on site water treatment technology Articles
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2005 Benchmark Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Canada
Gravimetric and chemical treatment with land-farm application discharge had significant design shortcomings during routine process upsets, becoming under-sized as production increased, or as heavy rainfall resulted in uncontrolled storm runoff of the wastewater. API O/W/S technology certainly can’t be expected to be deployed effectively for remote oil and gas fields or offshore sites produced ...
By Stratos Inc.
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DoD Corrosion Prevention and Control Program demonstrates 20% make-up water reduction and 50% reduction in blow-down utilizing Zeta Rod Water Management Systems
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Lab (USACE ERDC/CERL) has published data collected during a 24-month demonstration/validation project in which the Zeta Rod® Water Management System was evaluated for its ability to deliver documented water conservation results while providing corrosion, scaling, and biofouling protection in open-loop evaporative cooling systems. The report, titled ...
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On-site treatment of used wash-water using biologically activated membrane bioreactors operated at different solids retention times
Biologically activated membrane bioreactors (BAMBis) were operated at suspended solids retention times (SRT) of 7 and 102 days and at full solids retention. The effect of these different approaches of operation on the substrate and nutrient conversion, and on permeate flux, was investigated. Variations in organic loads and aeration intensities were also studied. Permeate flux stabilized ...
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Standardizing On-Site Hypochlorite Generation Disinfection Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants Increases Safety and Eases Operations Case Study
Newberg, Oregon, is located approximately 25 miles southwest of Portland in Yamhill County. Geographically separated from Portland by the surrounding Chehalem Mountains and located in a broad valley created by the Willamette River, Newberg is home to numerous vineyards and is known as the “Napa Valley” of Oregon. Newberg is a fast-growing community of just over 22,500 people with a ...
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Anglian water choose atg UV for effluent treatment - Case Study
Client: Anglian Water Location: Great Billing, Special Operations Site Description: Effluent Waste Water atg UV Technology, pioneers in the design and engineering of Ultraviolet treatment systems have won supplied Anglian Water with two compact, closed chamber, Ultraviolet disinfection systems for the treatment of effluent waste water at their special operations WwTW's site located in Great ...
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The benefits of planned maintenance for waste water odour control systems
Abstract This paper summarises ERG’s experience in the first three years of their odour control maintenance framework agreement with Southern Water and ERG’s perceptions of the benefits Southern Water has derived from this agreement. Key Words Planned maintenance, odour control, chemical scrubbing, bio‐filters, carbon filters, waste water. Introduction ERG (Air Pollution ...
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Retirement community graywater reuse - Australia case study
Project Background or Rationale RSL Care’s Sunset Ridge Retirement Community resides near the Pacific coast in Zilzie, Queensland, Australia. The retirement community includes 100 independent living villas, a 120-bed aged care residential complex, and resort style facilities. Although Zilzie averages 31 in (79 cm) of annual rainfall, RSL Care sought to install a graywater recycling system ...
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Decentralised wastewater treatment for Angola - Case Study
Water saving through recycling | In 2010, a biological water purification unit was delivered to Heerema’s site in Porto Amboim (Angola). This package plant is responsible for the purification of domestic wastewater from toilets, showers and the kitchen. The quality of the effluent meets European standards and is reused as toilet flush water. Installation type | Innopack++ Application | ...
By PureBlue
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OECD Conference on fostering safe, innovation-led growth in nanotechnology
There is little doubt that nanotechnology is delivering on its promise to revolutionize many sectors of the global economy. As nanoenabled products populate the commercial landscape at an accelerated pace, there is growing interest in developing tools that can be used to assess more precisely the benefits to the environment of nanotechnology and/or nanoenabled products. Largely in response to ...
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Mekong Delta Faces Saline Intrusion Crisis
Longer periods of seawater intrusion in the river’s delta system threatens a collapse of Vietnam’s food chain The countless boats, houses, and markets on the Mekong River delta’s complex lattice of streams, rivers, and canals are home to millions of inhabitants, who all depend on the health of the delta. The 65,000-km2 region sustains 60% of Vietnam’s population and is ...
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Presumptive Remedies
A presumptive remedy is a technology that EPA believes, based upon its past experience, generally will be the most appropriate remedy for a specified type of site. EPA is establishing presumptive remedies to accelerate site-specific analysis of remedies by focusing the feasibility study efforts. EPA expects that a presumptive remedy, when available, will be used for all CERCLA sites except under ...
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Study Identifies Arsenic Strategies for Bangladesh
Naturally occurring poison in groundwater is causing public health crisis The nation of Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal between Myanmar and India, is not quite the size of Iowa, but it has developed a continent-sized arsenic contamination problem. Because of the nation’s coastal topography, the toxic metalloid occurs naturally in the groundwater that Bangladeshis depend on, and the ...
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Monitoring fuels in Stormwater - Case study
The Situation A major pipeline company has large storage tank farms throughout the Western States. The pipeline company transports, stores, blends additives, and distributes gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel to retail service stations and airports. Due to the quantity and movement of fuel at these facilities, there is always the potential for fuel spills. These facilities prevent out of compliance ...
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Nitrate Pollution Affects Millions in U.S.
According to new study, the water contamination disproportionately affects poor and Hispanic Americans Runoff of agricultural fertilizer is a major source of nitrate pollution in drinking water. A new study in the journal Environmental Justice has determined that 5.6 million Americans served by community water systems (CWSs) in the United States are exposed to excessive nitrate levels in ...
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Brand Your Financial And Aesthetic Dream Through Environmental And Trading Consulting: A Standardized Way To Green Procurement
ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION (EPD) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) was coined by the International organization for Standardization (ISO) in order to ensure the concern of different companies on the sustainable development of various products and brands within their business. It primarily refers to a comprehensive report mentioning the environmental impact of a particular product ...
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Case study: KLORIGEN™ system performance
Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) plays a key role in providing the city of Des Moines and other communities in central Iowa with a safe, clean and healthy water supply. The DMWW operates two water treatment plants in central Iowa, one on Fleur Drive in Des Moines and the second one at Maffitt Reservoir, located southwest of the metropolitan area. Des Moines Water Works is an independently operated ...
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The Benefits of an Integrated Air and Water Pollution Control Partner
Although there has been substantial progress during the past several decades in reducing pollution, the EPA, other federal agencies and local governments continue to add and revise requirements and standards, making compliance a challenge for the industrial sector. These companies also face increasing public pressure not just to meet but to exceed pollution control standards, as studies continue ...
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Water Sustainability
I7.1 | Water Optimization – 30% Groundwater Use Reduction Tabatha Pellerin, Senior Program Manager, AECOM AECOM assisted the Entergy Lewis Creek gas/coal fired electric power plant with water conservation efforts prompted by a goal of 30% groundwater (GW) use reduction by 2016 mandated by the local GW authority. To complete this work, personnel interviews were conducted to ...
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