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F -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR ADVANCED OXIDATION TREATMENT PROCESSES FOR NAVY INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TOXIC ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS. SOL N47408-97-R-2305 SEEKING INFORMATION ONLY DUE 020697 POC Contract Specialist, PAULETTE K. PETERSON, 805-982-5081 THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY FOR INFORMATION 0NLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS WILL BE MADE. NO TELEPHONE CALLS REQUESTING A BID PACKAGE OR SOLICITATION WILL BE ACCEPTED. THERE IS NO BID PACKAGE OR SOLICITATION! THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS SEEKING INFORMATION ONLY. China Lake Propulsion Laboratory (CLPL) and Salt Wells Pilot Plant (SWPP) generates wastewaters that contain low concentration explosives, dissolved organics, metals, volatile solvents and other constituents such as calcium and magnesium. A military construction project is currently being designed to treat this waste stream. Previous technology assessments have identified Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) as the most technically and economically feasible treatment process. The treatment plant is being designed to process 300,000 gallons of wastewater per year and operate in a 1,500 gallon batch mode. Wastewater to the treatment plant will come from numerous base process operating units and be blended in a holding tank. Each of these units has a different waste profile and discharge schedule. The treatment plant will operate during the day shift only, on a 5d/4d/9hr work schedule. Discharges from the treatment plant will be recycled as industrial process water or discharged to a Navy owned sanitary system. Previous wastewater sample analysis has identified explosive nitroaromatics (TNT, TNB, RDX and HMX), along with recalcitrant volatile solvents, primarily acetone, and semi-volatile, such as phenolics, as the major contaminants for determining AOP reactor design. The maximum concentration of each explosive compound is 35 ppm, 40 ppm for acetone, and 20 ppm for phenolics. The design requirements for the treatment plant specifies that the discharge limit for each of these compounds of interest is 1 ppm. This mustbe achieved with a waste stream that contains a high level of total dissolved solids (5,000 ppm), total suspended solids (300 ppm) and various interfering ions such as nitrite (1300 ppm) and chloride (200 ppm). The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is seeking information from companies that manufacture full scale industrial AOP wastewater treatment systems that can accommodate waste streams of varying compositions and can be operated safely by semiskilled workers. NFESC is not seeking information on bench scale, laboratory or pilot systems in this Sources Sought. Respondents should provide the following information about their AOP wastewater treatment technology: Name/address of company, company point-of contact with phone/fax number, narrative description of process, pretreatment requirements, 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. Proprietary information that is not to be disseminated in Government documents must be clearly identified. All information must be mailed to: Department of the Navy, Code 272311, 1000 23RD Avenue, Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4301. Deadline for receipt of information is February 6, 1997. (0024)

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