Featured Case Studies and Articles

31. Monster Clears Clogs And Streamlines Septage Delivery At Ventura Regional Sanitation District 1/21/2015

    The Ventura Regional Sanitation District’s Liquid Waste Treatment Facility (LWTF) was experiencing a double-threat to safety and productivity.

32. Matt Brewing — Spent Hops Screening And Dewatering 8/11/2014

    An internally fed rotary screen with wedgewire drum featuring 0.020” screen slot openings is applied to screen 900 GPM of brewery wastewater and remove spent hops while letting yeast pass through to reach the anaerobic digester.

33. Be A Detective: 5 Must-Ask Questions For Industrial Screening Selection 6/30/2014

    Sherlock Holmes and Bert Irwin have something in common: they both spend their days looking for clues.

34. WWEMA Window: ‘Nondispersibles’ Turning Sewers Into Nightmares Nationwide 6/13/2014

    Increasingly, wipes are causing serious issues for wastewater treatment system operators. Many of the wipes entering the sewage system are not dispersible and technically not flushable.

35. Tips On Integrating Packaged Equipment Into Plant SCADA Systems 5/14/2014

    Integrating controls from an equipment supplier successfully within a Plant SCADA or DCS system requires communication on multiple levels. These levels include process of design, mechanical fit up and installation, as well as the coordination to get the equipment to work in concert with the plant’s other control systems. Simply looking after mechanical/electrical details are not enough. To be successful, the plant’s System Integrator and the equipment supplier’s PLC programmer must work with each other throughout the entire project’s development. By Todd Nydam, JWC Environmental LLC & Graham Nasby, Eramosa Engineering Inc.

36. How Chemistry And Mechanics Deliver Cost-Effective Waste Treatment 9/24/2013

    Polymer chemistry is one of the leading considerations when designing a sludge thickening system. The right polymer chemistry contributes to more effective thickening at a lower cost. However, the right chemistry must also be complemented by mechanical processes that enable the chemistry to work effectively.

37. Channel Monster Cuts Maintenance Costs And Protects Pumps In Santa Ana 3/20/2013

    In recent years maintenance operators at the Segerstrom Lift Station located in the City of Santa Ana, CA have noticed an escalation in pump ragging and blockages. By Perla Lozano

38. Screenings Washers Make Fine Screening Possible At Ontario WWTP 11/22/2010

    When you screen wastewater with 1/4” (6mm) perforated plate panels you are going to capture a lot of stuff. The result? Tons of trash and debris — big stuff, small stuff and smelly stuff — pulled from the wastewater channel along with tons of fecal matter.

39. Muffin Monsters Help BP Oil Spill Vessels Keep Working 9/28/2010

    In the first weeks of the BP oil spill, T&T Marine Salvage arrived on scene quickly to skim and recover oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon sinking.

40. JWC’s Honey Monster Helps Big Fish Environmental Find Clean Water 8/2/2010

    For several years, local Michigan municipalities were overloaded with septage disposal issues and it was difficult for private pumpers to offload as land-application of septage became illegal. So John Campbell, founder of Big Fish Environmental and a 29-year veteran of septic tank pumping, started developing a unique and efficient septage receiving and treatment plant design. By JWC Environmental