A -- MECHANISMS OF ENHANCED RECOVERY OR DESTRUCTION IN THERMAL REMEDIATION

Notice Date

March 12, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center , P.O. Box 1198, 919 Kerr Research Drive, Ada, OK 74820

ZIP Code

74820

Solicitation Number

Ada 01-01

Response Due

April 30, 2001

Point of Contact

Stephen Kovash (580)436-8708

E-Mail Address

Within the SPRD, contact Stephen Kovash for more information (kovash.stephen@epamail.epa.gov)

Description

The Subsurface Protection and Remediation Division (SPRD) of the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) of the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.EPA), Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center, in Ada, Oklahoma, is seeking to award a cooperative agreement to a non-profit organization or an interagency agreement with Federal Agencies qualified to conduct research in the management, protection and remediation of soil, ground water and aquifer systems. You are invited to submit a proposal to conduct research to advance the scientific understanding of the effect of heat on the behavior of contaminants in soil and ground water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is actively involved, through the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), in clean-up programs at sites where soil and groundwater contamination by non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) has occurred. Many of these NAPLs are volatile, and research and demonstrations by others have shown that these volatile and semivolatile NAPLs can be recovered by thermal remediation techniques, which include steam injection, electrical (resistive) heating, and radio frequency heating. Although the objectives of the thermal remediation are often to volatilize the contaminants for recovery in the vapor phase, field scale demonstrations of these technologies often give evidence of other mechanisms occurring during the heating process, which aid in the recovery of the contaminants, or in some cases evidence has been found of the in situ chemical alteration of contaminants which may result in their complete oxidation. The objective of this research project is to study one or more of the mechanisms that occur when contaminants in the subsurface are heated that aid in the recovery and/or destruction of the contaminants. The research should be done in a manner that will lead to an increased understanding of what these mechanisms are and under what types of conditions they are important, and when appropriate, how to control these processes. The mechanisms to be studied may include physical processes that occur at the temperatures used in thermal remediation that aid in the recovery of contaminants, chemical and/or biological processes that occur at high temperatures that either destroy contaminants or alter them in a way that affects their recovery during thermal remediation, or chemical changes caused by electromagnetic or other types of energy in the subsurface environment. The project is anticipated as a three-year project with the total cost of $175,000, pending availability of funds. Statutory authority for EPA funding of this cooperative agreement is authorized in the CERCLA Section 311(c). Interested applicants must be eligible to receive federal assistance under this Act and the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 30 -- General Regulation for Assistance Programs and Part 40 -- Research and Demonstration Grants. Only research institutions eligible to receive federal assistance under these regulations are authorized to submit applications. Government agencies wishing to enter into an Interagency Agreement are also encouraged to apply. Interested sources must request a solicitation package containing a description of the area of research, evaluation criteria, and other proposal writing instructions in writing before the response date of April 30, 2001. FAX requests may be directed to (580) 436-8597. Telephone requests for the solicitation package or technical information will not be accepted.

Web Link

EPA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Information can (http://www.epa.gov/ogd/regs.htm )

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010314/ASOL006.HTM (W-071 SN50F912)