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Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), a non-profit, national resource for academia, government and industry, provides research, development, deployment, training and education services in computing and communications, environment and energy, manufacturing and materials and systems and software. CTC operates the National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), its primary environmental effort. The NDCEE was established as a national resource for the development, application and dissemination of advanced environmental technologies. This program directly supports the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, the office responsible for DOD's compliance with environmental law. NDCEE's projects focus on the demonstration of full-scale equipment using client parts in a simulated factory environment. The NDCEE approach includes technology justification, where technical performance, cost and environmental risk is analyzed. Seventeen specific instances of technology transition have been documented, including: powder coating, electrocoating, aqueous cleaning, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants compliant vapor degreasing, electrodialysis, caustic-based stripping, Nitrogen Removal process, microfiltration, facility environmental monitoring and management system and ultrahigh pressure waterjet. The result has been a reduction of 300,000 pounds of discharges of various pollutants per year. For example, aqueous cleaning solutions have replaced chemicals containing volatile organic compounds in cleaning parts and removing coatings. The NDCEE program is structured around technology transition emphasizing recycling, recovery and reuse of chemical compounds, environmental management and projects and activities to reduce the use of traditional energy sources and associated emissions.
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