From Reaction to Taking Action

Process variability and surprise equipment failure are common hindrances facing mine operators around the world and prevent them from optimizing throughput, recovery, and asset...

Controlling Scale Deposits in Waterlines

Boil a kettle of water in a hard water area and two undesirable observations are made: A fine but harmless scum appears on the...

Copper Mine Quadruples Pump Wear Life

Copper mining involves working with some of the harshest materials in the world. As a result, mining companies must carefully monitor wear of their...

Solid Foundation for Business District

TerraFirma Earth Technologies was selected by general contractor GE Johnson to install a groundwater control system and innovative groundwater collection and treatment system designed...

A Pump System for the Future

Boskalis Nederland is a part of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. Boskalis was established in 1910 and has expanded from a local dredging contractor to...

Solving a Water Shortage

The Nemmeli plant in Chennai is the first desalination system in India to adopt electric actuators for plant automation in a major way. With...

Heavy Lifting

Little known pump technology company PumpWorks, Inc. has been solving problems for companies like GE, Whirlpool, NASA, URS, Sears, and GM since 1996. PumpWorks...

Partnership Provides Watertight Solutions

In a partnership dedicated to temporary cofferdam dewatering on a wide variety of jobsites, including construction, remediation, rehabilitation, flood protection and in-water inspection, Rain...

Making Invisible Problems Visible

In any slurry transport system, engineers fight a constant battle to reduce wear and increase productivity. Many factors affect those goals, but one of...

Operational Costs Reduction Part 2

In part 1 of this article, we examined the role of aerobic and anaerobic digestion for solids handling and sludge dewatering in water and...