New Office- & Workspace for J3 Advanced Engineering Technologies !
116 South Parkmont Dr.
Butte, MT 59701
Phone: 406-494-2002
Contact: INFO@J3AET.COM
11 April 2013 New environmental engineering and technology firm opens in Butte
http://www.buttenews.net/index.php/component/...s-in-butte
A new environmental engineering research and technology development firm opened its doors last week at 116 S. Parkmont Drive in the industrial park south of Butte. J3 Advanced Engineering Technologies, Inc. (J3) is a woman owned company operated by James Fallacaro, President of J3.
J3 has signed a lease for two facilities from Montana Tech. The buildings, which are known as the MT Tech Research Facility, consist of 5,600 square feet of newly renovated offices and research lab space with a second 3,200 square foot high-bay building for scale-up testing, advanced pilot projects, fabrications and enough space for anticipated incubator companies.
J3 currently has five full-time employees including, Dr. Martin Foote, Senior Scientist and Engineer, John Gilbert, Director of Operations, and Jody Bickford, Senior Process Engineer and Project Manager. J3 has also retained Neal Egan as a consultant for business development. Although J3 is a new firm, the employees have over 100 years of cumulative professional experience providing environmental solution services to clients in the United States and worldwide. J3 personnel have conducted treatability studies, scale-up testing, and full scale field technology implementations for the treatment and/or stabilization of numerous solid and liquid wastes.
Previous work experience for the engineers and scientists employed with J3 includes engineering, project management, construction, testing, development and implementation of environmental technologies for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Army Corp of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service and many private companies including: Tetra Tech, Aspen Surgical, URS, UCOR, U. S. Filter, M 2 Polymer Technologies, Newmont Mining, Kinross Gold, Washington Group International, Conoco-Phillips, EG&G, Hecla Mining Company, and many others.
J3 personnel have also been appointed to handle the marketing of the Molecular Bonding System (MBS) due to their expertise at testing and applying the product. This technology is a patented heavy metal treatment agent developed by Solucorp Industries in the 1990s. MBS can effectively reduce the leachability of heavy metals in soils, sediments, sludges, process wastes, fly ash, lead paint chips and lead residues as well as in flue gas including scrubber and bag house applications. The product can also be used in combination with other treatment materials effectively. The MBS treatment process has been tested and approved by the EPA and has also been used at facilities throughout the United States and in Europe.
During a project (2005 -2006) in Ravena, Italy, 250,000 metric tons of soil contaminated with chromium, cadmium and mercury were remediated with MBS at a site that was historically used for manufacturing, natural gas processing and oil refining. The soil was left in place after treatment and the site was redeveloped. MBS was also used in the East Point Providence, Rhode Island remediation project. This project was one of the largest environmental cleanups in that state’s history. Ocean State Steel operated a steel mill for many decades along the Seekonk River in the city of East Providence. A total of twenty seven acres of land along the river, primarily contaminated with lead, were remediated and the city of East Point Providence was awarded the Brownfield’s Project of the Year in June 2005.
Furthermore, after successful studies proved that MBS could be combined with powdered activated carbon to reduce mercury emissions, a full scale implementation for the technology was conducted at a cement plant in 2012. This combination of products reduced mercury emissions by 97% without any plant modifications.
The MBS technology was also presented at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in September 2012 to a group including personnel from DOE, UCOR, B&W Y-12, and CDM-Smith. UCOR included the MBS information provided in a mercury treatability study and then requested quotes to treat mercury contaminated soils.
MBS was also tested in combination with a superabsorbent polymer. This testing proved that these two materials could be applied simultaneously to dewater and reduce leachable metal concentrations in wet soils and sediments. That body of work was presented at the Waste Management Conference in February, 2013.
Profile Neal Egan:
Consultant for Business Development
http://www.j3aet.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1020...%3Aprimary
11 March 2013 New company brings jobs to Butte:
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/New-company-br...index.html
Waste Management Symposium - MSE Presentation and DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
(Under Select a Day - Choose Monday) http://www.wmsym.org/app/Program/wm_program.cfm?ID=wm2013a
SESSION 010: Integrating Sustainability Principles into Site Closure and Reuse - Room 106B 10:00AM - 12:00PM
(Italic are personal opinions) DOE presents their vision of the future by cleaning up the past "Oak Ridge Cleanup Vision: Moving to the Future by Cleaning Up the Past".
SESSION 011: Technical Innovations in ER and Site Closure (Part 1 of 2) - Room 106C 10:00AM - 12:00PM
At the same time in the room next door, MSE gives their presentation "Strategies for Treating and Dewatering Contaminated Soils and Sediments Simultaneously".
