Webinars

Join us for a webinar exploring geotechnical factors to consider when implementing thermal conduction heating (TCH) beneath buildings, roadways and other sensitive infrastructure. Learn how to minimize potential risks and ensure safe and effective remediation through careful planning and monitoring.

In this session, Steffen Griepke, VP of Technology at TerraTherm will cover:

• Understanding geotechnical risks: Discover the potential for subsidence and other geotechnical effects associated with TCH, and how these can vary based on soil type, site history, and saturation conditions.
• Conducting thorough site assessments: Learn about essential geotechnical investigations and testing to identify potential risks and inform treatment design.
• Selecting appropriate heating approach: Explore how different well placement approaches can impact geotechnical properties and how to choose the most suitable option for your site.
• Implementing robust monitoring systems: Discover the importance of monitoring to track soil movements, identify potential issues, and adjust treatment strategies as needed based on observations.
• Case studies and lessons learned: Gain insights from real-world examples of TCH projects, including successful mitigation strategies and valuable lessons learned. Case studies will both cover examples with and without geotechnical impacts, and the cause will be discussed.

Whether you are a project manager, project engineer, environmental scientist, or regulatory professional involved in site remediation, this webinar will provide valuable insights into the practical considerations for safely implementing TCH beneath buildings and sensitive infrastructure.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to mitigate risks and ensure successful remediation outcomes.

Join us for a webinar exploring the insights gained from a successful thermal remediation project at a former manufactured gas plant (MGP) site. Learn how a Pre-Design Investigation followed by two phases of Thermal Conduction Heating (TCH) treatment effectively removed mobile non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) and significantly reduced contaminant leachability and concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in soil.

Key takeaways:

• Pre-Design Investigation: Understand how a pre-design investigation led to defining the target treatment zone and gathering critical design parameters.
• Navigating complex site conditions: Learn how TCH was tailored to overcome challenges posed by subsurface structures, varying soil conditions, and the presence of an active sewer line.
• Optimizing treatment parameters: Discover how data from Phase I informed the design and implementation of the second phase of treatment, ensuring incorporation of lessons learned that resulted in energy and costs savings.
• Understanding mass recovery and treatment effectiveness: Gain insights into the factors influencing mass removal, in situ destruction of mass through smoldering, and the level of treatment achieved at 100°C.
• Minimizing environmental impacts: Explore strategies for mitigating potential impacts to adjacent infrastructure and the surrounding community during TCH operations.

Whether you’re facing a complex MGP site or a similar contaminated site, this webinar will provide valuable insights into the practical application of thermal remediation and the importance of data-driven decision-making. Walk away with a deeper understanding of how to optimize TCH strategies for challenging sites and achieve successful project outcomes.

When a manufactured gas plant (MGP) site is identified for treatment, the typical remediation approach can be expensive and involve hazards for crews and the community. Any time you excavate contaminated soil and transport it for treatment or disposal, you are introducing potential safety and liability issues. Luckily, in situ thermal remediation (ISTR) is often a safe and cost-competitive alternative.

Join this webinar where our Vice President of Development, John LaChance discusses:

• Primary ISTR technologies, their applicability, and primary removal mechanisms at MGP sites
• Key design considerations for varying conditions and remediation goals
• A case study of an MGP site remediated with ISTR, including:
  • Analysis and discussion on the potential role of in situ smoldering in the removal of creosote/coal tar
• Insights into projects with unique goals, such as
  • Volatilization of low boiling point compounds
  • In situ immobilization of high boiling point compounds, including heavier range TPH and PAHs.

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.

Is it possible to remediate PFAS contaminants? Our research and experience indicate that it is indeed possible using high-temperature thermal remediation, although there are important factors to consider  to ensure complete removal and treatment of not only target PFAS but also non-target PFAS such as precursors. In this webinar, we dive into the science of using thermal remediation to treat soil contaminated with PFAS and explore the use of our proven high-temperature thermal remediation technology, where soil temperatures ranging from 350 to 500 degrees Celsius are maintained to achieve stringent cleanup levels. Through our research, which we will share during the webinar, we were able to close the fluorine mass balance and determine the fate of the PFAS compounds during thermal treatment.  This allowed us to assess the effectiveness of high-temperature thermal remediation on the removal of PFAS from soil and to design appropriate off-gas treatment systems to ensure that the potential to emit both target and non-target PFAS, including fluorinated hydrocarbons like CF₄ and other significant greenhouse gasses, are appropriately managed.

Grab your popcorn and push play for one of the year’s more informative and interesting on-demand webinars!

The treatment of sites with recalcitrant semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) such as PFAS, PCBs, dioxins, and PAHs can feel daunting. A lot of times it seems like the only option is to dig them up and dispose of them in a landfill.  But this presents real long-term liability risks for clients.  Fortunately, there’s an effective on-site solution for treating soil contaminated with SVOCs – high temperature thermal Remediation.

In this flash webinar, TerraTherm thermal experts Erin Hauber, Senior Technologist, and John LaChance, Vice President of Development, will provide a brief overview of thermal remediation and how it removes and/or destroys SVOCs in soil.  They will also explain why thermal conductive heating (TCH) is the primary ISTR technology for the remediation of high boiling point chemicals. They will also discuss how TCH is used for In Pile Thermal Desorption (IPTD) of SVOCs, important design do’s and don’ts for a successful remedy, common ISTR myths, and typical costs.

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!

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!

In Situ Thermal Remediation (ISTR) is a widely used approach for treating highly contaminated source zones (e.g., DNAPL and LNAPL) at hazardous waste sites because of its reliability and effectiveness at removing a wide range of chemicals from a variety of geologic settings.  As experienced consultants know, large scale remediation projects come with unique challenges.

Vice President of Development, John LaChance, and Senior Technologist, Erin Hauber, are here to share some of the lessons learned from implementing thermal conductive heating (TCH) at more than 80 sites including:

• unexpected COCs and increased mass
• higher groundwater flux than expected
• materials selection for sites with highly corrosive COCs
• how to handle highly flammable COCs in the vapor treatment system
• mitigating vapor intrusion issues that may arise during treatment

Join the discussion for insight to help avoid costly project delays in your next thermal project.  There will be time for questions at the end, so bring the thermal remediation questions you’ve never had a chance to ask.

The treatment of sites with recalcitrant contaminants such as PFAS, PCBs, dioxins and PAHs can feel daunting. Fortunately, there’s an effective solution for high-boiling point chemicals – In Situ Thermal Remediation (ISTR).

In this flash webinar, TerraTherm thermal experts Sam Nienstedt, Technologist, and Steffen Griepke, Vice President of Technology, will provide a brief overview of thermal remediation and share how ISTR can remove or destroy subsurface contaminants.  They explain why thermal conductive heating (TCH) is the primary ISTR technology for remediation of high boiling point chemicals. They will also discuss important design do’s and don’ts for a successful remedy, common ISTR myths, and typical costs.

There will be time for questions at the end, so bring your questions about using thermal remediation to treat hard-to-treat contaminants. This flash webinar is scheduled for 30 minutes.