Image Left: Iron Wall Venn Diagram | Image Right: Permeable Reactive Barriers & Groundwater Flow | Credits: Tratnyek Research Group {OHSU} | Release: CCA 3.0
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On Thursday past, the AECOM® Technology Corporation {NYSE:ACM} hosted a webcast update - THE ROLE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION & POTENTIAL RISKS - highlighting bioremediation techniques, strategies, and systems involving nano-scaled zero valent iron {nZVI} applications on contaminated groundwater and soils.
AECOM's environmental practice Nanotechnology Initiative Director, Bill Looney, quite forthrightly addresses nanoOEHS challenges and concerns regarding surface/catalytic/magnetic properties while disclosing risk mitigation measures undertaken globally by AECOM®.
Matt Zenker, PE, PhD and Dora Chiang, PE, PhD discuss and display data from their respective in situ pilot projects, performance results, comparative bench-scale observations, and conclusions {including life-cycle cleanup costs}.
{Zenker's Site 1 results commence circa 18:24, page 16; Chiang's Site 2 toxicity/persistence/mobility/treatability controls commence circa 27:12, page 22}.
http://www.aecom.com/What+We+Do/Environment
AECOM COLLABORATION WITH BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT {UCSB}
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