducers are placed on the inside pipe wall and an

dia at a fixed frequency. Reflected sig nals(from suspended solids, bubbles, or the surface) return to the sensor at a dif ferent frequency that defines that par ticular reflector's velocity. The returned signal is treated as a direct representa tion of mean velocity. A much newer arrival to this market

is the time-gated ultrasonic Doppler sen sor. Unlike CW Doppler sensors these sensors transmit ultrasonic energy in discreet bursts. Because the signals are sent in bursts, the distance to the reflec

tor can be determined thi^ough the know ledge of the sonic velocity in water and the time required to receive the return signal. A rough profile of the velocity

ultrasonic beam is transmitted across the

flow, parallel to the surface. Because the speed of sound in still water is known, an accurate measure of the wa

ter speed through that beam can be de termined via a measure of the actual

speed of the transmitted sound. Through the use of multiple beams, accuracy of 1-2% is achievable. Because of cost and installation com

plexity, ultrasonic transit-time flowmeters are typically used in larger pipes,

distribution is determined and mean ve

those with a diameter of 24 inches and

locity is calculated. While this is a very new technology,flow accuracy of+/-2% to -i-/-5% is probable. Time-gated Doppler technology re lies on minimum depths that make many

greater. This technology does not work particularly well in very dirty flows or slurries.

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Decontaminating Groundwater

Metal-enhanced dechlorination process for In situ groundwater remediation

TheUS has 300,000to400,000 hazardous waste sites. To

date, conventional methods have not succeeded in clean

ing up the contaminated groundwater. Although statistics are most readily available for the US, there is no ques tion that similar problems exist in Canada and all other developed coun tries.

EnviroMetal Technologies Inc.(ETI) was founded in 1992 to develop and market the metal-enhanced dechlorina

tion process invented at the University of Waterloo. Results of demonstration

tests prompted ETI to start actively mar keting the technology in 1995. ETI's technology can be used on the class of compounds called chlorinated organics which are often found at these

A field test conducted at a University at Waterloo test site, involved the Installa tion otan In situ reactive wall. Once the reactive metal is placed in the excava tion and the sheet piling removed, groundwater passes through the wall under naturally flowing conditions and contaminants In the groundwater are degraded.

hazardous waste sites.

Technology The technology is based on the fact that metals - and especially iron - do nate electrons for the reductive dechlori

nation of dissolved chlorinated organic compounds. That is to say, in a corro sion-type reaction, the iron is oxidized and the organic compound is reduced. ETI has developed in situ or in place applications in which a permeable wall containing granular iron is installed across the path of a contaminated plume in the groundwater. The contaminants are destroyed when the water passes through the wall. The technology is environmentally friendly on two counts. First, it is pas sive which saves water and energy and

keeps operating and maintenance costs down. Second, one of its main compo nents, the iron fillings, is a waste mate rial which helps to conserve resources. The first field demonstration unit was

installed at an experimental site at Ca nadian Forces Base Borden in 1991. The initial concentrations of trichloro-

ethylene at 270 milligrams per litre(mg/ L) and tetrachloroethylene at 43 mg/L were high. This installation removed about 90

percent of the contaminants. With a thicker wall or a higher percentage of iron within the wall, the process prob ably could have removed all of the con taminants. Of particular importance, however,is the fact that this demonstra

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material.

Though highly en couraging, the dem onstrations need to

go on longer to be considered unquali fied successes.

Opportunities In the next 30 years, an estimated

$750 billion will be spent cleaning up the groundwater at US hazardous waste sites. Extrapolating this figure to the developed world, it would seem that there is an enormous market for this

technology. At present, ETI's process is designed for in situ treatment of groundwater. But the company is modifying the technol ogy so that it can be used for treating contaminated groundwater above ground as well as for treating industrial wastewater streams. This would greatly increase the company's potential market. The initial - and continuing - part nership in developing the technology involved the Waterloo Centre for

Groundwater Research, the University of Waterloo and Beak Consultants Ltd.

These organizations are active partici pants in and contributors to ETI.'In ad dition, ETI has signed a co-operative agreement with the Corporate Research and Development Laboratory of Gen eral Electric and is currently engaged in discussions with a company in Germany. The initial phase of the development of this technology was partially sup ported by the Ontario Ministry of Envi ronment.

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Alpine Industries / Sima Contact: Louis Dillemente

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Storage tanks; fiberglass and steel.

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Nasco Plastics Booth: 308

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PCB Focus

Advanced plasma arc technology for PCBs and other difflcult-to-treat toxic wastes

Withtheincreasing scrutiny

of incineration as a

thermal hazardous waste

destruction technology, the intense heat-generating capability of an electrically created plasma arc is caus ing heightened interest among regulators and generators of dangerous waste ma terials from PCBs to chemical weapons. In many of the current plasma-based technologies, a transferred plasma arc is used solely as a source of extreme heat

in Figure 1. The PARCON flow chart shows a 66 kilogram/hour design to be built in 1998. A non-transferred arc-type air plasma generator is used to create the plasma field. Direct current discharge between two water cooled electrodes is

used to heat tangentially introduced air. The plasma arc column is stabilized by turbulent air flow. The hot air plasma

to create a molten bath in which waste

materials can be processed. While this design results in a system which is capable of treating a wide vari ety of solid wastes, it is a definite sec ond-best for destruction of highly toxic liquid and gaseous wastes. The key to attaining the higher Destruction/Re moval Efficiency(DRE)demanded for effective destruction of highly chlorin ated liquid and gaseous wastes is to in ject the waste, at the optimum feed rate, directly into a plasma field adjacent to the point of plasma generation; a point where the temperature is upwards of

tal section) of the reactor.

Gas directing plates in the horizontal section of the reactor ensure continuous

turbulent flow. Regulation of the gas temperature is achieved by adjusting the waste and surplus air flow rates. "Space cooling" prevents a rise in temperature at the inner wall of the reactor to higher than 1400°C.

5000°C. Using this method, DRE of 99.999999%, or higher, is attainable on compounds such as high concentration PCBs,pesticides,and chemical weapons. While this approach sounds simple enough, as usual, the devil is in the de tails. Eor example, the "quality" of the waste is an important factor, in that: the viscosity may need to be modified with a solvent additive; filtering may be re quired ahead of the feed nozzle to en sure there is no sediment or metal con

tent; or, the heating value of the waste may need to be modified. Next,the feed nozzle design is critical in that; the waste needs to be formed into the right size droplets at various pressures and feed rates. Thirdly,reactor temperature con trol is critical to ensure that complete destruction of the waste occurs in the

plasma field and, subsequently, that the newly formed gases are cooled at the precise optimum rate, to prevent toxic byproduct formation, especially dioxin and furan.

Waste Destruction Process

The plasma arc process is illustrated *Vice President - Sourcing, Plasma Environmental Technologies 38

perature of 3000-5000°C. Oxidation of the organic constituents of the waste begins to occur, due to the oxygen in the plasma field. At this stage of the process, the quantity of oxygen is less than that required for complete stoichiometric oxidation, therefore, CO and H, emerge as well(by partial pyrolysis),re ducing the nitrogen oxides created by the high temperature plasma. The process of oxidation of the pyrolysis products begins in the first stage (vertical ascending section) of the reactor, with air introduced radially in several steps. The CO and H, content of the gas oxidizes gradually until it gets to the end of the second stage (horizon

Air Plasma Generator.

leaves the generator and enters the re actor at temperatures of 3000 to over 5000°C.

Operation of the plasma generator re quires DC electric power,argon gas (for start-up), compressed air, and cooling water. The operation is harmonized by a Programmable Logic Controller as the central control unit.

After starting the air plasma genera tor, the reactor is heated to operating temperature with a solvent or light oil pumped from a feed tank. The solvent can also be used to modify the heating value, viscosity, or consistency, of the waste. When the reactor has reached

operating temperature, the waste is pumped to the reactor where it is fed directly into the plasma field at the gen erator, situated at the bottom of the as

cending vertical section of the 'U'shaped reactor. The liquid waste is instantly disinte grated in the ionized plasma field and transformed to a gas due to the field tem

The reactor is operated under a nega tive pressure of 100-150 mm water, maintained by an exhaust fan. Air is sup plied tb the plasma generator and the atomizers by a compressor(an accessory to the generator), while excess air for the reactor is supplied by a turbo-venti lator.

In the third stage (vertical descend ing section of the reactor),the gas is rap idly quenched,or cooled,by water spray, to 130-150°C. The quench process is precisely controlled to ensure cooling through the range of 500-350°C in less than 1/lOth of a second. Rapid cooling is required to prevent formation of toxic dioxins and furans. Condensed water,

emerging at the final cooling of the gas, accumulates in a storage tank and is re used, and if required, supplemented by network water.

The gas enters the bottom of a neu tralizing scrubber, or washing tower, under mild depression at a temperature of 130-150°C. Ascending the scrub ber,the gas is neutralized by contact with the alkali scrubbing solution, which is pump-driven into counter-current circu lation. The washing liquid is a light wa ter solution of sodium carbonate which, in the case of chlorinated waste, con-

Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

By Colin Andrews* verts the hydrochloric acid to sodium

PARCON fPLASMA ARC CONVERSION^

chloride.

Figure 1

WASTE DESTRUCTION SYSTEM PLASUA OMROmiCMTAt TCCHNOLOOeS MC.

The circulated scrubbing solution is heated by the hot gas, and in turn, the gas becomes saturated with steam. A circulating pump feeds back the warmed liquid from the bottom of the tower through a water cooler into the top of the tower. The now warmed cooling water is cooled in a re-circulating cooler and is then pumped back into the cooler. In this way, the majority of the steam arriving with the exit gas leaves at the top of the scrubber together with the exit gas and, after being condensed at the bottom of the cooler, it is then recycled into the system. The clean gas exits through the exhaust aided by a suction

WASTE

FEED TANK

SCRUBBER EFFLUENT

NEUTRAUZER IN

AIR ITED AIR PLASMA CENERATOK

WATER MAKE UP

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MATERIAL aOW

WASTE •

7. NEUTRAUZER COOLER END CAS CONDENSER a. EXIT CAS SUCTION FAN

1. m FEED FAN 2. WASTE FEED TANK

COOLING WATER '

9. HEAT EXCHANGER 10. CONDENSED WATER TANK

3. SOLVENT FEED TANK 4. AIR PIASMA GENERATOR

NEUTRAUZER '

fan.

