SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Perchlorate Destruction and Potable Water Production using Membrane Biofilm Reduction and Membrane Filtration
- Notice Date
- 8/9/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- USACE HEC, Ft. Belvoir, ATTN: CEHEC-CT, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315-3860
- ZIP Code
- 22315-3860
- Solicitation Number
- W912HQ-SN-10-0003
- Archive Date
- 11/7/2010
- Point of Contact
- Lisa L. Kurtz, 703-428-6318
- E-Mail Address
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USACE HEC, Ft. Belvoir
(lisa.l.kurtz@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The services are to further the understanding of perchlorate destruction and potable water production using membrane biofilm reduction and membrane filtration. Aligned with this purpose, the main objective of this project is to demonstrate and validate that a membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) coupled with downstream ultrafiltration (UF) is capable of destroying nitrate and perchlorate in extracted groundwater as well as producing water that is potable. Specific technical objectives include demonstrating that (1) nitrate and perchlorate concentrations consistently can be reduced to analytical method reporting limits at a flow rate of 25 gallons per minute; (2) biofilm growth and chemical scaling of the MBfR and UF fibers is controllable, stable, and does not require unusual maintenance requirements; (3) produced water meets California Department of Health Services and U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act chemistry requirements for potable water and other relevant requirements such as maximum tolerable dissolved organic carbon; (4) produced water does not contain sulfide or objectionable taste/odor; and (5) system is responsive to possible operational upsets, normal maintenance procedures, and normal temporal variations in water quality. The results to date demonstrate that primary variables that were determined to affect MBfR performance were feed flow rate and the MBfR module recirculation rate, and that drinking water parameters were determined to be within Safe Drinking Water Act limits. It has been determined that a continuation of the study is needed to further develop the technique at a different demonstration site.
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