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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer Installation #1122 Wastewater Treatment Installation in Miami, FL - Case Study
A municipality adds pollution control with the help of Alliance Corporation as part of odor control of new sewage treatment plant. Application: Waste Water Treatment – Corona, CA Project: A 4,000 SCFM TRITON™ Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer constructed of 316 stainless steel. Installed by customer. ...
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Molecular detection, quantification and characterization of human polyomavirus JC from waste water in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Polyomavirus JC (JCPyV) is largely excreted by the human population through the urinary route and has been recognized as a potential viral marker for human waste contamination. This study aims to investigate the dissemination of JCPyV in waste water from a sewage treatment plant (STP) located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and to describe the prevalence of JCPyV subtypes currently present in this ...
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V-Bank Transition (VTS) - Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre, Ottawa, Canada - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: The RobertO. Pickard Environmental Centre (ROPEC) in Ottawa, Canada was undergoing needed upgrades and expansions to its thickening and dewatering building. This building plays a vital role by in water treatment providing sewage receiving and pumping, sludge mixing and thickening, as well as dewatering digested biosolids. These processes release H2S, Ammonia, and other VOC's into ...
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Kicking up a stink
From 1990 to 2001, odour from sewage treatment works was controlled by local authorities under the Statutory Nuisance provisions of the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990. Then came a landmark ruling in 2001, where it was judged that a sewage treatment works was not “premises” as defined by the EPA and the ability to serve an abatement notice for odour lapsed. As a result, the ...
By WRC Ltd
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Odour Nuisance - Where We Are and Where to Next?
Prior to 1990 there were very few examples of effective odour control schemes at sewage treatment works. Sources were often not properly identified, much less quantified and budgets did not allow the introduction of properly engineered solutions. Since then, in response to a seemingly endless increase in pressure from public, considerable progress has been made tackling the problem. First ...
By WRC Ltd
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Sustainable odour control in urban environments
Abstract With an ever increasing focus on sustainability, the municipal recycling sector is increasingly locating recycling facilities in urban environments to be closer to their waste sources. The odour control industry needs to respond in providing ever more efficient odour extraction technologies to minimise any odour nuisance to their residential community neighbours. In addition, cost ...
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Ashbridges Bay Sewage Treatment Plant, Toronto, Ontario - Case Study
ABOUT THE PROJECT Biorem has successfully demonstrated its high rate odour control system for biosolids exhausts at Ashbridges Bay sewage treatment plant in Toronto, Ontario. The demonstration used XLD™, a biofiltration media engineered specifically for biosolids odours. The system has achieved 95% odour removal in less than 20-s Empty Bed Residence Time (EBRT) despite high concentration ...
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Odor under cover: a solution for the largest wastewater treatment plant in Europe
Beckton Sewage Treatment Works is one of five wastewater treatment plants in the Thames Water network in the United Kingdom and the largest treatment plant in Europe. Headquartered in the London borough of Newham, it serves 3.7 million people, mainly in north and east London. As part of a $309 million upgrade to the Beckton plant, Thames Water engaged general contractor GBM to upgrade the ...
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CASE STUDY #26 Q-PAC® PLASTIC
Q-PAC® far exceeded design requirements THE PROBLEM: Three odor control scrubbers: One for removal of NH3 and two for removal of H2S. The scrubbers are part of the sludge handling facility at the Arlington, Virginia Sewage Treatment Plant, located about one mile from the Ronald Reagan Airport, which serves the nation's Capitol. To view the full case study click here (PDF - 130KB) ...
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Odour Management System for Sewage Treatment Works - Case Study
Application To provide an Odour Management System (OMS) to comply with specified odour control measures and exceed requirements of: The projects Environmental Assessment Statement The projects planning consent Removal of 99% of gaseous Hydrogen Sulphide Removal of 99% of total Mercaptans Removal of 99% of ammonia gases & vapours. Achieve a boundary level of 5 OUE/m Continue reading ...
