It can be applied to waste treatment, assessment of contaminated sites, assess ment of the effects of natural remediation processes, and the design and assessment of engineered remediation processes. It was also used in the design of an integrated process for coalbed brine disposal. In this application, the code was used to design a process for chemically treating the brine to remove heavy metals and to avoid mineral precipitation that would foul a subsequent reverse-osmosis process. Here, it was used to determine the effects of water chemistry on mineral percipitation due to fluid mixing, which showed that the geochemistry of the water at certain sites was consistent with a proposed hydrologic model. It requires about 16 megabytes of memory for operation.
Opportunities exist for adapting the software to solve specific environmental problems.
Concern is rapidly rising about the effects of the year 2000 on computer software. This statement has been prepared as a blanket response. In particular, it recognizes that the year 2000 is a leap year. It obtains the date and time from the system at the start of a run and again at the end. It uses the date for date stamping the code output.