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• 6 HUBER Coarse Screen TrashMax® For Flood Protection In Houston, Texas

  In response to Hurricane Harvey, the Fort Bend, TX Levee District No. 2 embarked on a major upgrade project to increase the flow and capacity of one of its pump stations by 400%. The goal of the project was to protect the area around the district from 100- year floods in the future.

• We'll Take It All: Sewerage, Septage, FOG, And Street Sweepings

  Because the WWTP is a heavy energy consumer, the increasing cost of electrical energy helped refocus operations on improving efficiencies and what latent energy could be extracted from the waste stream. In particular, what could be extracted and put to use in the facility itself?

• The Top Seven Ways The STRAINPRESS® Helps With Digester Debris Issues

  Read about the seven ways that the HUBER Sludge Cleaner STRAINPRESS® saves money and time while establishing a safer work environment.
• Retrofitting Existing Headworks - Getting It Right

  When a new wastewater facility is being designed and built, the engineers, contractors, and plant operators look for the most effective and cutting-edge solution available at the time of the install. But while many circumstances can be foreseen and planned for, changing regulations and treatment environments can usurp plant designs, quickly make them obsolete.

• Expect The Unexpected: Handling The Unknowns Of Septage Receiving

  Wastewater treatment plants provide a viable option to accept and process the collected septage. However, the sheer concentration of the transported sludge can potentially cause plant upsets in smaller WWTP facilities.

• Achieving Success: Leveraging The Manufacturer's Experience

  What is the typical design life of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in North America? This is an important question to consider. Perhaps the better question to consider is: What is important to the operators and beneficiaries of a WWTP facility?

• HUBER Drum Screen LIQUID

  The characteristic feature of the HUBER Drum Screen LIQUID is its screen basket which is horizontally installed in the channel or in a tank.

• Fine Screening System: The More Intelligent Primary Clarifier

  In the discussion about limited resources and energy saving in sewage treatment plants innovative sewage treatment methods are increasingly becoming a focal point. In Germany, there are about 1,200 sewage treatment plants which are designed for 10,000 to 50,000 PE, about one third of them have a sludge digester. Thus, there is a potential of about 800 sewage treatment plants that remains for a change from aerobic sludge stabilisation to processes with anaerobic sludge stabilization.

• Grit Washer Helps Tarpon Springs Perfect Its Cleaning and Separation Process

  City staff were looking for an idea to remedy the logistical issues in the Tarpon Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant located in Pinellas County and known for being a small Greek community on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

• HUBER Technology, Inc Relocating Headquarters To Airlie Business Park

  A Lincoln County Industrial Incentive Grant request was presented Monday night, August 6th, to the board of commissioners by Lincoln Economic Development Association on behalf of HUBER Technology, Inc. Currently located in Mecklenburg County, HUBER has purchased property in Airlie Business Park in Denver to relocate their head-quarter functions initially and as a second phase, begin manufacturing operations in Lincoln County.

• STRAINPRESS® Helps Fort Worth Turn A Liability Into An Asset

  Scum is not a substance that anyone in a wastewater treatment plants wants to deal with. Scum, the greasy substance that floats to the surface of clarifiers, gets nastier as it accumulates. Some smaller wastewater treatment plants mix their scum back into other processing streams while other larger plants treat their scum separately. The City of Fort Worth takes a unique approach in managing its scum and now turns what was once a liability into an asset.

• Solving The Headworks Screening Challenge Of Fitting In Tight Spaces

  Oostburg’s Black River Falls facility is a lean operation with limitations in space for screening technology and in the staff resources available to manage, maintain and report on the Village’s processes. Even though space was limited, Oostburg knew that putting a headworks screening solution in place would improve their operational efficiency. Oostburg found the perfect solution using the Huber Technology RoK4 confined space vertical screen.

• Cardston's Community Relationship Improves With Dewatering Technology Choice

  Cardston WWTP’s choice of a dewatering system to replace its belt press, Huber Technology Q-Press^®, has a striking comparison to the plant’s previous technology in both the footprint and the attention it requires. The Cardston staff also noticed striking improvements in water separation, end-product dryness and offensive odor by-product.  Read more about how the Q-Press^® helped Cardston become a better neighbor.

• Clearing Channels And Tanks Of Rag And Fiber Produces Benefits Beyond The Tanks

  Reduction of ragging is merely one of the benefits the EscaMAX® Perforated Plate Screen bestows upon its implementer. But this is such a huge factor, that mitigating it brings night-and-day results in other areas such as reducing debris in the grit channel, increasing space for energy-producing biosolids in tanks, and releasing cleaner end products. 

• Remove Debris BEFORE It Hits Your Sludge Pump

  The video shows how the Huber Technology STRAINPRESS® is designed to effectively remove debris from sludge without breaking line pressure. Sludge is pumped into the Strainpress’ perforated tube and flows through the perforations into a casing while debris is retained within the tube.

• Fats, Oils & Grease Are No Longer A Struggle at Napa Sanitation District

  The Huber Technology Strainpress has helped Napa Sanitation District maximize its investment in the FOG receiving and injection system by improving operations, ensuring the protection of downstream components and enhancing the production of a valuable, revenue generating asset.

