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TRS in the News
"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.
PerfluorAd® 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 PerfluorAd® PFAS Remediation Technology in North America
Cornelsen has granted TRS the exclusive license in North America for applying the patented PerfluorAd® 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.
Employee Spotlights
Bringing the Heat
January 11, 2023
Employee Spotlights
June 20, 2022
Did You Know?
TRS is full of surprises and noteworthy PFAS and thermal remediation facts. Learn some interesting tidbits about the company and the environmental remediation industry as a whole.
