Development of an Integrated, State-Wide Effort in Metal Ion Pollution Prevention for Alabama Manufacturing Industries

EPS 9977239罗杰斯阿拉巴马州工业产生大量含有汞、砷、铬、铜、镉、铅、锑和锌等金属离子的废物。由于受到这些离子的污染，阿拉巴马州的超级基金地点被列入国家优先名单。该项目旨在帮助将国家的工作重点从金属离子污染的补救工作转向金属离子污染的预防工作。阿拉巴马州及其大学认识到，制定阿拉巴马州工业污染预防综合议程的关键在于合作研究和教育举措。在这个项目中，将由阿拉巴马州的五所大学、两个国家实验室和四家与阿拉巴马州有联系的公司组成金属离子分离、形态形成、建模、运输、监测和修复方面的跨学科专家和学生团队。这些团队将直接与阿拉巴马州的行业合作，在分子水平上了解导致金属离子污染的工业过程，从而促进制造技术的重新设计，以防止污染，并提供有关金属离子分离的基本新信息。

EPS 9977239RogersAlabama industry produces significant amounts of waste containing metal ions such as mercury, arsenic, chromium, copper, cadmium, lead, antimony, and zinc. Superfund sites in Alabama are on the National Priority List because of contamination from these ions. This project is intended to help refocus the State's efforts from remediation of metal ion contamination to prevention of metal ion contamination. The State and its universities recognize that the key to developing a comprehensive agenda for pollution prevention in Alabama's industries lies in cooperative research and education initiatives. In this project, interdisciplinary teams of experts and students in metal ion separations, speciation, modeling, transport, monitoring and remediation will be formed from five Alabama universities, two national laboratories, and four companies with ties to Alabama. These teams will work directly with Alabama's industries to discover a molecular level understanding of the industrial processes that are responsible for metal ion contamination, thus facilitating the redesign of manufacturing technologies to prevent pollution and provide fundamental new information on metal ion separations.