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The development of new and innovative technologies and methods for treating environmental contaminants is a critical step in the effort to cleanup the nation's hazardous waste sites. Field demonstration of these technologies is, in turn, a key step in their development. The continuing investment of public and private resources in demonstration projects represents a major commitment to promoting the technical and cost advantages offered by these technologies. The number of government-sponsored field demonstration projects of new waste cleanup technologies has grown to over 600.

Innovative Remediation Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Projects in North America — Report and Database

EPA compiled information on innovative remediation technology demonstration projects and reported it in Innovative Remediation Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Projects in North America, published in 2000. Up-to-date information on these and new innovative remediation technology demonstration projects is available in a searchable online database. The report and database consolidate key reference information in a matrix format that allows project mangers to quickly identify new technologies that may answer their cleanup needs and provides contacts for obtaining technology demonstration results and other information.

The database contains information on completed and ongoing field-scale demonstrations of innovative technologies for the treatment of environmental contaminants. Each project has either a government partner or sponsor, and covers a technology that is at or near field-deployable commercial readiness.

The database can be searched using the following criteria, individually or combined:

Media Groundwater Soil, Sludge, and Sediment
Technology types
Ex situ biological Ex situ physical/chemical Ex situ thermal In situ biological	In situ physical/chemical In situ thermal Off-gas treatment
Technology
Air Sparging Air Stripping Bioreactor Bioremediation Bioslurping Bioslurry Bioventing Chemical Treatment Circulation Wells Composting Containment Electrokinetics Incineration Off-Gas Treatment Other Biological	Other Physical/Chemical Other Thermal Oxidation Permeable Reactive Barrier Physical Separation Phytoremediation Radio/Electric Heating Soil Vapor Extraction Soil Washing Solidification/Stabilization Solvent Extraction Thermal Desorption Thermal Enhanced Extraction Vitrification
Contaminant type
Halogenated VOCs Halogenated SVOCs Nonhalogenated VOCs	Nonhalogenated SVOCs Inorganic compounds Explosives/propellants
Demonstration Date	(Year)
What types of project information does the database provide?
The matrix includes the following information for each project (as available):
Name of the technology Type(s) of contaminant(s) treated Technical comments Description of the site or waste source	Demonstration date (year) Project report title and reference Developer/vendor contact Government agency sponsor key

EPA gathers information on new and ongoing projects from published reports, conference proceedings, other government information sources, and other reference materials on an ongoing basis. The database is updated quarterly.

Note: The online database of field-scale innovative remediation technology demonstration projects is updated quarterly. The downloadable version of the document Innovative Remediation Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Projects in North America, 2nd Edition is not regularly updated, and only contains projects through June 2000.

Project submissions for the Innovative Remediation Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Projects in North America Database are no longer being accepted.

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Last Modified: January 27, 2005