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Calgon Carbon Corp. Ion Exchange Bed Regeneration / Umpqua Ion Exchange Bed RegPittsburgh, PASource: "SBIR Success at Marshall", in Aerospace Technology Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 4, July/August 1999, Small Business/SBIR, available at http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/Innovation74/sbir.htm Project Summary: The following text was excerpted from "SBIR Success at Marshall", in Aerospace Technology Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 4, July/August 1999, Small Business/SBIR, available at http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/Innovation74/sbir.htm: An effective catalytic oxidation system to remove contaminants during long-term manned space missions has reached its primary SBIR Phase II goal and is being marketed to the private sector. A contract between Marshall Space Flight Center and Umpqua Research Company in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, originally focused on the stringent water quality requirements of long-term manned space flight, with the manufacture of light hardware as the primary Phase II goal. The main focus for near-term commercialization is the International Space Station. Continued sales are expected for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars. The U.S. Air Force has also funded the technology for the destruction of environmental contaminants associated with aviation fuel, solvents, soluble propellant and munitions byproducts. The National Science Foundation has supported the effort for phenol, trichlorethylene, methylene blue and benzene contaminants. The energy-efficient operation of the catalytic oxidation system offers excellent heat recovery, with contaminant destruction depending primarily on operation temperature and catalyst contact time. It destroys most waterborne organic compounds. Soluble alcohols, ketones, amides, amines, aromatics and halocarbon levels have been oxidized using dissolved elemental oxygen to form carbon dioxide, water and constituent inorganic species. At the same time, the system has the capability to eliminate such inorganic contaminants as nitrite. Calgon Carbon Corporation has signed an exclusive license for use of the Umpqua Research Company developed catalytic oxidation system technology in treating perchlorate-containing brines that have resulted from the regeneration of ion-exchange beds used to remove perchlorate from groundwater. An initial pilot scale test is in progress at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Additional Phase III development work will be funded by Calgon to reduce catalysts' costs and to minimize the formation of unwanted reaction byproducts. Additional Info Source: "SBIR Success at Marshall", in Aerospace Technology Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 4, July/August 1999, Small Business/SBIR, available at http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/Innovation74/sbir.htm |
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