The UV disinfection system at the Plant 20 Wastewater Treatment Plant was installed in 2002, but over the years staff continued to struggle with PLC and controls-related issues, ballast failures, and water level management. An overhead crane was needed to operate the water level management device, and water level fluctuations of 12” were common, which contributed to an increase in fouling on the quartz sleeves.
The climate in Southgate, Ontario, is considered cold and temperate with significant rainfall throughout the year. Temperatures in winter average around -10°C and can drop as low as -30°C to -40°C for brief periods of time, which can wreak havoc on the local water storage tanks and distribution piping. Read more to learn how the installation of PAX Mixers has kept the tanks free from ice and has shown an improvement in disinfectant residual levels.
The Chief Operator for a surface water treatment plant (SWTP) reports that replacement of a troublesome vacuum liquid feeder for poly aluminum chloride (PACl), with a more advanced vacuum liquid feeder, ended the threat of a process upset for operations staff that was caused by the previous unit not being able to hold a constant feed rate. The ability to provide a consistent feed is needed as a key element in the plant pre-treatment process, which features turbidity reduction and clarification.
In 2008 Texas was facing an extended drought and the City of San Angelo was weighing its alternatives. The City felt the Hickory Aquifer well field was the best water option available, but this water contained significant amounts of radium and iron.
The City of Silverton is known as Oregon’s Garden City and sends one million gallons a day of treated effluent to the Oregon Gardens, returning the remainder to Silver Creek.
In the past several years, Aquarion Water Company had been monitoring their system’s THM formation and attempting to lower them through treatment and distribution system changes. Aquarion engineers decided that reducing THM formation in the Laurel High Service Clearwell at the Stamford Water Treatment Plant (WTP) would eliminate concerns of elevated THM formation in the distribution system served by the WTP.
In late 2005, the City of Newberg, Oregon, decided to upgrade their water treatment plant disinfection process from gas chlorine to on-site hypochlorite generation (OSHG) in an effort to simplify operations and increase operator safety. The plant produced an average of 2.5 million gallons per day (MGD), with a peak capacity of 5 MGD.
The Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in North Western Romania suffered a historic catastrophe in January 2000, when its dam burst, streaming out 100,000 cubic meters of waste water, largely contaminated with cyanide, commonly used in the process of mining gold, into tributaries of the Tisza River, a major waterway in Hungary.
In an effort to lower operational costs and extend the life of the dewatering centrifuge, operators in Springboro, OH, began to look at the polymer activation equipment in use at the plant. The Polyblend® M-Series emulsion polymer activation systems had been in steady operation for over 10 years. The equipment still performed reliably, but operators were interested in ways to achieve greater efficiency. They were aware of the new Polyblend® Magnum mix chamber, with its enhanced two-zone mixing energy.
The Hagerstown Wastewater Treatment Plant in Maryland incorporated several plant modifications, one of which was the conversion of their disinfection process from the use of ozone to UV.
The Lariana Depur wastewater treatment plant in Fino Mornasco, Italy, treats wastewater from multiple textile manufacturers in the Como region, known as the heart of the textile industry. Since 1994, ozone has been used effectively as a polisher to remove the dark blue-purple color — the result of the dyes used in the textile dyeing and printing process — from the water.
Installing and operating an ozone oxidation system for wastewater remediation at a gold mine located in a remote region of Alaska is full of challenges.
The JCS Industries Model 4200 Gas Vacuum Chemcial Feeder mixes and feeds gaseous chemicals commonly used for water and wastewater disinfection accurately, reliably and safely.
As measures of improving the combined sewer system, this high rate filtration system filters the rain water, which flowed directly to the river before, by using our original filter media. This new treatment system can be installed in the existed facilities and supplies stable filtrations for rainfall flow fluctuation.
Xylem’s Leopold Oxelia is an ozone-enhanced biologically active filtration system and multi-barrier solution for municipal wastewater treatment. The Leopold Oxelia system combines ozone, filtration and analytical instrumentation to deliver optimal wastewater treatment for water reuse and discharge into sensitive waters.
SMART Digital dosing pumps respond to the most recent chemistry developments in water treatment, wastewater recycling, and disinfection with energy saving technology and high dosing accuracy.
The NeoTech D338™ is specially designed to disinfect water and is an essential component in advanced oxidation processes.
