New Product of the Year 2010
Our judges have identified the winners in Environmental Protection's New Product of the Year awards.
The award honors the outstanding achievements of industry manufacturers whose products are considered particularly noteworthy for making environmental professionals’ jobs a little easier.
The winning products and their respective categories are:
- ● Air quality ─ Ecosorb Spray Gel, OMI Industries;
● Cleanup ─ Spills & Skills: Non-Emergency HazMat Spill Response DVD, Excal Visual;
● Stormwater ─ Filter-POD, KriStar;
● Wastewater ─ C3500™D Ultraviolet Disinfection equipment, Calgon Carbon;
● Water ─ City Guard Virtual Command Center, Hach Homeland Security Technologies.
For more details on the winners, see the product information below.
UV Disinfection System
Calgon Carbon Corp.'s C3500™D Ultraviolet Disinfection system is designed specifically for water reuse applications. Computational Fluid Dynamics were used to optimize the germicidal efficiency of the reactor by varying the device's lamp spacing as well as the size, shape, and quantity of its delta-shaped mixing devices. The patent-pending design increases the hydraulic efficiency of the reactor by uniformly exposing the water to the required UV dose while minimizing head loss.
Hazmat Spill Training
Excal Visual LLP's
Spills & Skills: Non-Emergency HazMat Spill Response training video package is designed to show personnel the correct response and cleanup procedures for non-emergency (non-HAZWOPER) releases of hazardous materials and wastes. The package includes a CD and an 18.5 minute DVD, a trainer's guide, and employee quiz, SiteCast™, a PowerPoint template for site-specific training, and a Spill Locker Poster that summarizes procedures and contains a spill locker inventory list.
Water Command Center
Hach Homeland Security Technologies' CityGuard Virtual Command Center is a security network portal, command center, and real-time water distribution monitoring system. This device provides a bi-directional monitoring and control system that integrates the sensor data from water quality monitoring points that are strategically located throughout a community's distribution system, allowing water utility personnel to minimize their response time by simultaneously viewing critical real-time water quality data from any Internet browser at any location.
Media Filter
Designed for use in areas where landscape-based treatment isn't practical, KriStar Enterprises Inc.'s FILTER-POD is a media filter that is integrated with a subsurface water storage system. Flow capacities are set by selecting the appropriate quantity of modules and placing them within the footprint of the water storage system. Decentralizing the treatment components eliminates or reduces the need for additional pipe, large concrete vaults, and a crane to set the vault.
WesTech
WWETCO FlexFilter
The WWETCO FlexFilter is a simple gravity system with a robust design as a high-rate compressible media filter. The influent liquid applies a hydrostatic force to the compression bladder causing the media to compress. It uses a synthetic compressible media to capture solids in the high-rate filtration process. The combination of tapered media compression, porosity gradient with the media bed and a low flow backwash system make the WWETCO a versatile filer.
EOS Remediation
Vadose Organic Substrate (VOS)
The Vadose Organic Substrate features bioremediate chlorinated solvents in the unsaturated soils. The technology allows the thixotropic gel to form a stable oil/water suspension that remains in situ after injection. This suspension provides an anaerobic environment in the vadose zone with the appropriate nutrients for the microbes to remediate recalcitrant compounds, such as chlorinated compounds.
EXAIR Co.
USB Data Logger for Digital Flowmeter
USB Data Logger for Digital Flowmeter
EXAIR’s Digital Flowmeter provides an excellent way to monitor compressed air consumption and waste. Now, with the addition of the new USB Data Logger, you also can maintain a history of the Digital Flowmeter’s measurements for analysis. Use the included software to configure the Data Logger to record your flow rate, and record from once a second (about nine hours of data) to up to once every 12 hours (more than two years). Regular monitoring of compressed air usage makes it possible for companies to save thousands of dollars per year by identifying costly leaks or inefficient air products.
Sustainability Management Dashboard & Virtual Manager
Sustainability Management Dashboard & Virtual Manager
This web-based sustainability dashboard gives environmental managers and executives a snapshot of their entire operation’s environmental footprint, including greenhouse gases, air and waste emissions, energy usage, VOCs and air pollutants, and other customizable Key Performance Indicators. The dashboard empowers managers to track and manage their sustainability projects and chart continuous improvement efforts.
StormTrooper AQ
StormTrooper AQ
The StormTrooper AQ is a patented storm water wet vault specifically designed to intercept free oils, grease, TSS, debris, and other pollutants found in storm water runoff. StormTrooper AQ features “Enhanced” Gravity Separation, which is technology utilizing coalescing media plates engineered to a performance analysis based on Stoke’s Law. This cutting-edge technology is now available for use to protect the Edwards Aquifer.
New Pig Corp.
