Need
- Innovative technologies for solving industrial environmental
problems are not being brought to the marketplace.
- There is no group composed of industries and academic
institutions that focueses solely on industiral environmental
solutions.
Goal
To Become the first international clearinghouse for the validation
and commercialization of
emerging innovative environmental
technologies.
Unique Characteristics
- User driven commercialization program
- Common forum for academic institutions, technology
providers, users & regulators
- Large scale demonstrations of technologies on a wide
variety of wastes
- Unbiased commercial assessment of technologies
- Ongoing participation of regulatory agencies
(EPA, TNRCC) in technology demonstrations and assessments
Unique Attributes
- Situated in the heart of the Texas petrochemical
industry
- Located on a permitted facility with industrial
infrastructure
- Access to a variety of industrial waste streams
- Ability to test competing technologies
Fouding Partners
- Sam Houston State University
- The City of Texas City
- Sterling Chemicals, Inc.
- Environeering, Inc.
- Houston Advanced Research Center
Industrial Advisory Board
- Amoco
- Occidental Chemical Corporation
- Solutia Inc.
- Sterling Chemicals, Inc.
- Union Carbide Corporation
- Valero Energy Corporation
Technical Focus Areas
- Auto/truck tires
- Acrylonitrile process waste
- Methyl tertiary-butyl ether
- Chlorinated hydrocarbon waste
- Ethylene glycol