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'Mercury Sponge' Technology Goes From Lab to Market; Capturing Mercury From Coal-Fired Power Plant Emissions, EPA's List of Mercury Contamination Sites Are Initial Targets.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, May, 2006

Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

RICHLAND, Wash., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A material designed to capture and remove mercury and other toxic substances from industrial waste streams is now available for commercial use.

Battelle has licensed the SAMMS(tm) technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to Steward Environmental Solutions of Chattanooga, Tenn. Battelle operates the laboratory for the Department of Energy and transfers lab-developed technologies to the marketplace through licenses and other means.

SAMMS, or Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports, is a technology that can be tailored to selectively remove metal contaminants without creating hazardous waste or by-products. Steward intends to...

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