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Air Force Industrial Waste Treatment and Disposal LT. COL. FRANCIS A. SANDERS, Chief Operations Division jional Civil Engine Cincinnati, Ohio USAF Regional Civil Engineer Office ti, Ohi Approximately 10 years ago the writer became particularly interested in industrial waste treatment in the Air Force. At that time most ofthe methods employed on the air force bases to treat industrial wastes were make-shift or informal. Even then, increased emphasis was already being placed on stream pollution in the Air Force as well as in civilian communities. Only three years before that time Congress had passed Public Law 845, Water Pollution Control Act, which has proved so effective. Nearly all air force bases generate some industrial wastes. At many bases the effects on a receiving stream are so small that the wastes do not warrant treatment. On others the quantities are small enough or the conditions are suited to disposal by simple methods only, such as burying, lagoon - ing, burning, or diluting. Tnere are a number of bases though which produce substantial quantities of complex wastes. These wastes result principally from aircraft and vehicle flight and repair operations. Other wastes result from testing and research activities. The principal wastes are-. Oil wastes, chromium and other toxic metal wastes, cyanides, acids and alkalis, organic solvents and phenol compounds, rocket propellants, and radioactive wastes. AIR FORCE ATTITUDE TOWARD WASTE TREATMENT In the past few years the Air Force has progressed beyond the makeshift methods to formal, permanent facilities, and has thereby considerably reduced pollution of streams. During these years the military services have been extremely conscientious to prevent stream pollution. The Air Force policy is "a continuous study of the control of, and measures necessary to prevent stream pollution, will be affected to conform to programs under state laws and applicable to state agencies and the public generally for the preservation and improvement of the quality of surface and underground waters. " In 1951, the writer accomplished a study of the industrial waste needs at Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, recommended treatment methods, and designed the modification of a deserted sewage treatment plant for the treatment of industrial wastes. In the following year many of the recommendations had been placed into effect. This was the first large industrial waste plant in the Air Force using chemicals to treat the wastes. Approximately 1.5 million gal of emulsified oil wastes have been treated daily since then by using aluminum sulphate to crack the emulsions and precipitate the oils. Cyanides are treated by the alkali-chlorination method. Facilities were designed to treat chromium plating waste, but before these facilities were installed, permission was given by the city of San Antonio to accept at their domestic sewage plant, approximately 60,000 gal of dilute chromic acid daily together with about 4,000,000gal of domestic sewage from Kelly afb. Since that time oil wastes from two other areas on Kelly arb have been collected and pumped to the industrial waste plant. Modifications are currently underway at the oil treatment facility, and the cyanide treatment facilities are being enlarged and modified. The aircraft cylinder - 302 -
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC196035 |
Title | Air Force industrial waste treatment and disposal |
Author | Sanders, F. A. (Francis A.) |
Date of Original | 1960 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the fifteenth Industrial Waste Conference |
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Extent of Original | p. 302-307 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
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Title | page302 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
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Transcript | Air Force Industrial Waste Treatment and Disposal LT. COL. FRANCIS A. SANDERS, Chief Operations Division jional Civil Engine Cincinnati, Ohio USAF Regional Civil Engineer Office ti, Ohi Approximately 10 years ago the writer became particularly interested in industrial waste treatment in the Air Force. At that time most ofthe methods employed on the air force bases to treat industrial wastes were make-shift or informal. Even then, increased emphasis was already being placed on stream pollution in the Air Force as well as in civilian communities. Only three years before that time Congress had passed Public Law 845, Water Pollution Control Act, which has proved so effective. Nearly all air force bases generate some industrial wastes. At many bases the effects on a receiving stream are so small that the wastes do not warrant treatment. On others the quantities are small enough or the conditions are suited to disposal by simple methods only, such as burying, lagoon - ing, burning, or diluting. Tnere are a number of bases though which produce substantial quantities of complex wastes. These wastes result principally from aircraft and vehicle flight and repair operations. Other wastes result from testing and research activities. The principal wastes are-. Oil wastes, chromium and other toxic metal wastes, cyanides, acids and alkalis, organic solvents and phenol compounds, rocket propellants, and radioactive wastes. AIR FORCE ATTITUDE TOWARD WASTE TREATMENT In the past few years the Air Force has progressed beyond the makeshift methods to formal, permanent facilities, and has thereby considerably reduced pollution of streams. During these years the military services have been extremely conscientious to prevent stream pollution. The Air Force policy is "a continuous study of the control of, and measures necessary to prevent stream pollution, will be affected to conform to programs under state laws and applicable to state agencies and the public generally for the preservation and improvement of the quality of surface and underground waters. " In 1951, the writer accomplished a study of the industrial waste needs at Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, recommended treatment methods, and designed the modification of a deserted sewage treatment plant for the treatment of industrial wastes. In the following year many of the recommendations had been placed into effect. This was the first large industrial waste plant in the Air Force using chemicals to treat the wastes. Approximately 1.5 million gal of emulsified oil wastes have been treated daily since then by using aluminum sulphate to crack the emulsions and precipitate the oils. Cyanides are treated by the alkali-chlorination method. Facilities were designed to treat chromium plating waste, but before these facilities were installed, permission was given by the city of San Antonio to accept at their domestic sewage plant, approximately 60,000 gal of dilute chromic acid daily together with about 4,000,000gal of domestic sewage from Kelly afb. Since that time oil wastes from two other areas on Kelly arb have been collected and pumped to the industrial waste plant. Modifications are currently underway at the oil treatment facility, and the cyanide treatment facilities are being enlarged and modified. The aircraft cylinder - 302 - |
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