WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• SWAN Corner: Optimizing Data Intelligence Helps Orlando Protect Its Citizens During Heavy Rain Events

  The City of Orlando Streets and Stormwater Division is responsible for maintaining and improving drainage facilities to prevent flooding and ensure all receiving water bodies meet state and federal water quality standards. They oversee upwards of 100 lakes within the City and approximately 147 drainage wells with 70 monitoring stations for lakes and waterways, and have 23 rainfall stations collecting data by telemetry over a cellular network. The Streets and Stormwater Division keeps two million people safe from flooding during heavy summer rainfalls and periodic tropical events. 

• UV Treatment Upgrades In Wales

  In order to improve the treatment performance (because of the continued cost to maintain compliance), and ensure that it would eventually have the treatment capacity to meet future population growth equivalent of up to 225,000, Swansea WwTW was in need of an equipment upgrade.

• Smart Water Plants: How A Digitized Workforce Drives Higher OPEX Reductions

  Key processes within Water & Wastewater operations can now be digitized. This is good news, especially for an industry under pressure to both lower OPEX and manage an aging workforce. Trends such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cloud computing and “edge” control are emerging as technology engines that present cost-effective options for modernizing operations. When it comes to OPEX reduction, however, technology is what enables plant workers to make the biggest savings impact.

• Bulk Emergency Chlorine Vapor Scrubber System Restored For Oklahoma City

  As a bulk emergency chlorine vapor scrubber system approached the end of its anticipated 20-year useful life, the city engaged Integrity Municipal Systems, LLC (IMS) inspected the equipment and proposed a system refurbishment plan that would ensure proper system performance and safe storage of the 30,000 gallons of corrosive caustic soda contained within it.

• Flowing Forward: How Technology Is A Necessity For Solving The Water Sector's Growing Challenges

  Modern problems for water utilities, including limited workforce and aging infrastructure, require modern tools for overcoming them.
• Advantages Of Thermal Dispersion Switches For Pump Protection

  Thermal dispersion switches use similar principles as thermal mass flow meters. Fluid carries heat away from the probe tip reducing the temperature difference between a heated resistance temperature detector (RTD) and a reference RTD.

• Water And The Internet Of Things: 2016

  Forecasters predict that California could receive record amounts of rain during this winter because of El Nino. Smart water management is important in times of no rain or too much rain so our conservation efforts must continue. The Internet of Things (“IoT”) can help the water supply from the El Nino rains be used more efficiently and with less waste.

• Disruption To Growth: Navigating The Sensor Revolution

  As critical gateways to the Internet of things (IoT), sensors are sure to have a massive social and economic impact globally within the next decade.

• Water Authority Chooses Siemens Pressure Transmitters For Accuracy, Reliability And Ease Of Use

  A county water authority in the Northeast U.S. supplies over 40 million gallons per day to its 340,000 residential customers. In this case study, learn why they chose Siemens pressure transmitters. 

• Math Solutions: Mixed Liquor Volatile Suspended Solids (MLVSS) Calculations

  Wastewater consultant and trainer Dan Theobald (“Wastewater Dan”) dives deeper into the activated sludge process with calculations focused on MLVSS.