Water Membranes White Papers and Case Studies
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MBR Modules Help Achieve Sustainable Management Of Wastewater On Vancouver Island
4/29/2022
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) in Vancouver Island, Canada teamed with Toray to successfully install several membrane bio-reactor (MBR) systems updated with new technology to expand capacity.
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Addressing Environmental And Societal Issues Using Nanotechnology
2/22/2022
Among the plethora of social problems that impact people all over the globe, some are very easy to solve while others may take millennia to resolve completely. Social concerns are developing and evolving constantly, and novel challenges are frequently thrust to the fore.
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Nationwide Water Shortages Demand New Innovative Solutions In Clean Water
10/26/2021
In the spring of 2019, U.S. government-funded research on watersheds revealed a dire outlook for the future of water availability in the United States. Between population growth and climate change, the study reports that “serious water shortages'' are likely to occur within the next 55 years.
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Domestic Wastewater Treatment In Telluride, CO
10/25/2021
Last Dollar is a year-round residential community located just outside of Telluride, Colorado. The facility had been reliant on an aging treatment system that was failing quickly and needed immediate replacement to prevent operational fines. The current technology would not meet the new and more stringent effluent requirements in Colorado, so the project had to be completed quickly and within a tight budget. AquaWorks DBO provided the permitting and site engineering support to ensure the project was completed in 8 months from contract award to system operation.
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Winery Receives Green Certification With TITAN MBR
7/22/2021
This prominent Napa County vineyard and winery received a prestigious green certification after committing to sustainable and environmentally-friendly technologies, including the installation of a dynamic MBR wastewater treatment system.
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Decentralized Wastewater Treatment In A Housing Development
5/11/2021
Young’s Cove is a masterfully planned exceptional waterfront community situated in pristine Prince Edward County, on the shores of Lake Ontario. It has panoramic views, a children’s waterpark, miles of pathways, green spaces. It covers 7,000 feet of shoreline and fronts protected wetlands and preserves hundreds of acres of forest with birds and wildlife everywhere.
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Technologies That Can Achieve Water And Sanitation For All
3/26/2021
A staggering four billion people — two-thirds of the world’s population — experience water scarcity each year, and more than half lack access to safe sanitation services. The severity of this global water crisis will only increase as populations continue to rapidly grow, industries exhaust shared resources and extreme weather events exacerbate shortages. If we don’t act urgently, 700 million people could be displaced by intense water scarcity in just a few short years.
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Liqui-Flux Case Study: Large-Scale Treatment Of River Water For Industrial Use
12/21/2020
Ultrafiltration (UF) is commonly used as a pre-treatment to Reverse Osmosis (RO) to ensure reliable, consistent and efficient operation. As Shandong Hongxin Chemicals Co., Ltd in China recently discovered, this consistency and reliability, along with quick setup and installation times, helped them realize convenience and cost savings.
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UF/RO System Treating Mine-Influenced Water To Remove Selenium
11/6/2020
A Phosphorus mine in Wyoming needed to treat high selenium concentrations leaching into the surface water. Read the full case study to learn how Toray projected to save the plant energy costs for years.
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Retrofit Expansion Of An Ultrafiltration System Using TORAY UF Modules
11/6/2020
The Brazos Regional Public Utility Agency (BRPUA) in Texas operates the Surface Water and Treatment System (SWATS) that treats water from Lake Granbury, fed by the Brazos River. The SWATS facility first began operating in 1988 with clarification, dual media filtration, and electrodialysis reversal (EDR). The plant was upgraded in 2001 to include ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane treatment to produce higher quality effluent.