Many municipalities had adopted ultraviolet (UV) disinfection treatment over chemical based disinfection. UV disinfection is efficient, low cost and an environmentally friendly way to disinfect water. The process is safer for operators and the community; UV is a chemical free process that adds nothing to the water but light. Read more about how the UV disinfection works. Unlike chlorine, UV disinfection is able to inactivate pathogens such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Discharged wastewater with these pathogens becomes dangerous drinking and recreational water for downstream communities.
The MEMCOR® CS system is based upon the solid foundation of the Memcor technology that has been proven in thousands of installations across all countries and markets. The high performance of MEMCOR CS system is ideal - and affordable - for municipal water, wastewater, industrial and water reuse treatment.
IMS Wet Emergency Chlorine Scrubber Systems are designed to contain and treat accidental releases of chlorine gas. Systems are offered to treat up to 3 tons of chlorine gas. The IMS wet emergency chlorine scrubber is a three-stage single-pass chemical absorption system with very high efficiency horizontal packed bed sections. An induced draft fan pulls the chlorine gas through the scrubber, where it contacts a recirculation caustic solution. The scrubber system is factory pre-assembled, complete with induced draft fan, recirculation pump, instrumentation and controls.
As water reuse becomes increasingly common, more utilities will get to know ozone. To explain its role in water treatment schemes, Water Talk welcomed Jim Lauria, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Mazzei Injector Company, and Ben Kuhnel, Senior Project Manager for Arcadis. Learn how ozone works in concert with other processes to safely recycle water and treat contaminants of emerging concern — even in mobile/on-site applications.
If you don’t need the performance of an ultrafiltration membrane but also want to avoid the large footprint of a conventional media filter, you might want to consider FiltraFast extreme rate compressible media filters. As Ryan Hess, Director of Advanced Separation with SUEZ Water Technologies suggests in this Water Talk interview, “They provide roughly ten times the hydraulic loading rate of conventional media filters.”
Of all the process considerations facing wastewater treatment operators, disinfection is one of the most important. In this exclusive Water Talk interview, Gary Lohse, Technical Sales Manager, Disinfection with De Nora Water Technologies, discusses how disinfection has become increasingly complex over time. Lohse reviews a host of selection criteria including target microorganisms, control strategies, disinfection by-products, capex and safety.
The operating ranges for chemical injection need to be large because of the variability of flow in many treatment operations. As Bill McDowell, Vice President of Operations with Blue White Industries explains in this Water Talk interview, “You might be down to as low as 5 or 10 milliliters a minute and then one hour later; you might need to pump 15 gallons a minute out of the same pump and through the same sensor.”
One of the trends in water and wastewater treatment over the past decade has been a growing demand for decentralized systems. Water Talk recently caught up with Nii Mensah, General Manager of Fluence USA, to learn more about the solutions that the new company (formed by the merger of RWL Water and Emefcy) is bringing to market to address communities’ treatment needs
Municipal wastewater treatment has traditionally taken place as far away from the populace as possible. But as people flock to cities and encroach ever closer on these facilities, the practice of extending ever further out becomes impractical and expensive. And as water becomes scarcer, cities the world over are looking at recycling wastewater from their citizenry closer to home.
Water. It’s vital to human life, our economy, and ecosystem - the very survival of our planet. But water challenges are growing more intense than ever before. Increasing volatile weather patterns fueled by climate change, crumbling infrastructure, pollution, and over population that is causing a surge in the demand for water. This means the world’s supply of clean water is rapidly declining putting our future at risk.
For more than 30 years, Aqua-Aerobic has provided thousands of industry professionals with education and training through the company’s highly-regarded technical seminar program. Our industry-known seminar is ideal for those individuals involved in the design, application, procurement and operation of water and wastewater treatment plants.
CFD modeling was used to design, position and validate performance of the new, patented flow conditioning vanes and post-injection blending grid. The same, proven mass transfer mixing nozzles used in the original pipeline flash reactor (PFR), are also part of the PFR+.
Daryl Weatherup, Managing Director at De Nora Water Technologies, gives an overview of De Nora's updated disinfection offerings, including its CAPITAL CONTROLS MCP ozone generator, CAPITAL CONTROLS Chlorinator, and ClorTec onsite hypochlorite generator.
