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Landfill leachate treatment

Jun. 4, 2013

The Client The client is part of a group operating at an International level in many sectors and is highly experienced in many aspects of environmental services. The company provides the Region with many different services including street cleaning, waste collection and transport, graveyard services, public gardens maintenance, building and ...

EVALED

Newport water treatment plant improvements - new membrane treatment facility case study

Mar. 22, 2013

City of Newport Newport, Oregon, USA HDR provided design and construction engineering services for a new water membrane filtration facility in Newport, Oregon. The plant's capacity was upgraded from 4 to 6 million gallons per day (MGD), expandable to 10 MGD. The new treatment system design includes an intake pump station, a pressurized ...

HDR, Inc.

Automated Handling of Activated Carbon in Bulk Bags Reduces Dust and Labor for Municipal WTPs

Feb. 19, 2013

Two cities, one in the United States and the other in Canada, over 700 miles (1100 km) apart, were experiencing nearly identical problems caused by manual addition of powdered activated carbon to their municipal water treatment systems. Both cities not only eliminated a health hazard caused by carbon powder dust, but also reduced the amount of ...

Activated carbon mat instrumental as part of overall remediation strategy case study

Feb. 15, 2013

Project: Grand Calumet River - West Branch, Reach #3 Location: Hammond, IN Products: Reactive Core Mat Background: In 2009. clean up began on a one-mile stretch of the West Branch of the Grand Calumet River. This project involved the mechanical dredging and removal of 82,000 cubic yards of sediments and soils impacted with PAH. PCB, and various ...

CETCO Remediation Technologies

Activated carbon mat utilized in subaqueous cap on major superfund site case study

Feb. 15, 2013

Project: Stryker Bay Location: Duluth, MN Products: GAC Reactive Core Mat® (GAC = Granular Activated Carbon) Background: Stryker Bay was heavily polluted from the late 1800s through 1962. The harbor area was ringed with tar and coke plants, heavy industry and slaughterhouses that all discharged industrial waste into the water Coal tar in some ...

CETCO Remediation Technologies

Activated carbon filled reactive mat chosen as low profile permeable capping remedy case study

Feb. 15, 2013

Project: Zidell Marine Corporation Sediment Cap Location: Portland, OR Products: Reactive Core Mat filled with Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) and Apatite II Background: Cleanup is required for land which was contaminated with a variety of chemicals as a result of ship construction, ship breaking, and barge construction at a site where heavy ...

CETCO Remediation Technologies

4.5 MWe Refuse Derived Fuel to Energy Plant Case Study

Jan. 21, 2013

This 4.5 MWe Biomass Power Plant is one of the turnkey products of Biomass Power. The plant has a capacity of 24 MW thermal and rated at 4.5 MWe producing 35,476MWh of green electricity per year, 100% of which is exported to the grid. The fuel used is segregated biomass from a commercial and industrial waste collection business. The fuel is ...

Biomass Power Limited (BPL)

Pacific place contaminated groundwater treatment facility

Oct. 10, 2012

Location: Vancouver, B.C. Owner: B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Description: This $1.5 million facility is capable of treating 135 L/min of contaminated groundwater, removing primarily BTEX and PAH. Through aeration, pH adjustment, and polymer addition, flocculation and settling, the majority of the contaminants are removed. ...

NovaTec Consultants Inc.

Innovative approach to unforeseen site conditions – case study

Sep. 17, 2012

The Crater Resources Quarry 3 Remediation site was a former limestone quarry that was later used as a disposal site for Waste Ammonia Liquor (WAL) generated by the coke making facility at a steel mill. The WAL contained water, ammonia, and small amounts of various hydrocarbons formed during the coking process. Coking operations shut down by the ...

Sustainable Resources Group, Inc. (SRG)

Fruit Packager Utilizes Catalytic Carbon to Reduce Hydrogen Sulfide in Wastewater

Aug. 31, 2012

The Duckwall Pooley Fruit Company is one of the largest fruit packagers in the Hood River Valley in Oregon, packing approximately 1.8 million bushels of pears annually.  To improve their operations and lower their costs, the company implemented new measures to optimize the rinse water usage in the pear packaging line. After packaging of the ...

Siemens industry, Inc., Water Technologies

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