Like most developed nations, Australia has extensive contaminated land problems. In most cities there are large tracts of land that lie idle because of the presence of toxic substances within the soil. In many cases, this land is situated beside major waterways and around major ports. It is only in the last decade that the true extent of the problem has been realised.

An Australian company, Innova Soil Technology Ltd, has developed an innovative Thermal Desorption Process to allow safe, reliable and efficient on-site treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated soils.

The process is fully mobile and suitable for treatment of all organic based contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organo-chlorine pesticides (OCPs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). A wide range of soil types such as sands, clays and sediments can and have been treated to sensitive land use criteria in the Innova DFTD process.

The innovative features of this process provide increased energy efficiency, significantly reduced operating costs and ensure superior control of emissions. With low operating costs, this process competes favourably with previously cheaper alternatives to treatment, such as off-site disposal and on-site containment. As the cost of sending contaminated soil to landfill is on the rise worldwide, the low-cost high volume nature of Innova Soil Technology’s treatment capabilities is a highly competitive, efficient, safe, and permanent solution to contaminated land problems.

The Innova process remediates the soil without destroying its physical properties or integrity, while ensuring world best practice gas and particulate emission standards are met.

Innova Soil Technology Ltd, has developed an innovative Thermal Desorption Process to allow safe, reliable and efficient on-site treatment of all hydrocarbon contaminated soils.

The Innova process remediates the soil without destroying its physical properties or integrity, allowing for the beneficial reuse of soil onsite, whilst ensuring world best practice environmental standards are met.

The thermal desorption process is fully relocatable to allow onsite treatment of contaminants at the source and is suitable for treatment of all organic based contaminants including:

• Petrols and oils (BTEX & TPH's), coal tars and creosote (PAHs),
• Pesticides and herbicides (OCPs and dioxins),
• Transformer fluids (PCBs),
• and explosives (RDX, TNT)

The innovative features of Innova's process provide increased energy efficiency, significantly reduced operating costs and ensure superior control of emissions compared with earlier thermal desorption units. With low operating costs, Innova's process competes favourably with previously cheaper alternatives to treatment, such as off-site disposal to landfill and on-site containment and monitoring.

Innova's Thermal Desorption process is a cost effective, total and permanent solution to contaminated land problems.