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11. RECIRCULAT1NC COOUNG WATER TANK

5. PLASMA REACTOR 5A. HOT GAS QUENCHER 6. GAS NEUTRAUZING SCRUBBER

12. NEUTRAUZED WASTE TANK 13. NEUTRAUZER DILUTION TANK

Waste Destruction Tests

A prototype machine was tested in Hungary under the direction of the Hun garian Institute for Environmental Pro tection using testing protocols compa rable to those of West Germany and the USA. ORE greater than 99.999999% was verified by the Institute in three tests using 1:1 mixtures of commercial PCBs

Table 1 shows air emissions from this program.

benzene, biphenyl and 1,2-di-chloro-

In 1997 the same unit was used to

excess of 99.9999% and, very signifi cantly,dioxin/furan TEQ emissions were only 0.03 ng/Nm^,in stark contrast with

conduct tests for ORE and dioxin/furan

benzene in No.2 Fuel Oil. ORE was in

TEQ emissions at the US-EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory. cun^ent emission limits of 0.2 ng/Nm' Acurex Environmental Corp.,the EPA's (US-EPA). (Subsequent tests conducted contract environmental engineering firm, by Acurex at the EPA site produced ORE conducted the testing on a PCB sunrt- in excess of99.99999% on simulants of gate mixture comprised of chloro- various chemical weapon agents and

(42% chlorine content) and ethanol at feed rates from 8-12.4 kilograms/hour.

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PCB Focus, cont' Table 1: Air Emissions vs Ambient Air Quaiity Standards Measured Value in Testing* •30 ppmv

Chemical Waste Fed

Air Polluting Substance

Ethyl Alcohol (reference substance)

• carbon monoxide

• hydrochloric acid • hydrocarbons

• nil

Chlorobenzene

• carbon monoxide

•60 ppmv •20 ppmv •8 ppmv

• hydrochloric acid • hydrocarbons PCB

• carbon monoxide

(Aroclor1242) (42% chlorine)

• hydrochloric acid • hydrocarbons

•5 ppmv

nated materials, such as transformers,

•80 ppmv • 30 ppmv •10 ppmv

•Measured Values are significantly better than the standards proposed in the 4/19/96 Fee/era//?eg/sferfor adoption by US-EPA. propellants). Process Safety Among various significant benefits of this technology is process safety. In the event of a shutdown due to system failure the volume of incompletely neu tralized waste gas emission is below de tectable limits. A sequential emergency shutdown occurs in 30 seconds, during which time 50% of the waste gas in the

Applications In addition to highly chlorinated PCBs this type of plasma arc system is capable of destroying 36 of the top 50 compounds on the US EPA national pri orities list. Of the remaining 14, 9 are metals and 2 others can be destroyed in an integrated system utilising this tech nology as the final stage. This suggests

reactor will be neutralized. The remain

of its transportability, it would be well situated at existing hazardous waste

ing 50% of the reactor gas which is not

completely neutralized is Im'in the 12.5 kg unit, and 7m^ in the 66 kg unit, which is insufficient volume to produce detect able emissions of dangerous substances.

tion multiple 66 kg/hr units operated from one control module can be speci fied, thus maintaining compactness and mobility in a high capacity plant. On sites containing PCB contami

that in addition to the obvious benefits

landfills or transfer stations.

The compact and mobile features en able PCB owners to bring the equipment to a site. For large inventory destruc

soils, and debris, this type of plasma arc equipment is readily integrated with other technologies, including the transferred-arc-molten-bath technologies de scribed at the beginning of this article, as the final stage of the decontamina tion and destruction process. For ex ample, transformers would be drained of askarel which is pumped directly into the plasma arc equipment, while the transformer is either recycled or de stroyed. Soils and debris would first be cleaned in a thermal desorption unit. The PCBs and other compounds, sepa rated in the desorption process, would then be fed to the plasma arc unit for final treatment.

Finally, in-line installation at manu facturing or processing plants which generate large volumes of highly toxic liquid waste is another promising appli cation.

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PCB Focus

PCB management- the current status the second COA Progress Report was issued as well as an annex entitled

Detailed Report Activities and Results 1995-1997. This Progress Report states that Canada and Ontario have:

• Decommissioned 46% of the highlevel PCBs(COA target is 90%). •Destroyed 30% of the high-level PCBs in storage(COA target is 50%). • Destroyed 20% of the low-level PCB wastes.

A review of the second COA Report indicates that in the baseline year of 1994, when the COA was signed, Ontario had the following inventory: • 18,600 tonnes of high-level PCBs in storage.

• 10,650 tonnes of high-level PCBs in service.

It has been nearly 20 years since

• 98,000 tonnes of low-level PCBs in

PCB contaminated fluorescent light ballasts. PCBs were first banned in Ontario. Since then owners of PCB wastes

have generally placed them in se cure storage in accordance with Provin cial and Federal legislation. Some 10 years ago, the fire in St. Basile-le-Grande in Quebec generated a flurry of activity in Ontaiio as the Min istry of Environment initiated a massive inspection of all PCB storage sites. The results of this focus on PCB manage ment were eventually outlined in MOE's 1993 document Inventory ofPCB Stor age Sites in the Province of Ontario. The 1993 Inventory identified a to tal of 1529 PCB storage sites of which 1,125 (73.5%) were minor sites (less than 1 tonne) and 404 (26.5%) were major PCB storage sites. By April, 1995, MOE records indi cated that a total of 1,723 PCB storage sites existed in Ontario. This represents an increase of nearly 200 sites in a two year period or an average of 8 sites per month. Of the 1,723 sites, approxi mately 1,309 (76%) were minor sites and the remaining 414(24%) were ma jor sites. While the list of PCB storage sites is constantly changing, recent dis cussions with MOE representatives re veal that the number of sites peaked in 1995 and has steadily decreased to ap proximately 1,500. A new updated in ventory is expected to be released in 'Environmental Management Group of Proctor & Redfern Limited 42

storage.

mid-1998. It will be interesting to de termine if the number of major sites re maining in the Province has decreased. However, anyone hoping to access the information will reportedly be required to pay a user fee. Details have yet to be determined.

No estimate is provided of the weight of low-level PCBs in service. Of the

total of 127,250 tonnes recorded in the

baseline year, an estimated 28,057 tonnes (22%) has actually been de stroyed. The remainder are either in storage or in service.

In the July 1994 Canada-Ontario Agreement(COA)for the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem, the following targets for phase-out ofPCBs by the end of the year 2000 were identified: • Decommission 90% of high level

Currently, Ontario still has approxi mately 1,500 PCB storage sites. At first glance it appears that in Ontario we are right back where we started in 1993. However,on the positive side nearly 200

PCBs in use.

tory, either eliminated by disposal or

• Destroy 50% of high level PCBs now in storage.

consolidated from several company-

•Accelerate the destruction oflow-level

Disposal or consolidation is an ac tivity that is supported by MOE in the 1996 document entitled Responsive En vironmental Protection-Reforming En vironment & Energy Regulation in On

PCB waste.

In order to encourage and assist own ers of small quantity PCB wastes to dis pose of them. Environment Canada and MOE developed an outreach program. The targetted audience was the owners of the 390 registered PCB storage sites in Metro Toronto (as of September, 1996). At the time of the program, in the fall of 1996, 80 organizations were represented - a lower than expected number of participants. A second outreach program was conducted in Thunder Bay in March, 1997 and was attended by 45 PCB owners. Similar outreach programs are proposed for other regions of Ontario and plans are underway to conduct these outreach pro grams in the spring of 1998 in East, West and Central Region locations. Progress is occurring and in late 1997

sites have been removed from the inven

owned locations into one location.

tario. This document was issued for a

Public Consultation period which ended on September 16,1996. Included in the document is a discussion of proposed reform in the area of waste management. Ontario's current Regulations, O.Reg 352 and O.Reg 362,covering PCB man agement,are scheduled to be revised and consolidated into one new general Regu lation regarding waste management. Also in the document,the consolidation and destruction ofPCB waste is encour

aged in order to comply with the COA. The intent of streamlining the Regula tions is to: "simplify and standardize ad ministrative requirements controlling storage and movement ofPCBs and set

Environmental Science <& Engineering, March 1998

By Peter Beukema, P.Eng., CEA* approvals requirementsfor mobile PCB destruction facilities according to the risk to the environment".

In November, 1997 a second docu

ment entitled Better, Stronger, Clearer — Environmental Regulations for Ontario, was issued outlining the results of preliminary discussions and the ben efits of reform. The intent of streamlin

ing the Regulations as outlined in the 1996 document remains the same and

revisions to both O.Reg 352 and O.Reg 362 will be incorporated into a new con solidated Waste Management Regula tion(O.Reg 347). The timetable for ac tion indicates that posting to the Envi ronmental Bill of Rights Registry for public comment was expected to occur in February, 1998. As each owner of a PCB storage site is aware. Directors Instructions under

O.Reg.362(formerly 11/82)are required in order to establish a registered PCB storage site. Usually one of the condi tions states that: "For wastesfor which a destruction method is commercially available, a timetable for this destruc tion shall be provided within six months or details justifying the continued stor

age shall be provided in the annual re port..." This condition does not appear to be routinely enforced by MOB. Since at least the mid-1980s there

have been a variety of "commercially available" technologies for owners of PCB waste. These include incineration, thermal decontamination, and chemical

decontamination among others. The in centive, however,for proper off-site dis posal has been almost non-existent; some owners of PCB waste, however, have eliminated their PCBs for reasons

200 sites that have been eliminated, the

majority ofPCB owners have reportedly sent their wastes to Alberta for incinera

tion. MOB reports that approximately 8,000 tonnes have been shipped to Swan Hills; this includes both PCBs in stor

age and PCBs that were removed di rectly from "in-service" to disposal, thereby "skipping" the storage step. While a variety of options are avail able, including several new ones, the preferred altemative among the major ity of the owners of PCB storage sites continues to be long-term storage. ■

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Many of these "commercially avail able" technologies are expensive, re quire a large stockpile to be cost-effec tive and must have the appropriate Cer tificate of Approvals. Public support is also required. Transportation and dis posal of wastes are generally too high for many small quantity PCB owners and even the owners of major PCB stor age sites find the process long, tedious and expensive. Of the approximately

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Whilethe world's at ention

was focused on the United Nations' Confer

ence on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, it seemed that little attention was being paid to the many effective greenhouse gas reduction opportunities right here at home. In most ofthe communities where

we live, a hydrocarbon known as meth ane seeps out of the nearby landfill and discharges into the atmosphere. Not only is methane worth controlling because it is a potent global warmer, but its con

doing anyway. A review of the benefits of landfill gas capture and utilization suggest that this measure could in fact be the champion of no regrets measures in the short term:

• Methane is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warmer. Capturing and combusting methane re sults in a twenty times reduction in glo bal warming potential. • Landfill gas capture is cost-effec tive. For a 5 million tonne landfill, the

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of displacing fossil fuel use. Fossil fuel use is, of course, the number one

High temperature combustion oflandfill gas destroys a high percentage of comingled contaminants. Though usually only 1% by volume, the trace contami nants in landfill gas include volatile or ganic compounds which are smog pre cursors. At least 98% of these trace

compounds can be destroyed by exist ing technology. • Quick reduction in radiative forc ing. Methane's atmospheric lifespan (812 years) is brief compared to carbon dioxide (200 years). If large amounts of methane are prevented from entering the atmosphere, its at mospheric concentration should fall quickly and its contribution to the green

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house effect should fall

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may wonder why every landfill in the country isn't rigged up with a landfill gas capture sys tem. It is true that many

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Sewerage

By Steven Bold, P.Eng.S and Mike Schmidtler, P.Eng.