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Odour control: A successful experience in sorocaba city – Brazil
Public concern over odours from sewage treatment facilities have been increasingly significantly in Brazil in recent years due to urban developments around existing plants or construction of new ones. The city of Sorocaba is an example where the expansion of the sewage collection and treatment system has increased and consequently more people have been exposed to bad odours. Due to this ...
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Municipal sewage treatment plant eliminates odors and saves money versus its previous treatment scheme
The Problem - Neighbors on the surrounding hillsides of this Northeastern Ohio sewage treatment plant were outraged by constant, intensely offensive odors from the plant's sludge drying operations. The plant's current treatment was providing only marginal success in controlling odors pouring from the exhaust scrubber. The plant was receiving hundres of calls a week. The Objective - Eliminate ...
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Case Study | Taicang Nanjiao Sewage Treatment Plant
With the development of science and technology, automation technology has been widely promoted, and more and more automation products have been applied to our life. So what will happen when automation is applied to sewage treatment plants? Accompanied by the patter of light rain, in rows of neat buildings, we arrived at Taicang Nanjiao Sewage Treatment Plant, one of the largest sewage treatment ...
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Extended CSO control storage: what could possibly go wrong?
The Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT), is one of the main components of the London Tideway Improvements Programme, designed to capture combined sewer overflows (CSOs) which currently discharge untreated combined sewage into the tidal river Thames. CSO discharges would be stored in the tunnel until there is capacity at Beckton sewage treatment works (STW), to accept, for treatment, pumped sewage ...
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Bi-On CARB OX, the Average Chosen for 4 Water Treatment Plants in Portugal
Our Portuguese Partner TecnoConverting recently participated in the bidding of one of the companies of the group Aguas de Portugal , with the aim of carrying out a study to replace the existing activated carbon in four of its pumping stations. It was about finding a filtering media with better features and greater autonomy than they were using, in order to lengthen the spare times. ...
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Material and equipment are key in meeting practical and regulatory sewage treatment requirements
When it comes to marine sewage treatment, a lot has changed over the past several decades. At the same time, a lot has not changed—the underlying microbiology of sewage treatment, for example. In 1973, St. Louis Ship Division of Pott Industries occupied the same ground on which lames Eads built ironclads for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. We were our own guinea pigs, ...
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Case Study: Biolan Wastewater Treatment Facility
The initial situation Biolan decided to build a new wastewater treatment plant in 2004. The treatment plant should have sufficient capacity, also taking the future into account. The requirements were to achieve a good purification result as well as removing odours from the region. The plant was designed by the company Jaakko Pöyry Oyj. The size of the main process basin turned out to be ...
By W-Rix Ltd
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Odour prevention in sewage treatment plants, Cambrils WWTP - Case Study
The Catalan Water Agency (ACA) commissioned a project to minimize the emission of odors from the primary sedimentation tanks of the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) of Cambrils (Tarragona), emissions that usually generated complaints from the neighborhood. BION was selected as the candidate to carry out an interesting project that consisted in the treatment of gas phase pollutants (mainly H2S) ...
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Odor Control System: A Way to Control Odor and Bad Smell
Today, people around the world are facing the COVID-19 pandemic, so we all have become more aware to protect ourselves from germs, viruses, and bacteria. We are trying and using various hygienic techniques and machinery to make our atmosphere pollution-free as well as free from odor. Offensive odors can result from almost anything like fire, flooding, and food courts where food preparation is ...
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EnviroChemie EnviModul Flomar wastewater treatment plant cleans dairy wastewater at the Schrozberg sewage treatment plant - Case Study
Following a call for tenders, the town of Schrozberg commissioned EnviroChemie to build and install a wastewater treatment plant for dairy wastewater at the municipal sewage treatment plant. An EnviModul Flomar® flotation plant is used to pre-treat dairy wastewater, which is fed in separately from municipal wastewater. Afterwards, it is added to the biological treatment stage of the sewage ...
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