There are a number of water and wastewater disinfection options worth considering, but one of the most advantageous is the use of low concentration on-site sodium hypochlorite generation. Among your OSGH options, ClorTec from DeNora leads the way. Watch the full video to learn more.
De Nora Water Technologies will showcase its industry-leading water and wastewater treatment solutions at the WEFTEC Technical Exhibition and Conference in Chicago from 27 to 30 September at booth #631.
The TrojanUVSigna will receive the Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international not-for-profit technical and educational water quality organization.
Stanley Consultants has been awarded two Engineering Excellence awards for design of the wastewater treatment expansion at the South Plant in Iowa City, Iowa.
During a monthly meeting co-sponsored by the Lake Michigan States Section of the Air and Waste Management Association and the Union League Club’s Environment and Public Affairs Committees, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) Executive Director David St. Pierre offered a glimpse into the future of the wastewater treatment agency.
Xylem,a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, successfully reduced the amount of sludge produced by a wastewater treatment plant in Ardea, Rome in Italy by 43 percent, saving more than €170,000 annually in landfill costs.
Iranian researchers from Semnan University designed a photocatalyst with high efficiency and rate to eliminate organic pollutants at laboratorial scale to obtain an optimum water and wastewater purification system.
Alkame Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: ALKM), a publicly traded health and wellness technology holding company with a focus on patentable, innovative, and eco-friendly products announced today that High Country Shrimp LLC, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, has secured a location and begun testing for the company's 'proof of concept,' utilizing the patented Alkame technology for use within the aquaculture industry.
Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, has been awarded a $1.25M contract to provide advanced treatment technology to the South Wastewater Treatment Plant in the city of McAllen, in Texas, USA.
The International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) has announced the Call for Abstracts for the 2020 IUVA Americas Conference taking place March 8-11, 2020 at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Dow Microbial Control, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, has received approval from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its innovative, solid form of KATHON Antimicrobial.
With accelerating global concerns about the need for water and air purification solutions, the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) announces the 2017 IUVA World Congress, September 17-20, 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Global public health organization NSF International and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) have published the first American National Standard for assessing the sustainability of water treatment chemical products – NSF/AWWA/ANSI 416: Sustainability Assessment Standard for Water Treatment Chemical Products.
Aquatech, a global leader in water and wastewater technologies for the industrial and infrastructure markets, is highlighting its LoWatt™ desalination technology at the 2015 IDA World Congress, Booth 721.
Kruger will implement two 12.5 MGD ACTIFLO systems for Warwick’s Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility phosphorus removal upgrade, as part of the city’s wastewater facility’s nutrient removal upgrade plan.
The International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) has revised the dates for the 2019 IUVA World Congress, which will now take place February 10-13, 2019 at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia.
The treatment of raw water entering a Water Treatment Plant through a rectangular channel can seem like a daunting task with an added problem of low allowable pressure drop, injection of chemicals, and the desired homogenous blend of output downstream.
Drew Bledsoe, former NFL quarterback and principal of Bledsoe Capital Group, appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on Friday, March 22nd to discuss how Ecosphere's (OTCBB:ESPH) patented Ozonix® technology is allowing oil and gas exploration companies to recycle wastewater and eliminate chemicals traditionally used in the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process.
Wastewater disinfection takes place after primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary wastewater treatment. It is typically a final step to remove organisms from the treated water before the effluent is released back into the water system. Disinfection prevents the spread of waterborne diseases by reducing microbes and bacterial numbers to a regulated level.
A variety of physical and chemical methods are used to disinfect wastewater prior to it being released into natural waterways. Historically, the chemical agent of choice for municipal wastewater treatment has been chlorine, due to its disinfecting properties and low cost. However, the rising cost of chlorine and concerns that low chlorine concentrations can still be toxic to fish and other wildlife, has given rise to more physical methods of wastewater disinfection being adopted such as ozonation or ultraviolet (UV) light.
The use of ozone as a disinfection agent has the added benefit of increasing the dissolved oxygen content of the treated wastewater. However, because the ozone has to be generated, ozonation can require prohibitive up-front capital expenditure compared to traditional chlorination. UV disinfection has been growing in popularity as a wastewater disinfection method, in large part because of the life-cycle economics of the equipment and the fact that, like ozone, there is no toxic residual.
