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This application claims benefit of Provisional Application Ser. No. 60,018,193 filed May 23, 1996.
The present invention relates to a method for recovering and recycling volatile organic compounds from aqueous phase emulsions containing surfactants by pervaporation through membranes.
Groundwater is often contaminated by volatile organic compounds, particularly chlorinated and aromatic hydrocarbons. Conventional separation technologies, such as distillation and liquid--liquid extraction, are not applicable because of the large volumes of water that must be treated.
Pump-and-treat methods of remediating nonaqueous phase liquids in groundwater are generally not satisfactory, primarily because the "pump" part of the technology cannot efficiently remove the contaminates from the aquifer. The organic compounds from the nonaqueous phase liquids slowly leak into the groundwater over a long period of time. Several attempts are being made by remediation companies to use surfactants to more efficacious removal of the nonaqueous phase liquid components by emulsifying them with an aqueous surfactant solution. Similarly, organic contaminants, which have been found to adhere strongly to soil particles, can be removed from soil more easily when a surfactant solution is pumped through the contaminant region. This process is called surfactant flushing. Although the "pump" part of technology is improved this way, the "treat" part becomes more complicated. Generally, two established methods can be used to dispose of the resulting emulsion:
(1) air or steam stripping, which is not a useful solution because the VOCs, which are then in air or condensed in a liquid form, still must be disposed of; and
(2) bioremediation, which is unproven for VOCs, and, even were it successful, would require large installations.
Pervaporation is a technique wherein volatile organic compounds from an aqueous medium are preferentially transported across a thin membrane film. The source side of the membrane is wetted with the aqueous liquid, while vacuum or a sweep gas is used on the sink side of the membrane. The VOCs are collected from the sink side by condensation. It is customary to expect a concentration factor of 1000 or more. Most VOCs are hydrophobic, so that a hydrophobic membrane must be used. In contrast to other membrane filtration processes, pervaporation works according to a solution-diffusion mechanism. The membrane itself must be porous for pervaporation to work. In microfiltration or ultrafiltration, for example, porosity is the key to preferential transport, and the flux rate depends upon molecular size. In pervaporation, molecular interaction rather than molecular size is the determining factor.
For pervaporation to be economical and efficient, ultra-thin non-porous hydrophobic films of appropriate polymers, such as polydimethylsiloxane or polyether imide block copolymer, must be deposited onto a highly porous support matrix. The preferred configuration of the membrane modules is a hollow fiber.
It is an object of the present invention to overcome the aforementioned deficiencies in the prior art.
It is another object of the present invention to provide means for treating groundwater.
It is another object of the present invention to break emulsions using pervaporation.
It is still another object of the present invention to use pervaporation to break aqueous emulsions of volatile organic compounds.
According to the present invention, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be removed from surfactant solutions using pervaporation with hydrophobic pervaporation membranes.
The process of the present invention can be used to remove volatile non-aqueous phase liquids from surfactant-based soil washing and soil flushing solutions for recovery of the volatile compounds and reuse of the surfactant.
The process of the present invention can be used to separate VOCs from industrial process streams containing surfactants for in-process recycling and reclamation of the VOCs and/or surfactants.
The process of the present invention can be used to separate VOCs from industrial waste streams containing surfactants for waste volume reduction or for recovery/recycle of the VOCs and/or surfactant.
The energy required to break the emulsion is supplied via pumping energy. Simultaneously with breaking the emulsion, the VOCs are concentrated on the permeate side of a chosen hydrophobic membrane by a thousand-fold or more. The hydrophobic membrane allows preferential treatment of the VOCs through it. The surfactants, which are non-volatile and have a larger molecular size than the VOCs, do not diffuse through the membrane. The concentrated VOCs can then either be disposed of by thermal means, for instance, or can be recycled for reuse. The surfactant solution can be disposed of, depending upon the surfactant used. In the case of treating groundwater and soil flushing, the surfactant can be concentrated for recycling and reuse by subjecting the raffinate stream to reverse osmosis or ultrafiltration.
The method of the present invention removes the VOCs while at the same time concentrating them in a form that is amenable to economical disposal or reuse. The process requires much less energy than conventionally used stripping processes. The process is compact, and requires little space, and the method can be easily automated.
