Site Remediation Engineering
Focus personnel are nationally recognized for their expertise in using thermal treatment technologies for treating contaminated soils.  Several of our staff regularly serve as peer reviewers for major EPA publication dealing with mobile thermal treatment technologies and have presented seminars on design, selection, and evaluation of thermal treatment equipment at national and international conferences.  Focus staff members also serve on the U.S. EPA Superfund Technical Assistance Response Team to provide consultation on difficult thermal treatment applications at Superfund sites.

We also have extensive experience in the design, evaluation, and operation of mobile thermal treatment systems.  We have performed technology assessment studies for virtually all types of mobile thermal desorption, pyrolysis, and high temperature incineration systems that have been used for treating soils and other wastes at Superfund sites.  Feasibility studies have been conducted for sites contaminated with dioxins, PCBs, pesticides, polynuclear aromatic compounds, volatile organic compounds, and petroleum products.  Several of these studies have been conducted for potentially responsible party groups to evaluate the most cost-effective treatment alternative for a specific site.  Studies have also been conducted for numerous remediation contractors to estimate performance characteristics of their equipment at specific sites, to troubleshoot operational problems, and to optimize operations to increase waste processing capacity.

Site Remediation Services include:

As  a service to clients, we maintain an extensive database on mobile thermal treatment equipment characteristics, performance testing results, project case histories, and costs.  This database contains information on equipment configurations, capacities, operational limits, soil treatment results, and stack emissions results for virtually all thermal treatment projects that have been conducted at Superfund sites in the United States since 1985.  A parallel unpublished database is maintained that contains the results of thermal desorption and incineration laboratory, bench, and pilot tests.  This information is used to assist our clients by:

We have also developed a library of proprietary software for performing components of thermal treatment feasibility studies.  Software has been developed for performing waste characterization studies and process mass and energy balance studies and for estimating project costs.