HAZARDOUS AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES : proceedings of the thirty-third mid-atlantic industrial and ... hazardous waste conference

"The Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Hazardous Waste Conference is an annual meeting that brings together engineering and science professional from academia, government, and industry. This text presents the presentations made at this event."--Provided by publisher Cover 2 Title page 2 Copyright page 3 Contents 6 Preface 14 Acknowledgements 16 Symposium 1: Sediment Contamination 20 Impacts of a Rare Flood Event on PCB Fate and Transport in Thompson Island Pool, Upper Hudson River 22 Cohesive Sediment Resuspension: Experimentation and Analysis 32 An Industrial Ecology Approach to Dredging the New York/New Jersey Harbor: The Case of Mercury 33 Symposium 2: Colloids and Electrochemical Methods 34 Electrochemical Coagulation for Oily Wastewater Treatment 36 Nonylphenol and Its Ethoxylates in Wastewater Treatment Plants 37 Physical Mechanisms of Colloidal Silica Grouting in Remediation of Chromium Contaminated Soil 38 Removal of Toxic Metals from Contaminated Water Using Powder Activated Alumina Combined with Coagulation/Flocculation 48 The SO2/O2 System as a Novel Approach for Cleaning Contaminated Sediments 59 Symposium 3: Bioremediation 68 Anaerobic Dechlorination of TCE in Groundwater via Bioaugmentation 70 Modeling Chromium (VI) Reduction and Phenol Degradation in a Packed-Bed Bioreactor: Transient State Model 71 Anaerobic Transformation and Bioremediation of Cephalexin Antibiotic Waste Sludge Using a Fluidized Bed Reactor 84 Effects of Nickel on Nitrifying Enrichment Cultures 85 Enhancing Anaerobic Dehalogenation of Organohalides in Contaminated Sediments 96 Symposium 4: Integrated Management of Municipal Solid Waste 98 Do Modern MSW Incinerators Actually Destroy More PCDD/F Than They Produce? 100 Energy Recovery: An Essential Tool of Integrated Waste Management 109 Investigation of Tire Shreds for Use in Residential Subsurface Leaching Field Systems: A Field Scale study 123 Connecting Large-Scale Generators and Recycling Markets for Food Residuals: A History and Regulatory/Economic/Social-Political Case Study for New Jersey 133 A Re-Usable Landfill: The Aerobic Bioconversion Cell 143 Computer Modeling of Waste Incinerators 159 Symposium 5: Water Quality Modeling 170 Impact of Highway Deicing Agent Loading on Water Quality 172 Application of Three Dimensional Hydraulic and Water Quality Model in the Assessment of Environmental Impacts Related to the Proposed Deepening of New York and New Jersey Harbor Navigation Channels 181 A System-Wide Eutrophication Model of New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and New York Bight 182 Southeastern Connecticut and Distant Places: A Comparison of the Effects of Acid Rain 183 Chaotic Advection and Its Role in the Water Quality of the Lower Hudson River Estuary 184 The Role of Kerogen in the Sorption of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals by a Sandy Aquifer Material 187 Symposium 6: Environmental Management and GIS 196 Developing and Implementing Environmental Management Systems 198 Dusting for Plume Footprints: Using Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling and GIS to Assess the Environmental Impact of Particulate Emissions from the Con Edison Ravenswood Generating Station 200 Integration with GIS of Large-Scale Water Quality Projects in the New York City Area 201 Symposium 7: Environmental Molecular Engineering 202 Integrated Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Polychlorinated Biphenyls 204 Atmospheric Chemistry of Alternative Fuels 212 Computing the Properties of the Cu-Thioarsenite Complex 213 The Prediction of Henry’s Law Constants and Its Temperature Dependence for Polychlorinated Biphenyls from Computational and Experimental Data 214 Success of Density Functional Theory in Predicting Enthalpy Changes Associated with Two-Electron Reduction of Polychlorinated Biphenyls 215 Computational Models for Predicting the Thermodynamic Properties of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) 225 Symposium 8: Tracing and Geological Engineering 226 A Modified Solution for Contaminant Removal by Pneumatic Fracturing 228 Development of an Automated Monitoring System for a Created Pond at Great Kills Park, Staten Island, New York 229 Design and Construction of a Coupled Subsurface Imaging/Remediation System 230 Bio-Optical Modeling of the Nearshore Waters Using Remote Sensing and In-Situ Measurements 231 Symposium 9: Thermal and Kinetic Advances in Pollution Control and Prevention 232 Correlating Laminar Burning Velocities Using Perfectly Stirred Reactor Theory for Hazardous Waste Incineration 234 Catalytic Combustion as a Pollution Prevention Technology to Achieve Ultra-Low Emissions in Power Generating Ground-Based Gas Turbine Engines 241 The Development of Gasoline Fuel Processors for Use in PEM Fuel Cell Vehicles 252 Symposium 10: Industrial and Wastewater Treatment 254 A Comparison of Three Degradative Pre-Treatment Processes for Dye Wastes 256 Autotrophic Denitrification with Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria 266 Design and Construction of a Field-Scaled Photo-Chemical Remediation Reactor] 275 Modeling the Feasibility of Zero Liquid Discharge Solutions in the Process Industry 283 GIS Visualization of Mercury Concentrations in Sediments of the New York/New Jersey Harbor 293 Integrated Waste Management Options for New York City Municipal Solid Waste 294 Posters 296 Pilot-Scale Study of Fenton's Oxidation of Organic Contaminants in Water 298 Deposition of Charged Soot Particles in Tubes 299 EPA Enforcement Update—Prepare Your Campus for an EPA Inspection 300 Experimental Determination of Enthalpies of Vaporization of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Using Correlation Gas Chromatography 301 Managing Municipal Solid Wastes: Japan, U.S.and EU 302 Understanding of PCB Structural Properties Using Classical Thermodynamics and Computational Modeling 303 Non-Point Source Nutrient Loads from the Lower Westchester County, NY, into Long Island Sound 304 Mathematical Modeling of Toxics' Fate, Transport and Bioaccumulation Using GIS 305 The Examination of Sodium and Chlorine as Flame Inhibitors in a MethaneIAir Flame 306 Anaerobic Transformation and Bioremediation of Cephalexin Anti-Biotic Waste Sludge Using a Fluidized Bed Reactor 317 Author Index 326 Indices for 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd Industrial Waste Conferences 328