• Fort Worth Turns A Liability Into An Asset

  Fort Worth Village Creek has gone far beyond managing its scum. The plant has implemented an efficient way to continuously skim the scum out of the channel flow and effectively process it through anaerobic co-digestion so that its resulting methane gas is useable. In short, the liability was turned into an asset.

• Technology Change Radically Improves Dewatering Results

  Huber Technology Q-Press^® replaced a belt filter press at the Robinson WWTP. The retrofit enabled the plant operations staff to maximize technology to make tremendous improvements in their dewatering performance and sludge storage and distribution processes. The technology change resulted in radical improvements to operations and reductions in costs. Read more.

• Automated Solar Sludge Drying Frees Up Personnel

  Solar dryers are fully automated to feed, move, and discharge biosolids cost-effectively. Even climate changes throughout the year are easily monitored and controlled to produce optimal output. Installation is very flexible with options to add components at a later date. Full automation means employees seldom need to enter the greenhouse and are free to use their time elsewhere.

• A Sunny Outlook For Tooele City Water Reclamation Facility

  The City of Tooele, UT was looking to update their Bio-Solids program and move away from a limiting Class B product. They needed to produce a more flexible reusable material. The City found the Huber Technology SOLSTICE® to be the perfect solution and was pleased to discover the technology to be simple to maintain as well as provide a cost-effective operation. Find out how the dryer raised the quality of the bio-product to Class A.

• Center Feed Drum Screen Is Mission Critical To World Class MBR Plant

  North Las Vegas has installed some of the largest rotary fine screens operating in the United States. The center feed drum screens are critical to protecting the membrane bioreactor, enabling the plant to maintain extremely low turbidity coming off their plant that is better than most potable water. Read how they are putting the ROTAMAT RPPS to work.

• Innovative Thickener Replaces Gravity Thickener And Improves Performance

  The Chiquita WRF plant was looking to improve the performance of their existing gravity thickeners better than the 2.3% DS that they were previously achieving. In their search for a solution they discovered the S-Disc technology from Huber Technology.

• Disc Thickener Technology Becomes Essential Key Component In Process

  BCR Environmental utilizes the Huber Technology S-Disc thickener in their sludge neutralization process. Because the system is both simple and reliable they chose to standardize on the S-Disc. The design of the technology enables the operators easy access to monitor their process. Read how BCR is putting the S-Disc to work.

• Unpredictable Septage Conquered. Effective Offload Of Trucks Maintained.

  With a septage receiving station, you never know what you’re going to get. The Emerald Coast Utility Authority in Pensacola, Florida needed a solution that could handle rocks, debris, grease and other unusual objects the septage might contain. The Huber Technology RoFAS system totally met ECUA’s expectation for reliable operation; handling anything that was brought into the system.

• Plant Operations And Maintenance Staff Benefits From New Headworks

  The high cost of maintenance and unsatisfactory performance of the aging equipment in the Bonnybrook headworks made it clear that significant changes were in order. The older poorly performing headworks allowed screenings to pass to the downstream process units causing operational and maintenance problems. By installing the Huber RakeMax® and matching WAP washpress, Calgary’s process performance immediately improved.

• Simplicity Of Dewatering Technology Liberates Contentnea MSD Staff

  The benefit from the simple automation capability of the Huber Technology Q-Press^® began for Contentnea MSD WWTP shortly after installation. Staff was able to focus elsewhere as little attention was required for the system’s operation. The end-product dryness levels vastly improved which radically reduced their haul off costs. Read more.

• Learn About How Sludge Is Reduced By Thermal Drying

  Take a virtual tour of a functioning sludge drying facility. In a comprehensive overview of the Huber BT Belt Sludge Dryer technology you will see how thin sludge is transformed into a dry biosolids product. Observe how the different processes of dewatering, holding, conveyance, drying, and storage work together to provide a complete solution click here.

• Unique System Can Handle Streep Sweepings And Vac-Trucks With Ease

  This video shows the receiving, treatment, and classification of WWTP grit, sewer grit and road sweepings creating cleaned and classified inorganics while simultaneously returning organics to process. The Huber Technology RoSF5 Grit Treatment Plant provides an automated solution that addresses the major challenge of different composition of the raw material entering a WWTP which can have a massive impact on downstream grit treatment systems.

• Screen Provides Critical Protection At 25 MGD MBR In North Las Vegas

  North Las Vegas’s field facility is an MBR plant that was brand new when Huber’s rotary fine screens were implemented as part of its new water treatment and reclamation process. The facility is “smart,” using a level of technology at which few large plants operate. Huber’s advanced fine screening technology plays a key role in the impressive and innovative technology lineup.

• Tooele, UT, Harnesses The Sun To Reduce Sludge Volume And Saves Big

  City of Tooele needed to reduce sludge volume that would produce reusable material, be simple to maintain, and provide cost effective operation. The Huber Technology SRT Solar Dryer was determined to be a technology fit to achieve Tooele’s goals. The linear feed design of the SRT Solar Dryer provided the ability to feed dewatered sludge to the dryer as it was produced. Read the full case study to learn more about their installation.

