SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- High Capacity Arsenic Resin
- Notice Date
- 3/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Idaho Nat'l Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory, 2525 Fremont P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415-3920
- ZIP Code
- 83415-3920
- Solicitation Number
- 05-05
- Response Due
- 4/30/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/15/2005
- Description
- Contact Mr. Gary W. Smith. A potential technology development and licensing opportunity exists with BEA, the prime operating contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). BEA is soliciting a written indication of interest from industry partners interested in entering into a license agreement for the purpose of commercializing the following technology. License terms will include an up-front licensing fee and a running royalty based on a percentage of sales. This is not an opportunity to provide goods or services to BEA or the DOE. This solicitation will close to response 30 days after publication. Interested parties should send a description of their company and their plans to commercialize this technology to the following address: Gary W. Smith Sr. Account Executive Technology Transfer and Commercialization Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC P. O. Box 1625, MS 3805 Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3805 E-mail is gary.smith@inl.gov INVENTION SUMMARY: High Capacity Arsenic Resin - The EPA has recently set a new drinking water standard for arsenic. The new standard, which becomes effective in 2006, reduces the MCL for arsenic from 50 to 10 micrograms/liter. A novel resin technology has been developed by combining hydrated metal oxide nanoparticles with a polymer to form beads for use in a bed or cartridge. Very high loadings of the metal oxide have been achieved, resulting in an inexpensive composite with an active adsorption surface area of approximately three hundred square meters per gram (300 m2/g) of resin. Preliminary testing has shown the material to have very high equilibrium loadings for arsenic at the low concentration ranges typically found in groundwater. It has also been shown to maintain selectivity for oxy-anion and neutral arsenic species in the presence of potentially competing anions. This material is especially applicable to removal of indigenous arsenic contamination from drinking water, but would also have application for treating and remediating contaminated waters resulting from industrial activities such as mining. Primary benefits of this high capacity arsenic removal resin would be removal of arsenic contamination in potable water supplies. This material could be used in a single pass operation, wherein the material would be loaded with arsenic to maximum capacity and then disposed in a landfill, since it is anticipated that arsenic loaded resins will meet the Toxicity Characterization Leaching Procedure (TCLP) criteria. Resins can be incorporated into municipal water treatment systems; used as a disposable cartridge on private wells; or on drinking water faucets in private residences. While disposable, the resins can also be regenerated with alkaline solutions and re-used if this is deemed a more economical approach.
- Record
- SN00773121-W 20050324/050322211808 (fbodaily.com)
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