Economic Analysis of Hazardous Waste Minimization Alternatives

Abstract

Approximately 120,000 metric tons of hazardous waste (HW) are generated annually on Army installations in the United States. The Department of Defense policy is to attempt to eliminate HW generation to the extent possible and treat residual HW for volume or toxicity reduction. Installation Environmental Managers, however, currently do not have the tools to evaluate minimization alternatives. During this research, the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL) developed an economic model for evaluating the life cycle costs for various HW minimization technologies. The resulting model, CEAMHW (USACERL Economic Analysis for Minimizing Hazardous Waste) was written in C language for an IBM compatible personal computer. It contains six submodels based on differing waste types and a general cost submodel. The model has been approved by the Army Environmental Office for the economic analysis that must accompany requests for Defense Environmental Restoration Account funds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA256989

Entities

People

  • Bernard A. Donahue
  • J. B. Mount
  • Keturah Reinbold
  • Seshasayi Dharmavaram

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Pollution
  • Chemistry
  • Computers
  • Cost Analysis
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Models
  • Engineers
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Money
  • Petroleum
  • Waste Products

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Environmental Engineering.