PROXY                                                                 PROXY

                               PURUS, INC.
             600 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA  94108
                                    
  This Proxy is Solicited on behalf of the Board of Directors for the 
            Annual Meeting of Stockholders on March 21, 1997.

The undersigned revokes all previous proxies, acknowledges receipt of the
Notice of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and the Proxy Statement dated
February 24, 1997, and appoints Russell K. Burbank and Stephen D. Mayer,
and each of them, as the Proxies of the undersigned, with full power of
substitution, to vote, as specified herein, all shares of Common Stock of
Purus, Inc. (the "Company"), held of record by the undersigned on January
28, 1997, either on his or her own behalf or on behalf of any entity or
entities, at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company to be held
on March 21, 1997, and at any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof,
with the same force and effect as the undersigned might or could do if
personally present thereat.  The shares represented by this Proxy shall be
voted in the manner set forth on the reverse side of this Proxy Card.

               (Continued and to be signed on reverse side.)


     Please mark your vote as in this sample

The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" the following proposal:

1.   To elect the following directors to serve until the 1998 annual
meeting of stockholders or until their respective successors are elected
and qualified:

     Nominees:   Reinhard Siegrist             FOR          WITHHOLD
                 Hans C. Ochsner          All Nominees    All Nominees
                 Donald D. Winstead                 

     Instruction:  To withhold authority to vote for any individual
nominee(s), write that nominee's name in the space provided below.

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2.   In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such
other matters as may properly come before the meeting and at any
adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof.

THIS PROXY, WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED, WILL BE VOTED IN THE MANNER DIRECTED
HEREIN BY THE UNDERSIGNED STOCKHOLDER. THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR THE
ELECTION AS DIRECTOR OF ALL THE NOMINEES LISTED ABOVE IF NO SPECIFICATION
IS MADE.

Please mark, sign, date, and return this proxy card promptly using the
enclosed envelope.


Signature ___________________________ Date _________1997 Date _________1997

_____________________________________ Signature, if held jointly

NOTE:     Please sign exactly as name(s) is (are) shown on the stock
certificate to which the Proxy applies.  When shares are held by joint
tenant(s), both should sign.  When signing as an attorney, executor,
administrator, trustee, or guardian, please give full title, as such.  If a
corporation, please sign in full corporate name by the President or other
authorized officer.  If a partnership, please sign in the partnership's
name by an authorized person.