WASTEWATER
Beyond Clarifiers: How Advanced Primary Filtration Solves Wet Weather Capacity Challenges
Pile cloth media filtration treats wet weather flows in real time, increasing capacity, improving removal efficiency, and helping utilities reduce reliance on limited stormwater storage.
WASTEWATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITEPAPERS
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Aerzen Combines Blower Technology And A New Control System For Energy Saving Operation Even In Case Of Load Changes
If modernizations in wastewater treatment plants are due, as a rule the permanently reducing limit values of ammonium, nitrate and phosphate are pushing the investment decisions.
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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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Resource Recovery: Monetizing The Hidden Assets Within Wastewater Plants
A growing number of wastewater treatment plant leaders are banking on newer technology to tap into previously unclaimed resources at their sites while addressing pressing needs such as increasing capacity and meeting more stringent treatment requirements. By looking at the process through a different lens and raising the bar when it comes to overall objectives, it is possible to shift facilities from being a cost center toward a revenue generator.
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Under Pressure: Managing Water Networks with Effective Pressure Management Techniques
Growing water scarcity drives the need for effective demand management in water utilities across the world. This article discusses pressure management as a form of demand and leakage management and why the AquaMaster is the best suited for such applications.
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Register Today For The Newterra Webinar: New Options & Opportunities In Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
Decentralized systems are expanding options for municipalities, developers, and engineers to support high-quality wastewater treatment in locales that can’t sustain conventional septic systems or make it too costly to build or access centralized wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) or water reuse facilities.
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Xylem Bypass System Helps Facilitate Pump Station Rehab In Covington, Kentucky
Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky (SD1) needed to perform wet well concrete rehabilitation to two pump stations in Covington, Kentucky, located just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
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Ultrasonic Flow Measurement System Saves WWTP $72,500 Annually
If the wastewater treatment plant serving Reading, PA, and 11 surrounding municipalities has a mission statement for its day-to-day operations, it couldn’t be simpler or more critical: “95°F.”
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Electrocoagulation Unlocked
Despite electrocoagulation's demonstrated effectiveness, developing a reliable, low maintenance reactor with sufficient water processing volume has proven to be a significant engineering challenge.
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Comparing Benefits Of V-Cone® And Coriolis Meters
Proper operation of water treatment processes depends on accurate flow measurements. Also, flow data is often required by regulatory agencies.
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Complete Grit Removal And Sludge Screening Solution Protects And Optimizes Plant Performance In Conway, Arkansas
An aging wastewater treatment plant had the potential to impact the water quality of a 6,700 acre man-made fishing lake near Conway, Arkansas. The city needed a new treatment facility that was consistent with pending permit limits. Read the full case study to learn more.
WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES
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Application Note: Testing Nitrite In Surface Water And Wastewater The Thermo Scientific Orion AQUAfast® AQ3700 Colorimeter comes programmed with methods for testing nutrients. By Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Application Note: Dairy Farms Use YSI Instruments To Map Volume Of Wastewater Lagoons On July 1, 2010, dairy farm waste management plans are due to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. By YSI
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Reduced Bore Electromagnetic Flowmeter
Being able to accurately measure both the quantity and rate of water passing through a water distribution system is crucial to gain an informed understanding of overall efficiency. As such, achieving a measurement that is exact as possible can have a significant impact on key areas. This includes supply planning, maintenance, resource deployment, leakage detection and the overall environment.
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SensyMaster Thermal Mass Flowmeter
SensyMaster helps to improve the operating costs of the most cost intensive process in sewage plants: Aeration. High-measuring performance and state of the art technology helps customers increase plant efficiency.
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Best Practices In Moist And Wet Gas Flow
The Wet Gas MASSter sensor is for use in applications that have a high level of moisture or condensation present in the gas flow stream that cannot otherwise be removed.
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TOC Monitoring In Process Return Condensate
Industrial power plants or co-generation power plants utilize steam for industrial purposes other than power production.
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How One Wastewater Treatment Plant Saved Time And Money Measuring Turbidity And TSS The wastewater treatment plant of a major corporation is designed for a population capacity of 6 million people and is considered a very large wastewater treatment plant.
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Environmental Applications Of The Agilent 1290 Infinity UHPLC: The Evolution Of Chromatography This application note presents examples of the use of UHPLC (ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography) for environmental applications using the new Agilent 1290 Infinity LC. By E. Michael Thurman and Imma Ferrer Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry Department of Environmental Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA
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Municipal Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring
We arm municipalities with actionable data necessary to make informed decisions about water quality in their communities
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Removal Of PFCs With Activated Carbon
In recent years, various perflorinated chemicals (PFCs) have come under increasing scrutiny due to their presence in the environment, in animals, and in human blood samples. There are two major classes of PFCs: perfluoroalkyl sulfonates such as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and long chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylates such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA).
LATEST INSIGHTS ON WASTEWATER
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As warmer months approach, water management professionals must confront the compounding consequences of biocidal algae treatments.
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Getting a second opinion is a time-tested piece of wisdom. During a recent project for a municipal water supply utility, we found that this advice also applies to modeling the effects storms have on the municipality’s reservoirs and dams, and the potential flooding impacts downstream of the dams.
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Ozone output doesn’t guarantee performance. Learn how mass transfer efficiency determines how much ozone dissolves, drives treatment results, and impacts energy use and system design.
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For much of Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as northern Illinois, 2026 has been the wettest March and April on record. The region’s aging water infrastructure was never designed for the volume of water it is facing. That’s a troubling sign for the future, with flooding becoming more common as global temperatures rise.
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Polyacrylamide (PAM) selection in industrial wastewater treatment is frequently reduced to a trial-and-error exercise, resulting in reagent waste, inconsistent effluent quality, and inflated operating costs. This article presents a structured framework for PAM optimization across three critical variables — ionic charge density, molecular weight, and coagulant synergy.
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A shift in how we approach source water protection is long overdue. Currently, we are trapped in a cycle of escalating costs, forced to treat symptoms like algae and invasive weeds expediently with chemicals while the underlying risk in the reservoir compounds. True risk management requires breaking this cycle.