Kit Fix Dense Gas Dispersion Experiments, Summer 1995

Organization Profile

The Albany County Research Corporation (ACRC) was established to make publicly funded data developed from research projects available to benefit public safety. The founders since 1987 have been investigating the behavior of toxic chemicals that are deliberately or accidentally spilled, educating emergency response organizations, and maintaining funding to conduct the research at the DOE’s HAZMAT Spill Center (HSC) located on the Nevada Test Site. The research programs conducted with public and private funds provided a complete service to the funding entities, i.e., addressing the design, fabrication, operation, collection and analysis of chemical spill data.

There is a continuing public safety need and demand by regulators, industry, and responders to HAZMAT incidents to understand and quantify how chemical spills behave. Coupled with this need is the rising problem presented by terrorists’ acts using chemical and biological agents against a civilian population. The behavior of these materials is similar to industrial chemicals. ACRC pursues grants & contracts with DOT, DOD, DOE and EPA to examine these problems and develop the technical basis to better predict and/or control (mitigate) chemical plume dispersion.

ACRC works with a for-profit affiliate, AristaTek, which developed, manufactures, and supports the most advanced current HAZMAT and chemical counter-terrorism response tool available for first responders. The PEAC® (Palmtop Emergency Action for Chemicals) tool provides to the Incident Commander access to multiple databases for over 10,000+ chemicals and synonyms plus the ability to develop evacuation zones for those chemicals that produce toxic vapor clouds. The databases now contain the chemical warfare agents and their precursors after completion of a recent project funded by TSWG (Technical Support Working Group) and with support from SBCCOM. The application runs on either a hand-held Pocket PC or a Windows desktop or laptop

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Last modified: November 05, 2002