Speedy diversion chamber instaiiation aiiows Calgary siphon inspection

When the City of Calgary, Alberta Sewer Division

detected high coliform readings in the Elbow River, a fast, efficient method for in

specting a steel sanitary siphon was nec essary. The 80-year-old siphon was lo cated in a difficult position and attempts to perform ultrasonic or video inspec tion were unsuccessful. The siphon was constructed in an old-style H-configuration with a deep sump at each end and a horizontal crossing approximately 2.5m below the river bed. That configu ration, along with live sanitary flow con ditions of more than 500 litres per sec ond, made entry by either workers or equipment impossible. In addition,the project was near a city street and the equipment needed to per form the work would block the road for

the duration of the project. This made a speedy job even more imperative. The answer was to use precast con crete to construct a permanent diversion chamber that allowed inspection of the siphon. The project took only three days to complete, greatly reducing the poten tial for disruption to local traffic. The siphon in question was the southernmost of two siphons crossing the river and it serviced roughly 2800 hectares (6,916 acres), including the downtown business core. A temporary spot repair of the upstream chamber had eliminated the readings of contamina tion, but the condition of the siphon re

The use of precast concrete to construct the permanent diversion chamber ailowed isoiation gates to be mounted and other hardware to be instaiied under factory quality control conditions. redirected to an existing alternate sewer which conveyed the flow to the north siphon. Once the temporary diversion was in place, Lafarge Pipe and Standard Prod ucts took measurements to design and build the precast sections,complete with the openings necessary to tie the exist ing sewers into the new chamber. The use of precast concrete to con struct the permanent diversion chamber allowed isolation gates to be mounted

isolate the two 900mm inlets, permanent stainless steel guides were bolted to in

crete sewer lines all converged into the existing cast-in-place chamber, which already had been added onto twice. Steel plates and inflatable plugs were

Also, using a preconstructed chamber significantly reduced the length of time the diversion needed to remain in place. The aiTangement of the existing sani tary sewers allowed for the use of precast 3000mm x 2400mm box culvert

and the north siphon for an indefinite period. An inspection is currently underway to determine if the existing siphon can be used or if a new one is required to be constructed in its place. The use of precast concrete allowed

used to divert the flow from the 1200mm

sections with a 1500 diameter mono

for shorter construction time and mini

line and from one of the 900mm sew

lithic opening and a top slab with a 1050mm square galvanized steel hinged hatch. The hatch was designed for CS750 highway loading. To facilitate isolation of the siphon,

mal disruption to the community. It also provided quality control conditions in constructing the diversion chamber, which made thorough inspection of the siphon possible. For more information, circie repiy card No. 142

mained unknown.

Although the manual di version necessary to construct a new chamber was fairly in volved, it would only need to be performed once. One

tion. On the outside, a 700mm diam

eter steel flange was cast flush with the wall to allow for future connection. To

serts cast into the chamber wall with

removable stainless steel plates slid into the guides. Also, an intermediate, aluminum safety platform, manufac tured by MSU Mississauga Ltd., was and other hardware to be installed un factory installed below the opening, der factory quality control conditions. complete with a removable handrail. The City of Calgary in Ttie answer was to use precast concrete to stalled the new chamber in construct a permanent diversion chamber that October of 1996. With the aiiowed inspection of the siphon. The project took chamber in place and the gates oniy three days to compiete, greatiy reducing the closed, the flow can now be potentiai for disruption to iocai traffic.

abandoned 750mm line, one live 1200mm line and two live 900mm con

ers, around the chamber from an up stream manhole to a manhole down stream. The other 900mm sewer was

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Potable Water

Water filtration -fundamentals and design

Filtration as a water treatment process has been known for thousands of years. People observed that the water quality was better in wells or dug holes than in

the river itself. It was found that the far

ther from a river and the deeper the well, the cleaner the water. This led to the

cycle duration are readily evident: • effluent quality • pressure drop across filter media. A number offorces have an influence

on the filtration process: Adhesion, Van der Waal, Gravity, etc. Today most at tention is paid to adhesion under the electrical charge of the particles and of filter bed materials. Most pollutants in the water have a negative charge. The

basic understanding about natural filtra tion processes which even today is be ing applied in modem filtration opera

common filtration materials have a

tions.

negative charge too. So,to increase the

What is filtration? It is a

separation of organic and inorganic particles of vary ing sizes from the fluid(wa ter in this case is the media). How does it work? This

question is more difficult to explain. Today there are a

T pressure - filtrocycle duration until pressure drop across the media reaches designed figure. What does this formula mean? Sim

ply, that in a properly designed filter, accumulation of polluting particles is observed over a wide depth of the me dia(e.g. not on surface layer only). The filtrocycle ends and the filter is ready for regeneration (back-washing) when effluent quality starts to drop at the same time as a maximum design pressure drop occurs. This basic principle is used today by most filter designers. Generally, the fil ter design consists of the fol lowing segments: •Process design • Hydraulic design • Mechanical design.

number of theories, some of

Let's examine each of the

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which are quite sophisti

above mentioned stages. Process Design With this stage the main process parameters must be

cated. All of the advanced

theories are empirical and are based on field or pilot studies conducted by scien

found and calculated:

tists. But almost all of them

- filter capacity

have a number of similari ties. We would like to sum

- filtration rate (abstract linear velocity)

marize them.

filtration area

media: material, size,

Water containing undis-

solved particles penetrates Burlington into the filtration material. This is the

beginning of the process. A portion of the particles is retained in the first layer of the filter material; the rest of the par ticles pass the filter and are discharged with the effluent. Particles begin to ac cumulate in the first layer. When the concentration of particles reaches the maximum volume which can be held,

they (retained particles on upper layer) start to tear away and relocate to the next layer. When the particle concentration in the next layer reaches a maximum concentration, the same process repeats and the particles relocate to the next lower layer. The process repeats until the last (lowest) layer is reached. When particles begin to tear away from the last layer and discharge from the media,the effluent quality drops. At the same time, with particle accumula tion in the media, the pressure drop across the media increases proportion ally to the number of accumulated par ticles. The two main criteria for filtro*Zenon Environmental Inc. 48

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uniformity co-efficient adhesive properties it is necessary to (UC), geometric shape, bed depth increase the electrical charge of sus - filtrocycle duration pended particles or of media granules. - main and secondary back-washing cri The first goal (for suspended particles) teria: effluent quality, pressure drop, can be reached by well-known chemi time, influent quality, etc. cal processes named coagulation and - backwashing procedure,sequence and flocculation. The second goal (for me duration: by water, by water and air, dia granules) can be reached by proper etc. media selection having the highest elec - operational procedure. trical potential, by special preparation Hydraulic Design (e.g. crushing and screening or by cre The main goal of this stage is to design ating artificial medias with specific a filter which meets the following re properties). quirements: Design As discussed earlier, the filtrocycle - all of the media will be loaded uni formly during filtration mode duration is characterized by effluent - all of the media will be cleaned uni quality, and pressure drop across filter formly during back-washing mode media. all particles removed from the media So,the main filtration formula devel will be discharged from the filter ops by itself: Hydraulic design includes: T protection = T pressure and with sanitary safety factor 10 - 30%: - shell depth calculation T protection = (I.I - 1.3) T pressure - water distribution system design for uniform water distribution and collec

where;

T protection - filtrocycle duration when effluent quality still meets required Standard.

tion during filtration and during backwashing - air-distribution system design

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By Vyacheslav Frenkel* - water collection system or channels design - pipes and components sizing. Mechanical Design This stage includes the following; - proper material selection for each of the filter components: shell material and lining, - water distribution and collection sys tems, air distribution systems, valves, etc.

- schedule and thickness for all compo nents

- components shape and configuration design - back-washing components calculation and selection( back-washing pumps, air-blowers, water reservoirs, water towers, etc.). Mono-media and Multimedia Filters

There are two major choices in filter design: Mono-media filter

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What type of media is better? There is no easy, correct answer. The best an swer can be reached from field pilot-

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Water Recycling In Space

NASA evaluates water purification system

A team from NASA at

Marshall Space Flight

Center in Huntsville, Ala

bama, is testing a system that will recycle all the water produced by astronauts aboard the intemational space station - including perspiration, shower and shaving water, even urine into fresh drinking water. NASA and its intemational partners are beginning assembly of the Space Station - a permanent, orbiting labora tory where astronauts will live and work year-round. Weight and storage limita tions will make continued recycling of water necessary, and even then, water

will be rationed.

A major series of tests at Marshall has been completed on the water recy cling system planned for the Space Sta tion and researchers are giving it high marks.

Eighty volunteers participated in the six-month study to evaluate the effi ciency of the system. Bach day approxi mately 20 of the volunteers would each complete an hour of activities - exer cising, eating, showering, washing their hands, shaving, brushing their teeth, and using the bathroom -in the test facility. On earth, water treatment plants use biological treatment to purify the water. Microorganisms metabolize and destroy contaminants. In contrast, the Space Station water recovery system uses physical and chemical processes to re move contaminants.

The Space Station Urine Processor uses distillation to evaporate and remove the more volatile components of urine, including the water. Less volatile and less desirable components remain as a liquid brine, which eventually has to be disposed of as waste. The Space Station Water Processor uses four technologies to purify the water. These technologies include particulate filtration, ion exchange, carbon adsorption, and catalytic oxidation. Fol lowing these steps, iodine is added as a microbial biocide, similar to the use of

chlorine in most municipal water sys tems. Last of all, the quality of the water is monitored to ensure the purifi cation process is working and water quality is acceptable. The system successfully recycled and purified the wastewater into potable water for 146 days, including the first 50

The water recycling system planned for the International Space Station recently completed a major series of tests at l\/larshall Space Flight Center In Huntsville, Alabama. Volunteers completed one-hour routines of daily activities in the test facility. The system collected and recycled all the water In the environment, including humidity from respiration, perspiration and microwave use; wastewater from showers, hand washes,shaves, toothbrushes and urine.

128 days in which the product water was recycled for use by the volunteers. This is significant because of the concern that contaminants not efficiently removed by the system would begin to accumulate after extended recycling. Of course, a significant measure of the system's success was the taste test. Test subjects said the water was very acceptable for drinking. There were no bad tastes or odours reported. â&#x20AC;˘ "The system was able to remove all microbial health hazards from the

water," said Monsi Roman,chief micro-

biologist for the Space Station life sup port system.

