39 Articles found
QED Environmental Systems, Inc Articles
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Thermally Enhanced NAPL Recovery - Case Study
QED`s AutoPump® Can Endure Tough Conditions to Deliver Superior Thermally Enhanced NAPL Recovery The site of a former U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons production facility (the Pinellas Plant) in Largo, Florida posed an extreme ...
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Steam Enhanced Creosote Pumping - Case Study
AutoPump Integral to Innovative Steam Injection Process Used to Clean Up DOE Facility in Ohio SteamTech Inc. of Bakersfield, California, a 35-year-old firm with roots in the oil field industry, is working for Bechtel-Jacobs at the Gaseous Diffusion ...
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AutoTracker Reduces Remediation Cost per Gallon by 59% - Case Study
AutoTracker™ (U.S. Patent Number 6,520,259) Floating Extraction Inlets were added to a DPE system at a remediation site in mid-Michigan following several years of operational problems caused by fluctuating water table levels. Installation was ...
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Landfill pumps for Gas well dewatering - Case Study
AutoPumps Keep the Power On for Thousands of Florida Homes Waste Management`s Springhill Regional Landfill near Campbellton, Florida generates "green" energy by extracting and burning the methane in landfill gas. Its $7 million landfill gas energy ...
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AutoPumps Manage Landfill Leachate to Keep Methane Flowing - Case Study
Green Bay adds Gas-to-Energy Facility to 30-year-old Landfil Brown County East Landfill in Green Bay, Wisconsin recently completed a feasibility study that determined it would be economically sound to convert methane gas into electrical energy by ...
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Rugged Pumps Survive at Puente Hills Landfill - Case Study
QED Pumps are the Pumps of Choice at North America`s Largest Landfill The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles County, California, is the largest operating landfill in North America based on daily tonnage received. Located in an unincorporated area ...
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Improved well tuning achieved at a Landfill gas to Energy developer`s sites - Case Study
Building and managing a high-BTU landfill gas to energy system can present many challenges, but it’s not as complicated as it might seem. The key: start with a healthy, consistently productive wellfield. Morrow Renewables, formerly South Tex ...
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South Texas Landfill − Case Study
During 2011, four QED Precision Fine Tune Control Valves™ were installed in wells at a south Texas landfill. The following graphs show the composition of the landfill gas and flow data before and after the installation of the Control Valves ...
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Treating pharmaceutical wastewater - Case Study
A pharmaceutical facility in the Caribbean had an existing wastewater treatment process that utilized a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). SBRs use large tanks to collect wastewater, then a number of different options can be employed to treat the water ...
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Treating a Gasoline spill - Case Study
Treating a Gasoline Spill in New York Overview Gasoline spill in high value residential area. Space for process equipment limited. Need for low profile - sound and appearance. Strippers housed in metal shipping containers. The sliding ...
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Ballast water treatment on Alaskan coastline - Case Study
An Alaskan oil terminal had to deal with contaminated ballast water that needed to be collected and treated before discharge. They had a biological treatment process on site, but it was difficult to operate in the temperature and contaminant loading ...
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E-Z Trays at Hard-to-Access Site - Case Study
E-Z Tray® (U.S. Patent Number 5,518,668) Air Strippers have always been known for their ease of access and cleaning, but for this special site, an old industrial building in Brooklyn, New York, they also had to be installed without the use ...
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E-Z Trays selected for Large scale project - Case Study
A former industrial plant and top Superfund site in Sydney, Australia, had been in operation since the 1930s and contained chlorinated solvent contamination. Because of the size and scope of this project packed towers traditionally would have been ...
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Using Air Strippers for Off-gas Treatment - Case Study
Two pharmaceutical plants in Puerto Rico used large sequencing batch reactor (SBR) systems to treat their wastewater. The primary treatment was an aerobic bio breakdown of the waste. The were forced to change their treament process because of change ...
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Santa Cruz Meets THM/DBP Challenge with Unique Air Stripping Process - Case Study
Summary Santa Cruz has successfully demonstrated an innovative way for the City to meet its water quality goals while using process recycled water as part of its supply source. Using the recycled water had caused concern about reliably meeting the ...
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Removing VOCs from Municipal Water Supply - Case Study
QED E-Z Tray® Air Strippers Removing Volatile Compounds in Cheyenne’s Drinking Water The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – Omaha District has funded the design and construction of a new groundwater treatment plant in Cheyenne, ...
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Treating drinking water with 99% removal - Case Study
QED E-Z Tray® Air Stripper Treating Drinking Water with 99% Removal in Cedarburg, Wisconsin In October 2011, the Cedarburg, Wisconsin Light and Water Utility installed a QED E-Z Tray® (U.S. Patent Number 5,518,668) Air Stripper in a ...
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E-Z Trays an Integral Part of Levelland`s Groundwater Treatment - Case Study
QED E-Z Tray® Air Strippers an Integral Part of Levelland`s Groundwater Treatment System The refinery at the former Motor Fuels Corporation produced all grades of gasoline, tractor fuels, diesel, distillate products, and fuel oils. It closed in ...
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E-Z Trays® Treating Multiple Groundwater Contaminants in Grand Island, NE - Case Study
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an effort to treat contaminated groundwater in Grand Island, Nebraska. The Parkview Well Superfund Site consists of two areas of groundwater contamination, the Northern and Southern Plumes, which ...
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Ground Water Sampling - A Workshop Summary
Monitoring purposes have evolved in the past decade reflecting an increasing emphasis on assessment and remedial action performance over detection monitoring. The recognition of many potential contamination sources as well as the regulatory ...