Solving Wastewater Challenges with Modern Pump Technology
Performance Curve
From self-cleaning toilets to hands-free faucets, new technologies optimize comfort and convenience of everyday life. However, some innovations can expose vulnerabilities in existing...
Taking the Pulse of Combustion
In the last thirty years, gas turbine manufacturers and users have faced significant regulatory pressure to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The Canadian government...
All-Terrain Sewer Stimulates Economy of Arkansas’s Newest City
Southside contains a very rocky terrain. In some areas, the ground is clay while in others, approximately three feet of soil sit above limestone...
Screw Pumps Show Their Strength
Calhoun’s treatment plant benefits from long-lasting open screw pumps
With almost thirty years and counting of uninterrupted service for its 60-inch and 72-inch screw pumps,...
Take the “Fault” Out of Asphalt Pumping
Anthropologists have determined that the tarlike petroleum byproduct known as bitumen, defined as “a black, viscous mixture of hydrocarbons,” was first used as an...
Removing Struvite from Wastewater Systems
Named after Henrich Christian Gottfried Von Struve, who discovered the magnesium ammonium phosphate crystals in medieval sewer systems in Hamburg in 1845, struvite is...
Expanding the Benefits of Reverse Osmosis
The nexus between water use and energy consumption has never been more critical to both our sustainability and our economy. In myriad ways around...
Proactive Motor Testing Protects Ethanol Plant
Ethanol has been a clean-burning fuel used in the United States since the 1850s. Ford’s Model T automobile was designed to run on ethanol,...
Bringing the “Baker Test” Up to Date
One of the largest independent engineering service providers in South East England, Mid Kent Electrical Engineering Group, has performed electric motor rewinds and overhauls...
Challenges with Shaft Alignment in Chemical-Transfer Applications
While many chemical fluid-transfer operations may take place in harsh environmental conditions, the pumps and systems used to facilitate product transfer are in actuality...