Water and Wastewater Solutions For The Food and Beverage Industry

1. Dechlorination For The Food & Beverage Industry 8/16/2024

   For food & beverage manufacturers, product safety is paramount. Minimizing water consumption and improving product ratio & energy savings, which reduce carbon footprint, are also key goals of sustainable F&B operation.

2. Milk Waste - BOD, FOG, PO4 1/26/2016

   A milk producer operates an evaporated milk production facility that generates an average of 58,000 gpd of contaminated water with spikes of 1,200 gallons up to 12 times per day. Two 2,000 gallon batch tanks are used for pH adjustment before discharge. Most of the flow goes through the tanks.

3. DO Or Die — Dealing With Aeration Basin Oxygen Deficiencies 8/20/2019

   Managing the treatment of wastewater — especially industry-generated wastewater that can elevate dissolved oxygen (DO) demands far beyond those of municipal/residential applications — is hard enough. Trying to do so during upset conditions is enough to put any water treatment professional on edge. Here are several preventive and remedial options to keep in mind before or after DO readings go haywire.

4. Are You On The Hook For U.S. EPA Effluent Limitations Guidelines? 5/28/2020

   While wastewater effluent standards mandated by the U.S. EPA and individual states eventually come down to a number, it pays to understand how those standards are established and the challenges of meeting them in real-world applications. Here is a look at the multiple pieces of that puzzle, including their wastewater treatment implications for industrial-scale meat and poultry processing operations.

5. Challenges And Solutions To Treating Beverage Wastewater 4/19/2022

   Discover how one beverage manufacturer was able to balance producing a quality product while also undertaking the challenging of reclaiming and treating its effluent.

6. When Beer Becomes Hazardous Waste 5/12/2023

   Faced with restaurants and bars suddenly closed for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, a beverage distributor was forced to take back 40,000 gallons of expired beer. 

7. How Food And Beverage Companies Can Get Ahead Of The Water Scarcity Curve 1/23/2020

   High-quality water is critical to food and beverage production — both as an ingredient and a process enabler — so the sourcing challenges faced by municipal water systems pose an ongoing threat to the health of the industry. Fortunately, there are a variety of technology options now available to improve water security.

8. Salmon Hatchery Upgrades Its UV Disinfection System 5/22/2020

   While the facility was receiving awards and accolades for their aquaculture production, they were having challenges keeping their former UV system operating consistently and reliably. Spare parts were expensive and they often experienced periods of down-time, negatively affecting operations.

9. AnoxKaldnes MBBR Reduced Wastewater OPEX At Meat Processing Facility 4/22/2016

   Valley Pride Pack wanted to reduce the operational costs associated with their wastewater treatment system.

10. Translating Aeration Efficiency Into Dollars 5/14/2019

    The hardest aspects of comparing efficiencies among submerged aeration technologies are the many variables in capital expense (CAPEX), operating expense (OPEX), and complexity of wastewater makeup. Here are five major categories for evaluating industrial wastewater aeration efficiency.