wastewater treatment system management Articles
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Alpine resort leads the way in wastewater treatment
One of the world’s most popular ski resorts, Courchevel in the French Alps, has introduced an innovative wastewater treatment system to manage the sharp increase in capacity needed during the winter months. During the winter months, the population of Courchevel triples and the traditional aerated wastewater treatment system at nearby Bozel was finding it difficult to meet demand. The local ...
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Ocean effluent discharge - Case study
British Columbia’s fly-in recreational fishing lodge industry was threatened by federal regulators to be closed or fined up to $200,000 unless the sewage wastewater was treated. NOMADIC kept them open and operating. Three types of fly-in recreational fishing lodges are located on the west coast of British Columbia operate 6 – 8 weeks per year, employ approximately 500 persons for ...
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Remote Fishing Facilities Change Their Water Way - Case Study
The Situation: With a natural grandeur and isolation coupled with teeming seas and streams, British Columbia has long been considered Canada's premier destination (or fishing. The isolated Pacific Coastal Mountain Range protects this secluded valley bottom and provides a location for a booming fishing lodge industry. Besides the fishing lodges that have cropped up in recent years, there are ...
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Optimizing Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant Management
Ever watched a whirlpool drain? Picture that as your company’s wastewater stream. It swirls, twists and disappears down the drain – out of sight and out of mind. But what if I said there is more to this than meets the eye? In reality, this ‘whirlpool’ holds potential regulatory nightmares and costly fines. Just like how every ripple in water has a story to tell, each ...
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Sewage of Tripoli: a review of the current situation and of the future planning
Tripoli represents a major urban area in Lebanon with about 350,000 people in the city, which may swell by additional 100,000 when the city surrounding population is counted. It used to be a dominant agricultural region, but the last three decades witnessed a rapid development of urban construction. The goal of this paper was to present the current situation regarding the sewage disposal, ...
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Saving Money with your Wastestream
Many industries aren’t aware that there are simple, cost effective solutions to lower the surcharges they are paying to the Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW’s). When the POTW is treating wastewater from an industrial source, they will charge the industry a surcharge to cover the additional cost of treating the industrial waste. Surcharging industries is a common practice since most industries ...
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A concept for planning and management of on-site and centralised municipal wastewater treatment systems, a case study in Bangkok, Thailand. II: Scenario-based pollutant load analysis
Scenario-based pollutant load analysis was conducted to develop a part of a concept for planning and management of wastewater treatment systems (WWTSs) under the mixture conditions of centralised and on-site WWTSs. Pollutant discharge indicators and pollutant removal efficiency functions were applied from another paper in the series, which were developed based on the existing conditions in ...
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HS-200 Lowering company costs and liability
A major printing company was experiencing difficulties with managing their wastewater treatment system due to a higly concentrated oily water influent. The grab samples performed by the local sanitary district exhibited high levels of BOD, COD and oil and grease levels in the discharge water. The problem was traced back to their compressor condensate discharge. The company has 14 – 100 ...
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Diamond Project
DIAMOND is a 24-month ‘Research for SMEs’ European Union's (FP7/2007_2013) project that began in September 2012 and finished in August 2014. The project aims to achieve a model of excellence in the management of wastewater treatment systems by addressing the design, development, implementation and validation of new advanced data management, monitoring and control algorithms and tools ...
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Frac Water Management: Shale Water Expo 2014
We just got back from the recent Shale Water Expo in Houston. This was the first conference and exhibition in the United States to focus on the natural gas drilling industry’s biggest issue: water. Water management is on everybody’s mind these days. Water, the high-cost, high-volume component in hydraulic fracturing, is more than just an operating expense. It has become an item of ...
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Numbers Speak Volumes: Water Distribution Assessment Increases System Operability To 84 Percent
This large Midwest utility maintains and operates water collection, treatment, and distribution systems, as well as wastewater collection and treatment systems and stormwater management systems for its residential, business and wholesale customers in the region. To ensure the accessibility and quality of water services to meet the growing needs of the region, the Utility needed to conduct a ...
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Some unique solutions to water, wastewater challenges
Challenges are not unique to water and wastewater treatment, but the challenges thrown at operators and managers often require equal parts of thoughtfulness and creativity, with dashes of patience and persistence. This is why the industries are “home to some of the most ingenious professionals to be found in any industry,” according to an editorial in Treatment Plant Operator. ...
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