Webinars

Redevelopment projects can revitalize business districts and create new opportunities for local communities, but they are not without their challenges. Before being fully utilized, many sites must first address long-ignored soil and groundwater contamination.

This is no easy task under normal circumstances, but redevelopment projects often have sensitive schedules that can cost the site owner and developer millions of dollars if they aren’t met—or result in the project being abandoned altogether. Remediation technologies and strategies that can achieve site goals quickly and reliably are critical to project success.

In this prerecorded webinar, thermal expert John LaChance will discuss how thermal technologies can quickly and efficiently remediate contaminated sites for reuse. He’ll discuss some of the challenges specific to former industrial sites and strategies for overcoming them. John will also share real-life examples of using in situ thermal remediation (ISTR) to clean up impacted properties for sale and reuse.

How can you make thermal remediation more sustainable?  Doesn’t it use a lot of electricity or other fuels to heat the subsurface and doesn’t it require lots of drilling and materials like steel and concrete for construction and operation?  In this webinar, we discuss how we use advanced design, construction, and operations techniques to reduce the carbon footprint of thermal remediation and make it more sustainable.

As you know, In Situ Thermal Remediation (ISTR) is highly effective at quickly cleaning up contaminant source zones, including DNAPL such as Chlorinated VOCs (CVOCs), and even semi-volatile recalcitrant contaminants such as PCBs, dioxins, PAHs and PFAS.  But ISTR requires energy to heat up the soil and groundwater,  volatize the contaminants, and drilling & installation of the energy delivery wells (e.g., heaters, electrodes, and/or steam injection).

In this webinar, we will discuss how we have optimized specific design aspects of our ISTR systems to reduce the amount of power and fuel required to heat and achieve the remedial goals, including:

• Use of numerical models to develop targeted heating strategies and advanced wellfield layouts and heating designs,
• Design of heaters and electrodes that are capable of precisely targeting the treatment interval,
• Incorporation of insulated vapor covers over the ISTR wellfields and
• Use of sophisticated operational strategies to get the most out of the energy delivered to the subsurface for heating and contaminant removal.

So, please join us for an informative look and discussion on how thermal remediation can be optimized to reduce its energy usage and carbon footprint. And importantly, there will be time at the end of the presentation for your questions, so bring them on!

It’s one of the most commonly asked questions when considering thermal remediation, and in this webinar one of the industry’s leading experts will answer it. Join TerraTherm, a Cascade Company’s Vice President John LaChance as he introduces the basic operational theory and concepts for both technologies. He’ll discuss their application to a set of typical site conditions (e.g., low and high permeability zones in unconsolidated and bedrock formations) and contaminants (e.g., CVOCs), and highlight typical design approaches, assumptions, and the pros and cons of each.

John will share real-life examples of full-scale projects involving electric resistance heating (ERH) and thermal conductive heating (TCH), including detailed breakdowns and comparisons of costs. He’ll also touch on ETDSP^TM, a form of ERH that employs active injection and extraction of water. If you have burning questions about how ERH and TCH stack up, this is your chance to get them answered.

Add heat to remediate!  Sounds simple enough, but do you ever wonder how raising the temperature can be so effective at removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from soil and groundwater, even from difficult-to-remediate low-permeability silts and clays?

TerraTherm technology experts Nikole Huard and John LaChance introduce the primary thermal technologies and mechanisms responsible for this amazing feat.  Key site information useful in evaluating whether In Situ Thermal Remediation (ISTR) is the best option for your site will also be covered.  They  review:

• Important design do’s and don’ts for a successful remedy,
• Common ISTR myths, and
• Typical costs for ISTR at a VOC site.

There were interesting questions at the end of this session so make sure to listen all the way through. This recorded flash webinar is 30 minutes.

Electric resistance heating (ERH) and thermal conduction heating (TCH) have many similarities, and it can be hard to figure out which one is best suited for a specific project site.  It’s critical to know the pros, cons, and differences of each because making the wrong call on technology selection can have expensive repercussions.