• Headworks Improvements Resulted In Significant Reduction Of Maintenance

  Previously the crew at Payson WWTP wrestled with clogs that required constant attention and increased system downtimes. With the installation of the new headworks, the comparison was stark because suddenly the flow from the headworks was debris-free.

• Plant Experiences “Phenomenal Improvement” With Fine Screen Retrofit

  Spanish Fork WWTP utilizes the STEPSCREEN® in two identical headworks systems. The technology upgrade has made a vast difference in plant processing. Prior to the implementation of new technology, only one channel was processed.

• Alvaro Molina Chi Joins Huber Technology As Private Sales Director-Industrial For North America

  Huber Technology recently announced Mr. Alvaro Molina Chi joined North American Operations as Private Sales Director-Industrial. Alvaro will be responsible for overseeing all private sector industrial sales.

• How To Be Sure You're Buying The Right Wastewater Equipment

  Sooner or later, each wastewater plant has to approach a manufacturer and discuss a purchase. Anyone who has ever tried to buy a piece of expensive, sophisticated wastewater equipment will know there are pitfalls. Some manufacturers offer the best solutions, others don’t. Some manufacturers will go above and beyond to meet a customer’s needs, others won’t. But how do you figure out who has your best interests in mind and who is just out to make a sale.

• See Inside How The Q-Press® Works As It Detwaters

  In this 3D animated sequence, the inner workings of the Huber Technology Q-Press® are depicted. The video shows how the sludge enters into the Q-Press® and a slow turning auger moves the sludge through the dewatering process. The animation also shows how the automatic control of screwpress functions.

• How To Put A STRAINPRESS Sludge Screen In Your Facility

  This month we have introduced a series discussing how to remove debris in your sludge. The key technology used to accomplish this is the STRAINPRESS.

• Considering Inline Sludge Screens — Municipal And Industrial Applications

  How do I remove screenings from my sludge? Even when screens are installed at the head of a treatment facility, debris always ends up in the sludge. Plastic parts and fibrous materials can cripple operation of important downstream technologies.

• See How The STRAINPRESS® Removes Screenings From Sludge

  In this 3D animated sequence the inner workings of the STRAINPRESS® are depicted. The video shows how the sludge is pumped into the Strainpress’ perforated tube and flows through the perforations into a casing while debris is retained within the tube. An internal screw pushes the retained screenings along the tube’s axis into a conical dewatering and compressing section that is provided with a smaller perforation compared to the screening section.

• Septage Station Handles Severe And Unusual Septage

  Huber Technology RoFAS Septage Station is designed to handle environments that would cause standard Septage Stations to fail. Easily processes large debris  protecting headworks from unpredictable septage. Center feed allows for rapid offloading. Option for automatic hauler station. Revenue opportunities quickly realizes return-on-investment.

• Huber Technology, Inc. To Provide New Sludge Treatment Equipment To The City Of Riverside, California

  Huber Technology, Inc. was recently selected by The City of Riverside, California to provide sludge dewatering and MBR protection equipment for a series of upgrades to their facility.

• SRT Solar Dryer Uses The Sun To Reliably Produce Biosolids

  A water reclamation facility needed to improve their biosolids handling process in their planned expansion. The solution needed to reduce sludge volume, produce reusable material, be simple to maintain, and provide cost effective operation.

• Rotamat RPPS Centerfeed Drum Screen

  The Rotamat® family of products has been the backbone of Huber Technology’s explosive growth in wastewater equipment worldwide from the very beginning.

• RakeMax Multi-Rake Bar Screen

  Watch the video for an overview of the RakeMax Multi-Rake Bar Screen.

• Innovative Sewage Sludge Drying

  Watch the video for an overview of the HUBER Solar Active Dryer SRT.

• ROTAMAT® Screw Press RoS 3Q

  Watch the video for an animation of the ROTAMAT® Screw Press in action.

• Disk Thickener Technology Replaces Gravity Thickener, Improves Performance Of Digester

  After two years operation the plant reports that RoS2S Disk Thickener is consistently producing a 5.5% DS average with an ~0.6% DS average feed at a steady flow of 107 gpm (60 gpm activated, 7 gpm trickling, 40 gpm service water) running 24 hours a day.

• Center Feed Drum Screen Is Mission Critical To MBR Plant

  Huber’s center-feed drum screen was recommended as the best technology to prevent wash around that can ruin the membrane bioreactor at a WWTP in Las Vegas.

• Belt Dryer Is A Game-Changer For The Sludge Handling Process

  A wastewater plant uses an activated sludge secondary process that utilizes a biological process that introduces microbes as soon as the flow enters the plant.

• Sludge Thickening With ROTAMAT® Disc Thickener RoS 2S

  Huber Technology provides an innovative solution for sludge thickening with its Ro 2S Disk Thickener. Watch the video overview to learn more.

• Sewage Sludge Drying With Belt Dryer BT

  Drying of sludge, particularly sewage sludge, has long since been a well established process method applied on modern WWTPs.