FIG. 1 shows a pervaporation unit for use in the present invention.
FIG. 2a shows a comparison of pervarporation without and with surfactant in a low concentration range, plotting TCA flux vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 2b shows a comparison of pervaporation without and with surfactant in low surfactant concentration range plotted as selectivity vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 3a shows pervaporation at high surfactant concentration with TCA concentration also in the high range, plotted as TCA flux vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 3b shows pervaporation at high surfactant concentration with TCA concentration in the high range plotted as water flux vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 3c shows pervaporation at high surfactant concentration with TCA concentration in high range plotted as permeate concentration vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 3d shows pervaporation at high surfactant concentration with TCA concentration in high range plotted as selectivity vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 4a shows a comparison of pervaporation without and with surfactant in high surfactant concentration range and the influence of the boundary layer effect plotted as TCA flux vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 4b shows a comparison of pervaporation without and with surfactant in a high surfactant concentration range and the influence of the boundary layer effect plotted as water flux vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 4c shows a comparison of pervaporation without and with surfactant in high surfactant concentration range and the influence of the boundary layer effect plotted as permeate concentration vs. feed concentration.
FIG. 4d shows a comparison of pervaporation without and with surfactant in high surfactant concentration and the influence of the boundary layer effect plotted as selectivity vs. feed concentration.
In general, the lower molecular weight organic compounds are the more volatile organic compounds to be removed from wastewater or groundwater. Of course, the specific compounds to be removed will vary, depending upon the source of the pollution. However, among the volatile organic compounds that can be removed by the process of the present invention include, but are not limited to, N,N-dimethylnitrosamine; chloroethane; benzoic acid; EDTA; benzene; cytosine; acrolein; methylene chloride; acrylonitrile; 1,1-dichloroethane; 1,1,1-trichloroethane; chloroform; 1,2-trans-dichloroethylene; 1,2-dichloroethane; diphenylamine; benzothiazole; 1,4-dichlorobenzene; p-chloro-m-cresol; 1,2-dichlorobenzene; naphthalene; 1,1-diphenylhydrazine; p-nitroaniline; 4-bromophenyl phenyl ether; 2,6-dinitrotoluene; pentachlorophenol; 2-naphthylamine; 2-chloroethyl vinyl ether; dibromochloromethane; 1,1-dichloroethylene; 5-fluorouracil; trichlorofluoromethane; 1,1,2-trichloroethane; 1,2-dichloropropane; cyclohexanone; dichlorobromomethane; 1,2-dichloropropene; 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane; benzo[ghi]perylene; uracil; bis (2-chloroethoxy)methane; carbon tetrachloride; bromoform; phenol; bis(2-chloroisopropyl)ether; N-nitroso di-n-propylamine; 5-chlorouracil; toluene; thymine; trichloroethylene; isophorone; 2,4-dinitrophenol; benzo[a]pyrene; 5-bromouracil; o-anisidine; tetrachloroethylene; 2-chlorophenol; ethylbenzene; 1,2-dibromo-3-chloroproane; 3,4-benzofluoroanthrene; nitrobenzene; dibenzo[a,h]anthracene; adenine; 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene; acetophenone; 4-nitrophenol; 2,4-dimethylphenol; p-xylene; chlorobenzene; hexachloroethane; dimethylphthalate.
The volatile organic compounds are concentrated at one side of the membrane, after which time they can be removed for reuse and recycling or disposed of appropriately.
While any type of hydrophobic membrane material can be used that is suitable for pervaporation, the membrane material should be non-reactive with the volatile organic compounds to be removed. The membranes are generally used in the form of flat sheets or, preferably, as hollow fibers.
The membranes used in the process of the present invention are generally made of polymers, the chemical structures of which range from simple hydrocarbons like polyethylene or polypropylene to silicone rubbers an the like. The choice of polymer for the membrane is dictated by the types of volatile organic compounds which are to be removed from the aqueous emulsion.