SESSION 026: Technical Innovations in ER and Site Closure (Part 2 of 2)Room 106C 1:30PM - 3:10PM
This is a continuation of the session where MSE did their presentation. The DOE and it's major contractors at the Oak Ridge site finish up this education track with "An Exploration of Mercury Soils Treatment Technologies for the Y-12 Plant".
Strategies for Treating and Dewatering Contaminated Soils and Sediments Simultaneously:
http://www.solucorpltd.com/ppt/WM13_Simultane.../frame.htm
Polymer’s superabsorbent polymer, Waste Lock 770 (WL-770). The primary objective of the study was to determine if the two products could be used as a one-step treatment process to reduce the leachability of metals and dewater soils and/or sediments simultaneously. Three phases of work were performed during the treatability study. The first phase consisted of generating four bench-scale samples: two treated using only MBS and two treated using only WL-770, each at variable concentrations. The second phase consisted of generating nine bench-scale samples that were treated using MBS and WL-770 in combination with three different addition techniques. The third phase consisted of generating four intermediate-scale samples that were treated using MBS and WL-770 simultaneously. The soils used in the treatability study were collected at the Mike Mansfield Advanced Technology Center in Butte, Montana. The collected soils were screened at 4 mesh (4.75 millimeters (mm)) to remove the coarse fraction of the soil and spiked with metallic contaminants of lead, cadmium, nickel, mercury, uranium, chromium, and zinc.
INTRODUCTION
MSE conducted the treatability testing on a contaminated (spiked) soil sample using the metal treatment agent MBS and the superabsorbent polymer WL-770, both separately and in combination to treat and dewater soil samples simultaneously.
MBS has been tested by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) demonstration at the Midvale Slag Superfund Site in Midvale, Utah (Ref. 1). Some 500 tons of three waste streams contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, and lead were treated with MBS. The treated soils passed the EPA’s Multiple Extraction Procedure (MEP) test (Ref. 2). The MEP was designed to simulate initial and subsequent leaching of a waste placed into an improperly designed landfill, where the waste would be exposed to prolonged exposure of acidic precipitation. In addition to the SITE demonstration, MBS has undergone extensive bench and pilot-scale testing and has been used in several full-scale remediation projects. In each of these projects, MBS treatment has been able to reduce the leachability of hazardous contaminants from sediments and soils to levels below the regulatory limits for the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching procedure (TCLP) (Ref. 3). The TCLP was developed to simulate the mobility of contaminants from solids and multiphase wastes placed into a landfill. MBS was previously used at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for treatment of Brookhaven soils spiked with cadmium and lead (Ref. 4). The analyses of TCLP leachates from the treated soils were well below both the TCLP standards and the Universal Treatment Standards...
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Waste Management Symposia 2013
February 24 to 28, 2013
Phoenix, Arizona
Presented by Jody L. Bickford
J3 Advanced Engineering Technologies, Inc.
Formerly with MSE Technology Applications, Inc.
Overview & Case Studies "Molecular Bonding System" (MBS)
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F...es.ppt.pdf
Current DOE Mercury Remediation Estimate at Y-12 ALONE
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F...20Conf.pdf
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http://ebookbrowse.com/mcr-flier-battelle-con...d443333499
There was a recent Battelle International Conference in Texas that most people know about. The conference is specific in its purpose of "addressing the maintenance of the economic and biological viability of the environments of rivers, lakes, bays, and harbors which require management of a complex series of actions related to accumulation in sediments of potentially hazardous contaminants." The Sediments Conference is a forum for sharing experience and progress toward this goal.
There was one particular presentation that was done by The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland Washington) which is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) government research laboratory. This comes from part of their presentation:
"The project is complex, technically challenging, and expensive, with a current estimated cost of $1B for mercury remediation at the Y-12 Complex alone."
"Innovative methods are required to identify and control contaminant fate and transport pathways."
"Treatment technologies are being developed that will reduce the concentration and flux of mercury from subsurface flow paths within the industrial complex to surface water."
Sounds like the MBS/M2 Polymer combined technology could be part of the equation for success at Y-12.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander questions energy secretary nominee about Oak Ridge mercury cleanup
http://investorshangout.com/post/715064/-Alex...minee-abou
EPA to Hold 2013 National Brownfields Conference at Georgia World Congress Center
Final Hot Run Results 12/04/2012
http://investorshangout.com/post/208081/Final...URCE-http-
