Book Description

The McClellan AFB Innovative Technology Demonstration Program is an ongoing program established to identify and evaluate those innovative technologies that hold promise for widespread remedial applications. Each technology partner contributes to the overall process goal of generating defensible data on technology costs and performance that can be mutually shared and disseminated. The primary partners of this technology development program are: 1) The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, which selected McClellan Air Force Base (AFB) as a National Environmental Technology Test Site (NETTS) for the demonstration of technologies designed to treat chlorinated solvents. The main goal of the test site concept is to promote rapid development and transfer of promising technologies to full-scale field implementation and commercialization. 2) The California Environmental Technology Partnership (CETP), whose mission is to enhance the California economy and environment through the development of hazardous waste remediation technology. 3) The Public-Private Partnership Program (Partnership Program), wherein McClellan AFB has a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Technology Innovation Office (TIO); California EPA (Cal/EPA); Clean Sites, Inc.; American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Beazer East, Inc.; Dow Chemical Co.; E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company; Monsanto Company; Southern California Edison; and Xerox Corporation. 4) The U.S. EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program, established by the EPA to accelerate the development of new and innovative technologies to solve hazardous waste site cleanup problems. Process Technologies Incorporated (PTI) was selected by McClellan AFB to perform an on-site, pilot-scale demonstration of its innovative technology for the concentration and photolytic destruction of vapor phase volatile organic compounds (VOCs).