Viral test procedures for the system were developed as a cooperative effort by Marshall and the US EPA. During testing, a mixture of four viruses was added to the water. Only viruses capa ble of infecting bacteria were used so there was no risk to the volunteers par ticipating in the study. The water was then processed through the system. Test results show that the water processor is capable of removing all viruses present in the wastewater.

The processing system being devel oped for the Space Station can effi ciently recycle water containing a high concentration of contaminants. The less

water used, the higher the concentration of contaminants.

The system is claimed to be very ef ficient-10,000 times better than the av

erage water treatment plant. On board the Space Station, water will be rationed, so there will be a much higher concen tration of contaminants than dealt with

on earth.

For short-duration missions, it is not

necessary to recycle air, water or waste since sufficient quantities can be taken along. But with long-duration missions - such as Space Station or a venture to Mars-it is necessary to recycle as much as possible to reduce re-supply and stor age requirements. The Space Station water recovery system also could have applications for water processing on earth. One area where it might be applicable is in geo graphical areas where temperature is a factor, such as the basins of Antarctica

where biological processes do not work due to extremely cold temperatures. Physiochemical processes, like those used by the Space Station system,could work there.

Testing began in May 1990. The next stage of testing is scheduled to begin in mid 1998. After testing is complete,the system will be ready for integration into the habitation module, the living quar ters of the Space Station. For more information, circle reply card No. 145

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small quantities of other gases. Hydrogen sulphide is one of these gases. Hydrogen sulphide and other sul phur compounds must be removed from anaerobic digester gas streams before they can be used as fuel for stationary engines and cogeneration units. The Apollo scrubber may also be used in other places where biogas is pro

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process models. • Human Computer Interface (HCI) - It provides a link between the operator and

• Adaptive Data Filtering (ADF) - It ex tracts data from the on-line sensors in

the plant, filters out the factors which might interfere with a tme reading of the data and gives the real measurements; • Respirometric Parameter Identifica tion (RPI) - It continuously monitors the activated sludge process using respirometry data. Respirometry measures the rate at which oxygen is consumed by micro-organisms during the oxidation of organic matter. • Dynamic Parameter Estimator - It au tomatically estimates parameters that may change with time. By using this estimator, the calibration of the model

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Global Warming - An Opinion

By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan*

Why global wanning may not devastate human health

President Clinton and other

world leaders met in Kyoto, Japan last December to sign a treaty that will reduce green house gases and thwart the threat of glo bal climate change. The Clinton Admin istration has justified such a measure by warning of the apocalyptic effects that projected global warming will have on human health. Proponents of the pro posal have warned that the alleged cli mate change will cause hundreds of thousands to die yearly due to heatrelated ailments and increase the spread of tropical infectious diseases.

noted that, during the summer, the Gulf states of the US are several degrees

Caribbean has the disease. It is not the

a proposal of this kind may have the re verse effect-worsening the already dire state of human health in developing

climate, it is the existence of a stable

countries.

public health program that controls the

Emissions limits of the magnitude proposed by global warming proponents will disrupt the economies of developed

warmer than the Caribbean. While both

regions carry the dengue vector, only the

disease.

Clean water and sanitation

Contrary to the Clinton Administra tion's belief,the significant health prob lem facing the world is not global warm ing. There were 922,000 deaths in In dia alone in 1990 from preventable diarrheal disease; these deaths could

Climate science, however,is rife with

have been eradicated with a moderate

uncertainty - as are the allegations for

investment in drinking water and sani tation. The answer is to expand public health measures to prevent the spread of disease through immunization, mos quito control, and improved sanitation. The global warming doomsayers

the health effects. In fact, there is no

scientific consensus concerning global warming. The climate change predic tions are based on computer models that have not been validated and are far from

want us to believe that limiting gas emis sions will save the lives of humans. But

nations who will bear the brunt of the restrictions. With the economies of de

veloped nations compromised, interna tional aid and public health programs will be under-funded, placing more lives at risk of preventable diseases. To effectively combat global health problems today and in the future, it is imperative that we rebuild our public health infrastructure and implement bet ter disease prevention strategies, not in vest in proposals that will disrupt econo mies and cost millions ofjobs. â&#x2013;

perfect. These projected findings on which billions of dollars are wagered, can differ by up to 400%. As for the hypothetical health effects that are based on the alleged global warming, these predictions are even more dubious. For example. First Lady Hillary Clinton has portended in her weekly newspaper column, that "as a conse quence of climate change, the percent age of the world's population at risk to malaria could increase from 45% to 60%. And the United States is not im mune."

This is true; the US is not immune.

The mosquito vectors of dengue, yellow

fever, and malaria that the First Lady mentions, have been in the US for cen

turies now. No epidemic has occurred, or will occur, because of the public health and sanitation infrastructure that exists here.

As for the increase in the incidence

of malaria: rising temperatures may shorten the incubation period of mosquitos carrying the disease. However, the warming of the earth alone will not increase the disease. Dr. Duane Gubler, director of the division of vector-borne infectious diseases at the Center for Dis

ease Control and Prevention(CDC),has 'President, American Council on Science and Health, a New York-based

public health advocacy organization. 56

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Wastewater

ES&E Photo story by Tom Davey

Reclaimed water from treatment plant now serving Florida residents

A 1.5 US m.g.d wastewater

treatment plant in St. Lucie County, Florida will begin selling the treated wastewater commercially very soon. This ES&E photo shows the hook up to the first private devel opment underway,in January, 1998. The three pipes in the trench are for potable water, sewage and reclaimed water. This treatment facility has been in operation for over a year and does not discharge to any receiving waters. Currently, treated water

only during winter months. Yet this one penetrate them. Reclaimed water from the Island condo uses 35,000 US gallons per day all year round. Then too, large golf Treatment Plant will be sold at $2.52 courses in particular have a voracious (US) per thousand gallons. The re appetite for water. claimed water has a sulphuric odour, but, experts say, it will be safe to apply to lawns and landscape plants. Nutrients such as ni trogen and phosphorous which remain in the treated water are added environmen tal and economic benefits.

Until January 1998, the treated water has been used

only to irrigate state and county parklands. Now, with

costs $3.52 per thousand US

the installation of 33,000 ft. of

gallons. As lawns, flowers and shrubbery require year round watering in most of Florida, irrigation is extremely expen sive. One small condominium serves

only 150 families in three highrises. Moreover, many of the units are in use

The plant gives another benefit. Some of the aquifers serving North Hutchinson Island were becoming drawn down allowing salinated water to

PVC pipe, the treated irriga tion waters will be soon piped to many condos and houses, giving economic as well as environmen tal benefits to the island.

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The Plastimet fire and Its toxic legacy

While Hamilton's massive industrial fire occurred

July 9, 1997, reverbera

The lone MOE officer showed no

hesitation in calling in additional levels of support to assist him in advising the

tions from the incident

local officials of what could be involved

show no signs of abating. The fire in volved 400 metric tonnes of polyvinyl chloride(PVC). An additional estimat ed 350 tonnes escaped what has been

in this "toxic soup" of black, yellow and orange acrid smoke.

labelled as Canada's most toxic event.

The fire involved a former smelting and recycling facilities property. Plastimet Recycling was renting the property at the time. The Hamilton Fire De

partment(HFD) had earlier cited Plastimet's operation

The MOE followed recommenda

tions made by TEAM-1, who made nu merous phone calls to the 24 hour Spills Action Centre advising them of the sus pected toxic water runoff going into the storm sewer system and the need for air

the birds were not chirping and there was no clanging of railway crossing signals. Some had difficulty in finding their back yards. On numerous occasions, acrid smoke (later found to have an extensive hydrochloric acid content)covered their homes several times during the first three days. The adjacent Hamilton General Hos pital was also having difficulty and con templated a full evacuation. In fact, the close proximity to the fire led officials to call for a "stand-by evacu ation". This put over 30 am bulances and other emer

with 20 fire code violations

gency vehicles on stand-by at the hospital for what

so they had quite a file on

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both the past and present

evacuation. It was later de

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termined that shutting off the ventilation system during the frequent wind shifts would suffice. Hospital officials

The vastness of the fire

alone brought out virtually all emergency service per sonnel and agencies, as well as several hundred curious observers of the toxic fire.

later spent over $100,000 on replacement filters. During Day 3, officials ordered a voluntary evacua

At times it appeared that the media outweighed the firefighters in sheer numbers and equipment. News re porters and photographers struggled to get close to the fire for the award-winning shots when really the best

were outfitted with air puri fying respirators, complete with chemical cartridges and chemical proof goggles. They patrolled the streets

shots were taken some 5-7

and marked homes that had

kilometres away.

been successfully evacuated.

The fall out of some of

tion of certain residential sections. Police officers

Measurements of 5,000

micrograms of polycyclic the material was landing in Evidence of the fire could be seen up to 30 kilometres away. aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were monitoring vehicles. a mall parking lot nowhere near the in measured during the fire. 0.2 to 5.0 is dustrial fire scene. Evidence of the fire Ten hours after the fire started, the was seen some 30 kilometres away. Lo million dollar MOE air monitoring van the normal range in the city. Levels of cal residents pulled up lawn chairs and capable of verifying actual air quality hydrogen chloride were measured at 470 coolers and literally camped out for the (not for immediate dioxin results) parts per billion, which is well above the standard of60 ppb. On July 12, the day night, as they too knew that this large showed up on site. scale industrial fire was not going to be The fire burned for an astonishing 77 the evacuation ended, levels fell to 20 put out quickly. hours and was finally put out when some ppb. Similarly, benzene levels peaked Approximately one hour after the 200 million litres of water were pumped at 250 ppb, compared to the norm of 2 start of the fire, the HFD notified the onto the fully engulfed two acre site. ppb. Ministry of the Environment(MOE)of Water runoff into the storm and sani Residents returning to their homes were warned by local health authorities the suspected toxic occurrence and re tary sewers became a concern for re quested some support. After some de gional officials. Some toxins were not to eat their garden fruits and vegeta lay, the MOE officer arrived. Once on measured in excess of 2,000 times the bles, due to dioxin contamination. Also, site, he was barraged with officials seek normal level. Water was redirected (as they were told not to let their children ing assistance on identifying what the ordered by Regional Sewer officials) to and pets play on their own properties. The fire department withdrew from main concems were over partially incin the sanitary sewer system for treatment erated PVC components and other un at the sewage treatment plant. Dioxin the site and allowed the environmental emergency crews to deal with the after knowns such as PCBs. in the wastewater showed levels at 210 picograms per litre, the MOE standard math. The Hamilton Fire Department reported it cost them approximately is 15 picograms. 'Manager of Emergency Services, TEAM-1 Environmental Services As residents awoke, they found that $300,000 to decontaminate and retrofit 58

Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

By Mitchell GIbbs* their equipment due to the toxic fall out.

fallen on deaf ears. Residents, Green

Residents received $100 each for their

peace, local and international firefight ers unions. City officials, etc., are all re questing an inquiry. At press time of

concerns and troubles. The burned out carcass of the struc ture and the 400 tonnes of melted PVC left little for the Fire Marshall's office

to investigate. The MOE would now take the lead role and order the property

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waste, have been removed from the site.

An organic type ground cover has been sprayed on the site and extensive power trol and field orders, the MOE had to washing of any remaining concrete sur seize control of the site and order a clean faces has been completed by EES. On or about July 17, 1997, a $200up to MOE standards. Laidlaw Envi ronmental Services(Guelph)Inc.(EES) million lawsuit was launched against the was awarded the contract, estimated at City of Hamilton Fire Department, the 2 million dollars, to deal with fire re building owner and other agencies such lated damage only. A subsequent full as the Ministry of the Environment. The remediation of the property is expected issues deal with why the fire was al to be undertaken in the spring of 1998. lowed to happen,the response to the fire, Team-1 staff had 6,223 hours on the site. and the subsequent dealings with the A series ofcommunity meetings took residents. Earlier this year, ads were place where residents could vent their placed in Hamilton area newspapers concerns and seek answers to obvious notifying people who might have been questions: Why was this allowed to hap affected by the fire. The smoke may pen? Why were we not evacuated have cleared, but the political fire and sooner? And what went wrong? To date, fallout have only just begun. these remain unanswered satisfactorily. For more Information, The call for a Provincial Inquiry has circle reply card No. 335 But after numerous attempts and con

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Waste Management

By E. Stradiotto\ B. Tushingham^ and N. Lee, P.Eng.^

Leachate treatment system is designed to last 300 years and extend landfill life

The Mohawk Street Sanitary

Landfill site, located in the

City ofBrantford, Ontario, has accumulated some 3.5 million

cubic metres of solid waste during the past 40 years of operation. Recently, the City obtained approval from the Ministry of

Pipe of Guelph, who elected to dry cast the maintenance holes to meet tight pro duction schedules and ensure greater quality control during production. In total. Con Cast Pipe produced 85 m of

to the difficulty in maintaining the integ rity of epoxy-coating during bending and handling. Once the mats were assembled, the dry cast method of production accom

1800 mm diameter riser units and 13 m

were tested following production to en sure rebar cages remained in tact and properly located. The concrete design mix provided by St. Lawrence Ce

the Environment for an

amended design and develop ment plan offuture fill areas at the site. This plan would put

modated them with ease. Random units

ment was an economical blend

of75% Type 10 Normal Port land Cement and 25% slag cement. Test performance of

the landfill site in an enviable

position of having an approved capacity to last an additional 60 years or more. This achieve ment was orchestrated by the efforts of City staff, the

this mix was found to have

greater sulphate resistance than Type 50 sulphate-resist ant Portland Cement.

landfill consultant Proctor &

As an added measure of

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An integral part of the ap proved design is a leachate system which entails a net work of perforated underdrain pipes lining the landfill. Each

maintenance holes.

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The collection system ulti mately drains to a 3000 mm diameter in-ground pumping chamber, where the influx of leachate can be monitored.

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and protects against physical abuse during handling. While maintaining these properties, the waterproofing agent re mains flexible and elastic.

Pipe-to-maintenance hole connections were secured with

Link Seal gaskets. These gas kets make use of highly resist ant rubber compounds and

Subsequently, the collected leachate is pumped via forcestainless steel hardware as main to the City's water pol guards against deterioration. lution control plant located ad Access hatches were made of I irW jacent to the landfill. Since the spark-proof, light-weight collection system will be pro Designers encountered harsh conditions at the Mohawk landfill aluminum. The Mohawk Street Sanigressively buried under me site. tary Landfill is an engineered landfill that tres of waste, component structures re of 3000 mm diameter riser units. will give testimony to the technology of quire a design life comparable to that of Based on the harsh conditions of the the landfill. In Ontario, that design life surrounding environment and the ex the late twentieth century. In combina pected design life. Norm Lee,P.Eng., of tion with stringent design guidelines and is taken to be 300 years. This demand Proctor & Redfern specified that epoxy- carefully selected products, the facility's ing prerequisite of materials and prod ucts is a welcome application for precast coated reinforcement and sulphate-re performance life is expected to stand the sistant cement be used in the precast. test of time. Continuous research in concrete products. In July 1997, Kast Construction Lim Each of the above materials provides material components and improved en ited of Brantford was awarded a $2 mil improved resistance against the poten gineering design have all helped in the lion contract to construct a portion of tially corrosive elements existing in the evolution of precast technology and the the collection system. Precast concrete landfill. broadening of its horizons. Time has Rebar mats were assembled at Con structures were supplied by Con Cast shown that the applications for precast Cast Pipe using epoxy-coated wire ties. products will continue to expand. Although wire mesh fabrication is less For more information, 'Con Cast Pipe circie repiy card No. 338 ^Proctor & Redfern Limited labour intensive, mesh was not used due 60

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Laboratory accreditation - does it resuit in improved data or is it mere window dressing?

There are two recognized

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Canadian environmental laboratories. One is admini

stered by the Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories (CAEAL)for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the second is oper ated by the Quebec Ministry of Envi

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ronment and Wildlife (MEF) for Que 1 non accredited

bec labs. The programs are comparable and, although the following discussion deals with CAEAL/SCC,the same com

ments apply to both programs. What is accreditation?

Accreditation is granted on a test by test basis, based on accurate results on blind performance evaluation samples (PE) plus a detailed site audit repeated biannually. The audit verifies the over all process(standard traceability,fridge pared to only 6% of accredited labs. temperature, quality program,etc.) plus (10% unsatisfactory is expected due to the individual test methods (calibration, statistical scoring). More striking, for QC protocols, troubleshooting....) and fecal conforms, a parameter directly re the completeness of documentation for lated to human health, the failure rate all of the above. In the case of Philip's for certified labs was 22% versus 6% Burlington laboratory in 1997 this in for accredited labs. It is reasonable to volved three auditors for four days. assume that a comparison with non cer

ing that period and that accreditation has played a major role in this transforma tion. The CAEAL data supports my belief. Accreditation makes a differ ence!

In light of this, it seems incredible that throughout all the Federal Depart ments and Provincial Govemments only

Accreditation is often confused with

tified labs would be even more dramatic.

Environment Canada, Newfoundland,

certification which involves only PE sample analysis. The programs are expensive for the

The complete evaluation is available on the CAEAL web site http://www.

Manitoba, Quebec and Nova Scotia (in progress)require that test data generated in support of environmental regulations be provided by laboratories which are

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laboratories with an annual direct cost

Currently, there are 78 accredited

of$5,000-$15,000,depending on scope,

labs and an additional 75 certified labs

accredited for those tests.

plus substantial staff and resources re quirements. Estimates of the full cost of accreditation have ranged as high as

(all accredited labs are also certified) in the CAEAL/SCC program and an addi tional 76 in the MEE program. Virtu-

One glaring exception is Ontario which requires neither certification or accreditation. They do "strongly rec-

$100,000 annually. Numbers

ommend the use of certified

such as this have been used by

The accredited iabs performed substantiaiiy

or accredited labs" but recent

smaller labs as an argument

better than the certified iabs.

contract awards have indi-

ally^all major private and public labs in this country are in one of these pro grams. However, there are many mu nicipal, university and smaller private

not always heeded. With the increased downloading of services involving test ing, the need for a defined quality standai^d is self-evident. I understand and sup port the Ontario government's stand against increased regulation, however, I do not see the requirement to meet a National quality standard as regulation,

against accreditation. These costs and staff time commit

ments obviously must impact the cost of analysis. The question is, do they do any good? CAEAL has recently completed a statistical evaluation comparing PE sam ple data from certified and accredited labs. The results were very clear. The accredited labs performed substantially better than the certified labs. In fact, on the tests evaluated, 17% of the certified

labs had unsatisfactory scores as com*Dr. Barty Loescher is Vice President of Phiiip Analytical Services, a Director of lAETL Canada and a member of the

ES&E Advisory Board. 62

cated this recommendation is

labs which are not. I estimate that about

600 labs in this country are carrying out environmental analysis. The bottom line is that a great deal of environmental data, much of it relating to human health and/ or having major financial implications, is generated by non accredited labs. Having been involved in the environ mental testing business for over 20 years, both in the public and private sec tors, I am absolutely certain of the ma jor improvement in lab data quality dur

rather as common sense. Therefore, as

part of the "common sense revolution" I would ask that the Ontario Government

legislate the requirement that all envi ronmental testing in support of govern ment regulation and/or related to human health be done by accredited laborato ries. â&#x2013;

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letin from Colgate-Palmolive. Systems are discussed that dispense a hypochlorite spray to oxidize organic odours. Other topics include storage and air collection needs. Colgate-Palmolive Canada Inc. Circle reply card No. 227

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Product and Service Showcase Compression-type fire hydrants

Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Wcotn turn

Terminal City's C71 and C7IP compres sion fire hydrants now

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Canada to AWWA Standard C502-85.

They can be sup plied to depth of bury, and pumper thread is site-specific to area of installation. All working parts are easily accessible for in spection and service, without excavation. Terminal City Iron Works Circle reply card No. 228

ardous amounts

made for the removal oflamps from your location.

Fluorescent Lamp Recyclers Inc.

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Oil/water separators

Noise control systems

Water purification

Eckoustic ® Functional Panels offer out

standing sound absorption, and effective reduction of reverberation and back

ground noise. They are simple to install and can be spot located on walls and ceil ing, without the need to modify the area or reposition utilities. In areas where greater noise reduction/isolation is re quired, EFFs can be used in conjunction with Eckoustic Modular Panels. Eckel Industries

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Centrifugal blowers

The Ultrapulsator flocculator/clari-

fier from Degremont Infilco offers

great operational flexibility and ease-of-use. The

McTighe Industries provides an oil/

water separator capable of constant op eration with no attention, and a minimum

of maintenance. Separators equipped with the McTighe Petro-Pak™ can be ex pected to remove oil particles down to 20 microns in size and produce an efflu ent quality of less than 10 ppm of free oil. McTighe Industries Circle reply card No. 231

high rate of this solids contact flocculator/ clarifier reduces surface requirements, resulting in substantial cost savings. With its unique pulsing action, the Ultra pulsator provides a concentrated and ho mogeneous sludge blanket, internal sludge recirculation, and the polishing action of tube-settling modules. Degremont Infilco Ltd. Circle reply card No. 232

Hoffman Industries of Canada

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Package potable water treatment plant

Sewer management software

The Degremont Infilco Pulsapak'®, a package potable water treatment plant, produces a very high quality of water, utilizing technology equivalent to that used in large installations. The Pulsapak

Sewer system evaluation studies for ca pacity or infiltration and inflow typically require endless hours of processing col lected field flow data. The powerful da tabase and graph template features of

is the result of a combination of two

American Sigma's new Vision™ sewer

proven Degremont technologies: the

management software cut hours into min

Pulsator® Flocculator-Clarifier,equipped

utes. This allows users to handle more

with tube settling modules; and the sand and anthracite dual media gravity filter. Degremont Infilco Ltd.

sites with less manpower for consider able cost-savings and improved report ing. Can-Am Instruments Circle reply card No. 235

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Hoffman Multi-stage Centrifugal Com pressor and Exhausters are available for requirements to 45,000 CFM, at dis charge pressure to 25 psig or 19" Hg vacuum for air and gas service. Hoffman centrifugals have been operating with utmost reliability and efficiency in many diverse applications such as combustion drying, agitation, fluidizing, oxidation vacuum cleaning,sewage aeration,cool ing and pneumatic conveying for more than 60 years.

