odor control Articles
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Radial Flow (RF) - Big Creek WWTP, Georgia, USA - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: The wastewater treatment plant at Big Creek in Georgia, United States had numerous and reoccurring complaints from the surrounding residential community regarding the odor from the facility. A common problem at treatment facilities, the odor needed to be eliminated through gas phase filtration of H2S and other compounds from the air. Big Creek looked at numerous options for odor ...
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Pima County, Tucson, Arizona - Case Study
Pima County’s Roger Road wastewater treatment plant has a daily flow of 36 MGD, and some of the flow must travel 28 miles before reaching the plant. The plant also receives discharges from a State prison and a Federal prison. In an effort to control odors and septicity, the collection system was treated with three products – Bioxide, sodium hypochlorite and magnesium hydroxide. Even ...
By BioCOPE Inc.
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Affordable new compost technology provides in-vessel levels of gas emission and odor control
Increasingly stringent air-emission regulations and demands to better control odors has put an economic strain on industries that recycle large amounts of organic materials, such as compost facilities, dairies, and feedlots. ECS has recently introduced an affordable composting technology to greatly improve facility compliance and odor control. This technology is the AC Composter. Air Quality ...
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GTI’s Covers Provide Over 99 Percent Odor Capture at Sydney Water’s WWTP
The Utility: The Cronulla Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is one of 30 wastewater treatment and water recycling plants in greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and the Illawarra. It is owned and operated by Sydney Water, Australia’s largest water utility. The plant is located on the southern end of the Kurnell Peninsula (about 18 km [11 miles] from the city center), and treats about 54 ...
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Case Study: Packed bed scrubber
StockPot, a Campbell's Soup subsidiary, makes premium soups, sauces, chilies and marinades for the foodservice industry. The company chose a Tri-Mer Odor Control System, a 40,000 cfm packed bed scrubber. Tri-Mer packed towers are well-suited to the foods and flavors industries and perform at efficiencies of 99% and higher. They are ideal for odors that are detectable below 1 ppm. And, where ...
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Catalytic Oxidizer Solves Manufacturer's Local Odor Control Issue
The Air Issue A manufacturing company produces scented products in their facilities around the US. The company has received numerous complaints regarding the odors emitted from the manufacture of these scented products which they wanted to proactively address. After a detailed engineering study, various hydrocarbon VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) were determined to be the root cause of the ...
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GTI’s odor control system ends neighbors’ complaints - case study
The South Dearborn Regional Sewer District in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, provides regional wastewater treatment ser vices for three cities and an international distillery. As the community grew, wastewater treatment plant managers at the South Dearborn Regional Sewer District saw an increase in complaints from neighbors about a foul smell lingering in the area. Odor complaints became a sensitive ...
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Purafil ESD eliminates offensive odors 4The Besos wastewater treatment plant case study
Located in Northeastern Barcelona on the Mediterranean Sea, the recently renovated Besos Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is a revolutionary solution for more than two million inhabitants. The new 900,000 ft2, underground facility is the last stage in the city's water cycle and it now treats more than 70 percent of the city of Barcelona's wastewater and its surrounding towns: Sant Adria de ...
By Dimtech S.A
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Odor fighter`s job really does stink
Robert Bowker"s job stinks, and he known it. Bowker is one of handful of odor control engineers in the country. He visits sewage treatment plants around the world and recommends ways to relieve the stench. This week he is visiting Concord"s plant. Vowker grew up in Maine and received a civil engineering degree from the University of New Hampshire before earning a msater"s of environmental ...
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Odor control system addresses community’s complaints - case study
The Customer: The Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) of the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, operates two wastewater treatment facilities and maintains the city’s sewer system. The Customer’s Needs: After years of operating successfully in the community, the City of Bridgeport’s WPCA developed an odor problem at its East Side Wastewater Treatment Plant. It was an ...
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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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Pearl river valley water supply district case study
Performance History and Discussion In-Pipe Technology implemented the first phase of a collection system Professional Services Program in 2001. Beginning in 2002, additional collection system basins were added to the services program. Currently, the treated areas include the North and South shore of the Pelahatchie Bay, the Main Harbor, and two Lagoon Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) collection ...
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V-Bank Transition (VTS) - RL Sutton WWTP, Georgia, USA - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: Located adjacent to the Chattahoochee River, in Cobb County, Georgia, is the RL Sutton Wastewater Reclamation. The facility was operating at capacity and needed to expand. An upgrade was completed a few years later to include a Biosolids Transfer Station that could assist the City of Atlanta and other Municipalities in processing solids waste. The odor from the Biosolids Transfer ...
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What makes an effective odor control cover system design?
Background A common side effect of wastewater treatment processes is the unpleasant odor that can linger near the plant, annoying neighbors, who then complain. Often, the wastewater treatment plant was built many years ago in an isolated part of town. Over the years, the town’s population grew until subdivisions were developed next to the treatment plant. The new neighbors, offended by ...
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Cyanobacteria & odor control in a raw water lake - Case Study
Better raw water quality results in significant treatment savings and a fast pay-back. Topics: raw water, cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins, taste and odor, treatment savings, improve fishery, water clarity Reservoir Overview: This lake is an 850+ acre manmade reservoir feeding a County operated water treatment plant (WTP) in Georgia. The WTP production capacity was ten (10) to twelve (12) million ...
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Case study - Asphalt plant odor control in North Carolina
Challenge A hot mix asphalt plant located in a rural area of Xorth Carolina has a community of neighbors living approximately a quarter mile away that began complaining about odors from the plant. The plant typically has several trucks a day arriving at the plant to offload liquid asphalt, with a volume that fluctuates depending on workload. The general amount of liquid asphalt is 6,000 gallons ...
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City uses digesters to rid lift stations of hydrogen sulfide - Case Study
Problem The city of Taylorville (Illinois) Street/Sewer Department faced issues with hydrogen sulfide in three lift stations and with biofilms further downstream in the delivery piping to the wastewater treatment plant. The discharge manhole H2S readings were over 700 ppm, and local residents complained of odors. Solution The city purchased three Little John Digesters from D02E Wastewater ...
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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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City uses digesters to rid lift stations of hydrogen sulfide – Case Study
Problem The city of Taylorville (Illinois) Street/Sewer Department faced issues with hydrogen sulfide in three lift stations and with biofilms further downstream in the delivery piping to the wastewater treatment plant. The discharge manhole H2S readings were over 700 ppm, and local residents complained of odors. Solution The city purchased three Little John Digesters from D02E Wastewater ...
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Air Sentry Desiccant Breathers
Enluse B.V. is supplier of Air Sentry® breathers that increase efficiency, prolong fluid life, reduce maintenance costs and downtime. In a series of 4 we’ll discuss successively: · D-Series: Disposable stationary applications · X-Series: High Humidity/High Dust · M-Series: Heavy Duty Applications · Z-Series: Limited ...
By Enluse B.V.
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