Eco Logic successfully passes key milestone for US Army's chemical warfare agent clean-up program.

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1996--ELI ECO LOGIC INC. (TSE: ELI CANADIAN DEALING NETWORK: ELII.WT.A) ELI Eco Logic Inc. ("ECO LOGIC") announced today successful completion of the demonstration of its patented ECO LOGIC Process for total destruction of mustard (HD) and VX nerve agents for the US Army. ECO LOGIC conducted the demonstration using a laboratory scale ELI Destructor unit specially designed for the treatment of chemical warfare agents. The demonstration results were independently audited by the US Army's Edgewood Research Design Engineering Centre (ERDEC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, U.S.A.

Three separate runs were conducted for each chemical warfare agent. The demonstration confirmed that the ECO LOGIC Process completely destroys HD and VX chemical warfare agents. No residual agent was detected in any of the output samples, including the scrubber solutions and the process gas. Beth Chisholm, ECO LOGIC's scientist in charge of research and development for the Chemical Demilitarization Program noted: "The US Army labs use the best analytical equipment available, capable of detecting contaminants 100 times better than the most stringent regulatory standards. No HD or VX was detected after each of the runs, demonstrating destruction removal efficiencies of 99.999999 percent."

The testing was conducted in the toxic test chambers operated by ERDEC at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. A laboratory-scale treatability unit was constructed for this project and delivered to ERDEC on April 18, 1996. This unit was designed to mimic the commercial-scale destructor currently in operation and to test the scrubber system specially designed for the removal of products resulting from the destruction of agents.

Equipment set-up and agent testing required three weeks and was completed on May 7, 1996. These tests satisfy the mandatory live agent testing component of the technology review being conducted for the US Army by the U.S. National Research Council's Alternative Technology Panel.

The US Army is seeking alternative technologies mature enough to meet the needs of the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program for the safe disposal of HD and VX nerve agent stored at Aberdeen Proving Ground , Maryland, and Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Indiana, respectively, by the year 2004 provided for by the Chemicals Weapons Convention. Based on the technological merits of the ECO LOGIC Process, it was one of only three private sector technologies selected for further evaluation by the U.S. National Research Council's Alternative Technology Panel. The successful completion of the live agent destruction demonstration marks the achievement of a critical milestone for this evaluation.

In Canada, ECO LOGIC's SE-25 ELI Destructor at St. Catharines, Ontario has been destroying PCBs for General Motors. PCB-containing electrical capacitors are currently being processed in two sequencing batch vaporizers. This unit has just completed a shutdown for maintenance and modifications , as experience continues to be gained from its operation. These modifications have delayed the expected completion date for the General Motors project to later this summer with the unit to be moved to Toronto in the early fall. In Australia, the first SE-25 ELI Destructor is to recommence processing electrical capacitors shortly. This unit has been taken through a complete health and safety review in order to ensure continued safe operation and a maintenance cycle and upgrade. ECO LOGIC continues to implement refinements to its equipment during maintenance shutdowns with a view to enhancing throughput.

ELI Eco Logic Inc.'s business is to solve toxic chemical problems in a safe, permanent, cost-effective manner. The ECO LOGIC Process is an innovative, proprietary, mobile, chemical-reduction technology that converts, on-site, organic hazardous wastes into reusable or disposable products. This non-incineration process has gained high public and regulatory acceptance. ECO LOGIC's worldwide hazardous waste cleanup market includes PCBs, electrical equipment, contaminated soils, chemical warfare agents, petrochemical wastes, certain radioactive mixed wastes, and municipal sludge.

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