In this 30-min webinar VP of Development, John LaChance and Senior Technologist, Erin Hauber will give you a quick overview of the basic operational theory and concepts for both technologies and discuss their application to a set of typical site conditions. The webinar will focus on the pros and cons for each technology combined with real-life examples of full-scale TCH and ERH projects, including detailed breakdowns and comparisons of costs.

If you have burning questions about how ERH and TCH stack up, this is your chance to get them answered.

Submit a question to our presenters during registration, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win lunch, on us!

Maybe you have a site with challenging geological features, and you’re trying to figure out if a thermal remediation technology can be used. Or perhaps you have a client who is on a tight schedule and needs to treat a source zone and a downgradient plume simultaneously to develop the site in a short amount of time.

What may come as a surprise is that while each individual thermal technology has its sweet spot, multiple technologies can be used safely at a site simultaneously to address contamination in complex geologies like silts, clays, sands, and fractured bedrock.

In this 30-min flash webinar VP of Technology, Steffen Griepke and Senior Technologist, Erin Hauber will reveal when it’s beneficial to combine thermal technologies to meet the site-specific goals. They will provide several examples of projects where thermal technologies have been successfully combined.

Join the discussion for insight on how and when to combine thermal technologies to treat sites with varied and complex conditions.  There will be time at the end for Q&A, so bring your questions about using thermal to remediate sites.

Although Steam Enhanced Extraction (SEE) may not be the most common thermal remediation technology, it is the go-to approach for heating and treating sites with high permeability and groundwater flux. Did you know it’s also the most cost-effective way to input energy into the subsurface?

In this 30-min webinar, two thermal remediation experts will give you an overview of SEE. You will learn:

• How SEE works,
• What geologic conditions it is best suited for,
• Design considerations to ensure a successful SEE project,
• SEE sweet spots, and
• Examples of SEE projects.

VP of Technology, Steffen Griepke and Senior Project Engineer, Nikole Huard, will answer your questions about using SEE to remediate sites.

If you’re new to the environmental services industry, you may know about thermal remediation but not necessarily the fundamentals and nuances of the different heating technologies. Each technology has its own strengths and weaknesses that are important to be aware of when selecting the best thermal technology and approach to fit and meet your site’s remedial needs.

In this 30-minute flash webinar, our VP of Technology, Steffen Griepke, and Technologist, Sam Nienstedt, will give you an overview of Thermal Conduction Heating (TCH). They will cover:

• How it works,
• What geologic conditions it is best suited for,
• What contaminants it can treat,
• Design considerations to ensure a successful TCH project,
• TCH Sweet Spots

If you’re interested in gaining an understanding of TCH and how it works, this webinar series is one you won’t want to miss.

Watch the webinar-on-demand today!

New to thermal remediation? If so, understanding how the technologies work and how to choose the best one for your project can be overwhelming and confusing. Each heating technology has its own strengths and weaknesses depending on the site conditions and contaminants of concern.

In this 30-minute flash webinar, our VP of Development, John LaChance, and Senior Technologist, Erin Hauber, will give you an overview of Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH). You will learn:

• How ERH works,
• What geologic conditions it is best suited for,
• What contaminants it can treat,
• Design considerations to ensure a successful ERH project, and
• ERH sweet spots.

Are you in need of a solution for a site with contaminants that are hard to treat, an aggressive schedule, and/or stringent cleanup goals? If so, then thermal remediation may be a strong candidate for your site.

In this 30-minute flash webinar, Senior Technologist Erin Hauber and Senior Chemist Alyson Fortune will cover the basics of thermal remediation. They will introduce the three primary thermal technologies, Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH), Thermal Conduction Heating (TCH), and Steam Enhanced Extraction (SEE). They will explain how they work, the key removal mechanisms, and what constituents & lithologies they are best suited to treat.

If you’re interested in gaining a basic understanding of thermal remediation and how it can be used to remediate source zones, this webinar series is one you won’t want to miss. Watch the webinar-on-demand today!