Among the polymers that can be used for the membrane are rubbery polymers and copolymers such as polydimethyl siloxane, poly(1-trimethylsiliyl-1-propyne), polyurethanes, polybutadiene polyether imides, polyether block polymers, and silicone polymers, styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile butadiene rubber, and ethene-propene terpolymer.
A schematic diagram of a pervaporation unit 100 according to the present invention is shown in FIG. 1. The feed tank 1 was a 20 liter stainless steel ASME pressure vessel. The feed mixture was circulated between the feed tank 1, which contained a magnetic stirrer 2, and the pervaporation cell 5 in a closed loop using a diaphragm liquid pump 3. Liquid flow rate was measured with a rotameter 6. The temperature of the feed liquid was held constant by passing the feed through a stainless steel coil 14 submerged in a thermostated bath 4. The feed liquid temperature and the permeate vapor temperature were monitored by two thermistor thermometers inserted in the upper and lower compartment of the cell, respectively. The temperature gauge is shown at 9 and the vacuum gauge at 10. The downstream vacuum system 8 stabilized the permeate pressure at 1�0.3 torr in the vicinity of the membrane measured with a Datametric electronic manometer. Permeate was collected in a cold trap 7, cooled with liquid nitrogen. After pervaporation had been initiated, the steady-state mass transfer regime was reached after a three to four hour equilibration time. After this initial regime, the steady-state permeation collection was initiated. The experiments were run batchwise over a time interval of two hours. The permeate liquid thus recovered was weighted and analyzed to evaluate permeation flux and selectivity. The total flux was simply calculated from the amount collected. The selectivity was calculated from the feed and permeate compositions.
A stainless steel Millipore membrane filtration cell was modified for use in cross-flow mode. The gap between the upper compartment and the membrane surface was 6 mm. The inner diameter of the cell was 9 cm, with an effective diameter of 7.6 cm and an effective membrane area of 45.5 cm2. The membrane was supported by a perforated metal disc. The cell was sealed by Teflon O-rings. The feed entered the cell in the center of the upper. compartment, flowed radially, and exited the cell at the border.
Two feed samples were taken for each run, one at the beginning and another at the end. The reported feed concentration was the average concentration of these two samples. One permeate sample was acquired during each run. The cold trap was first weighed after warming to room temperature, and then the permeate sample was dissolved in a small amount of methanol, transferred to a 10 mL volumetric flask, and diluted to 10 mL with methanol to the mark. All feed and permeate samples required dilution in water in order to fall within the analytical calibration range. When performing the dilution of feed samples with a needle syringe, it was found that the feed sample must be pressured (>5 psig) to avoid volatilization of the VOC when the sample was drawn into the syringe. All diluted samples were transferred immediately to 40 mL vials capped with Teflon-line septa.
The composition of both feed and permeate were analyzed by purge and trap gas chromatography (GC) using a Dynatech Dynawaters purge and trap autosampler and a Tremetrics 9001 GC equipped with a flame ionization. detector. In general, EPA test method 601 was followed with the following modifications:
(1) flame ionization detector
(2) megabnor column (J&W DB-624)
(3) Vocarb 3000 trap containing Carbopack B/Carboxen 1000 and 1001.
A small amount of antifoam agent was added to the surfactant solutions to reduce foaming in the purge vessel. The antifoam did not alter the analytical results for TCA.
In all of the experiments described below, Triton X-100, t-octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol nonionic surfactant having a molecular formula of C8 H1 7 C6 H4 (CH2 CH2 O)y H, was used as the test surfactant. For Triton X-100, y=9.5 (average molecular weight 625) and critical micelle concentration, CMC=0.15 g/L. 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA) was used as the model VOC. Silicone rubber, flat sheet 0.005 inches (127 μm thick, Dow Corning Silastic™, was used as the membrane.
A series of experiments was performed with low surfactant concentrations of 0.25�CMC and 4�CMC, with TCA also at relatively low concentrations (0-300 mg/L). The results were compared to those obtained without surfactant. Pervaporation performance was evaluated in terms of component flux and membrane selectivity. As shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b, the data indicate that low surfactant concentrations do not appreciably affect either flux or selectivity. No difference is expected between the 0�CMC and the 0.25�CMC cases because the surfactant concentration in the latter is below that which allows micelle formation. However, one might expect to find a difference in the 4�CMC case due to the partitioning of some TCA into the micelles. The fact that even 4�CMC of the TritonX-100 does not significantly alter the pervaporation performance demonstrates that pervaporation is a technically feasible method for removing solubilized VOCs from surfactant solutions.
