Ending the scourge of “blown toilets”

For the operators cleaning municipal sewer, storm and sanitary lines, dreaded “blown toilets” can quickly become a community clean-up and public relations nightmare.  “A ‘blown...

Flood Defense Pumps Need High-quality Bearings

By Emma Gerard, Thordon Bearings Inc. Pumps for flood defense must handle high-capacity volumes and also be reliable in extreme conditions. Bedford Pumps Ltd., one...

Don’t Just Settle With Poor Water Pressure: Part 2 of 2

In last month’s article, we were introduced to Steve and Kacy Peel of Naples, Florida, who purchased a home with a huge challenge internally:...

Protecting Your Power Plant from Corrosion During Downtime

In the power industry, every minute is critical. A smooth plant startup is vital to operations, and directly linked to lay-up procedures. A thorough...

Safe, sustainable, and smart

Around 359 billion cubic meters of wastewater is produced globally each year. As well as municipal wastewater, a broad range of industrial processes produce...

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...

A Holistic Approach to Process Control – Part 2 of 2

In part one of this two part series, we introduced the City of Lebanon (PA) Authority Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and described the objectives...

Water 101: A Primer for the Primacy of Water

By Anna Kučírková If you’re reading this, water is probably easily available to you. You may even have a bottle of water sitting right next...

Doubling Service Life and Minimizing Repair Downtime

By Lauren Heinz, Tsurumi America, Inc. A coal mine in central Illinois is making huge annual savings of approximately $90,000 after switching to Tsurumi LH-6110 pumps...

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...