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Support
Title: Cost Estimating Support for Environmental Technology Research Projects
Description:
The objective of this effort is to provide cost engineering support to the NRMRL research projects. Such assistance helps guide NRMRL research investments in environmental technologies and promotes NRMRL - wide awareness of the importance of considering cost-effectiveness in project outputs. A further benefit is the potential for technical design suggestions and improvements that arise from the cost engineering review process.
Providing process cost engineering support to a variety of NRMRL research projects:
- Perform technical and economic evaluations of proposed technologies for the remediation of the water in the Berkeley Pit. Emphasis is placed on the cost recovery of marketable metals from the wastewater. This effort involves the development of capital and operating costs, savings, cash flow, payback period, and rate of return for a 3MGD full scale operating facility using a sequential selective precipitation process. This process is compared to the process identified in the ROD.
- Assist in the technical and economic investigations of ferrous metals recovery processes. The ferrous metal recovery processes are being investigated as a means of improving the overall economics of the Berkeley Pit Metals Recovery Process.
- Prepare capital and operating cost estimates for a two-phase soil vapor extraction technology. This groundwater treatment technology is under consideration at a site contaminated with TCE/PCE.
- Provide cost engineering support to a project evaluating cost/benefits of in-situ fracture enhanced bio-venting in permeable soils to traditional ex-situ remediation treatment technologies. Provide cost engineering support for the Pervaporation Project.
Estimated Completion Date: FY99/FY00
EPA Principal Investigator:
Richard Scharp
scharp.richard@epa.gov