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Portable gas chromatograph

The Photovac gas chromatograph is ergonomically designed for occupational and environmental health & safety moni toring. Multi-detector capability includes PID and ECD. It is exceptionally sensi tive to low PPB levels. Can-Am Instruments

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Literature Review For information on advertising in this section call ES&E at(905)727-4666. Reusable Oil Recovery System Recoil SpatBtfGrMeOS BmcI Fuel

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Hydrocarbon Recovery products will handle liquid hydrocarbon leaks, sprays, drips, and spills In a broad range of Industrial workplace envi ronments. Ribbons, pads and flota tion eels absorb liquid hydrocarbons, repel water, and may be reused over 500 times. Applications Include con taining and clean-up of oil leaks and drips around machinery, and liquid hydrocarbon spills on water.

New 6" and 12" PrIme-AIre™ trash

pumps feature an exclusive priming system (patent pending) which vir tually eliminates the leaks associated with traditional vacuum assisted

pumps. This unique system not only reduces environmental concerns on

sewage bypass operations and other environmentally hazardous liquids, but also enables PrIme-AIre trash

pumps to operate under flooded suc tion conditions without leaking. Gorman-Rupp of Canada Circle reply card No. 238

Nottawa Iron Works inc.

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Accident investigation trainer package Canwit's Accident Investigation

Large storage capacity for more savings Proceptor™ delivers a prolonged re

Trainer Package consists of a Trainer Manual and a supply of Accident In vestigation Kits. The Trainer Manual Is made up of three parts. Over

tention time for superior separation of oil, grease and solids, meeting and exceeding today's strict regulations. The large storage capacity allows full treatment of the Incoming process water while preventing scouring and flushing of the entrapped waste ma terial. This feature prevents the drain blockages and backups associated with small Interceptors, and allows Proceptor to be located outside, where It can be easily serviced. Stormceptor Canada Inc. Circle reply card No. 240

heads are Included.

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tems and accessories manufactured

by Industrial Scientific Corporation. Information on repair, maintenance and training services is Included, as well as a handy reference library for your convenience. Industrial Scientific Corporation Circle reply card No. 242

Double containment above

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Double containment above ground storage and dispensing of flamma ble and combustible liquids Is avail able In capacities up to 20,925 I.G. capacity. These environmentally safe tanks are available with a wide

range of customized specifications and optional equipment for specific requirements Including custom paint, stair and ladder assemblies, special linings and multl compartments. Self unloading transport available. Westeel Industrial Products

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water utility customers by provid ing superior methods of metering, service, and Improving customer efficiency. Schlumberger leads the Industry with meter design In novation, advanced reading sys tems for utilities of every size, and complete management services for utility operations, maintenance, and administration.

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Literature Review For information on advertising in this section cali ES&E at(905)727-4666.

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Activated Sludge Monitoring

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assist material specialists specifying plastic products in the chemical, cor rosion, and pollution fields. Fabco Plastics

Monitoring bloactlvlty at critical points throughout the wastewater treatment process provides timely data on the characteristics of the influent, proc ess control and troubleshooting. Understand and control what Is go ing on inside the system, pinpoint trouble before It affects operation, save energy and money - all with Resplrometry. Learn how our 30-r years of experience with Resplro metry can "Unlock the Mystery of Activated Sludge™" at your planti Arthur Technology, Inc. Circle reply card No. 246

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Spring Conferences Water

WEAO's 27th Annual Technical Symposium

Environment Association of

Ontario i io A

and OPCEA Exhibition March 29-31,1998 Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto Effective Facilities Management • Facilities Management: Meeting the Challenge. Efficiency in Construction and Operation • Reducing Costs: Process and Energy Optimization. • Optimizing Design to Save Capital Cost $.

Industry and Technologies •Pollution Prevention in the Metal Fin

ishing Industry. •Getting Control of Automation and In formation Management Systems. PWOD and OPCEA •PWOD.

•Procurement Strategies. Wastewater Treatment and

Solids Management • Biosolids - Where would we be with

Operations Challenge provides excitement during the conference. The 27th Annual Water Environment Association of Ontario Technical

Symposium and Exhibition is cosponsored by the Ontario Pollution Control Equipment Association and the Professional Wastewater Opera tions Division, Ontario.

The conference will have two full days of paper presentations on a range of timely technical, management and opera tions issues. Featured this year are full day sessions on Facility Management issues, Small Flow issues and a new ses

sion focussing on the Metal Finishing industry. There will be a large exhibi tion with equipment suppliers, consult ants,laboratories and other services used

by the wastewater treatment industry. An exciting Operations Challenge pits teams of operators from wastewater treatment plants across Ontario in a face off. They compete to minimize the time required to complete five events, cov ering emergency procedures, process knowledge,laboratory skills and opera tions proficiency. Fun and fast paced, the challenge has become an educational event for operators and a focal point for spectators.

The conference provides a unique opportunity for hundreds of profession als to further the cause of environmen

tal protection, through the development and application of science and technol80

out them?

ogy. The technical and social programs • Toxicity and Nutrient Control. Flows From Small Communities have been developed to provide plenty of time for networking throughout both • Small Flows: Today's Issues. Managing Planning and days. The Sunday Ice Breaker is a Wet Weather chance to have fun and renew acquaint ances. The Monday Awards Luncheon • Wet Weather Flow and Watershed and Tuesday buffet lunch in the OPCEA Management. area also provide opportunities to meet • Master Planning and Class EA Research Update others over good food. The conference closes with a Tuesday night banquet din • Research: The Key to the Future. For registration or more information, ner that includes entertainment. The 1998 WEAO Technical Program contact Sandy Pickett at(416)502-1440, Fax:,(416) 502-1786. will include: Announcement Trans-Cycle Industries, Inc.(TCI) of Hudson, New York and Pell City, Alabama, are to build a PCB electrical equipment, metals recycling operation in the Town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. In recent years, the company has emerged a leader in advanced processing technology for environmentally-safe dismantling and recy cling of electrical transformers and other equipment containing PCBs. TCI presently operates two similar facilities in the United States. The Kirkland Lake plant would be modeled after the Alabama operation. The building features a specially designed, triple-spill containment system providing a completely seg regated home for this totally indoor process. David Laskin, President of TCI said,"the process will consist of receiving pre viously drained electrical equipment, separating residual liquids from reusable metals, cleaning the metals in a state-of-the-art closed loop solvent washing proc ess, and recycling the metals via smelting. All the PCB residuals will be shipped to Alberta for final disposal. This undertaking represents the first operation of its type to be sited in the Province. No incineration, landfilling or hazardous waste disposal of any kind will take place at the facility.

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Literature Review For information on advertising in this section call ES&E at(905)727-4666. Cyanide Removal

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Using sodium hyppchlorite (JAVEX-12) to effectively and quickly remove cyanide wastes

Treating odours with Sodium Hypochlorlte (JAVEX-12) Is

Is detailed. Bulletin reviews dos

Systems are discussed that dis pense a hypochlorlte spray to oxidize organic odours. Other topics Include: storage and air

ages, equipment,as well as stor age, safety and handling data. Particularly applicable to metal recover or refining operations. Colgate-Palmoilve

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pre-packaged ozone plants designed for smaller municipal waterworks. Ozonia North America manufactures

ozone generators capable of produc ing from one pound to thousands of pounds of ozone per day using high endurance non-glass dielectrics. Ozonia also offers a complete line of complementary equipment including monitors, vent ozone decomposers, and medium pressure tJV units. Ozonia North America

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Industry association First Incorporated In 1957, the On tario Concrete Pipe Association (OCPA) Is a nonprofit Industry asso ciation. The OCPA promotes the high standards of business practice and the product quality of Its mem bers, and provides technical Informa tion to specifiers, regulators, contrac tors and educators.

Producers of

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ment of water and wastewater. More

specifically, the company's technical resources are focused on liquid-solid separation (sedimentation, vacuum filtration, pressure filtration, granular media filtration, flotation); solid-solid separation (flotation, heavy media separation); chemical recovery and regeneration; biological waste treat ment; and intelligent process control systems. EIMCO Process Equipment Circle reply card No. 256

Products for Analysis catalogue Hach's Products for Analysis 1998 catalogue features many new proc ess and field Instruments, Including; the 1720D Low-Range Process Turbldlmeter, successor to the popular 1720C; the APA 6000 Analyzers for hardness, alkalinity, nitrate and am monia; the AquaTrend Network sys tem, which provides advanced data management; DR/800 Series Colori meters and Portable Laboratories; and the new Pocket Turbldlmeter™

Analysis System. Hach Company Circle reply card No. 258

Water Efficiency Service Programs Faced with Inflating operating costs, while being expected to avoid rate Increases and provide greater, bet ter, and non-tradltlonal customer service? Schlumberger's Technical Service Group offers complete field service, and project handling capa bilities, from meter installation to full, ongoing maintenance, management and meter reading services. Cus tomized packages allow a utility to contract for as many or as few serv ices as It needs. Schlumberger Circle repiy card No. 260

Spring Conferences

Environmental Compliance '98 and Ontario Environmental Exposition April 8-9,1998 Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, Ontario Environmental Science & Engineering will present the 6th Annual Environ mentalZ)HcZ)//ige«ce Conference and Workshops in conjunction with the Ontario Environmental Exposition, April 8 and 9, 1998. Ontario's largest conference of envi ronmental compliance strategies, tech nologies and solutions takes place at the new Toronto Congress Centre, near Pearson International Airport. The workshops provide a unique en vironmental education and training op portunity for: •Plant managers and engineers. • Environmental managers and co

egates access to some of Canada's lead ing environmental consultants. Over 50 top-notch speakers representing Cana da's leading-edge environmental train ers,lawyers,consultants, managers,ad ministrators, and health & safety prac titioners, are scheduled to participate in "Environmental Compliance '98". Their names will be familiar to you as some who are speakers at conferences costing over $1,000 to attend! For little more than one-tenth of that amount, you and your colleagues can register for a half-day workshop in which you will have access to these top practitioners -

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consulting fees! Discounts for multiple registrations ensure that all members of your team can take part and one company alone sent 16 registrants to attend these work shops recently. Many others arrange group partici pation and involvement for plant man agers, environmental audit teams, 3Rs teams,supervisors and environment and health & safety committee members. Workshop participants benefit not only from the educational workshops, they

• Environmental lawyers. • Environmental and engineering con sultants.

