Modeling Solutions for the Unsung Hero

By Walt Prentice, Applied Flow Technology  When you think of processing plants, you may think of oil, its derivatives, and other chemical products. After all,...

Energy-Efficient Aeration for the New Century

If energy-efficient Aeration is not your priority—even when it is well documented that Aeration accounts for a pretty staggering 50 to 70 percent of...

The Valley Center Way

At Valley Center Wastewater Treatment Plant, and at an increasing number of facilities across Kansas, the decision to buy the more expensive equipment at...

Solutions for Big Water Challenges Come in Small Packages

One of the biggest clean water challenges faced by many communities is land – or rather, the lack of it. As urbanization increases and...

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...

Post-Katrina, an All-Terrain Sewer™ Revitalizes a Mississippi Town: Part 2 of...

In part 1 of this series, we detailed some of the lingering damage left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina throughout the septic system...

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...

Aeration Record-breaker in Montrose, British Columbia

By Warren Kersten, Lakeside Equipment Corporation In a recent issue of the Trail Times, a newspaper that covers the Village of Montrose in south-eastern British...

How to Control Activated Sludge with Online Sensors: Part 2...

In part 1 of this series, we introduced a broad view of the use of online instrumentation for control of wastewater treatment aeration, which,...

The Village of Montpelier Improves Efficiency with New Gas Chlorinator System

When Bill Blakely, the water treatment superintendent of the Village of Montpelier, Ohio, commented that the village had “pretty good tasting water,” little did...