WASTEWATER
The Power Of Ductile Iron Pipe: A Solution For Every Application
Ductile iron pipe is a versatile, reliable solution that resists UV degradation, freezing, and physical stress. Its unmatched durability ensures long-term performance in any piping application.
WASTEWATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITEPAPERS
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City Of Dartmouth Reduces Polymer Usage And Improves Dry Solids With PolyBlend® Polymer Preparation Systems
The City of Dartmouth, MA, Water Pollution Control Division is responsible for operating the town’s 3 million gallon per day wastewater treatment facility, a testing laboratory, a composting site, a sludge.
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Aerzen Canada Open House Event 2019
Aerzen Canada is in a growth and expansion mode. The company celebrated the opening of a brand new, 26,000 square foot building with office space and a production facility.
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Protecting The Process: Pretreatment For Membrane Bioreactors
Toward the end of the 1980s, Professor Kazuo Yamamoto from Tokyo University gave a lecture to a skeptical crowd. His topic? Immersed hollow fiber membrane bioreactors. Since the day that first audience listened to the possibilities of MBRs, much work has been done to make membrane bioreactors a common step in the wastewater treatment process.
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Rice University Fights Clogs And Saves $20K Every Six Months
With Xylem's Flygt Concertor solution, Rice University now avoids clogs and callouts caused by grease and debris, as well as costly recurring equipment replacement.
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Harmful Algae: How To Stay Ahead Of The Bloom
It’s the call no water treatment plant superintendent wants to receive, especially not while on vacation. Andy McClure, Superintendent of Toledo, Ohio’s Collins Park Water Treatment Plant, answered his phone to hear his head of operations report that the level of microcystin in the finished water was high, caused by a large harmful algal bloom (HAB) that was impacting the plant’s Lake Erie intake.
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Eliminate CIP And Cut Wastewater Disposal In Half With CCD
A high water recovery rate is essential for this well-known soy protein manufacturer.
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Low-Cost Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling For Pump Stations
Avoid pump station failures, protect the environment, and save money through computer simulation.
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South Bend Reduces CSO Volume By 80%, Saving $400 Million In CapEx Spending Using "Smart Sewer" Technology
South Bend partnered with Xylem and embraced a way to harness intelligent watershed technology to optimize its existing sewer system, without the need to build costly new grey infrastructure.
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Pump Maintenance Know-How
In this article, see if you can identify your own trouble spots and uncover potential solutions to get you back on the road to good pump health – boosting profits along the way.
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Mixing Made Easy For Low Energy Lakes, Ponds, And Lagoons
Landlocked, shallow bodies of water such as recreational ponds, irrigation, drinking water and animal waste lagoons have a major problem with flow. The only natural methods of movement in these bodies of water are the slight Coriolis Effect of the earth and wind.
WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES
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VFD Energy Savings For Pumping Applications
In the early days of variable frequency drive (VFD) technology, the typical application was in process control for manufacturing synthetic fiber, steel bars, and aluminum foil.
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A Non-Intrusive Solution For Measuring Wastewater Flow In A WWTP's Iron Pipes
A municipal association needed to understand if wastewater was being equally distributed across two cast iron pipes within its wastewater treatment plant. Learn how clamp-on ultrasonic measurement helped successfully measure the flow.
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FLEX-TEND® Flexible Expansion Joints, Features And Specifications
FLEX-TEND® flexible expansion joints are designed to protect structures and pipelines from differential movement whether this movement is earthquake induced or the gradual motion of soil subsidence. This bulletin offers a concise listing and discussion of the important features and materials of the double and single ball assemblies.
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Dosing Of Sodium Hypochlorite Solution For Drinking Water Disinfection
A water purveyor was in urgent need of a chemically resistant flow instrumentation with a long life of service that allowed reliable and long-term stable dosing of the sodium hypochlorite solution.
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Bridge Crossings And The Proper Use Of EX-TEND®, FLEX-TEND®, And Force Balanced FLEX-TEND Products
Of particular interest when it comes to bridges is the locating of pressurized water lines on and under bridge structures. Pressurized pipelines can present a number of unique challenges to the design engineer and utility owner.
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An Ideal Aeration System For Aquaculture Corporations
Successful aquaculture corporations know that there are many variables that need to be accounted for in order for the bottom line to be “in the black”, let alone grow annually by 10-20%.
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Improving Compliance Through Real-Time Phosphorus Control
Levels of phosphorus, a chemical element that promotes organic growth, must be controlled in wastewater coming from beverage, food and dairy processing plants. Failure to control phosphorus accurately has a negative impact on water quality and can lead to large fines.
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Automatic Scraper Strainers Protect Critical Membrane Systems
Automated scraper strainers pre-filter water and wastewater to protect fragile membrane systems from damage caused by large, suspended particles, reducing maintenance and replacement costs.
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AquaSBR Sequencing Batch Reactor: Food And Beverage Industry
This application note explores Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) systems that have been installed worldwide in a variety of applications, ranging from a few gallons per minute (GPM) to thousands of GPM.
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Background And Summary Of Tests For The 2000PV Restraint
The 2000PV is a restraint for PVC pipe and the standardized mechanical joint. This product is the result of years of testing and evaluation and its performance has been proven by thousands of hours of proof tests, as well as third-party evaluations. This report describes the 2000PV through the 12" size.
LATEST INSIGHTS ON WASTEWATER
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Strategic flow monitoring helps wastewater utilities curb overflows, cut costs, and safeguard public health by turning accurate data into proactive action.
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When seeking bids for a fair comparison, it’s important to evaluate the total cost of ownership.
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Researchers have developed polyimide-based membranes for membrane distillation (MD) that overcome three persistent issues in membranes for water treatment and gas separations: the need for pore-forming chemicals that prevent recycling, performance degradation due to pore wetting and fouling, and the inherent trade-off between high water flux and selectivity.
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As technology improves and becomes more accessible, outdated municipal wastewater systems are fast beginning to show their age. Today, water pumps come in a variety of designs that enable uses that previous generations could only have dreamed of.
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Accurate storm surge predictions are critical for giving coastal residents time to evacuate and giving emergency responders time to prepare. But storm surge forecasts at high resolution can be slow.
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The demand for smaller, highly effective wastewater treatment systems continues to grow due to land scarcity and high prices in many parts of the country and the desire by developers, builders, and homeowners to maximize the use of every square foot of property.