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such as background papers, books, wall posters and more. As an added bonus, each registrant receives free access to a special lunchtime "open workshop" on "New Re cycling Technologies", sponsored by Recycling Canada atid free admission to the Ontario Environmental Expo sition, featuring innovative exhibits of the latest advances in environmental

technology, products and services. Following are some of the program highlights: APRIL 8

Environmental Management ISO 14001: Lessons learned in

implementing a successful EMS • Current status of ISO 14001 certifica

tion program. • Key steps in implementing an ISO 14001 Environmental Management Sys tem program.

•Lessons learned during implementation. • Case study. ISO 14000 and ISO 9000:

Integrating Quality & Environment • Overview of the Integration Process. •ISO I400I and ISO 9001.

HPWallander STEP SCREEN® for Intake Wafer / Wastewater / Sludge ScreeningH offloading

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• Management Systems. • An integrated document control system.

•Preparation of an Integrated Qual ity and Environmental Management manual.

• Performing combined internet Optional

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Positions of moving iaminae (drafted in black): A=neutral B=iowest C=front D=top Cieaning action & forwarding up bianket of screenings take place between points B & D.

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Step-notched iaminae rotate relative to adjacent fixed blades achieving all in one: •screen seif-cleaning • solids separation • solids advancing •solids dewatering Benefits: high through flow area (to 60 %); tolerance to sand; high solids removal efficiency due to 1,3 & 6 mm slot opening with finer capahiiity in blanketed regime.

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Spring Conferences Environmental Auditing Environmental Auditing (1): Essential Skills & Techniques • The Systematic Audit Process. • Interviewing Skills. • The People Factor. •Communicating Audit Results Profes sionally. Environmental Auditing (2): Auditing within the EMS • Internal EMS Auditing. • Compliance Auditing. •Advanced and Innovative Techniques to Improve EMS Effectiveness. Hazardous Materials Management Hazardous Materials Management: A practical guide to due diligence •Legislative Overview: The Regulatory Regime as it applies to hazardous mate rials management. •A Blueprint for a Hazardous Materials Sessions dealing with recycling wiii be part of Environmental Compliance '98. Management System. Cornerstone of EMS planning Evaluation? Storage tanks in Ontario: A • How to Identify Environmental As • What are Environmental Performance practical guide to compliance pects. Indicators? •Introduction to the Regulatory Scheme. • Significance Rating. • What is meant by Eco-efficiency. • Life Cycle of a Storage Tank System. •Targeting Interventions. •How to Capture and Quantify the Value APRIL 9 Eco-efficiency: Quantifying EH&S of the EH&S Function within your Environmental Management performance for business success Company. Environmental Aspects: The • What is Environmental Performance • How to Capture the External Benefits

I Mueller Canada I Round Ports are betten..or pipe would be square! Our Ballcentric Plug Valve offers better flow characteristics and less pressure drop across the valve than other types of eccentric plug valves. In some cases, the flew through curs is up to 85% higher than with the usual rectangular port Ink ■■■■ design. This means less erosion, longer service life and lower pumping costs. ■apmapnSSnk.

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Emergency Response & Spills Planning Strategic Risk Management and Emergency Response Planning •The law.

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Spring Conferences BC Water & Waste Association

26th Annual Conference & Technical Transfer Seminar Whistler, BC - April 26-29,1998 This conference takes place at the re nowned Whistler Resort. The theme is

Building on Success. Conference ses sions include:

Monday,April 27 Operations and practice - wastewater Presentations on the difficulties as

reservoirs, the operation of utilities in cold climates and the operating details and performance of butterfly valves in the distribution system. Tliesday, April 28 Partnering and systems management Water and wastewater issues with re

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Confined Space Safety

Selecting gas detectors for confined space entries - Part II Part I(ES&E, November 1997) dealt with the overall problems of confined space entries. Part II discusses the various types of gas detectors.

Let's build a gas detector for

confined space work. To start out it will require a combusti ble sensor. We previously de scribed the three types of combustible

sensors available and their features.

However,for confined space work, any of the three technologies will provide adequate protection. Secondly, we need an oxygen sensor to detect both oxygen enrichment and deficiency. There are several manufacturers of oxy gen sensors and while they may all look different, they are essentially the same tech nology and will work well. To complete this instru ment we will require a toxic sensor(s). The key to safe confined space gas detection

pumping stations, waste treatment plants, industrial sites with toxic hydro carbons and the like, then the broad

range(MOS)type is your best solution. Unlike the chemically specific electro chemical sensors, these sensors cannot

differentiate one toxic gas from another but they will tell you whether it is safe to enter or it is time to get out. The broad range sensors have their limitations as well and cannot detect any of the diox ides,i.e.: carbon dioxide,sulphur dioxide. It must be noted that a gas detector with a combustible sensor will not pro tect you from toxic levels of hydrocar bons. A classic example is gasoline. The current TWA for gasoline is 900

concentration of the contaminant

to the point where the readings presented are inaccurate. Other problems may include leaking pumps,cumbersome sample lines, and in some environments, the

lies in these toxic sensors. There are two main sensor

types: electrochemical (Wet Chem) and Broad Range (Solid State MOS). To select the correct toxic sensor we need to evaluate

our confined spaces. If your Hmmm... ..Maybe I bought the wrong detector. area of work is an industrial site, where

PPM. A combustible gas detector, cali

the toxic gases are known or can be con trolled, then a chemically specific toxic sensor can be chosen (providing a sen sor exists for that gas hazard). Manu facturers produce gas detectors that are capable of supporting one or two of these chemically specific sensors. Some instruments are available with a range of plug-in sensors that can be changed

brated to methane, will not alarm on

gasoline until around 50% of the LEL or 5000 to 7000 PPM. This is well in excess of the TWA and can cause a

worker to be rendered unconscious.

the specific toxic sensor(s) you require. However, there is a limit to the sensors

a detachable remote diffusion sensor

available and, if toxic hydrocarbons or

assembly. There are strengths and weak ness in all systems. Selection .should be based upon need, not availability. Sample Draw The most common form of sampling a confined space is the sample draw method. The advantage of this method is that any monitoring is performed out side the space. With a sample draw sys

Other instruments must be ordered with

solvents are a concern, then the broad

range(MOS)type may be your best bet. If you are in an area where the toxics are unknown or cannot be controlled,

such as storm and sanitary sewers. 'President, Canadian Safety Equipment ^President, Safetyscope 90

sample line may plug due to sludge, dirt or condensate icing. A disadvantage of the manual sample draw method is the effort involved moving the air sample along the tube to the sensor. A general rule of thumb is that it takes 3 pump strokes to move the sample 1 foot. If your line is 12', it will take 36 pump strokes to get the sample to the sensor, then the sampling must continue for up to 3 minutes. If you are using a bulb hand aspirator strong wrists are both a requirement and the end re sult of a lot of entries.

SAMPLING METHODS

In confined space testing it is impor tant that the operator know how the sen sor comes in contact(operation) with the atmosphere. There are three primary means of exposing the sensor to the at mosphere - sample draw, diffusion and

in the field without fuss or calibration.

tem, a pump moves the sample from the atmosphere and draws it through a hol low tube to the sensor. The pump can either be a bulb hand aspirator which requires squeezing or a motorised aspi rator which utilizes batteries(independ ent or the gas detectors). Drawing the sample to the detector protects the tester by eliminating the need to enter the space and limits any movement of the door/cover to the space that may create a spark which could ig nite flammable gases that may collect around the entry point. For these rea sons, the sample draw method is recom mended when conducting your pre-entry test. The primary disadvantage of this method is sample dilution. The tube leaking or using a tube over 12' in length will reduce the

Sensor Operation Most gas detector sensors operate by diffusion. Diffusion works by air being absorbed into the sensor cell. Electronic

gas detectors rely heavily on diffusion sampling. The atmosphere must be brought to the gas sensors by the afore mentioned sample draw (aspiration) or by lowering the gas detector into the at mosphere. Some manufacturers offer a detach

able remote sensor assembly as a means of remote sampling. Advantages of this technology include the lack of pumps and moving parts, much faster response time than aspiration and wires can carry

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By Ross Humphry^ and Tim Morrison^ the sample information with no poten tial of diluted readings. The sample

• Approvals.

method is still diffusion but the sensors

a) Construction. Monitoring devices must be very rugged and easily carried by the workers. Even with training and

• Ease of use.

are lowered into the atmosphere to be tested. Once the atmosphere has been tested by aspiration and/or remote sen sors, the gas detector can be worn by

the best intentions of the workers, field

use does abuse the units. Drops, jolts, exposure to the elements, misuse, etc.,

the worker for the duration.

Because each sampling method has its own strengths and weaknesses, all techniques are used to monitor the at mosphere. The sample draw is used for the pre-entry test that occurs just inside the space at the doorway. (Suggestion: use a 6' or shorter tube). Diffusion sam pling occurs at all other times. DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS

The third component to consider in gas detector selection is design charac teristics. Many gas detectors are sold solely upon these characteristics. The reason for this is that many gas detector

all can shorten the life of the instrument.

work period, a back up or stand by power source must be present. Batter ies have all sorts of limitations. Many units have no way to determine the charge in them; cold and age decrease battery life; lead acid batteries can leak and damage your electronics; NiCad(re chargeable batteries) can develop mem ories and so on. Battery maintenance

The case and its components must be con structed to withstand rough handling. The unit's alarm systems, which

costs and efforts should be evaluated

very carefully to ensure your system will work when required. For confined space work, gas detec tors need to be portable (hand held). If the unit is designed to be worn by the

should be both audio and visual, must also be evaluated. The alarm should be

loud enough to be heard in your envi ronment by either the attendant outside the space or the entrant(s) inside. In a perfect world, both attendant and entrant

worker, it should rest on their belt, not

weigh it down. In many tight spots, the worker should not wear the device as it

may create a catch point. It may be ad visable to have the ability to hang up the unit inside the space.

would hear the alarm. Some manufac

turers have remote alarms that could enable both the attendant and entrant to

simultaneously hear the alarm. The op tion is only worth the money spent if the remote wiring is long enough for all

manufacturers do not make their own

sensors. They design and make the elec tronic box of the gas detector. The following characteristics should be considered only after selecting the appropriate sensors:

Switches, buttons and knobs should

be positioned or designed so that they cannot be knocked out of position, but one can still operate them with gloves on. The unit should be tamper resistant

your spaces.

