Waste Recycling and Reuse
Service Description
Gossman Consulting, Inc. provides
hazardous
waste facility design, operations and management consulting. Our
experienced
team of professionals have designed, built, operated and managed
hazardous
waste facilities across the United States. GCI's experience executing
all these
functions in the heavily regulated and highly competitive hazardous
waste
management business provides our team with a down-to-earth approach to
facility
design and operation rarely seen in consultants. GCI has also provided
process
design and instruction in operation of kiln fuel and/or solvent
recycling
facilities in Chile, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia,
Thailand and
Northern Ireland. GCI's expertise is not limited to hazardous waste. We
are
also experienced in chemical plant design and operation as well as
cement plant
design and operation as it is impacted by the use of substitute raw
materials
or fuels.
Experience
David Gossman
- Assisted in development of a
comprehensive waste oil/solvent waste fuel program for Chile.
- Evaluated three cement plants in Spain
for potential use of hazardous waste fuel.
- Evaluated two cement plants in Chile
for potential use of hazardous waste fuel.
- Evaluated a number of cement kilns in
the United Kingdom for hazardous waste fuel potential and made
recommendations to help set project priorities.
- Assisted in the development of a
"green grass" waste fuel burning facility in the United Kingdom with
special emphasis on appropriate quality control measures, process
monitoring permitting and stack testing.
- Evaluated and made recommendations
regarding a potential hazardous waste fuel project for a cement plant
in Indonesia.
- Evaluated cement plants in Thailand
for potential hazardous waste fuel projects.
- Prepared and made presentations to
representatives from the oil refining industry regarding opportunities
for reusing hazardous waste in cement kilns.
- Co-directed a series of courses on
Solvent Recycling and Reuse taught in the United States and Europe.
- Performed technical and market
evaluations to determine the suitability and made recommendations
regarding the resource recovery opportunities available to various
cement plants throughout the United States as well as Great Britain,
Venezuela, and South East Asia.
- Performed a comprehensive evaluation
of the potential for utilizing spent aluminum potliner as a fuel in
cement kilns. Evaluation included facility design criteria and concepts
based on the study's technical findings.
- Evaluated various resource recovery
opportunities for client companies relative to technical feasibility,
worker health and safety impact, environmental impact, and regulatory
requirements.
- Performed a study of various
alternatives for the introduction of solid hazardous wastes into cement
kilns including the potential for pyrolysis or thermal separation prior
to cement kiln introduction.
- Guided the engineering design of a
bulk liquid HWF facility for a client cement company including tank
farm, truck and rail transfer, and laboratory.
- Developed an additional HWF facility
for Safety-Kleen at a cement plant in South Carolina. This facility has
the largest storage facility capacity of any in the country.
- Developed and managed a "green grass"
HWF facility at the largest cement kiln in the world. This process
included permitting, community relations, facility design,
construction, personnel hiring, training and management, contract
negotiations with the cement manufacturer and training of marketing and
sales personnel. The facility was on line burning HWF within five
months after a decision was made by both companies to pursue the
project. This HWF facility permitted McKesson Envirosystems revenue and
profitability growth to record levels and was one of the key reasons
for Safety-Kleen's acquisition of McKesson Envirosystems.
- Developed the first comprehensive HWF
specification which met the needs of product (cement) quality,
environmental protection and personal health & safety in 1980.
- Developed the first comprehensive and
field tested system for determining the chlorine specification for HWF
used in cement kilns. This system remains proprietary to David Gossman.
The system takes into account a wide variety of parameters including
raw material and current fuel chemistry as well as kiln system design.
- Assisted in the development of a
dynamic computer model for predicting emissions and recirculating loads
on volatile constituents such as Hg and alkali chlorides in cement
kilns.
Existing SOLUTIONS
GCI has prepared a number of papers on waste recycling and reuse.
(If a link
to a paper title is not yet available please e-mail with your fax
number for a
copy.)
"The Reuse of Petroleum and Petrochemical
Waste in Cement Kilns"
"Hazardous Waste Fuel and The Cement Kiln:
The Incineration Alternative"
"An Analysis of Potential Changes to
Operations
and Waste Analysis Requirements for Commercial Facilities Regulated
Under EPA
Proposed Hazardous Waste Combustor Regulations”
GCI Tech Notes "Organic Vapor Control”, Aug-95
GCI Tech Notes "Questions & Answers -
International Waste Fuel Use in Cement Kilns”, June-95
HWF Notes "The Use of HWF in Cement Kilns-An
Industry Profile”, Jan-92