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Lead in household paint and dust is a serious health hazard, as low-level lead exposure can result in a number of adverse health effects, especially in children. Onsite and real-time detection and quantification of lead in paint/dust are very important to homeowners and certified lead-based paint removal professionals. Toward this end, both field-portable equipment (such as X-ray fluorescenc ...

Perchlorate is a widely used component of solid fuel, missile and rocket propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. It has been shown to reduce iodide uptake into the thyroid gland. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found perchlorate contamination in 18 states and believes contamination may exist in as many as 39 states. In early January 2005, the National Academy of Science ...

SLUDGE WASTE CONTAINING CR(VI) FROM CHROMIUM PLATING OPERATIONS IS CLASSIFIED AS HAZARDOUS AND ITS DISPOSAL IS A MAJOR CONCERN. IT CAN BE RECOVERED FOR FUTURE METAL USE IN REMELTING OPERATIONS, CAN BE STORED, OR CAN BE DISPOSED AFTER MODIFICATION TO A LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE FORM. IN PHASE I, THE CONVERSION OF SLUDGE WASTE FROM CHROMIUM PLATING OPERATIONS INTO FERROCHROMIUM ALLOYS IS PROPOSED. BY MEANS ...

COALITION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., (CTL) RESEARCH HAD IMPROVED A SIMPLE GAS PHASE TREATMENT (SULFONATION) OF WASTE RUBBER AND PLASTICS. RESULTS FROM LABORATORY SCALE EXPERIMENTS DONE AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HAVE SHOWN THAT CONCRETE MADE FROM SULFONATED RUBBER AND PLASTIC PROVIDED BY CTL HAS IMPROVED IMPACT RESISTANCE AS MEASURED BY ASTM STANDARD TESTS. IN MANY CASES, WASTE PLASTICS AND RUBBER ARE ...

Lead in household paint and dust is a serious health hazard as low level lead exposure can result in a number o adverse health effects, especially in children. On-site and real-time detection and quantification of lead in the paint/dust is very important to homeowners and certified lead-based paint removal professionals. Toward this end, both field-portable equipment (such as x-ray fluorescence ...

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Perchlorate is a widely-used component of solid fuel, missile and rocket propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics. It has been shown to reduce iodide uptake into the thyroid gland. The EPA has found Perchlorate contamination in 18 states and believes contamination may exist in as many as 39 states. In early January 2005, the National Academy of sciences, in an EPA-sponsored study, recommended a ...

The goal of this project (Phase I ¿ III) is to develop a vaccine for the control of diseases in Atlantic cod caused by L. anguillarum and A. salmonicida. To accomplish this we have established the following sequential technical Phase I objectives: (1) identify bacterial growth conditions suitable for small-scale vaccine production, (2) determine the conditions for inactivation that result in the ...

A HIGH EFFICIENCY ACTIVATED CARBON GRANULE WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR DRINKING WATER TREATMENT. THE FOUNDATION FOR THIS HIGH EFFICIENCY GRANULE IS A SUPERACTIVATED CARBON WITH A BET SURFACE AREA IN EXCESS OF 3000 M(2)/GM USING THE STANDARD PROCEDURE BY BRUNAUER, EMMETT, AND TELLER, AND AN IODINE NUMBER GREATER THAN 3000 MG/G. TWO GRANULATIN TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE EXPLORED: SPHERICAL AGGLOMERATION AND EXT ...

CONVENTIONAL RECYCLING OF WASTE PLASTICS IS LIMITED BY INEFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY AND NUMEROUS ECONOMIC BARRIERS. AS AN ALTERNATIVE, DIRECT PROCESSING OF RAW WASTE PLASTICS INTO FINISHED PRODUCTS HAS SHOWN PROMISE, BUT ITS FULL POTENTIAL REMAINS UNKNOWN. USING STATISTICALLY DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS, ROBERT MORGAN & COMPANY, INC. HAS SUCCESSFULLY PROCESSED BLENDS OF RAW WASTE PLASTICS INTO USEFUL COMPOSITE ...