Nutrient Removal News

  1. £550M Wastewater Removal Contracts Awarded 2/6/2025

    The total value of the combined contracts will be approximately £138M per year, with contracts due to start in 2025 for a four-year period, with an option to extend for an additional four years, taking the potential spend with these suppliers to approximately £1.09B.

  2. Gross-Wen Technologies Supports Progress With New Executive Hire 2/4/2025

    Gross-Wen Technologies (GWT), the wastewater treatment company that produces renewable resources and reduces greenhouse gasses while cleaning wastewater, announced the hiring of Steve Wirtel as Vice President of Business Development.

  3. Phosphorus Reduction Levels Exceeded In Wastewater Trial 2/3/2025

    The success of a trial of a filtration technology first developed for the aquatics market, at a UK wastewater treatment plant (WwTP), shows that the modified system can help sites meet challenging phosphorus consents.

  4. More Than £14M Spent To Help Improve Water Quality Near Chichester 1/20/2025

    Our Lavant works has £7.6m worth of work, which includes a new storm tank being installed and a new primary tank, a new system to receive wastewater and screen it and work to double the amount of wastewater that can be treated.

  5. Department Of Energy Announces Up To $10M For Algal Systems Research And Development To Expand U.S. Bioenergy Feedstock 1/16/2025

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced up to $10M in funding to support high-impact research and development (R&D) focused on algae system cultivation and preprocessing.

  6. Procure Early To Secure Delivery, Says Supplier  1/14/2025

    The massive scale-up of work across the UK’s water and wastewater companies in AMP8 is no secret, but the way projects are delivered will have to change, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services.

  7. EasyMining Expands Phosphorus Recovery Capacity With A Second Ash2Phos Plant In Europe 1/13/2025

    EasyMining, part of the Ragn-Sells Group, is set to build a second Ash2Phos plant in Helsingborg, Sweden.

  8. HKU Engineering Researchers Develop Revolutionary Silk-Based Ultra-Fast Filtration Membrane For Water Purification 1/7/2025

    A research team led by Professor Chuyang Tang, Chair Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed a novel nanofiltration membrane using natural silk, which could revolutionise the process of water purification or treatment.

  9. Perca Employs Earthworms For Eco-Friendly Wastewater Treatment Solution 12/18/2024

    Perca, Inc., an environmental technology firm, has developed an innovative system for water regeneration that uses earthworms and microbial communities to clean wastewater naturally.

  10. Phosphorus Project Finds Alternatives To Chemical Treatment 12/10/2024

    A major collaborative study into alternative approaches to phosphorus removal at rural wastewater treatment works has delivered promising results, with one new method already in use by a UK water company.