In Times of Drought: Part 1 of 3
A prolonged and serious drought in the American West has elevated concerns about the state of our nation’s water use and supply. The United...
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,...
A Holistic Approach to Process Control
Secondary wastewater treatment, specifically activated sludge treatment, can be broken down into a series of unit processes, each of which are linked to the...
Recycling Earth’s Rapidly Shrinking Resource – Part 2 of 3
In the first part of this series, we examined some of the benefits of reusing wastewater, especially as it relates to food and beverage...
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...
Enhancing Lab Services with Advanced Equipment and Talent
In an industrial park located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a group of talented individuals is working together to continue the advancement of their solids handling...
Innovative Solutions to Drinking Water Decontamination in Small and Medium Treatment...
Chlorine is most frequently used to disinfect drinking water, and existing regulations both limit THMs at the point of end use and require a...
Tuning the Accuracy of Lift Station Flow Rates
In part one of this article, we explored pre-SCADA methods of measurement, past approaches and difficulties in measuring lift station flow rates, and the...
STEP: Another Alternative to Alternative Sewers
When there are more options than to “hook-up” to a municipal plant and pay exorbitant connection fees, a community developer looks into alternative methods...
Hurricane-force Performance
At a Utah facility that has seven wastewater
treatment lagoons treating 1.5 million gallons per day and over 300 acres of farm land, a new...