Pumping a Solution for Increased Water Demand

Water is abundant on our planet: approximately two thirds of the earth’s surface is covered with it. Drinking and service water, however, is becoming...

Balancing Cost and Performance

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

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...

Odor and Corrosion Control in Wastewater Collection Systems: Part 3 of...

Ozone can be generated by exciting a flow of oxygen with sufficient electrical or optical energy. This will cause a certain amount of oxygen...

10 expert tips to ensure safe sewer cleaning

Municipalities must safely clean and maintain many miles of sewer line annually to eliminate blockages and prevent sanitary sewer overflows, which are regulated by...

The Pursuit of a Green Carbon Steel Corrosion Inhibitor: Part 1...

Corrosion control of carbon steel heat exchange components is becoming increasingly more important as energy costs rise and the demand for environmentally friendly chemicals...

Automatic Scraper Strainers Protect Critical Membrane Systems

For industrial process facilities, membrane filtration is a valuable, commonly used means of filtering water and wastewater. The challenge is that membrane systems are...

The Pursuit of a Green Carbon Steel Corrosion Inhibitor: Part 2...

Building on last month’s installment in this series, this article will detail the simulated cooling tower water experiment’s test procedure for both a scaling...

How to Select the Most Effective Blower Technology for...

Given numerous variables when selecting an aeration blower system for wastewater applications, and equally numerous claims by technology providers, it is not surprising that...

How to Control Activated Sludge with Online Sensors: Part 3 of...

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...