Solucorp’s MBS rehabs brownfields
Brownfields are plots of land that have been rendered unusable by contamination, usually from industrial or commercial use. Land previously used for gold mining or coal mining is frequently contaminated with heavy metals. Solucorp developed a Molecular Bonding System (MBS) that helps governments and industry rehabilitate contaminated land so that it becomes usable again.
Israeli based Adama Tech has licensed Solucorp’s MBS for use around the world. According to the company there are approximately 450 potential contaminated sites in the U.S. and a 1.5 million potential sites in Europe. The MBS system will allow decontamination of these sites without the need to ship the soil off to hazardous waste landfills or encasing it in cement.
Solucorp, a New York company, provides brownfield reclamation with its MBS. MBS technology stabilizes hazardous metals like arsenic, cadmium, and lead rendering them non-leaching. The process chemically transforms metals into metallic sulfides that render the formerly hazardous metals permanently non-leaching, nonhazardous and pH balanced.
MBS is able to treat multiple metals at the same time regardless of the pH balance of the “soil, sludge, ash, sediment, slag or baghouse dust”. MBS also works on paint chips, auto fluff, gravel, sand and clay. The chemical process is instantaneous, requires no curing, and uses less reagent than other reclamation processes. Also “the treated material is unchanged in its physical characteristics.”
Solucorp’s MBS is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). MBS treatment has been subjected to and passed the EPA Multiple Extraction Procedure test that proves that the processed metals won’t leach even after one thousand years of weathering.
There are three different ways that MBS can be used: “in-situ, ex-situ and inline” at a hazardous waste facility. In-situ means that the MBS reagent powder is tilled into the soil. Then water can be added to spread the reagent throughout the soil. Finally, the treated land is further mixed so that the top two feet are uniform throughout.
Ex-situ MBS requires setting up a portable system that screens and crushes the waste material. The the material is mixed with the reagent in a closed hopper and eventually the equipment dumps the treated soil into a stockpile.
The inline process integrates the MBS process into a manufacturing line so that heavy metal waste from the manufacturing process is immediately treated. This transforms what would otherwise be hazardous waste into nonhazardous waste.
Using MBS allows countries, cities and neighborhoods to use formerly contaminated land improving the economy and cleaning up hazardous areas.
Cleaning heavy metals out of the ground is as important as cleaning greenhouse gases out of the air.
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Solucorp’s patented cutting edge technology has been around for several years. It’s use will leap when bid specifications for remediation projects include Solucorp’s MBS cost efficient soil remediation process as a designated or preferred process. The process will remain underutilized until project managers learn about the advantages of using MBS in terms of time, money and effectiveness. Solucorp also has a patented process for removing mercury that is released into the atmosphere by coal fired power plants. The process was recently made commercially available through a company called Coalogix that offers the product under the name Metallifix.