Senior Engineer

Robert Feller has been an environmental scientist for 40 years, having been granted a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Cook College in 1981 where he had been adjunct faculty for three years. While at Cook College he worked with Dr. Thomas Sabatino on designing the optimized glassware for the EPA Method 510.1 for the extraction and determination of Tri-halo-methane in drinking water. Their design was included in the final draft and is the standard for the detection even today. Mr. Feller also designed and built a containment system for the remote opening of compressed gas cylinders that allowed the complete recovery of the gas without any worker exposure to potentially lethal gases. This technology has been used, and is still used today, by the Department of Defense in the disposal of binary nerve agents. Mr. Feller also designed the neutralization technology for the complete destruction of virtually all known nerve agents as well as silane gas used in the printed circuit board industry.

Mr. Feller has been involved with the development and implementation of the first subsurface injection use of catalyzed hydrogen peroxide for the remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated groundwater and soil. He has also been a Senior Project Manager on several well-known Superfund Sites throughout New Jersey, as well as has overseen multiple MGP remediations for PSE&G.

The work done for General Electric in the late 1990’s to develop a technology that would address the PCB contamination of the Hudson River sediments, which led to the development of the URRICHEM stabilization – fixation technology that was approved by the EPA S.I.T.E Program, and was the foundation for the solidification process selected by the Company for its dredged materials processing capabilities. Mr. Feller was one of the five participants in the development and proving of this technology and is the only living survivor of the original inventors. The process was eventually approved by not just the EPA, but also the NY DEC, and the processed stabilized sediments were deemed nonhazardous by characteristic and allowed to be used around the base of a bridge in New York to address the scouring of the bridge footings where the tidal flows had previously been eroding the base of the bridge.