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Technology Stocks : Thermo Tech Technologies (TTRIF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Pickering who wrote (3881)	4/8/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Lawrence Burg	Respond to of 6467

Re: Screening...hold on, my notes look extensive... (One of my duties is to run a bilge water purification plant which takes ships' bilge and produces 97+% clean water for local municipality discharge. One of the questions currently being reviewed is whether the 3% concentrate we yield actually classifies us as a hazardous waste (hazwaste) generator; subject to additional regulation.) TT's sludge reduction, is, say, 90% by weight. So the TMP would take 10 mg/Kg (ppm) of Pb in wet sludge, and turn it into 100 ppm. So multiplying any incoming concentration by 10 (based on 90% reduction) may yield a hazwaste (also assuming any evaporation/water reduction is incapable of transporting significant heavies). Roughly, TT's process would be a hazwaste generator, vice reducer. So, if you know your process concentrates heavies (or other inorganics) by a factor of 10 & your sludge disposal criteria limits you to 100 ppm, you accept only sludge w/Pb (in this case) in concnetrations under 10 ppm. In fact you stay well under 10ppm. This of course limits your supply, but garuntees the quality of TT's product. Marketing & regulation is a no-brainer. Environmental oversight becomes process dependent; something TT is at least competent in & evolving. As far as TT's "fertilizer" competing w/existing fertilizers, I have my doubts. To scrub their product, the industrial Miracle Grows would simply do the same as TT. Eliminate any target hazmaterials from the process. Also think their engineered products would carry more organic punch than TT's. Would need to get input on the latter from Cumming or Kroeker. So, if you know your process