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• Seal The Deal: Shielding Against A Mag Meter’s Achilles Heel

  When it comes to metering water flow — drinking water or wastewater — full-bore mag meters offer many advantages. While the underlying technology based on Faraday’s Law of electromagnetic induction is shared among all styles of full-bore mag meters, specific implementations have impacts on longevity and accuracy. Here is what to look for when the time to choose arrives.

• Achieving Higher Flow Rates And Smaller System Footprints For Iron Removal With Manganese Dioxide Filter Media

  Traditional processes used to remove iron and manganese from groundwater have commonly included oxidation with chlorine followed by a filter with sand or other media.

• X-Ray Inspection Provides Product Safety For Ice Cream Production Lines

  To further reinforce positive customer experiences, an ice cream manufacturer challenged themselves to further minimize its already small risk of foreign body contamination by implementing x-ray inspection.

• Choosing The Right Water Disinfection

  In the mid-to-late 1800s, chlorine had been used sporadically to help control infection in hospitals and drinking water. Common water treatment did not start in the U.S. until the early twentieth century when increasing cases of waterborne illnesses prompted many large cities to begin large scale filtration of water supplies.

• How To Structure Utility Data For Improved Efficiency

  With a growing effort to ‘go digital’ in the global water industry, distribution and wastewater managers risk data inundation. But data sources from SCADA systems, pressure loggers, and stand-alone sensors can unlock valuable insights for more efficient operations and maintenance. Learn how to structure your system  to avoid data flooding.

• Rideshare: Taking Clinical Research By Storm

  The new age transportation method, Rideshare, is growing in popularity amongst everyday travelers, but has also been found to provide significant advantages for clinical trials. This blog outlines ten Benefits of utilizing Rideshare through an expert provider in clinical workflow optimization.

• Climate Change And Nutrients: Forewarned Is Forearmed

  Rising temperatures and precipitation combined with increasing nutrient runoff from human activity are elevating challenges in water treatment efforts. In some cases, that means increased threats to drinking water quality. In others, it means increasingly stringent nutrient discharge levels. Either way, taking the nutrient monitoring battle out to the field can help in waging a better fight at the treatment plant.

• Harmful Algal Bloom Threats To Potable Water: Establishing Resilience

  Changing climate and other environmental conditions are intensifying the frequency and severity of harmful algal blooms (HABs). Here are important guidelines to understanding HAB causes and impacts to potable water treatment plants — including dealing with the algal biomass, remnants of decaying algal cells, and especially the secondary metabolites that the algae produce, such as taste and odor compounds and toxins.

• SPRWS Upgrades To Corrosion-Resistant Zinc-Coated Ductile Iron Water Main

  It is no secret that a large portion of the drinking water infrastructure in the United States is near or past its intended design life. Our nation’s water infrastructure needs an overhaul, and the cost of doing so is climbing rapidly. The American Society of Civil Engineering’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card graded the nation’s drinking water infrastructure a D. According to the American Water Works Association, an estimated $1 trillion is necessary to maintain and expand drinking water service to meet demands over the next 25 years.

• Meeting Food Retailers’ Requirements Through X-Ray Inspection

  Food regulations are deepening and so is the authority regulators have in the marketplace. However, the right X-ray inspection system can help you achieve compliance and exceed retailer requirements.

• Flow Chemistry vs. Batch Processes

  Traditionally, new chemicals are developed using batch processing, which fully relies on versatile and qualified equipment to perform different unit operations. To address these challenges, continuous flow chemistry technology is emerging as an effective tool to conduct chemical synthesis.

• What to Look For When Selecting An Investigator Payment Solution

  Many times sponsors go with a site payment solution they thought would work - only to find out the "automation" is not so automatic - that customer support is outsourced, spreadsheets still need to be emailed back and forth and sites are still calling asking questions. Following is a list of things to consider when choosing to implement investigator payment technology to avoid this situation.

• How To Scale-Up Lentiviral Vector Production Part 2: Considerations For Downstream Processing

  Lentiviral vectors (LVV) are a key component in the production of cell and gene therapies. Today, even with the proliferation of cell and gene therapies in development, LVV is still produced using legacy methods employed in basic research. Overcoming technical challenges in the scale-up of LVV production is a major focus for the industry. Here we break down DSP into unit operations and understand how process innovations are contributing to scalability at each step.

• Chlorate DBPs: Future-Proofing Water Disinfection For Chlorate Regulation

  Chlorate is a highly oxidized form of chlorine that can be introduced to a water source as an industrial or agricultural contaminant or into a finished water as a disinfection byproduct (DBP). As a DBP, chlorate can result from water disinfection with bulk sodium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, or hypochlorite formed through electrochlorination (EC) systems.

• Using Advanced Tools To Stem The Lost Revenue Tide

  From the largest metropolitan utilities to the smallest water systems, leaks are a problem everywhere. Because it’s difficult to raise consumer prices to offset the losses, non-revenue water has a direct impact on the bottom line of municipal water systems. However, utility managers now have an opportunity to reverse the problem with advanced flow meter technology that combines multiple measurements.

• A Modern Approach To Modular Plant Design

  Providing water services to private developments and small rural communities has always been a challenge. The cost of running pipe and installing pump stations across long distances can make or break a project and mean the difference in being able to offer affordable, high-quality drinking water and wastewater treatment.

• The Differences Between UV AOP & Granular Activated Carbon For Contaminant Treatment (Article)

  Providing safe drinking water is a growing challenge. While methods for the disinfection of bacteria, protozoa and viruses in drinking water are well established, there are certain chemical contaminants of concern resistant to traditional water treatment methods which are being detected in drinking water, and many have the potential to impact public health.

• Ready Or Not? A Checklist For Building Natural Disaster Resilience

  You’ve seen the headlines, read the case studies, taken stock of your resilience plan (or lack thereof), and posed the question “What now?” Here are a dozen ways battery-powered wireless recorders and transmitters can support a new Resiliency Master Plan for your utility and your community — one that can provide cost-saving and even life-saving insights under extreme conditions.