Welcome to the Composites Age
With recent statistics attributing over half of injuries (resulting in absence from work) to manual handling it’s already known that reducing hazards in this...
Advanced Water Treatment System Proves Effective
Keeping 1.2 million fish per year alive is no easy task,” says Ted Hallows, supervisor at Kamas State Fish Hatchery, Utah. Whirling disease, a...
Finding the Sweet Spot in Food Processing
By Blair Miller
Bürkert’s FLOWave flowmeters continue to lead the way when it comes to coping with utmost hygienic demands. With stainless steel materials, outer...
Keeping a Renewable Energy Plant out of Hot Water
Covanta Energy is one of North America’s largest owners and operators of waste-to-energy plants and other renewable power facilities. Its more than sixty facilities...
California Project Takes Aim at Efficiency
By Thomas Renner
PROJECT AT A GLANCE
What:A $38.5 million renovation of the Robert B. Diemer Water Treatment Plant in Yorba Linda, California.The treatment plant is...
Pump Stations That Will Not Fail
The city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, wastewater treatment system serves 23,000 customers and requires the maintenance of more than 600 miles of gravity sewers...
Measuring the True Performance of Pumps in Operation
A recent large-scale testing program was conducted across Ontario in which the actual performance and efficiency of water pumps was assessed and compared against...
High Performance at High Altitude
At over two and a half miles above sea level, Atlas Copco’s portable air compressors are lifting vertical mining operations to new heights; providing...
Optimized Performance for Water Quality Data
Tampa Electric Company’s Polk Power Station in Mulberry, Florida, was commissioned in the mid-nineties with clean and highly efficient integrated coal gasification combined cycle...
Energy saving retrofit for enhanced plant capacity
Hurghada is one of the largest resort towns off the coast of the Red Sea in Egypt. Due to increased tourism demand, it has...