Utilizing data to optimize wastewater management

The Trinity River Authority (TRA) manages four water and five wastewater treatment plants within the Trinity River Basin—an area of about 18,000 square miles...

Portuguese olive mill quadruples production capacity

With the installation of Alfa Laval’s state-of-the-art Foodec Sigma decanter, Caminhos do Futuro has quadrupled its extra virgin olive oil processing capacity, increasing from...

More Precise Timekeeping Device Proves Critical for Utilities

Precise timekeeping is fundamental to the function of the power grid and is used in many applications to improve reliability, reduce costs, predict and...

Protecting a Blue Flag Seaside Town

Hidrostal Ltd., the UK sales division of specialist pump manufacturers for the wastewater industry, has provided Yorkshire Water with a reliable solution for a...

Just Grand: Michigan City Turns to Biodigester for Energy Needs

The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, built its wastewater treatment plant in 1931, and was among the first in the nation to include a...

Pumps and Renewable Energy

As utilities incorporate more wind and solar sources into their generation mix, they are faced with two problems. One is that both wind and...

Retrofit Pays Off

By Dan Widdel, Lakeside Equipment Corporation Before a series of upgrades (totaling $27 million over five years), at the city of Washington’s wastewater treatment plant...

Remotely Managing Pumps on the Farm

Cade Qualls has been farming in Lake City, Arkansas, for nearly sixteen years. He’s a third generation farmer who produces grain, cotton, corn and...

How to turn FOG from crisis to opportunity

People love to dine out, but there’s a dark side to restaurant cooking. Along with refuse from animal product cooking and processing, it forms...

Needed: Smarter Specs, Not Tighter Specs

You are reading this publication because you want your process pumps to be reliable. That’s a commendable aim, but it pays to be judicious...