Drinking Water Filtration

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New Membrane Technology Handles High Solids, Aids Water Reuse

As global conditions place more stress on water resources, a great deal of attention is being paid to water reuse technologies, particularly those that facilitate the reuse of the next level of difficult-to-treat or highly variable raw water sources.

Integration Of Membrana Ultrafiltration And Gas Transfer Membrane Technologies Produces High Quality Water And Controls Corrosion In Cooling Water System
Remote Diagnostics Will Reduce Service Costs And Increase Uptime Of Filtration Systems

Automation Solutions For Fixed-Bed Filters
Handwheel or automated process valve? The worldwide trend is clearly moving towards automation, because it reduces energy and water consumption, especially rinsing water, and increases plant availability. Pneumatic automation of a fixed-bed filter is a good example of this.
AltaPac™ AP-II Ultrafiltration Membrane Case Study
Cibola is a small community located in Southern Arizona along the Colorado River. With a growing population, the community decided to install a centralized water system to replace individual wells.
Antiscalant Impacts Water Reclamation Efforts
Water reuse efforts in the West Coast are a priority and have the Ground Water Replenishing System (GWRS) of the Orange County Water District (OCWD) utilizing new technologies for water conservation.
Water Utility Turns To State-Of-The-Art UV Technology To Help Address Drought
The 2013 year was the driest in recorded history with many areas of the San Joaquin Valley reporting groundwater levels more than 100 feet below previous historical lows.
Water Supply Needs At Odds With Regional Demands To Lower Power Use
The shoreline of the Red Sea is a dazzling destination for tourists and locals to experience the beach and enjoy marine activities. In Egypt, the shoreline sprawls from the Suez Canal in the north, down to the southern part of the country bordering Sudan.
Overcoming Difficult Conditions, Salty Groundwater And Changes In Feedwater Quality
Kibbutz Reim had to convert salty groundwater into a high quality irrigation resource in this desert-like region. High recovery was essential to this customer, both because of the limited amount of groundwater available and the challenge of brine disposal from their inland location.
High Recovery Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment For Industrial, Agricultural, And Municipal Applications
Industry accounts for nearly 60 percent of fresh water withdrawals in the developed world and agriculture consumes 70 percent of fresh water supplies globally, according to UNESCO.
Pulp And Paper Manufacturer Significantly Increases Production While Complying With Discharge Limitations
A U.S.-based pulp and paper manufacturer required high purity process and boiler feed water. It was using water from a local well and treating it with a 150 gpm conventional RO system operating at 75% recovery, but this was creating 50 gpm of wastewater – over 26 million gallons per year.
Closed Circuit Desalination Technology Provides Steel Manufacturer ROI In Less Than 60 Days
This leading rod and wire mill requires water for cooling steel and tools in its manufacturing process. Water used for cooling becomes contaminated with metals and lubricants and was therefore being disposed of as waste.

Eliminate CIP And Cut Wastewater Disposal In Half With CCD

A high water recovery rate is essential for this well-known soy protein manufacturer.

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Aqua UltraFiltration™ Membrane System

The Aqua UltraFiltration Membrane System offers a compact, T-rack design with multibore strength, high permeability, resistance to fouling, and minimal power/chemical requirements to provide lower O&M costs.

AquaDiamond<sup>®</sup> Cloth Media Filtration System

AquaDiamond^® Cloth Media Filtration System

The AquaDiamond® filter, a new horizontal configuration for the Cloth Media Filter, has been produced. It utilizes PA-13 pile cloth as its filter media.

TETRA® DeepBed™ Gravity Filtration System

The unique advantage of the TETRA DeepBed system is the retention of solids throughout the media bed, rather than the surface screening which occurs in most other deep bed filter systems

Gravity Sand Filter

Municipal Wastewater Treatment is experiencing tremendous change with effluent discharge permits requiring higher levels of advanced treatment, including tertiary filtration.

Filtration: FA Series Air and Gas Filters

Shelco's FA Filtration Series are ideal for all types of gases and compressed air filtration.