Feed solutions containing 40�CMC Triton X-100 and up to 6000 mg/L TCA were evaluated. All of these experiments were run under the same conditions: temperature, 30� C.; feed flow rate, 1.5 L/min; permeate pressure, 1.2 torr. The results are shown in FIGS. 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d. For ease of comparison, data from the 0, 0.25 and 4�CMC experiments are also plotted in FIGS. 3a-3d. the 0�CMC data do not extend beyond 1000 mg/L, as this is limited by the aqueous solubility of TCA of approximately 1200 mg/mL. As shown in FIG. 3a, the TCA flux increased linearly with TCA feed concentration up to 1000 mg/L TCA. Above this concentration, the TCA flux continued to rise with concentration, but not as rapidly. In fact, the TCA flux actually decreased beyond 5000 mg/l. Water flux, shown in FIG. 3b, also increased with increasing TCA concentration, but very slowly, and eventually levelled off. Permeate concentrations, shown in FIG. 3c, plateaued at 70-80 weight percent TCA for feed concentrations above 2000 mg/L TCA. In accordance with the general trend, selectivity, shown in FIG. 3d, decreased with increasing feed concentration, but the rate of decrease was low for TCA concentrations greater than 2000 mg/L.
Additional experiments were performed with 0�CMC and 40�CMC solutions at comparable TCA concentrations. The results of these experiments are shown in FIGS. 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d. The upper and lower data sets in the figures are the comparable 0�CMC and 40�CMC cases, respectively. Under the same operating conditions, differences do exist between pervaporation from a 40�CMC TritonX-100 solution and from an aqueous solution as indicated by the surfactant solutions exhibiting a lower TCA flux (FIG. 4a), permeate TCA concentration (FIG. 4c), and selectivity (FIG. 4d) than the 0�CMC solution. In general, the TCA flux for the 40�CMC solution is 40% lower than for the 0�CMC solution. Because of the low aqueous solubility of TCA, direct comparison beyond the range of TCA shown in FIG. 4 cannot be made. Although pervaporation performance is somewhat reduced at high surfactant concentrations, these results still indicate that pervaporation is capable of removing VOCs from surfactant solutions.
Pilot unit experiments were performed with a pervaporation apparatus equipped with four commercial spiral wound membrane modules connected in series. Each module was three feet long and had a diameter of 2 inches.
A 55 gallon stainless steel drum served as the feed tank. VOCs were added to the feed, either as an aqueous solution or as a solvent stream. The feed concentration was maintained substantially constant. The feed mixture was circulated between the feed tank and the pervaporation modules in a loop using a centrifugal liquid pump. Liquid flowrate was measured with a rotameter. The temperature of the feed liquid was held constant by passing the feed through a 30 kW electric heater. The feed liquid temperature was automatically monitored and controlled. A dry chemical vacuum pump supplied the vacuum to the membrane modules. A needle valve located between the pump and the membranes was used to control permeate vacuum pressure. Pressures ranging from 13 to 55 torr were studied. The permeate was condensed using 34� F. water, and collected in two reservoirs.
The pilot unit was equipped with three liquid sampling ports. The ports were located immediately before the membrane modules, after two models, and after all four modules. Samples removed from these ports were refereed to as Feed, Residual 1, Residual 2, respectively. Liquid samples were acquired after the unit had been operating for three hours, then hourly until hour six. An average of the concentrations from hours 4, 5 and 6 was used for further calculations. Steady-state behavior was observed after hour 3. One mL of each sample was immediately diluted to 100 mL with deionized water and transferred to a 40 mL vial and capped with a Teflon-lined septa and screw cap. Samples were analyzed by purge and trap gas chromatography in the same manner as described previously for Examples 1-3.
