Manage Dredge Operations from Your Smartphone
By Mercedes Gabriel, DSC Dredge
For over fifty years, DSC Dredge has met the needs of the dredging industry in terms of designing and manufacturing...
When cleanup is critical
A new aeration system has rescued a paper mill in El Salvador that was on the brink of millions of dollars’ worth of fines...
Energy-Efficient Aeration for the New Century: Part 2 of 2
Aeration accounts for a 50 to 70 percent of a treatment plant’s power consumption, and in part 1 of this series, we examined the...
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...
AI optimizes treatment processes
Stadtwerke Trier (SWT) operates the main wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Trier, with a capacity of 170,000 population equivalents. This facility was one of...
Wastewater Treatment Technology Doesn’t Have To Be New To Be Disruptive
By Matt Hale, HRS Heat Exchangers
The term “disruptive technology” can be found everywhere across wastewater treatment, from conferences to whitepapers, and from small industrial...
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...
Bioaugmentation Saves Money and Time
Reducing FOG and odors in collection systems and lift stations
Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) can accumulate in collection systems and lift stations and cause...
Electronic Water Treatment Reduces Fouling in Reverse Osmosis
Reverse osmosis (RO) is used in processes requiring high-quality, purified water, such in semi-conductor processing or biochemical applications and can be used to treat...
External Heating Units Upgrade Wastewater Treatment
TasWater is the water and sewage utility for the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Owned by Tasmania’s twenty-nine local councils and the state...