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Technology Development and Evaluation
Evaluating Environmental Technology for Meeting Remediation End Points and Long-Term Stewardship Options
James Regens; R. Eric Zimmerman; Patrick L. Wilkey; Donald G. Hodges; Anthony Q. Armstrong; Linda Kelley
Corresponding author:: James L. Regens, Tulane University Medical Center (SL1), 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA; e-mail: regens@esarl.tulane.edu
Environmental managers are confronted with the chal-lenge
of systematically comparing conventional and innovative
technologies, that are potentially responsive to site-specific needs
relating to remediation and long term stewardship. The Tech-nology
Evaluation Framework described in this article provides
an integrated, decision support tool for assembling, synthesiz-ing,
and communicating the information needed to support tech-nology
selection and deployment. The Framework"s application
is illustrated by evaluating containment and treatment of trichlo-roethylene
contaminated groundwater using a representative
cross section of conventional and innovative technologies un-der
actual conditions prevailing at two hydrogeologically di-verse
U.S. Department of Energy sites.
Abbreviations. DOE: U.S. Department of Energy; GAC: Granu-lar
Activated Carbon; IGM: In-situ Groundwater Management;
TCE: trichloroethylene; TEF: Technology Evaluation Frame-work;
VAC: Vapor-phase Activated Carbon
| | Keywords: remediation endpoints; risk; science; technology; Environmental management |
7 ESPR Special (2) 49-56 (2000)
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