Forty-X™ Disc Filter

The Forty-X™ disc filter from Evoqua Water Technologies is the ultimate barrier in tertiary filtration. It captures more solids in a smaller footprint with a pleated media design and has evolved to incorporate X-tra's that are important in woven cloth media filtration

Filtration: ABF Strainer Series

The automatic self-cleaning strainer that is suitable for high loads of suspended solids and heavy duty conditions

AltaPac™

The AltaPac™ Ultrafiltration Package System is designed as an economical ultrafiltration membrane treatment system that is both easy to use and simple to install. This versatile system can process flows up to 100 gpm on surface waters and 180 gpm on ground waters.

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Clearing The Air With Activated Carbon

Think you know activated carbon? The range of capabilities is so robust that operators of all types — drinking water, wastewater, municipal, or industrial — should come to fully understand its usage.

A Sustainable Solution For Treating Contaminants

There are a number of regulations in drinking water centered around emerging contaminants. Hexavalent chromium is one that you’ll see on the national marketplace.

Chemical-Free AOP Technology

Most advanced oxidation processes require chemicals—but not Photo-Cat.

The Many Faces Of Carbon — A Versatile Treatment Solution

What concerns drinking water municipalities the most? Is it regulations, emerging contaminants, or a crisp, clear product? To a degree, it’s all of the above. Jim Knepper of Jacobi Carbons explains.

The Growing Market For Membranes

Despite what many think, membrane systems are not complicated to operate, says Todd Hathaway of Kruger Inc. In an interview with Water Online, Hathaway explains why taking the time to understand the technology is worthwhile.

What’s In An Underdrain? More Than You Might Think

Media filtration is employed for a variety of treatment applications — drinking water, wastewater recycle/reuse, and pretreatment for desalination among them — but practitioners may be missing out on a key opportunity for savings.

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Ozone Process Control Cuts Finished Water Cost by Nearly 40 Percent

Director Doug Neibauer of the North Burleigh Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Bismarck, North Dakota talks about precisely matching ozone production to real-time demand.

Improve Efficiency & Lower Operating Costs in Process Water Treatment

Learn how Liqui-Cel can supplement or replace existing(Steam) Deaeration systems in power plants by removing dissolved oxygen without steam and chemicals to increase capacity and lower operating costs. This presentation describes Liqui-Cel® Membrane Contactor technology, a cost-effective way to minimize corrosion and improve the efficiency of process water degasification systems.

Desalitech ReFlex Reverse Osmosis Technology Demonstration

ReFlex products feature patented Closed Circuit Desalination (CCD) technology and are uniquely capable of maximizing recovery from challenging waters at record low energy consumption levels. This demo video reflects the actual performance of the ReFlex RO unit as reflected in the PLC HMI. The time is fast forwarded and reflects a total sequence time of 32.5 minutes. The system includes all basic ReFlex equipment: pumps, instruments, micron filter, and valves.