PIG® Well Pad Liner 130
PIG® Well Pad Liner 130
The extra-thick PIG® Well Pad Liner 130 is designed for long-term deployments and use over especially coarse, sharp, or shift-prone subbase. Three times more tear-resistant and five times more puncture-resistant than standard 30-mil HDPE liners, the PIG® Well Pad Liner 130 allows for use through multiple phases of drilling while requiring minimal repair. Weldable and sealable for easy installation, the liner will not pull apart under wheels or foot traffic.
Odor Absorbing Gel
OMI Industries' Ecosorb™ SprayGel is a broad spectrum odor neutralizer that can be sprayed directly onto the surface of the odor-generating area, such as sludge and landfill materials. The gel combines the powerful odor neutralizing capability of the standard liquid Ecosorb product with a low molecular weight polymer matrix that evaporates over several days. Total elimination of odors coming out of undigested sludge has been seen through this capping process.
Forston Labs
MultiCal ISE
The Multi-Cal ISE system allows the user to store multiple calibration ranges in the laboratory and then retrieve them for use as needed in the field. The Multi-Cal kit provides from two to four calibration ranges and the LabNavigator monitors up to four ISE's simultaneously. The handheld LabNavigator with Multi-Cal for ISE provide multi-range, immediate, spot-on, field chemical analysis. Multi-Cal kits are available for Nitrate, Ammonium, pH, Calcium, and Chloride with others on request.
FracMAG
FracMAG
The FracMAG is a self-sustaining electromagnetic water meter assembly. With the sudden boom of hydraulic fracturing operations taking place, oil & gas companies have the responsibility to measure and regulate their water usage. Typical fracturing operations occur in isolated and barren regions where electricity and water are in short supply; the FracMAG does not require the contractor to supply it with AC power because it can be powered with ParkUSA’s solar package option or with a lithium battery pack option, providing 3-6 years of power.
YSI
EXO Sonde Platform
EXO Sonde Platform
The EXO Sonde Platform is YSI’s new water quality monitoring system. The product platform consists of the EXO1 Sonde and the EXO2 Sonde, along with a handheld that connects users directly to their equipment via Bluetooth or field cables. EXO gives users a streamlined approach to data collection from the field to the lab.
EleVader™
EleVader™
With the release of the ASME A17.1-2007/CSA B44 Safety Code for Elevators & Escalators, a new era has begun for elevator safety codes. An important requirement of the new code for all elevator applications is the removal of all water and contaminates from elevator hoist ways. Using the latest in technology, the EleVader™ is a complete and fully integrated and packaged system, engineered to this safety code, that features pumps, oil/water separators, and control systems.
Adventus Group
EHC-L
EHC-L by Adventus, is a cold-water soluble formulation of EHC that is specially designed to be emplaced via existing wells and/or hydraulic injection networks for the treatment of a wide range of groundwater contaminants. . EHC-L is a stable, buffered, micro-emulsion of slow-release, food-grade carbon (lecithin), ferrous iron and a redbox buffer (cysteine). EHC-L is designed for on-site dilution with cold water and subsequent application via screened wells or direct push technology for the treatment of compounds amenable to reductive transformation, including chlorinated hydrocarbons and some dissolved heavy metals. It generates both biotic and abiotic reductive mechanisms and capitalizes on synergies between the two.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Dionex ICS 4000 Capillary HPIC Ion Chromatography System
Dionex ICS 4000 Capillary HPIC Ion Chromatography System
The high-pressure Dionex ICS-4000 Capillary HPIC Ion Chromatography System delivers best-in-class sensitivity from routine analysis of ionic compounds to your most demanding application challenges. The system combines high-pressure capabilities at capillary flow rates with Reagent-Free operation and versatility in detection selection, with all of the advantages of capillary IC, including high mass sensitivity, low eluent consumption, low waste generation, and extended consumable lifetimes.
ANDalyze Inc
AND1000 Fluorimeter
The AND1000 Fluorimeter enables field testing in two short steps, eliminating or significantly reducing test expenditures, complexity and wait times experienced in traditional heavy metal water testing. ANDalyze's proprietary catalytic DNA sensors use a DNAzyme reaction that fluoresces in the presence of a target contaminant substance such as lead, uranium, copper and mercury. The fluorescence of the reaction is dynamically measured to determine the concentration of the target heavy metal at levels in the low parts per billion (ppb).
110 Gallon Trapper
EXAIR's 110 Gallon Chip Trapper removes solids such as chips, swarf and shavings out of used coolants and other liquids with its compressed air power. It vacuums the dirty coolant or liquid into the included 110 gallon drum; while trapping all the solids in a reusable filter bag. There are no motors or impellers to clog or wear out. It features a built-in pressure/vacuum relief and an automatic safety shutoff to prevent spills or overfilling.