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A Citizen's Guide to Thermal Desorption

The Citizen's Guide series is a set of 22 fact sheets that summarizes cleanup methods used at Superfund and other sites. Thermal desorption removes organic contaminants from soil, sludge or sediment by heating them in a machine called a "thermal desorber" to evaporate the contaminants. This document can also be accessed at http://semspub.epa.gov/src/document/HQ/158720.

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