WASTEWATER
How To Choose Among Wastewater Screen Options
Wastewater screening isn’t one-size-fits-all. The right choice depends on flow, debris, and efficiency needs, with long-term performance and maintenance costs shaping the best solution.
WASTEWATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITEPAPERS
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Designing For Peaks And Valleys In Seasonal Communities With MBR Technology
Wastewater flows in seasonal resorts are highly volatile. Learn how to stabilize biological treatment against sudden peak demands and low-flow off-seasons, ensuring continuous compliance and securing a high-quality water source for reuse.
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Quick Response Following Tropical Storm Prevents Service Disruption
Following Tropical Storm Isaias, a damaged reservoir outlet pipe needed fast, custom repair. Learn how a quick response, site assessment, and custom-engineered couplings prevented a major water service shutdown.
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Sulzer Equipment Increases Wastewater Treatment Capacity And Efficiency
After twelve years of operation, a modernization of a WWTP was needed for the removal of nitrogen and phosphorous pollutants, as well as an enlargement by another 100’000 PE (population equivalent).
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Grit's True Impact On Wastewater Treatment Quality And Costs
Grit buildup that is ignored or improperly addressed can have profound effects on both treatment efficiency and maintenance costs, even if it does not impact effluent quality. Here are some of the cost implications and physical effects of inefficient grit removal, along with some important considerations on the impacts of letting grit go unmanaged.
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Clearing Channels And Tanks Of Rag And Fiber Produces Benefits Beyond The Tanks
Reduction of ragging is merely one of the benefits the EscaMAX® Perforated Plate Screen bestows upon its implementer. But this is such a huge factor, that mitigating it brings night-and-day results in other areas such as reducing debris in the grit channel, increasing space for energy-producing biosolids in tanks, and releasing cleaner end products.
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Aeration Basin Air Flow Monitoring At A Stockholm Wastewater Plant
At a wastewater treatment plant in Stockholm, Sweden, each aeration basin has several diffuser systems. Each diffuser system requires individual air flow monitoring and independent control. The air flow pipes leading to the diffusers typically do not have much straight run of pipe. This makes accurate measurement of the air flow more difficult. In addition, the air flow coming from the compressors is inconsistent
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Challenges With Calibrating Electromagnetic Flow Meters
This article focuses on the use of electromagnetic flowmeters in the W/WW industry. It also covers Endress+Hauser’s capabilities to manufacture electromagnetic flowmeters from 1/12” to 120”, calibration, the company’s new innovative sensor with multiple sensing electrode pairs and verifying calibration in place after installation.
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6 HUBER Coarse Screen TrashMax® For Flood Protection In Houston, Texas
In response to Hurricane Harvey, the Fort Bend, TX Levee District No. 2 embarked on a major upgrade project to increase the flow and capacity of one of its pump stations by 400%. The goal of the project was to protect the area around the district from 100- year floods in the future.
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Did You Know This About Granular Activated Carbon?
Did you know that just one gram of granular activated carbon (GAC) can have a surface area equivalent to several football fields?
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Water Reclamation Facility Streamlines Equipment For Improved Function
A water reclamation facility in Carol Stream, Illinois, optimized its equipment layout using Blue-White’s FLEXFLO® M2 metering pumps and CHEM-FEED® wall mount systems, improving functionality, reducing piping complexity, and saving space for a more efficient operation.
WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES
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BOD Determination Of Strongly-Loaded Organic Waste Water With The BOD-OxiDirect
Strongly loaded organic industrial waste water, i.e. from sugar- or paper-factories, need to be pre-treated before determining the BOD value.
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Combining Decentralized And Centralized Wastewater Treatment Strategies To Solve Community Challenges
To sustain the environment and smart community growth while protecting public health, engineers, municipal health officials, and regulators need innovative wastewater treatment solutions. The latest evolution of decentralized systems can efficiently handle residential and commercial daily flows and are a cost-effective alternative to the large, centralized wastewater treatment plants of the past.
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Determination Of Pesticide Residues In Honey, By An Automated QuEChERS Solution
The QuEChERS (Quick-Easy-Cheap-Effective-Rugged-Safe) sample extraction method was developed for the determination of pesticide residues in agricultural commodities.
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Getting Clarity On Clarification
Read an overview and maintenance tips for chain and scraper systems.
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Pile Cloth Media Filtration For Food Processing
Read about the cloth media filter installations that have been operating in food and beverage wastewater plants for over 25 years.
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NEOSEP® Membrane Bioreactor System Simplifies 'Fundamental Necessities' Of MBR
The NEOSEP® MBR system features Kruger’s uniquely designed K-120C and K-240C flat sheet membrane modules. The modules offer several innovative design features that enhance ease of installation, operation and maintenance. This includes an integrated central lifting eye, offering an incredibly well balanced module that makes installation and retrieval a simple and stress-free process.
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Lab Gas Sub-Metering Accuracy Improves With Thermal Flow Meters To Save Money
Facility administrators will find the advanced ST100 Series Thermal Mass Air/Gas Flow Meter from Fluid Components International (FCI) helps them improve the accuracy of specialty gas point of use and sub-metering operations to achieve accurate billing in their labs for better cost tracking and control.
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Alcoholic Beverage Fusel Alcohol Testing With Static Headspace
A static headspace method was developed using Teledyne Tekmar automated headspace vial samplers to meet the method requirements of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the US Department of the Treasury (TTB) method SSD: TM:2001 for testing fusel alcohols in alcoholic beverages.
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Pikeville, Kentucky Medical Center Leak Found Despite Ambient Noise
Leaks found in 60 psi high density PE pipe by FELL in less than three hours. Acoustic and CCTV failed to find any leaks after more than a year of investigation. Read the full case study to learn more.
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Comparison Of Ultra Low Range Total Chlorine Residual Limits Of Detection And Quantitation Across The Water Industry
Limits of Detection and Quantitation are key to understanding analytical instrumentation capabilities, especially when non-optimal process control can lead to damage of sensitive equipment due to insufficiently accurate readings.
LATEST INSIGHTS ON WASTEWATER
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Einstein once said of compound interest, "He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it." The same logic of compounding applies to the organic sediment accumulating on the floor of your drinking water reservoir. The longer you wait to address it, the more exponentially expensive it becomes to fix.
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Our infrastructure systems have operated in managed deterioration for decades. And not surprisingly, once they deteriorate badly enough and cross over into active failure, all cost discipline disappears.
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Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away, and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.
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Currently, water infrastructure is outdated and fragile, prone to breakages and leaks. Reactive approaches to water infrastructure are only implemented after an incident and are more expensive than simple maintenance fixes. Geotechnical Internet of Things (IoT) devices enable water and wastewater industry professionals to identify and address issues before they escalate into catastrophic events.
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Traditional gravity sewers rely on large-diameter mains, deep trenches, and often multiple lift stations — elements that carry significant capital and restoration costs, particularly in rural or rugged terrain. To improve cost efficiency and sustainability, many municipalities are adopting decentralized collection systems such as Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) systems, Septic Tank Effluent Gravity (STEG) systems, and liquid-only sewers.
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Aeration control strategies often remain conservative and static. Blowers operate continuously, oxygen levels are maintained near maximum, and airflow rates are rarely adjusted in response to real-time biological demand. The result is widespread over-aeration — a condition that does not improve treatment performance but significantly increases operating costs.