Performance of the pilot unit was described using the fraction of VOC in the feed which was removed during a particular experiment, based upon average feed and Residual 2 concentrations. Experiments without surfactant were performed to determine the baseline performance of the pilot unit with 1,1,1-trichloroethane and toluene as the model VOCs. An anionic surfactant, DOWFAX 8390, was selected for study based upon its proposed use in surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation processes. The surfactant was added to deionized water at 450 times its critical micelle concentration. The CMC of DOWFAX 8390 is 0.43 g/L as active ingredient.
Table 1 contains the results from a series of pilot unit experiments at fixed feed flow rate, temperature, and permeate vacuum pressure. When no surfactant was present, 99% of the TCA and 98% of the toluene in the feed water were removed. When 40 times the CMC of the anionic surfactant was present, under the same operating conditions, 91% of the TCA and 81% of the toluene were removed, indicating that pervaporation was effective at removing the VOCs even in the presence of surfactant micelles. Additionally, the removal of the VOCs from the surfactant solution was independent of the feed concentration over the range of 20 to 2800 mg/L for TCA and 15 to 800 mg/L for toluene.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________Feed TCA TolueneFlow Feed Feed %SurfactantRate Temp. Vacuum Conc. Conc. % TCA TolueneConc.(gpm) � C. (torr) (mg/L) (mg/L) Removed Removed__________________________________________________________________________0 1.0 50 55 48.0 10.3 99.0 98.00 1.0 50 55 20.0 5.74 98.9 98.10 1.0 50 55 17.1 5.50 98.9 98.140xCMC1.0 50 55 94.9 57.3 90.5 81.140xCMC1.0 50 55 21.9 14.6 90.4 81.440xCMC1.0 50 55 799 62.2 91.3 82.440xCMC1.0 50 55 2835 804 91.8 83.1__________________________________________________________________________
Additional experiments were performed with the pilot unit with different flow rates and temperatures. Table 2 shows the results of tests at 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0- gallons/minute flow rate and at 50� C. and 60� C. for 40�CMC solutions. The single pass removal increased to 96% when the flow rate is lowered to 0.5 gpm and also increased to 95% when the temperature was increased from 50� to 60� C.
TABLE 2__________________________________________________________________________Feed TCA TolueneFlow Feed Feed %SurfactantRate Temp. Vacuum Conc. Conc. % TCA TolueneConc.(gpm) � C. (torr) (mg/L) (mg/L) Removed Removed__________________________________________________________________________40xCMC0.5 50 55 100 25 96.2 � 0.1 91.6 � 0.140xCMC1.0 50 55 20-2800 10-60 90.0 � 0.7 81.8 � 1.040xCMC2.0 50 55 200 10 81.3 � 0.1 66.9 � 0.140xCMC1.0 60 55 99.5 6.5 95.4 91.3__________________________________________________________________________
Thus, the present invention provides a method for cleaning VOC-laden aqueous streams emanating from surfactant washing of ground water or surfactant flushing of vadosezone soils.
The permeate obtained according to the present invention is generally a concentrated volatile organic compound. Where the cost for post-treating the permeate, which may contain some water and/or surfactant, is inexpensive and the recovered solvents are inexpensive, it may be cost-effective merely to discard the permeate in an acceptable manner. However, if the recovered volatile organic compounds are valuable, then it would be advantageous to recycle the volatile organic compounds for reuse.
The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the invention that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without departing from the generic concept, and therefore such adaptations and modifications are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.
All references cited in this specification are hereby incorporated by reference.
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Radiohead Filling in Half of 2008 With Tour
Radiohead will be coming down to the road next year to play a series of live dates in support of their new release, 'In Rainbows'. The management reveals that the band will embark in May although no specific schedule is set yet.
Speaking to Billboard, Radiohead's manager Bryce Edge said, "We plan to tour next year. Starting in May through to probably the end of the year, with lots of holidays in that period. At the moment we are talking with our agents in North America and for the rest of the world, trying to get a schedule which works for the band and works financially."
The tour will hit larger venues compared to their 2006 summer tour although vocalist Thom Yorke isn't overly favoring the idea. "They toured last summer almost for creative reasons, definitely not for financial reasons. And I think they quite enjoyed it," Edge added.