Batteries are another consideration.

• Construction.

Batteries can be either disposable or re chargeable but either type should sup ply enough power to last 6 to 8 hours.

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If the batteries cannot last the entire

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Confined Space Safety, com* read and understood. This means you must be able to not only see the dis played data, but also understand it. In confined spaces there are all types of lighting. Does the information show in all lighting situations? And finally, do the abbreviations make sense or do you need an explanation card on the detec tor? If the information cannot be un

Response Time This is the time period between ob taining data from the sensors and dis playing it. This time period depends on what information is collected, the sen

sor response, how the information is dis played, and the unit of measurement being used (e.g. % LEL or PPM). Re sponse time can range from milliseconds

derstood, it may not be performing the job that it is intended to do. b) Electronics. Information provided

to minutes.

must be reliable and useful as life and

the readout and the true concentration.

death decisions can be made based on

This relationship is indicated by an er ror factor (indicated by e.g. +/0.5%). The lower the number, the greater the instrument's accuracy. Pre

the data provided. The electronics' re sponse time, accuracy, precision, radio frequency (RF) interference, reading drift and sensitivity are all factors that can differentiate a poor purchase from a good investment.

average exposure value of I PPM and it is IDLH at 10 PPM; therefore, any

change must be noted at once. On the other hand, carbon dioxide's TWAEV is 5000 PPM, and is IDLH at 40,000 PPM;therefore the sensitivity need not be that great.

Reading Drifts This is the movement in the instru ment's electronic readout when the at

Accuracy and Precision Accuracy is the relationship between

cision is the number of times the accu

racy would be right in any given number of tests (correct 19 times out of 20). In this case the higher the number, the RF Protection Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) greater the precision. protection is the unit's ability to protect Sensitivity the readings from interference caused by This is the unit's ability to accurately radio waves, pulsed power lines, trans measure changes in concentrations. The formers, and generators. RF protection hazards presented by the substance be is expressed in immunity to x watts of ing measured would determine the need radio transmission at a specific dis for sensitivity. For instance, at present tance. in Ontario, chlorine has a time weighted

mospheric value remains the same. Moving the instrument from one angle to another,shaking it, ambient vibrations or no apparent reason may cause the readout to change. Poor electronic cir cuit board design and/or age of the ma chine or the sensor will cause the read

ings to drift. Sensor or component age ing causing this problem is acceptable and can be compensated for as part of the unit's ongoing maintenance pro gram; however,poor construction is not acceptable. Poor construction cannot be repaired and creates mistrust of the unit with those who work with it. If they do not trust the readings, they will not use it and a tragedy could easily occur. Your best protection is to contact current us ers of the instrument and ask about their

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the instrument. Is it simple to operate? Is it simple to understand? Are the but tons/switches easy to use with gloves on? Do you have to use switches or buttons to get alarm information? Will it alarm when battery/sensors fail? Most importantly, is it one switch operation? Portable gas detectors are available from a variety of manufacturers. They range from single electrochemical sen sor instruments to very precise multiple sensor units. Do not be swayed by so phisticated technology and fancy pack aging. Choose a device that meets your needs (both short term and for the next 3 to 5 years if possible). Look at all the variables from sensors to design, but always keep sensors as your number one criteria. Your employees also have to be considered in the equation. If not, a per fectly good gas detector will collect dust because they feel the damn thing isn't any good! A well thought out purchase can save lives and prevent injuries. â&#x2013;

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Air Pollution

Vitrifying toxic fiy ash

In most industrialized countries, incineration is seen as the most

effective solution for getting rid of the vast amounts of waste genera ted by human consumption. But is it an effective means of disposing of waste? Not really, claim French scientists.

annually treats 120,000 metric tonnes of domestic waste.

To start with, total vitrification costs

will be around $500 per metric tonne of fly ash. In the long term, the cost of treatment per metric tonne should bejust $300. The treatment involves melting

In France, the incineration

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already been vitrified using this system. The installation consists of a tilting furnace similar to the type used by glassworkers, the difference being that, instead of being gas powered, it has an electric arc burner fitted with

tic or hospital waste leaves be tween 440 and 660 pounds of

graphite electrodes. The ash is placed in the fur nace using an Archimedean

clinker and between 66 and

screw and heated to 2,600Â°F.

110 pounds of fly ash. Clinker, although bulky,is in offensive and may be used as filling material on engineering sites. Fly ash, on the other hand, is usually rich in heavy metal particles and dangerous to public health. This mate rial must be placed in control

The vitrified end product is either amorphous and glass like or has a crystalline struc

of one metric tonne of domes

ture similar to basalt. Glass-

workers are interested in it, as are manufacturers ofincinera tion furnaces and boilers. One

of them, CNIM, has built its

own vitrification pilot unit in the municipal waste incinera tion plant at Toulon on the

led landfills so that it does not

pollute aquifers. Storage, however,is an expensive pro cedure,costing up to $600 per

Mediterranean coast, but at

the present time it can only treat about 100 pounds of waste per hour.

metric tonne. France alone

produces 400,000 metric tonnes of fly ash annually. TIRU,a company that runs several incineration plants in the Paris area, are looking at how to treat fly ash in order to

A number ofFrench indus

trial firms have joined forces with the Technological Uni versity of Compiegne,located north of Paris, to conduct an

original research program on vitrification. This program ing the fly ash to a high tem uses an oxygen burner work perature, resulting in a prod ing with a mixture of natural uct that looks like hard rock, gas and oxygen. Producing basalt, or glass, hence the EOF(Electricite de France)flow of vitrified products after heat only small quantities of name 'vitrification' given to treatment on the pilot unit. The furnace is equipped with a sulfurous pollutants, nitrogen graphite-electrode electric arc. the process. oxides and fumes, the instal make it inert and inoffensive.

The treatment consists of heat

In terms of volume,the material takes

the ash with a plasma torch. Sometimes

up one-sixth the volume of the initial quantity of ash. Above all, it is stable over the long term and the heavy metals (zinc, mercury, or lead) trapped inside

referred to as the fourth state of matter,

plasma is a gas ionized by high tempera

lation is compact and economic. The use of oxygen makes it possible to reach temperatures of over 2,900Â°F during

tures which in turn accelerates certain

treatment.

chemical reactions, among them vitrifi

are not harmful to the environment.

cation.

Nevertheless, vitrification requires fur ther in-depth research and will not come into general industrial use in France be fore the next century. At the same time, a number of competing R&D programs are underway in this field. Early in 1997, one of the first indus trial plants for the vitrification offly ash

Developed in the Aerospatiale facto ries in Bordeaux, a plasma torch heats waste to more than 7,200Â°F by ionized gas via an arc. The torch is comprised of two tubular electrodes in a gas injec

The main distinguishing feature of this research program lies in the use of foam to convey the ash to the furnace

came on line near Bordeaux, in south

tion chamber. Results from the first tests

were deemed to be sufficiently decisive for incineration plant operators to start industrial-scale operations immediately.

western France. Designed by Europlasma,the plant has the capacity to treat 3,500 metric tonnes of fly ash per year

Electricite de France (EDF), the French electricity board,is working with

at a cost of$4 million. The facility is in

research centre. In 1993, EDF scien

the city's main incineration plant, which

tists produced an experimental unit that

a more conservative method at its Paris

Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

flame. The foam contributes to the dis

persion of ash in the furnace and thereby increases the efficiency of heavy metal carbonization in gas or dust form. This process turns out a vitrified product that traps all heavy metals. Using other operating parameters, it is also possible to obtain at the bottom of the furnace a vitrified product contain ing no metal salts or metal oxides. These salts and oxides settle on a filter during cooling and can be recycled. Circle reply card No. 353 93

Air Pollution

Catalytic converters for the next century

UK chemists have developed

a new catalytic converter for vehicle exhausts that will

reduce air pollution from car exhausts more effectively than today's catalysts and at lower cost. The con verter, made at Dundee University in Scotland, contains a new patented de sign of catalyst using palladium rather than platinum and rhodium as in the cur rent generation of devices. The new catalyst is both cheaper and more efficient than those in road vehi

cles today and is more suitable for use with the "lean-burn" engines that will be increasingly used in the next century to protect the atmosphere. The United States has taken the ini

tiative in enforcing the fitting of cata lytic converters in road vehicles. West ern Europe, including the UK, is now following the US example, brought about by growing concern about the harmful effects of gases in car exhausts. As Jim Cairns, Professor of Elec

tronic and Mechanical Engineering at Dundee University explains: "If an en gine were absolutely 100 percent effi cient, it would produce only carbon di oxide and water vapour in its exhaust. "But in practice, all engines produce varying amounts of carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons, and oxides of nitrogen. And all these gases are poten

This 1970 Oldsmobile Delta 88, owned by ES&E President Steve Davey, employs one of the first air pollution control systems designed to reduce emissions. Emis sion systems on today's cars are far more complex.

The catalytic converters increasingly fitted in car exhausts convert these harm

ful gases to harmless carbon dioxide and water. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to global warming but it is generally agreed that the contribution to this made by vehicles is a much less se rious problem than the health hazards ofcarbon monoxide and unburnt hydro carbons.

tial health hazai^ds and cause undesirable

The catalysts used in exhausts today are cylinders filled with porous ceramic material similar to a honeycomb or a sponge and with an enormous internal

pollution."

surface area.

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The linings of the pores in the honey comb are sprinkled with particles of the precious metals platinum,rhodium, pal ladium or iridium. The platinum cataly ses reactions that oxidize the carbon

monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons to carbon dioxide, while the iridium breaks

down the oxides of nitrogen. But Jim Cairn's new catalyst, he explains, does it all with just one ingredient. "Our catalyst is different because it contains just one precious metal, palla dium, with another non-precious metal, zinc. We've shown that this combination

can remove all the exhaust gas pollutants, including the oxides of nitrogen," he said. "One advantage of palladium is that it is less expensive than platinum or rho dium."

The new catalyst is mounted on a ceramic honeycomb, like existing cata lysts. The difference lies in some clever chemistry that has been used to attach the palladium and zinc catalyst material to a framework made of zirconia (zir conium oxide). This is what allows pal ladium alone to remove all the pollut ants in the exhaust gases. The similarity of the basic design to that of existing catalytic converters means that it will be quite easy for ve hicle manufacturers to switch to produc ing the new catalyst. At least one of these is already showing strong interest. The new catalyst stiU has to prove that it can go on working for 100,000 miles (160,000 km), the lifetime that is now being required for catalytic converters.

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Environmental Science & Engineering, March 1998

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