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LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MONITORING OF SOLVENT RECOVERY PROCESSES

Award Information

Agency:
Environmental Protection Agency 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
30635 		Program Year/Program:
1995 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
30635 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
American Research Corporation of Virginia
1509 Fourth Street P.O. Box 3406 Radford, VA 24143 0340
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 1995
Title: LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MONITORING OF SOLVENT RECOVERY PROCESSES
Agency: EPA
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $65,000.00
 

Abstract:

Developments in on-site spent solvent recovery have implications for reducedenvironmental pollution in the dry cleaning, furniture and paint manufacturingindustries as well as in a range of commercial services. Effluents from solventrecovery operations include fugitive emissions, vent stack gases and water/solvent mixtures. At present, the scale of solvent-recovery operations incertain industries is too small to allow cost-effective application of gas orliquid chromatographic instrumental methods, yet the total volume of pollutantsdischarged from these operations is environmentally significant. To remedy thissituation, this proposal suggests the development of low-cost continuous solventmonitors based on near-infrared fluorescence. The innovation contained in theproposal is the combination of sensitive diode laser excited fluorescence methodswith integrated methods of instrument design to achieve the Phase I TechnicalObjectives, which include the evaluation of near-infrared fluorophores forsolvent analysis, the design of an integrated laser excited fluorescenceanalyzer, and acquisition of families of test data to provide information for usein instrument optimization and extensive field-testing in Phase II of theprogram. The significance of the program is the reduction of solvent dischargeand improvement is separation operations afforded by low-cost in situ chemicalanalysis.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Russell J. Churchill
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Business Contact:

Mrs. Anne Churchill
7037310655
Small Business Information at Submission:

American Research Corp. Of VA
P.O. Box 3406 Radford, VA 24143

EIN/Tax ID:
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees: N/A
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No