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SITE - DEMONSTRATION BULLETIN - MINERGY GLASS FURNACE TECHNOLOGY - MINERGY CORPORATION
Citation:
Tetra Tech EM Inc. SITE - DEMONSTRATION BULLETIN - MINERGY GLASS FURNACE TECHNOLOGY - MINERGY CORPORATION. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/540/MR-03/500, 2002.
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The Glass Furnace Technology (GFT) was developed by Minergy Corporation (Minergy), of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Minergy originally developed vitrification technologies to process wastewater sludge into glass aggregate that could be sold as a commercial product. Minergy modified a standard glass furnace to melt and treat river sediment containing polyclorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The technology was evaluated during a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program demonstration at the Minergy facility in Winneconne, Wisconsin, in August 2001. The SITE program evaluated the technology's ability to treat sediment containing PCBs and metals to form a product with beneficial reuse. Because the GFT melter requires the river sediment to be greater than 90 percent solids prior to loading into the melter, the SITE program also evaluated a bench-scale dryer technology as a secondary activity. The sediment for this evaluation was dredged from the Lower Fox River, dewatered, and filter pressed. The PCB concentration of sediment fed into the GFT unit ranged up to 36 parts per million (PPM) by volume. This bulletin offers preliminary information about the demonstration.