ThermoEnergy's Advanced Wastewater Treatment Project A Success

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TO ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:

ThermoEnergy's Advanced Wastewater Treatment Project A Success

ARKANSAS, LITTLE ROCK, Mar. 14 -/E-Wire/-- ThermoEnergy Corporation (OTC BB:TMEN) announced the successful conclusion of the STORS 2000 Advanced Wastewater Demonstration Project sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This $3 million dollar project, located in Colton, California (greater Los Angeles area), confirmed the ability of the Sludge-To-Oil Reactor System (STORS) process to convert raw sewage sludge (biosolids) into a high energy fuel - known as "bio-fuel'. Bio-fuel can either be used on-site to power the STORS/ARP plant or sold to the local electricity power market. Water from the STORS system will be further treated by either the Company's Ammonia Recovery Process (ARP) - see New Wastewater Treatment Technology Wins Award, Aug '99 - which removes nitrogen (ammonia) from the water, converting it to ammonium sulfate - acommercial grade fertilizer, which can be distributed to agriculture markets around the world. Combined, STORS and ARP represent a significant advancement over conventional wastewater treatment methods in the $150 Billion wastewater treatment industry.

Some of the many benefits a STORS/ARP system offers municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant operators are: (1) on-site conversion of sewage to commodity EQ Class A commodity products, (2) allows generation of energy for use on-site or sale to the local market, (3) greatly improves nitrogen removal efficiency, (4) greatly reduce or eliminate odor control problems, (5) removes phosphorus from discharge stream, and (6) greatly reduces traffic to and from existing wastewater facilities.

The STORS/ARP system readily integrates with existing wastewater treatment plants and requires much less space to process and treat biosolids than conventional methods. This is a key factor for large urban areas where additional capacity is desired but the space required is not available.

Aside from establishing itself as one of the best available technologies to achieve regulatory compliance as well as the beneficial reuse of sewage waste, STORS/ARP provides the municipality with an excellent cost-to-benefit ratio. In addition the STORS/ARP process easily degrades toxic organic materials such a chloroform, Lindane and other similar pesticides, removing them from the discharge stream.

ThermoEnergy Corporation negotiated the exclusive worldwide rights to the STORS/ARP process from Battelle Laboratories. The Company formed a joint venture, known as ThermoEnergy Environmental, LLC, with a large international engineering/construction firm that designed, built and operated the Colton STORS 2000 project. Joining ThermoEnergy Environmental, LLC on the project was the City of Colton (CA), the US EPA, and the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. Based on the success of this demonstration project, ThermoEnergy Environmental plans to design, build and operate STORS/ARP facilities worldwide.

ThermoEnergy is a diversified technologies company engaged in the commercialization of patented and/or proprietary municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and power production technologies. Additional information on the Company and its technologies can be found on its web site at www.thermoenergy.com.

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ThermoEnergy Corporation

ThermoEnergy Corporation, Dennis C. Cossey, 501/376-6477, E-mail: [REDACTED-EMAIL] or Alex G. Fassbender P.E., 509/375-0847, E-mail: [REDACTED-EMAIL]

http://www.thermoenergy.com

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