city cleaning Articles

Efficiency advances in wastewater reuse and desalination are bringing on-site treatment within reach of more manufacturing operations Three factors — climate, overuse, and pollution — are now propelling the manufacturing industry toward a sea change in its water use. Demand for fresh water is high and increasing. The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated that the U.S.  ...

May 23, 2018

By Fluence Corporation

Don Teeters and I met at a ground water presentation where Don was speaking on well rehabilitation. This subject was a bit of a touchy one, as I was frustrated with the acid product I was currently using and the lack of support that that chemical company had offered me. Whenever I called that company for help to ask why my well efficiencies were not improving I always got the same answer. Use ...

Jun. 18, 2018

By Continental Technologies Inc. (CTI)

A Dutch designer has created a new tower to filter city smog and — hopefully — help end China’s air pollution problem. China’s ongoing struggle with smog is notorious. Rapid industrialization paired with an initial lack of ...

Oct. 10, 2016

By Camfil Ltd

In Contra Costa County, east of San Francisco, we installed an IWS Screen to remove all types of water borne debris including moss, grass, hyacinth and tumbleweeds.   The installation reduces man hours and risk of injury from raking trash racks as well as keeping service lines clear. This project included: Traveling Screen(s) Elevator Pump ...

Apr. 8, 2016

By International Water Screens

Two years ago the Glasgow City Council announced a major clean-up of the Clyde as part a regeneration programme. The clean-up was regarded as an important element in attracting tourists to the cities riverside and its continued development. However two rivers, the Cart and Kelvin flow into the River Clyde and bring with them hundreds of tonnes of floating litter and debris right onto the ...

Aug. 3, 2009

The Special Service District's impact shines throughout downtown. Within the district's 760 acres, Tampa's Downtown Clean Team Beautifies the streets, while the softer side of security, Tampa's Downtown Guides, patrol by foot and bike. The six Clean Team members collect more than two tons of trash and other debris every day. In 2004, they kept 720 tons of garbage off the city streets. Tampa's ...

Apr. 18, 2007

The challenge for the team of ABB Environmental Services, led by Helmut Bergel, was a full service project, including the exchange and replacement of transformers contaminated with the environmental pollutant PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenyls, a class of chlorinated hydrocarbons that have been used extensively since 1960 for a variety of industrial uses like coolants in transformers and dielectrics ...

Feb. 13, 2007

By Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. KG

Ulrik Sinding, owner of Djursland Kloakservice ApS (a sewage service company in Trustrup, Denmark) was practically born into the vacuum tanker business. Already in 1979, as a 15-year-old, he was hired by the company that his father, Orla Sinding, started in 1964. In 1989, at the age of 25, Ulrik Sinding took over the company, which has installed Samson pumps in most of its vacuum tanker trucks. ...

Apr. 1, 2016

By Samson Pumps A/S

As global population grows, urban population is growing even faster — with 2.5 billion more city dwellers expected by 2050, according to the United Nations. And while urbanization can bring benefits in terms of economies of scale, social cohesion, technological innovation, transportation efficiency and more, cities can also be breeding grounds for poverty, pollution and malaise. To help ...

Dec. 16, 2015

By Ensia

The C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa kicks off today (Feb. 4). It’s the fifth biennial meeting of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a collection of mayors from cities around the world committed to advancing urban solutions to climate change. The theme for the event is “Towards resilient and ...

Feb. 4, 2014

By World Resources Institute WRI

The City of Checotah, Oklahoma was experiencing excessive solids, foam and grease in their 0.5 MGD extended aeration activated sludge treatment facility. With a daily average flow of 0.25 million gallons per day, the plant had tremendous amounts of foam and grease in the aeration basin with the sidewalls caked with sludge. The centerwells of the clarifier were filled with foam and grease. The ...

Sep. 13, 2012

By Byo-Gon, Inc.

The commercial waste industry includes all those who collect waste from the simplest “collect waste and transport to a landfill” to the more complex “collect waste and process into re-usable components and energy.” This article will cover how we can collect material and fuel a clean energy system for our immediate future, while saving clean water and air. ...

Mar. 1, 2010

By Waste Advantage Magazine

Things have come a long way since the Land Run of 1889, when settlers got their water from three wells: at the train station, south of the train station and in the vicinity of Santa Fe and Main. Today, the city’s water comes from a network of six man-made lakes—much of it fed by the North Canadian River and from southeastern Oklahoma. Out with the ...

Oct. 9, 2015

By CST Industries Inc

The catalysed wall flow soot filter was designed and installed in the fourth quarter of 2008 to treat the Particulate Matter (PM), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) & Carbon Monoxide (CO) in the exhaust gases from the outlet of an MTU 12V000G23E emergency generator installed in the basement in the financial district London EC2R. AirProtekt Catalysed Wallflow Particulate Filter is a system ...

May 10, 2017

By AirProtekt Limited

In 2002, the leadership of the City of Atlanta kicked off a comprehensive program to have the cleanest urban streams and rivers in the country within a decade, recognizing that the City’s future economic growth, jobs, affordability, and quality of life all depend on clean water. Atlanta is faced with many obstacles on the way to meeting this challenge; a few of these include: Ongoing ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

The Basics of Water Filtration Most of us know that filtered water is healthier than tap water because of its purity, but how does water filtration work? The basic principle is that filtered water has passed through a filter which removes contaminants through one of several methods, depending on the type of filter. Most water purification systems work in one of three ways ­ by running water ...

Sep. 28, 2015

By City Water International

Becoming a supplier to Masdar City Are you interested in supplying products in the construction and operation of Masdar City? In order for Masdar City to reach its ambitious goals of being one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments, Masdar City encourages suppliers to find out the carbon footprint for the products they sell and ...

May 21, 2010

By thinkstep

The City of Vancouver owns and operates the Vancouver Landfill located in Delta, British Columbia. The Vancouver Landfill is a municipal solid waste landfill receiving approximately 400,000 tonnes per year of municipal solid waste. The total area of the Landfill is 635 hectares of which approximately 225 hectares has been filled since landfill operations commenced in 1966. As part of the ...

Jan. 1, 2000

From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded freeways, cars, houses and businesses, leaving several people dead and hundreds in need of rescue. ...

Sep. 1, 2015

By Ensia

The Problem Oil and grease from restaurants and fast food establishments have presented a major problem to wastewater treatment plants for years. There have been various additives; some have worked well for the removal of grease but cause problems later in the wastewater treatment plant With the changing regulations and enforcement as to what can be discharged into a system, about the ...

Sep. 13, 2012

By Byo-Gon, Inc.