Wastewater Disinfection Podcasts
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Polymer Activation And Onsite Hypochlorite Generation
11/3/2016
Polymer activation through proper hydration of the polymer particle is critical in water clarification or sludge dewatering applications. According to Jeff Rhodes, Vice President of Commercial Development for UGSI Solutions, “the key is to have a high energy zone at the moment of initial welding, when the polymer and the water come together.”
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PAA And UV Pair Up To Improve Disinfection Performance
10/26/2016
Peracetic acid (PAA)-based disinfection is growing in the US, both as a standalone disinfection method and in conjunction with other applications such as UV. Water Online Radio sat down with John Maziuk, Technical Development Manager with Solvay Chemicals to understand why.
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The Benefits Of Closed-Channel UV Over Open-Channel Disinfection
10/19/2016
The era of dumping waste into rivers is almost over. So says Jon McClean, Chief Technical Officer with ETS-UV, an Evoqua brand. McClean who has been working in UV water treatment for over 30 years recently sat down with Water Online Radio to discuss the growth of water reuse and specifically UV’s role in water reclamation.
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Making Aftermarket Service And Support Work For Water And Wastewater Treatment Plants
11/11/2015
As municipalities look to make their water and wastewater treatment equipment run longer with fewer operational staff on payroll to maintain the equipment, having a reliable aftermarket parts and service provider becomes essential.
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UVT-LED Sheds Light On UV Disinfection
10/28/2015
Learn why measuring UV transmittance is so important to efficient disinfection, and how LED helps get you there.
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An Alternative To Chlorine Disinfection
10/22/2015
Chlorine has been used to disinfect water and wastewater for more than a hundred years, and while chorine has been critical to ensure public safety, it does have some drawbacks. There is a risk of highly toxic emissions, and it also reacts with organic matter in water and wastewater and forms harmful disinfection byproducts.
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Bio-Augmentation: Adding Bacteria To Wastewater Treatment Plants
11/13/2014
Novozymes is the world’s largest industrial biotech company. The largest segment of the company deals with enzyme products, and they innovate products and develop applications in a variety of industries including first and second generation biofuels, bio-agriculture, detergents, and wastewater applications.
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UV Disinfection With LEDs
11/10/2014
UV LEDs offer the chemical free disinfection of traditional UV while avoiding mercury lamps. In certain applications where customers are concerned about the potential hazards of mercury contamination in the water from a broken lamp, UV LEDs are interesting because they don’t contain any mercury content at all.
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The Evolution Of Low-Energy UV Disinfection
8/13/2014
Conventional ultraviolet (UV) disinfection is a great, but often expensive, solution for the destruction of pathogens in drinking water. All those lamps and power emissions add up. But what if you could perform the same job with 1/10 of the power used by conventional systems?
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Peristaltic Vs. Diaphragm Pumps
7/29/2014
Bill McDowell of Blue-White Industries, a supplier of chemical metering pumps and flow meters, recently sat down with Water Online Radio and explained the difference between peristaltic pumps and diaphragm pumps.