42nd Annual Conference

Valentine Nzengung

MuniRem Environmental, LLC (MRE)


Dr. Nzengung has over 22 years of experience developing, implementing, and managing innovative green remediation technologies. He is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of MuniRem Environmental, LLC (MRE) and a Professor at the University of Georgia. ˜Dr. Nzengung holds multiple patents for proprietary green and sustainable remediation technologies for explosives, perchlorate, nitrocellulose propellants, and chemical warfare agents.˜ He is the author/co-author of over 120 publications, including peer reviewed professional journal papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and monographs. ˜Dr. Nzengung pioneered the development of MuniRem?, an innovative remedial technology that achieves instant neutralization of bulk explosives,˜bomb fillers and chemical warfare˜materiel˜(CWM) at ambient temperature as well as their conversion to non-hazardous end-products. The application of MuniRem? provides a remedial solution for a broad range of explosives and munitions constituents, including˜Mustard (CWM), HMX, RDX, TNT, TNR, DNTs, ADNTs, AN, NBs, NDMA, Lead Styphnate, Picrate, Nitrocellulose, Nitroguanidine, PETN, PBX, and reactive Aluminum. MuniRem? is used for the routine decontamination of operational munitions manufacturing facilities as well as in remediation projects for sites that are being repurposed.

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