Wastewater Plants Embrace Automation

For wastewater plants, the time is right to move toward greater digitization, efficiency, and the benefits of automation. To assist with these goals, ABB...

Removing pharmaceuticals from water supplies

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

Lobe Pumps Reduce Maintenance and Downtime for Wastewater Treatment Plant

Veolia Water North America is a leading provider of water and wastewater services for municipalities, government entities, business and industry. In 1985, Veolia Water...

Cleaning Up the Big Apple

Centrisys Corporation, a leading North American manufacturer of decanter and thickening centrifuges and dewatering systems, announced in February that it has secured a contract...

Seriously Good ROI on Septage

When investing in new equipment, what would you consider to be a reasonable payback?  Five years? Three years? At the Kishwaukee Water Reclamation District (KWRD)...

Challenges of Low Boron Removal Requirements in Large-scale Seawater Desalination Plants...

With the increasing demand for electronic grade silicon, and particularly the growth of silicon solar cells, the semiconductor industry is facing the challenge of...

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...

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...

How Will THC and CBD Products Affect Water Treatment Needs?

By Rick Allen, BioLynceus, LLC  During my research for my new class “The Changing World of Pretreatment,” I ran across many new and inventive ways...

Better Design, Better Results: Part 1 of 2

The oil and gas industry is increasingly relying on electromagnetic flowmeters, commonly known as magmeters, as a crucial tool to address the ever-growing challenges...