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AdEdge Water Technologies, LLC.
AdEdge Technologies, Inc specializes in the development and supply of innovative technologies, adsorbent-based products, and systems that remove contaminants from process or aqueous steams. We are an organization based on solid deliverable, scalable, scientifically proven technology and experience for the removal of arsenic and other contaminants from water
WRT - Water Remediation Technology, LLC
WRT provides effective processes for removing radium, uranium and other contaminants from water. Our complete package of services includes process equipment, proprietary treatment media, safe exchange of media, and proper handling and disposal of used media
Severn Trent Services
Severn Trent Services is a leading supplier of water and wastewater treatment solutions. We provide our clients with some of the industry’s brightest minds, advanced technologies, and quality products to provide you with truly efficient, cost-effective solutions to your water and wastewater challenges
Shelco Filters
Manufacture of filter housings and elements|Pleated membrane and high efficiency cartridges|Bag housings and bags
Aquatech International Corporation For over 2 decades, Aquatech has provided industry worldwide with proven water and wastewater treatment systems|We strive to enable our customers to maximize efficiency by concentrating on their core businesses while we provide the leadership and expertise necessary in water treatment|Our mission is to utilize innovation and performance excellence to drive toward the ultimate goal--a lower overall life cycle cost of treatment
Filtronics, Inc.
Filtronics has manufactured water and waste water treatment systems for industrial and municipal applications since 1974
Amiad Water Systems Leading supplier of automatic, self-cleaning filters, valves and accessories for municipal and industrial applications|Cost effective pre-filtration solution for membrane protection including surface water applications for RO, UV, UF and effluent water|Provide filtration degrees from 3 - 3500 microns and service any flow rate needed
QUA Group
QUA® headquartered in USA, is a developer and manufacturer of leading-edge advanced membrane products used in the water, wastewater, and water reuse markets. Sold exclusively through a global network of qualified OEM's, QUA's product offering includes their innovative Fractional Electrodeionization (FEDI®) stack, which has superior hardness tolerance compared to the other electro-deionization products on the market and their NSF Certified Q-SEP® Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes.
Veolia Water Technologies
Veolia Water Technologies offers comprehensive water and wastewater solutions for industrial and municipal customers. With unique technologies and process expertise, Veolia specializes in engineering, design, and project management, construction and execution.
Ovivo
Ovivo brings together more than 200 years of collected experience, process expertise and proven technologies; but that doesn’t mean that we’re complacent. Over past centuries of growth, development and refinement we have been guided by the principle of delivering value to our clients. Our equipment and technologies already have a reputation for long-term durability and reliability, offering decades of use and leading to lasting relationships with key customers.
Membrana
Liqui-Cel® Membrane Contactors are used for degassing liquids. They are most commonly used for O2 removal from water and CO2 removal from water, but they are also capable of controlling a variety of other dissolved gasses as well, such as Nitrogen.
Evoqua Water Technologies
Evoqua Water Technologies, formerly Siemens Water Technologies, is a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems and services for industrial and municipal customers. We offer a wide range of proven product brands and advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies, mobile and emergency water supply solutions and service contract options.
Degremont Technologies
Water Treatment Equipment |Wastewater Treatment Equipment |Sludge Management Equipment
Leopold -- A Xylem Brand
Leopold Universal Type S and SL Underdrain|Leopold IMS Cap|Leopold DAF - Dissolved Air Flotation|Leopold Clari-Trac (CT2) Submerged Sludge Collector|Leopold Clari-Vac Floating Sludge Collector|Leopold Engineered Filter Media Products|Leopold Instruments And Controls| Leopold Ultrafiltration Membrane Systems
Eco-Tec Inc.
Eco-Tec Inc. engineers, designs, manufacturers and distributes from Pickering, near Toronto, Canada. Customer service and technical support provide treatability studies, installation service, on-site supervision and operator training...
Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.
Since 1969, Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. has been a leader in the design and manufacture of wastewater treatment equipment and systems for both municipal and industrial markets, worldwide.

Water treatment filtration involves the removal of suspended particles from water by passing the water through a filtration medium. As the water passes through the filter, floc, minerals, microorganisms and other impurities get stuck in the filter and are removed from the filtered water. Passage can be blocked by physical obstruction, biological action, adsorption, absorption or a combination of ways. Filtration is usually the final step in the solids removal process during water treatment which typically begins with coagulation and advances through flocculation and sedimentation.

Unfiltered or turbid water is difficult to disinfect because microorganisms growing on suspended particles are often harder to kill than when they are separated from the particles. Turbidity can also cause unwanted taste and odor issues in the potable water supply. Drinking water filtration is also used to remove microorganisms that are resistant to traditional methods of disinfection such as chlorination. By requiring a low turbidity in finished water, water treatment plants are ensuring that few or no microorganisms such as Giardia are present in finished drinking water.

There are three typical methods of clean water filtration used during the water treatment process. Conventional filtration follows coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation and precedes disinfection. Direct Filtration follows coagulation and flocculation when there is no sedimentation step. The final method called In-Line Filtration takes place without flocculation or sedimentation. A coagulant chemical is added to the water just before filtration and coagulation occurs in the filter.

There are many types of filter media being used in today’s water treatment industry.