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ADA-ES – developing and selling
proprietary chemical products for air pollution and mercury control
to power industries
Basic Materials
Chemical Manufacturing
OTC: ESCI
Earth Sciences, Inc.
Parent Company of:
ADA-Environmental Solutions, LLC
Mike Durham
President of ADA-ES, LLC
Interview conducted by:
Walter Banks
Co-Publisher
CEOCFOinterviews.com
February 2002
Company Profile:
Earth Sciences, Inc.
Earth Sciences, Inc. (OTC: ESCE) is an air pollution
control, environmental technology, specialty chemical, chemical processing, and mineral
exploration company. Its subsidiary, ADA Environmental Solutions, LLC (ADA-ES), provides
air pollution abatement technologies, proprietary products, systems and consulting
services to utility and industrial customers who want to: Maximize Capacity, Increase
Efficiency, Improve Operations & Save Money.
ADA-ES sells and
installs several different proprietary systems and chemicals that help coal-fired boiler
operations switch to inexpensive low-sulfur coals, providing potential fuel cost savings
of several million dollars per year. ADA-ES’ expertise and services range from the
coal pile to the ash removal system.
ADA-ES has a family of proprietary flue-gas conditioning agents to provide utilities and
industries using electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) and baghouses for particulate control,
with a cost-effective means of complying with environmental regulations on particulate
emission and opacity. This innovative technology dramatically improved the ability of
utilities and refineries to meet clean air standards without expensive modification or
replacement of equipment.
In 1997, ADA-ES conducted several successful full-scale demonstrations of the flue-gas
conditioning technology and sold several permanent systems. During 1998, ADA-ES improved
its first additive injection system and released a dramatically improved second-generation
flue-gas conditioning product. They also developed and demonstrated a new product to allow
the wet handling of PRB (Powder River Basin) fly ash.
Today, ADA-ES is actively marketing its third-generation flue-gas conditioning system.
They are helping customers minimize the problems associated with switching to coal
from the Powder River Basin. This work includes everything from coal selection to
sootblowing procedures to chemicals for improved ash handling and collection.
In addition to flue gas conditioning, ADA-ES provides fluxing agents to make coals
“cyclone friendly” and anti-cementing additives for wet ash handling
systems. Future offerings in Mercury (Hg) control and flue gas conditioning are
being developed under Department of Energy funding.
PRODUCTS:
ADA-23,
ADA-37, ADA-41, and ADA-43:
Flue gas
conditioning additives that improve the performance of hot-side and cold-side ESPs.
ADA-249:
This product improves the operation of cyclone
boilers, especially those utilizing PRB fuels. ADA-249 is rich in iron, powdered for
easy handling and superior fluxing, restores cyclone slag layer thickness, and decreases
low temperature viscosity.
ADA-110:
This is a product, which
minimizes the cementing of PRB fly ash in wet handling systems. With the addition of
ADA-110, the hardening process is substantially delayed, allowing the fly ash to be swept
out of the system and into settling ponds before problematic hardening can occur.
CEOCFOinterviews: Mr. Durham, please give us a brief history of Earth Sciences?
Mr. Durham: “I am
President of ADA-ES (ADA-Environmental Solutions), which is an LLC (Limited Liability
Company) and is the only operating entity of Earth Sciences, Inc. (OTC: ESCI). We sell
proprietary chemicals to the power industries, specifically to the Coal Fired Boiler
industry to help improve their operations.
Earth Sciences is a company that goes back to 1963, but ADA-ES is a company that I founded
back in 1985, doing research and development for the power industry. We developed a
product that we wanted to spin out and commercialize and we established a new LLC to do
this. In 1996, we sold this new company to Earth Sciences and that deal was completed in
1997.”
CEOCFOinterviews: They then brought you on
board to run the operating company.
Mr. Durham:
“Yes, I left my former
company and stayed with the spin-off to commercialize our new technology.”
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