International Exchanges

The NATO pilot study director speaks in Istanbul, Turkey

Represented by EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), the United States is leading a pilot study on Clean Products and Processes. The study’s purpose is to create an international forum for improving the common pollution landscape and sharing methods and technologies that make cleaner, sustainable products possible. Delegates work with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Committee.

U.S./German Bilateral Agreement on Contaminated Waste

Since 1990, EPA and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have had a Bilateral Agreement on Contaminated Waste to better understand efforts to develop and demonstrate remedial technologies. Both partner countries work to develop comprehensive approaches to hazardous waste site remediation and evaluate the effectiveness of innovative technology application at critical sites. Specifically, the Bilateral Agreement on Contaminated Waste:

• Facilitates an understanding of both nations' approaches to contaminated site remediation
• Evaluates innovative remedial technologies according to the standards of both countries
• Facilitates international environmental technology exchange

Computer-Aided Process Engineering Metal Finishing Facility Pollution Prevention Tool (CAPE-OPEN)

Chemical process simulation is used in the metal finishing industry to select from various metal-finishing process options. The CAPE-OPEN pollution prevention tool is one option.

The CAPE-OPEN project, funded by the European Union, defines a common application framework for computer-aided process engineering (CAPE). The CAPE-OPEN project provides a middleware standard for chemical process simulation component models.