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TRS in the News
FREDsense Mobilizes Industry’s First PFAS Field Test Kit for TRS Group
TRS was able to effectively deploy FREDsense's PFAS field test kit at an AFFF cleanout site.
Removal of Toxic Foam from LAX Firefighting Vehicles by TRS and LAWA
LA This Week documented a TRS project cleaning AFFF from fire trucks and a fixed
storage tank using PerfluorAd at Los Angeles International Airport. (Photo courtesy of LAWA)
Inside Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's efforts to clean up PFAS firefighting foams
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport becomes the first commercial airport to clean up PFAS firefighting foams with a cleaning technology. The Seattle Times documents the AFFF removal project using PerfluorAd in an in-depth article.
Los Angeles World Airports Enlists TRS to Remove AFFF from one of the Largest ARFF Fleets in the U.S.
Los Angeles World Airports held a media day for TRS's project cleaning AFFF from fire trucks and a fixed storage tank using PerfluorAd at Los Angeles International Airport. (Photo courtesy of LAWA)
Port of Seattle takes action to safely remove PFAS foam from fire trucks
King 5 TV in Seattle documents the AFFF clean out of aircraft rescue firefighting vehicles using PerfluorAd by TRS at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
SAME Environmental COI Webinar Features TRS Thermal Experts as Presenters
Lauren Soos and Gorm Heron were the featured presenters on a recent Society of American Military Engineers Environmental COI Webinar titled "Decades of Thermal Remediation - Breakthroughs & Challenges".
ESTCP and Defense Innovation Unit Partner to Advance Remediation of PFAS at U.S. Defense Installations
Three companies will be deploying soil treatment technologies at Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. These companies are ASRC Consulting, Savron, and TRS.
Bob Glass, Project Manager, Featured on Entrepreneurs and Business Owners of New Jersey Podcast
Robert "Bob" Glass, Project Manager at TRS, was interviewed by the Entrepreneurs and Business Owners of New Jersey podcast. Glass provides a primer on TRS and the
thermal remediation industry, and details some of the work done by the company on the East Coast and in New Jersey.
Future Lincoln Yards site showing progress after cleanup of pollutants by TRS
Boiling Groundwater and Steaming Soil: A Unique Cleanup by TRS for a Distinctive Site
The Spic’n Span property in Seattle’s International District has a unique story - serving as the neighborhood’s only dry cleaning business for over 50 years, until it closed in 2019. It also has a unique story through the lens of a brownfield project. To clean up the chlorinated solvents left in soil and groundwater from a half century of dry cleaning
operations, Aspect Consulting contracted TRS to apply electrical resistance heating.
"Conducting Thermal Remediation Under Active Railroad Tracks" from the January-February 2023 issue of TME
The January-February 2023 issue of The Military Engineer features an article about a project at a Superfund site where TRS conducted thermal remediation under a pair of active railroad tracks.
Ellis Property ISTR Demonstration
On June 15, 2022, HGL project managers Ken Cottrell and Dave Crispo, with support from in situ thermal remediation (ISTR) subcontractor TRS, led a site visit to
demonstrate an active application of ISTR using electrical resistance heating (ERH) at the Ellis Property Superfund Site in Evesham Township, New Jersey.
Construction starts on Chicago's "City Within a City"
For most of the past five years – since the Lincoln Yards project was first announced — real estate developer Sterling Bay has been focused on one of the most complicated
environmental clean-up efforts in recent Chicago history. As part of that effort, TRS used ERH to heat and clean more than 27,000 tons of impacted soil. Now, construction has finally begun on the expansive redevelopment.
PerfluorAdTM Technology Demo Paves Way for AFFF Phaseout
CDM Smith and the U.S. Department of Defense are proving the power of a new PFAS separation technology from TRS to more efficiently clean out the toxic chemicals from firefighting delivery systems.
TRS Group Granted Exclusive License for the PerfluorAdTM PFAS Remediation Technology in North America
Cornelsen has granted TRS the exclusive license in North America for applying the patented PerfluorAdTM technology to clean out fire suppression systems impacted by PFAS found in aqueous film forming foams (AFFF).
EPA wraps cleanup of CTS Asheville Superfund Site; cleanup began in earnest in 2017 with ERH by TRS
After years of process and technical cleanup at the CTS of Asheville Inc. Superfund Site on Mills Gap Road, the EPA is now waiting and checking to make sure it's working. Work on the site began in earnest in 2017 with electric resistance heating by TRS.
TRS Group Awarded Patent for Combining ERH and TCH Thermal Technologies
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded TRS Group a patent for remediating PFAS and other contaminants in soil and groundwater by integrating electrical
resistance heating and thermal conduction heating in the same borehole.
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