May 19-22, 1997
Kansas City Airport Hilton
Kansas City, Missouri
Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance
Research Center
Kansas State University
101 Ward Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2502
Editors
Larry E. Erickson
Mary M. Rankin
Stanley C. Grant
J. Patrick McDonald
Design and Layout
Carla A. Wolfe
Although this document has been funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreements R-815709 and R-819653 to the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, which is headquartered at Kansas State University, it has not been subjected to the agency's peer and administrative review and, therefore, may not necessarily reflect the views of the agency. No official endorsement should be inferred. The U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Restoration and Waste Management and Office of Technology Development; and the Kansas State University Center for Hazardous Substance Research provided partial support.
The 12th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research was organized by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) headquartered at Kansas State University. The conference was held May 19-22, 1997, at the Kansas City Airport Hilton in Kansas City, Missouri. The conference program consisted of 86 oral and 54 poster presentations, plenary addresses, and luncheon addresses.
The sessions of the conference were metals, remediation of munitions compounds, analytical methods, remediation, vegetation-based remediation, vegetation-based bioremediation, nonaqueous phase liquids, biofilms and barriers, and partnerships and technology innovation. Held in conjunction with the conference were the HSRC's Science Advisory Committee meeting and the Training and Technology Transfer Committee meeting. Also held in conjunction with the conference were four workshops.
The papers published in this volume can be viewed on the World Wide Web by going to http://www.engg.ksu.edu/HSRC/Proceedings.html and choosing "Proceedings" under the heading, "1997, 12th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research, Kansas City, Missouri." The abstracts for which complete papers were not submitted for publication can also be viewed on the Web by following the same procedure and choosing "Abstracts" under the heading "1997, 12th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research, Kansas City, Missouri."
This conference was co-sponsored by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; The Waste-management Education and Research Consortium; the National Mine Land Reclamation Center; and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Cooperating Supporters were Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Allied Signal Federal Manufacturing and Technology; Army Research Office; Black and Veatch, Inc.; Burns & McDonnell; Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Office of Technology Transfer; Interagency Environmental Technology Office for the White House National Environmental Technology Strategy; Kansas Department of Health and Environment; Midwest Research Institute; Terracon Environmental, Inc.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovative Technologies Program; U.S. Department of Defense (Environmental Security, Region 7); and U.S. Department of Energy - Kansas City Office.
Thanks to all who assisted in the organization of the conference and to those who participated.
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Metals Session
STUDY OF THE LIGANDS INVOLVED IN METAL BINDING TO ALFALFA BIOMASS
BIOMINERALIZATION OF COPPER:
SOLUTIONS FOR WASTE REMEDIATION AND
BIOMINING
CLEAN TAILING RECLAMATION: TAILING REPROCESSING FOR SULFIDE
REMOVAL AND VEGETATION ESTABLISHMENT
Zero-Valent Metals Session
REMEDIATION OF NITRATE-CONTAMINATED WATER BY FE0-PROMOTED
PROCESSES
Remediation Session
NITRATE REMOVAL USING ELECTROKINETIC/IRON WALL PROCESSES
ELECTROLYTIC SYSTEMS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SOLVENT-CONTAMINATED
WATER
TREATMENT OF TRICHLOROETHENE (TCE)
WITH A FLUIDIZED-BED BIOREACTOR (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
SURFACTANT-ENHANCED SOLUBILITY
AND MOBILITY OF POLYCYCLIC
AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN SOIL
THE HARDAGE SUPERFUND SITE: A REMEDIAL D
ESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION^M
CASE STUDY
Biofilms and Barriers Session
MODELING OF SUBSURFACE BIOBARRIER FORMATION AND PERSISTENCE
Remediation of Munitions Compounds Session
PHYTOREMEDIATION OF EXPLOSIVES IN GROUNDWATER USING INNOVATIVE
WETLANDS-BASED TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES
Analytical Methods Session
SOLUTION TO MANUFACTURER'S HAZARDOUS WASTE POSES PROBLEM FOR
ANALYST
DETECTION OF DIVALENT TRANSITION METAL IONS IN COMPLEX MEDIA BY
CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS
General Topics Session
GIS APPLICATIONS IN HAZARDOUS WASTE REMEDIATION
IDENTIFYING GROUNDWATER THREATS FROM IMPROPERLY ABANDONED
BOREHOLES
SOIL WATER CONTENT BY KARL FISCHER TITRATION
Partnerships and Technology Session
PARTNERING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AUDITS
PHYTOREMEDIATION OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE AND CARBON
TETRACHLORIDE: RESULTS FROM BENCH TO FIELD
Nonaqueous Phase Liquids Session
MOBILIZATION OF NAPL GANGLIA DUE TO DISSOLUTION: EFFECT ON
MODELING
Bioremediation Session
MICROBIAL REMEDIATION OF SOILS CO-CONTAMINATED WITH 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID AND CADMIUM
Remediation Session
THE HARDAGE SUPERFUND SITE: A REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION
CASE STUDY
Poster Session
ATMOSPHERIC NANOPARTICLES IN
PHOTOCATALYTIC AND THERMAL
PRODUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS
CONDUCTIVITY TRACER STUDIES FOR A FLUIDIZED-BED
BIOREACTOR
THE USE OF PHOSPHORUS IN SEQUESTRATION OF LEAD AND CADMIUM IN A
SMELTER SLAG
MODELING THE EFFECTS OF VEGETATION ON HEAVY METALS CONTAINMENT
EXAMINING THE FATE OF RELEASED PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA F1 IN
RHIZOSPHERE ENVIRONMENTS
BIODEGRADATION OF A MIXTURE OF
CHLORINATED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO TOXIC SUBSTANCE REPLACEMENT IN SUPPORT OF POLLUTION PREVENTION
HERS: AN EXPANDING PROGRAM IN A SHRINKING WORLD
EFFECT OF AIR SPARGING ON FATE AND TRANSPORT OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE
IN CHAMBERS WITH ALFALFA PLANTS
Special Monday Evening Session
SPECIAL EVENING SESSION: MINING, MINE LANDS, AND THE
ENVIRONMENT-RESEARCH AND INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS