SLUDGE & BIOSOLIDS PROCESSING CASE STUDIES & WHITE PAPERS

CASPERON Solution Brings Process, Operation And Cost Benefits To Michigan Facility

For 15 years, plans to double the capacity of Michigan’s Zeeland Clean Water Plant remained stalled as the City of Zeeland worked toward a joint wastewater treatment contract with two neighboring Ottawa County communities. As a result, maintaining efficient aeration control posed a challenge for the 1.65 million gallons per day (MGD) facility. When expansion plans moved forward in 2016, the city alleviated those problems with the Xylem Sanitaire CASPERON activated sludge solution process, which eliminated the use of lime to treat waste and significantly reduced the volume of biosolid residuals.

• Ephrata Borough Authority Battles Chronic Sludge Settling
• City Solves Wastewater Plant Dilemma With Dynablend™ Liquid-Polymer Technology

• City Of Dixon, IL, Uses Polyblend® Dry Polymer Preparation System As Part Of A Creative, Cost-Neutral Biosolids Disposal Arrangement

  The City of Dixon, Illinois, located 100 miles west of Chicago, went on-line with an upgraded 4.5 MGD wastewater treatment plant in February 2002.

• Southern California Water District Reduces Polymer Usage 30% With Polyblend® Polymer Activation System

  Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD), located in southern California’s Orange County, between Los Angeles and San Diego, provides drinking water and wastewater services to over 165,000 residents and businesses. SMWD approached UGSI Solutions about a Polyblend® Polymer Activation System trial at their 3 A Water Reclamation Plant.

• Digester Biogas Flow Measurement

  The engineers at a municipal wastewater treatment utility were expanding their biogas digester system and were seeking an improvement over their existing, maintenance-intensive flow metering technology. They needed to measure the amount of gas contained within a gas bag as well as the flow rate of the gases traveling from the gas bag system into a co-generation power system. 

• Solids Optimization In Wastewater Treatment Plants

  Traditional municipal wastewater treatment plants typically rely on conventional tests such as Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and possibly Volatile Suspended Solids (VSS) to attempt to quantify biomass.

• Automated Solar Sludge Drying Frees Up Personnel

  Solar dryers are fully automated to feed, move, and discharge biosolids cost-effectively. Even climate changes throughout the year are easily monitored and controlled to produce optimal output. Installation is very flexible with options to add components at a later date. Full automation means employees seldom need to enter the greenhouse and are free to use their time elsewhere.

• A Sunny Outlook For Tooele City Water Reclamation Facility

  The City of Tooele, UT was looking to update their Bio-Solids program and move away from a limiting Class B product. They needed to produce a more flexible reusable material. The City found the Huber Technology SOLSTICE® to be the perfect solution and was pleased to discover the technology to be simple to maintain as well as provide a cost-effective operation. Find out how the dryer raised the quality of the bio-product to Class A.

• Significant Upgrades Enable City Of Atherton To Meet State’s DNR Discharge Requirements

  Built in the 1980s, Little Blue Valley Sewer District operates Atherton, which was designed to reduce the primary process chain to preliminary bar screening and aerated grit removal, while relying solely on secondary treatment performed in four, standalone 42-ft by 400-ft aeration/clarification basins. Read the full case study to learn how upgrading the activated sludge process with a combination of Xylem’s Flygt pumps and mixers created a solution for the city’s sewer district.

• Solar-Powered Circulators Turn Around WWTP Lagoon’s Issues

  For years, the wastewater treatment plant in Villa Mercedes, David City, Panama emitted harsh odors and created a rampant mosquito population, a situation the neighboring residents found impossible to deal with. Treatment at the plant needed improvement to successfully treat up to 4.6 million gallons of wastewater per day, eliminate harsh odors and reduce the mosquito population.

• WWTP’s Screw Press Reduces Odors, Saves Money, And Takes Up Less Physical Space

  A WWTP chooses a new screw press that takes up less than half the space that the old belt press had occupied. This was striking for the operations team but not as striking as the fraction of time they needed to spend managing the screw press.

• New Ultrasonic Flow Meters Improve Biogas Measurements

  As interest in biogas grows, more attention is being paid to measuring biogas flow, which has long been a problem area in process measuring technology.

Tradeshow Technical Session Leads To Significant Reduction In Polymer Use For South Carolina WWTP

Greer Commission of Public Works (CPW) has been providing water, wastewater and electric services to the City since 1914 with natural gas service added in 1957.

• Sewer District Reduces Plant Polymer Usage With PolyBlend® DP Dry Polymer Preparation System
• PolyBlend M-Series Liquid Polymer Wetting And Activation System