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Emergencies Engineering Technologies Office,
Environmental Technology Centre
The Emergencies Engineering Technologies Office (EETO), through an
on-site contractor (SAIC Canada), supports the development and
maintenance of a range of prototype clean-up equipment to demonstrate
and adapt innovative methods for on-site mitigation of water or soil
contamination caused by pollution emergencies or insecure hazardous
waste sites. Spill response equipment, primarily for marine spills, is
also developed and evaluated.
SAIC Canada supplies approximately 15 engineers, engineering
technicians, chemists, support staff and students. The staff are
involved in developing, implementing, demonstrating, and evaluating
new technologies for containing and cleaning up air, water, and soil
contaminated with chemicals and oils. These technologies include the
following:
Thermal Processes:
combustion and thermal desorption technologies for removing
hydrocarbons from soil, gravel, cobble, and debris.
Extraction Processes:
soil washing enhancement technology and solvent extraction enhancement
technology for excavated soils.
Pumping and Treatment:
advanced oxidation and steam stripping processes for the treating
groundwaters contaminated by organic compounds and concentrated
liquids from membrane processes, and effective pre-treatment
technologies for groundwaters with high concentrations of iron,
calcium, and manganese.
Oil Spill Containment and Recovery:
sorbents, skimmers, barriers, pumps, and oil/water separators.
The Emergencies Engineering Technologies Office
- implements an average of 20 engineering projects annually,
totalling approximately $600K, to design, develop and improve
processes and techniques for treating and disposing of spilled
environmentally hazardous materials and for cleaning up leaking
contaminated sites.
- works in cooperation with others, including provincial
government agencies, the Canadian National Research Council, the
Canadian Coast Guard, the Department of National Defence, various
Industry groups and experts, and colleges and universities in
Canada and the United States, plus external agencies such as the
U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Minerals Management Service, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and various spill response
organizations.
- conducts bench- and pilot-scale treatability studies leading to
the implementation and operation of full-scale treatment systems
for remediating contaminated sites.
- evaluates oil spill response equipment, such as barriers, pumps,
skimmers, sorbents, oil/water separators, shoreline cleaning
techniques, and bioremediation application techniques.
- evaluates the technical and economic content of proposals
submitted to the division and other government agencies. The
office provides technical advice and information to the scientific
community by writing reports, presenting papers at conferences,
and conducting workshops and training courses on cleanup processes
and techniques.
- works with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
to develop standards for cleaning up oil and chemical spills.
Staff participate in the following sub-committees of the ASTM
Committee F20 on Oil and Hazardous Material Spills: Barriers,
Pumps, Skimmers, Sorbents, Shoreline Cleanup, Bioremediation,
Chemical Spill Countermeasures, and Initial Response and Training.
- is interested undertaking joint research and development
projects with firms requiring technologies for the cleanup or
remediation of oil and chemical spills, and contaminated waters
and soils. EETO's experience in solving environmental challenges
will be of particular interest to environmental engineering firms,
the chemical manufacturing and process industry, and petrochemical
refiners. The charter of the Emergencies Engineering
Technologies Office allows for the commercialization of the
technology through licensing or other technology transfer
agreements. The EETO can also enter into joint development
projects, or it can act as a gateway between industry and the
research community.
For more information on the Emergencies Engineering Technologies
Office, or SAIC Canada, please contact:
Dr. Carl E. Brown, Manager, EETO
Tel: (613)991-1118, or
Bill Wong, Manager, SAIC Canada ETP
Tel: (613)991-1840
Fax: (613)991-1673
Mail Address:
Emergencies Engineering Technologies Office
Environmental Technology Centre
Environment Canada
3439 River Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A OH3
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