"He likes to do shows, but the whole business of schlepping around the world is not top of his list of favorite things to do. He really enjoys playing to the fans - it's just the process of how to do that which is the pain in the neck. They're not road dogs. They never have been."
'In Rainbows' was released on October 10 digitally and independently. They break off from the industry's tradition to set a fixed price list, leaving the fans to purchase the album with whatever price they are willing to pay. No physical release plan have been settled yet.
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Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been freed from a Cairo jail after charges against him were dropped.
Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been freed from a Cairo jail after charges against him were dropped.
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The governor launched the Illinois Foreclosure Prevention Network, which has been holding workshops throughout the state. It is helping connect people with homeownership counselors and other resources.
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Our beloved student, April Penland, takes second place at Nationals. Check out the article in the Richmond Times Dispatch Sunday paper!
Our beloved student, April Penland, takes second place at Nationals. Check out the article in the Richmond Times Dispatch Sunday paper!
Check out BYR wins second place as Richmond's BEST Yoga studio. That is right, we've been holding down the hot yoga scene in RVA for 14 years!!! We love our students!!! Thank you for voting for us each year!
Father-Daughter duo, Carrie and Rob are 2 of our regular yoga practitioners who have been coming to BYR for 7 years!
Rob Estes was born in Richmond, VA, went to George Wythe High school and then William and Mary College. He is now CEO of Estes Express (we know you've all seen those yellow trucks on the highways).
Carrie Johnstone was born in Charlotte, NC, went to college at UNC Chapel Hill, and then moved back to Richmond to be with family. Carrie is a certified accountant who now stays home with her 3 children (ages 7, 5, and 2).
In addition to yoga, the two stay very active outside the hot room. Rob has been playing softball for a long time, and continues to play on a league today. In fact, a chronic hamstring injury was one of the motivators that brought Rob to yoga. That, and of course, Carrie ☺ Carrie loves to exercise, but admits that she wasn't hooked on Bikram Yoga immediately.
"I took my first class in December 2007, but I wasn't hooked. Then I came back in June 2008 and haven't stopped since then!"
Rob says he came in "after being challenged by Carrie." 8 softball seasons later, Rob says he hasn't had a hamstring injury since beginning his practice! Overall, both say that they definitely feel healthier now that they practice Bikram Yoga.
Rob says, "I feel more relaxed , healthier, and my blood work proves it."
Carrie also states that, "BYR has changed my life by being a constant in my life besides my family and friends over the past 7 years where life has had many ups and downs. I need the weekly check in where my body gets a full diagnostic scan and I have to stare at myself in the mirror for one and a half hours. Nowhere to run! I feel strong and capable and at peace with myself every time I leave the yoga room."
Carrie even shared with us that she has a dream of going to Teacher Training someday!
When we asked about Rob and Carrie's goals for the New Year, Rob told us about their common goals for last year. He said,
"You will need to get Carrie's approval for this one: She and I had related New Year's resolution this past year. Hers was to be fit enough to be able to wear a sports bra in [yoga] practice. Mine was to be fit enough to look like I didn't need to wear one." (We did check in with Carrie before putting this in the story!)
We are happy to report that both Carrie and Rob achieved their resolutions!
One last thing we asked Carrie and Rob to share with us were their favorite quotes.
Carrie's is, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" , and Rob's is, "Best is the enemy of better". In other words if you hold out for best you will never get better. True yogi thinking!
Photographer Jessica Onderwater sees the big picture. She first became interested in Bikram yoga in 2005 when she was in college and going through a difficult time.
"I was extremely out of shape, overweight and just did not have a good outlook on life at all," Jessica says. "I was on vacation visiting my aunt in Colorado. She dropped me off at a class and afterwards, I felt absolutely changed."
For the next nine years, Jessica was able to practice only sporadically.
"There aren't many studios out where my family lives," she says. "The closest is the next state over, 90-plus miles. So trying to go regularly was difficult."
About a year ago, Jessica moved to Richmond, where she works for a local school portrait company. It wasn't an easy transition.
"I moved here for all the wrong reasons," Jessica says. With her friends and family 800 miles away, life was difficult. Fortunately, on a visit the previous year she had discovered Bikram Yoga Richmond.
