Wide-area Toxic Industrial Chemical

The purpose of this SBIR effort is the demonstration of concept and deployment of a novel method of large-scale decontamination of Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs). The Phase I effort demonstrated both neutralization and removal techniques for dealing with decontamination. The decontamination system couples a Strippable Vapor Encapsulation Coating (“ISOLOCK-VC”) with a hybrid inorganic/organic decontamination sol-gel. In some cases, a two step decontamination process while in others, decontamination could be affected in one step. The Phase I effort successfully demonstrated Proof-of-Concept. This Phase II activity will advance the technology to field scale trials and pilot-scale production and will deliver at least two TIC neutralization protocols for wide-scale use.