PRR leads charge on clean-up of 30,000
MGP coal tar contaminated sites in the U.S.
Interested media, please contact, Rod
Mitchell:
281-350-5506 /
mediarod@aol.com,
HOUSTON – February 16, 2009
–
Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. (PLANET) (PINK SHEETS: PRRY),
developer, manufacturer and marketer of the PetroLuxusTM family of
products, is pleased to announce the successful extraction of toxic
heavy metals from coal tar waste. Planet created a special blend of its
soil remediation product targeting the precipitation of heavy metals and
recovery of oil from coal tar known as PetroLuxusTM 401 for the
remediation of coal tar pits. Independent lab tests confirm the
successful treatment and remediation (washing) of coal tar samples which
will provide a new cost effective solution to the environmental
remediation industry.
Prior to the US having a natural gas pipeline network, gas for lighting,
heating and cooking was manufactured locally from coal and petroleum at
thousands of Manufactured Gas Plants (MGPs) throughout the country. A
2003 EPA report estimated that as many as 50,000 plants were built
during the 140 years, commencing in 1816 till 1950s, of MGP operations.
A by-product of MGPs were coal tars, complex and variable mixtures of
phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heterocyclic compounds
that are known carcinogens and toxic to humans and animals. It was
common practice at MGPs to dump coal tar and other wastes into on-site
ponds, bury it, or use it as fill to adjust the grade of the gas yard.
These practices left an environmental legacy of hazardous waste
contamination in groundwater, soil, sediment, sludge and surface water.
Current acceptable industry cleanup/remediation methods of coal tar
sites are extremely costly and time consuming. These methods require the
contaminated soil be excavated and transported to soil roasting
processing centers. The contaminated soil is thermally desorbed in large
energy consuming rotary kilns to remove the hazardous contamination
rendering the soil inert and useless but still requiring disposal. In
addition to this costly process, property owners need to purchase and
transport clean fill dirt to replace the excavated contaminated soil.
PLANET was provided contaminated coal tar samples from a site in Newark,
NJ. owned by Public Service Electric and Gas, a Manufactured Gas Plant
site. The samples were remediated with PetroLuxusTM 401 and analyses
were performed by Aqua Pro-Tech Laboratories, Inc., a New Jersey
certified environmental testing laboratory. Certified laboratory results
showed that after treatment with PetroLuxusTM 401 harmful metals, such
as arsenic, lead, chromium, cyanide, and mercury were rendered inert and
non-detectable. Additionally a clean coal oil was recovered which can be
blended with #6 oil to provide a saleable fuel to industry instead of
costly disposal. These results demonstrate that PLANET can treat soils
ex-situ on site to residential soil standards for reuse thus saving
clients millions of dollars in transportation and disposal costs (view
lab test results).
Mr. Robert A. Feller, Senior Project Manager at E2PM, LLC, an
environmental engineering firm stated, “After 28 years working in the
environmental industry, I have never seen anything work so quickly and
completely at ambient temperature for cleaning soils before. All of our
testing to date has involved no heat and no pressure; simple agitation
and the results speak for themselves. The recovered oil portion doesn't
even stick to the storage vessel after processing, something I have
never seen before. I am only now beginning to envision the various
applications where the PetroLuxus family of chemicals could be utilized
for expedited remediation and recovery of contaminants from Brownfields
properties across the country at substantial cost savings over
conventional remediation technologies.”
The US Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 Edition – “Cleaning up the
Nation's Waste Site: Markets and Technology Trends” states that “It is
estimated that should the 30,000-45,000 MGP and other coal tar sites
require cleanup, it could cost $26 - $128 billion.”
INTERVIEW
OP: Planet Resource Recovery founder, Kurt Neubauer, is a colorful
and witty Texan, who will explain how
his proprietary Green technology, PetroLuxusTM
is the first environmentally-friendly solution to effectively
clean up contaminated soil and ground water.
For an audio/visual demonstration of PetroLuxusTM,
click
here.
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