By Warren Kersten,Lakeside Equipment Corporation The phrase “significant operational challenges” is something of a major understatement when bringing about wastewater treatment enhancements at a preeminent public...

Every wastewater treatment facility eventually faces the challenge of aging and deteriorating equipment, affecting operational efficiency. Drives struggle to keep up their power, skimmers...

In part 1 of this article, we noted that, in residential settings, drains that can act as a physical barrier to water provide an...

Miss part 1? Read it here. In the first part of this series, we demonstrated how vertical turbine pumps (VTPs) are an essential element of...

Wastewater treatment plants are a relatively untapped opportunity in the world of energy efficiency. Although these energy costs represent the largest controllable expense for...

Most municipalities are fully aware that preventing sewer overflows is a national enforcement priority for EPA, yet many struggle to stay compliant. Too often,...

Many inhibitors considered for use in an environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitor program are organic in nature and may be subject to oxidation. This paper...

The current EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is more than thirty years old, and it has made dramatic improvements to the water quality in...

In the conclusion to this series, we will examine the testing results for organic and combined corrosion inhibitors in both hard and soft water...

Figure 3: On-Off Control Dissolved Oxygen Response (source: Meck, D., R. Odum, N. Wobbrock, Cornell University) In the final piece of this series, we detail...