"As soon as I could, I signed up for a monthly unlimited and made it my goal to go 10 to 15 times a month," Jessica says. "With my schedule, some months are better than others. But I could barely touch my toes when I started in January, and now I can go 75 percent of the way into Toe Stand."
In addition to her practice, Jessica has become a regular at BYR special events, photographing visits to schools, the pool party, the juice social, Garland's and Mary Jarvis's workshops and the Speak Up race. Her collection of portraits of BYR yogis in action will soon be hanging in the West End studio.
Her job takes her to schools all over Virginia, where she photographs students of all ages, including cadets at VMI. She loves children and has four nieces who are very important in her life.
"My never-ending goal is to show them how big the world is and how important it is to travel and get out of the little bubble you grow up in," Jessica says.
Jessica developed her love of travel in 2011 when she went to work as a photographer for a Hawaiian cruise line for a couple of years. "It was a crazy experience," she says. "Work hard, play even harder."
"Having Bikram in my life has enhanced it in so many ways," Jessica says. "Not only has it helped with maintaining my weight, it has also helped me control my depression." She is happy to have a "yoga family" at BYR. "I love all the instructors and the wonderful people I have met there, including my new best friend." She also talked a work friend into coming to yoga.
"I brought my three oldest nieces to class when they came to visit, and they loved it," Jessica says. "The oldest especially. I think she already wants to become an instructor, which hopefully one day I can become."
When she's not working or practicing yoga, Jessica says she is "Jane of all trades."
"Groupon helps with that," she says. "I knit, sew, paint, glass blow, do archery. I've gone paddle boarding on the James, gone kayaking."
And her vision for the future is full of adventure: "So many things on my list to try: scuba diving, hot air ballooning, re-certifying for my motorcycle license. The list is ever growing."
If you practice at 5:30 a.m., you might recognize Renee Stramel as the one who smiles during Awkward Pose. She delights in the physical challenges of Bikram yoga.
"I am laughing at myself," says Renee. "It cracks me up how much I wobble! But I look better and feel great."
She also loves the active meditation aspect of the practice.
"I like having one part of my mind actively thinking and listening and the other disengaged and just doing what it needs to do," she says. "It is akin to making art."
Renee and her husband make art for a living. Jim is a filmmaker. Renee is a painter, a printmaker, a department head—and an art school dropout.
"I grew up in Alexandria and came down here to go to VCU," Renee says. She had planned to major in art but in 1992 left for Spokane to learn to repair cameras. She came back and did that for 11 years in Richmond. Then, when she feared she was "becoming obsolete," she took classes in landscape design at Lewis GInter.
"I got my certificate, but ended up taking a job with this little company called Old World Prints at the corner of Floyd and Robinson," Renee says. "I started off hand-coloring antique prints."
Then everything "morphed."
Now known as World Art Group, the company sells artwork globally to interior design firms, furniture manufacturers and the hospitality industry. Renee heads the Embellishment Department, where she and her highly trained staff create artwork on paper and canvas according to specification.
"I work with some really amazing and talented people that constantly inspire me," Renee says. "We pump out anywhere from 300 to 600 pieces of art a week with an average of 200 different designs. That is just our department. It is an art factory for sure."
On the boutique level, Renee sells her artwork at Orange Richmond in Carytown. And she enjoys collaborating with her filmmaker husband. Jim's most recent project is a zombie series called "Reviled." Episode One is on YouTube. Renee and Jim just celebrated their 20th anniversary.
Renee began practicing Bikram yoga about six months ago. Like many, she says, "I had let my job take over and wasn't taking care of myself."
"It's that mindfulness that really translates," Renee says. "I am so much more aware of my body through out the whole day. I realize my jaw is clenched or I am hunched over, or I am not really breathing deeply."
As in art, Renee loves the process of yoga. "Every little detail adds up in a posture."
And she also finds inspiration: "After six months, I still get dizzy doing camel pose, but each time I try, I can hold for that millisecond longer. So I keep going."
Lucy Homiller describes herself as being in her "third stage" of adult life. These days she is full-time mother to her children, Frances, 7, and George, 5.
