Twenty years of site remediation via incinceration in the united states

✍ Scribed by Acharya, Prakash ;Pfrommer, Charles

• Book ID: 102834276
• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 681 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0278-4491
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.670170117

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

During the mid‐1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development conceptualized and began development of a mobile incineration system that could be used for the cleanup of spilled hazardous materials or of abandoned dump sites. Based on the development and demonstration of the EPA mobile incinerator, private industry developed their own mobile systems. As the need to clean up large Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) sites progressed and as the market became more competitive, the “mobile” concept developed into a “transportable” concept with the systems becoming much larger than the initial EPA system.