A Material of the Future

Today composite materials are used in wind energy, marine, construction, aerospace, military and defense, automotive, pipes, access covers, tanks and many more applications. Composites...

When to Replace Your RO Membrane

By Wes Byrne, U.S. Water On the surface, it might seem that knowing when to replace the membrane elements in a reverse osmosis (RO) system...

Clean Energy from Landfill Diversion Plus the Bonus of Biochar

Biochar is the carbon-rich product that is left over after the completion of the gasification process. (photo credit: Dillon Fuller) Lebanon, Tennessee, is located twenty-five miles...

Graf Creamery optimizes wastewater operations

Graf Creamery, a Midwestern butter and cream production plant, was experiencing issues with the fat and grease build-up in their holding cell retention pond....

St. Bernard Parish Combats Brain-eating Amoeba with Fifty Automatic Flushing Units

By Mark Magda, Mueller Water Products St. Bernard Parish is situated southeast of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana. In 2005, hurricane Katrina caused...

Optimizing performance in industrial wastewater treatment

Since the beginning of time, people have had the need to treat the water they consume, and use for cooking, bathing and washing their...

Riverside Forging Ahead on Water Quality

By John Yap, Aquatic Informatics Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) has been providing water and electricity to the city of Riverside, California, since 1895. As an...

French beef producer’s biomethane plant brings the juice

In collaboration with its French partner Agripower France, German manufacturer Weltec Biopower is currently building a biomethane plant for the Elivia Group. France‘s second-largest...

The Village of Montpelier Improves Efficiency with New Gas Chlorinator System

When Bill Blakely, the water treatment superintendent of the Village of Montpelier, Ohio, commented that the village had “pretty good tasting water,” little did...

On the Strength of Design

In 1978, an innovation occurred in centrifuge technology that changed the market. The dominant centrifuge technologies of the time, the nozzle disk centrifuge and...