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F -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR INFORMATION ON ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS SOL N47408-96-R-2302 DUE 053096 POC Contract Specialist, PAULETTE PETERSON, 805-982-5081 This is a Sources Sought announcement for information only. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. NO AWARD WILL RESULT FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANY REQUEST FOR A SOLICITATION. NO TELEPHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Navy tasks, such as electroplating, paint stripping, painting (booths), boiler cleaning, metal cleaning and degreasing, generate wastewaters containing toxic organic contaminants that must be pretreated prior to discharge by Navy Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants (IWTPs). These IWTPs must meet Federal discharge limits for Total Toxic Organics (TTOs). The limit for TTOs is determined by the sum total of the concentrations of specific organic contaminants whose individual concentrations exceed 0.01. Effective and affordable treatment technologies need to be sought for complete mineralization of these toxic organics due to the more stringent regulations that will be imposed following the amendment of the Clean Water Act. The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is seeking information from companies or government agencies that operate demonstration or full scale Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) wastewater treatment systems. NFESC is not seeking information on laboratory or bench scale systems in this Sources Sought. Previous technology assessments have identified Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) as the most technically and economically feasible for the Navy s IWTP TTO requirements. It is possible to mineralize refractory organics or TTOs down to very small levels using a combination of UV/ozone, UV/peroxide, or homogeneous photochemical oxidation. However, this Sources Sought is also requesting information on related processes such as perozonation, sonolytic oxidation, heterogeneous photocatalytic oxidation, and oxidation via laser beam irradiation. NFESC is seeking information on demonstration hardware that can test Navy wastestream samples and that this hardware be capable scaling to the Navy s needs in a future integrated pilot zero discharge IWTP. In addition, the Navy requires that this AOP technology accommodate wastewaters of varying compositions and ensure operation will be safe and usable in the hands of semiskilled workers. Respondents should provide the following information about their AOP, or related process, wastewater treatment technology: Name/address of company, company point-of contract with phone/fax number, narrative description of process, a process flow diagram, treatment capacity in gpm, lists of wastes treated to date with reaction rates and destruction effectiveness for these wastes, and number of permitted sites currently in operation. In the process narrative, NFESC is particularly interested any information relating to improvements in AOP systems design such that this technology can compete with the established treatment methods such as granular activated carbon (GAC). Such improvements may be overall reactor configuration to overcome mass transfer limitations (low activated surface area-to- reaction volume ratios), or associated equipment that improves operating and maintenance costs such as antifouling devices, or lamp alignment and calibration equipment. All proprietary information that is not to be disseminated in Government documents must be clearly identified. Response to this announcement must be mailed to: Department of the Navy, CBC Code 272311, Bldg 41, 1000 23RD Avenue, Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4301. Deadline for receipt of response is 30 May 1996.(0124)

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