So what was Stage 1?
"Between the ages of 17 and 20, I was a professional ballet dancer with the Nashville Ballet," Lucy says.
And then?
In 1997, she went from dancing to Randolph Macon Women's College and then on to UVa Law School, where she graduated in 2004. She practiced law, first at McGuire Woods and then at a small family firm, until George was 18 months old.
This year, Lucy placed 18th in the country in the National Yoga Asana Competition in Binghamton, N.Y., three years after beginning her practice at Bikram Yoga Richmond.
Could this be Stage 4?
Lucy has been a competitor all her life, which she says grew out of the fact that as a child she was diagnosed with asthma (both allergy and exercise induced).
"I was lucky enough to have a very progressive asthma doctor who encouraged my mother to put me in exercise programs instead of keeping me inside in a bubble," Lucy says. She started swimming competitively when she was 8.
"My doctor's theory was that the more I exercised my lungs, the stronger they would be—and he was 100 percent correct," Lucy says. "I still have asthma and still take a daily preventative inhaler, but it is much better than it would have been had I not had a lifetime of physical activity."
She began ballet at 10, which Lucy says "was very old to start such an intense program." But she took to dance quickly. As a teenager, she attended summer ballet programs at professional companies including Pennsylvania, Houston, Boston and Pittsburgh. She joined the Nashville Ballet after high school graduation.
When she decided to go back to school she again took up competitive swimming. She was Randolph-Macon's swim-team captain her senior year and set a school record in breaststroke.
"I also started running in college and loved it," Lucy says.
Fast forward through five marathons, numerous half-marathons and 10-milers to August 2012 and her first class at Bikram Yoga Richmond.
"After my knee swelled to the size of a small cantaloupe for the fourth time, my doctor finally told me I needed to try something other than running," Lucy says.
A friend from her former ballet days recommended Bikram yoga, knowing Lucy would like it because of the intensity of the classes.
"So I found my way into my first yoga class with the great Noel Swenson as my first teacher," Lucy says. "It was hard. It was hot. It was intense. But I left the studio that day knowing that I would be back."
Eventually, Lucy says, she realized she was drawn more to yoga classes than to running. "My body was simply happier in the hot room than it had ever been out on the pavement. My knees were a thousand times better, yes, and I was still running races—with zero injuries—but yoga was giving me something that running never could."
In February 2013, Lucy did her first advanced class with Garland and the gang.
"I was completely floored," Lucy says. "I thought I was fairly flexible until I looked around and saw the advanced group doing these seemingly impossible things with their bodies. I remember telling my husband after that first class, 'I don't know if I'm cut out for this.' But something must have clicked, because I went back the next week and haven't looked back."
In her first regional yoga competition—eight months after she took her first advanced class—Lucy placed fourth and qualified for nationals. In 2014 she competed in the nationals in San Antonio and just missed qualifying for the semi-final round.
Her success this year in New York did not come without effort.
"I am always in training for the next competition," Lucy says. "Now that my youngest is in grade school, I have much more time. During the year, I practice anywhere from seven to 11 classes a week. During the summer months, it's usually limited to seven or eight, but I am always so grateful for any time I can get in the studio. I do about an hour-and-a half of core work, stretching and strengthening postures before class and another 30 minutes of advanced postures after class."
She describes competing as her "yoga journey."
"The format is unlike anything I had ever done," Lucy says. "Initially I was drawn to it because it reminded me of my ballet days—performing a routine on stage in front of an audience." But after two years of competing, she says, "it's more about conquering fears and fine-tuning mental toughness. It is not easy to put on a leotard, walk on to a cold, drafty stage, and ask your muscles, which are usually shaking from nerves, to calm down and perform three minutes of tough yoga postures."
Of course, when she's not doing yoga, her full-time job keeps her plenty busy.
"I spend as much time as I can with my family, and we usually try and have one family day a weekend," Lucy says. "I am adamant that my children spend a lot of time outside and in the beauty of nature, so we do a lot of hiking and exploring."


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Regardless, Conan O'Brien recently sat down with Seth Rogen and Zac Efron for a few games of Mario Kart 8, and the results are hilarious.