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TheI&ECSYMPOSIUMfromwhichthisvolumewasderivedfeatured519presen- tationsat88technicalsessionsduringathree-daymeetingonSeptember17-20 1996in BirminghamAlabamawith580registrants. Thefinalselectionsforthechaptersincluded hereinwerebasedonpeerreviewscientificmerittheeditorsperceptionsoflastingvalue orinnovativefeatures andthegeneralapplicabilityofeitherthetechnologyitselforthe scientificmethodsandscholarlydetailsprovidedbytheauthors. Thevolume isacontinuationofathemeinitiatedin 1990. ItspredecessorsEmerg- ing Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management ACS Symposium Series No. 422 (1990) EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous WasteManagementIIACSSymposiumSe- ries No. 468 (1991) Emerging Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement III ACS SymposiumSeriesNo. 518(1993) EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous WasteManage- mentIV ACSSymposium Series No. 554 (1994)Emerging Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement V. ACSSymposiumSeriesNo. 607(1995) andEmergingTechnolo- gies in Hazardous Waste Management VI American AcademyofEnvironmental Engi- neersPublication (1996) arerelatedcontributionsonhazardouswastemanagementbut eachvolumeisessentiallydifferent. Byinspectionthereadermayquicklyrecognizethis diversityandalsoconcludethatnosinglevolumecandojusticetothebreadthanddepth oftechnologiesbeingdevelopedandappliedinpractice. Thecontributionspresented in thisvolumearedivided intofourseparatebutcom- plementary sections including: (1) Chemical and Thermal Treatment; (2) Biochemical Treatment;(3)SeparationTechnologies;and(4)RadioactiveWasteTreatment. D. WilliamTedder FrederickG. Pohland GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology UniversityofPittsburgh Atlanta Georgia30332-0100 PittsburghPennsylvania15261-2294 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (I&EC) Division ofACS organized and sponsored the symposium. ACS Corporate Associates was a majorfinancial cosponsor; theAmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineers(AIChE)EnvironmentalSciencesDivision theAIChECenterforWasteReductionTechnologiestheAmericanAcademyofEnviron- mental EngineersandtheJointAssociationfor theAdvancementsofSupercriticalFluid Technologywerenominalcosponsors;andEnviroExpocositedanexhibition. Thisgener- osity was essential to the overall successofthe symposium and is gratefully acknow- ledged. vii CONTENTS I. EmergingTechnologiesinHazardousWasteManagementVII:AnOverview...FrederickG. PohlandandD. WilliamTedder ChemicalandThermalMethods 2. GranularIronOxideasaCatalystinChemicalOxidationofOrganic Contaminants...9 MiratD. GurolShu-SungLinandNileshBhat 3. AnElectronBeamGeneratedPlasmaReactorforDecompositionof HalogenatedVOCs 23 S. A. Vitale K. HadidiD. R. Cohn L. BrombergandP. Falkos 4. IncinerationandThermalTreatmentofChemicalAgentsandChemicalWeapons 33 F. C. GouldinandE. M. Fisher 5. PredictingStabilityConstantsofVariousChelatingAgentsUsingQSAR Technology 49 R. W. OkeyS. LinandP. K. A. Hong 6. MineralizationofHazardousChemicalsbyHemeReaction ...69 GuyoungKangJimoJungKapsongParkandDavidK. Stevens BiochemicalTreatment 7. AnaerobicTransformationsofCarbonTetrachloride:CombinedBacterialand AbioticProcesses 81 FlynnW. PicardalSanggooKimAnnaRadueandDeberaBackhus 8. BiorecoveryofMetalsfromAcidMineDrainage...91 RakeshGovindUmaKumarRamaPuligaddaJimmyAntiaand HenryTabak ix x Contents 9. BiotreatmentofMinewater-ContainingCyanidesbyUsingImmobilizedCell Technology 103 Onguri K. VijayaG. R. V. BabuJackAdamsJamesH. Wolframand KiritD. Chapatwala 10. Augmentationofin-SituSubsoilRemediationUsingColloidalGasDispersions 113 P. G. ChaphalkarK. T. ValsarajD. Roy W. D. ConstantandP. Lee 11. EffectofSorptionontheMicrobialReductiveDechlorinationofSoil-Bound Chloroalkenes 127 SpyrosG. PavlostathisandPingZhuang SeparationTechnologies 12. TheRemovalofVOCsfromExhaustAirandVapourCondensatesby MembraneProcesses ...