discharge regulations News
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Senate Passage of Ballast Water Discharge Regulation a Positive for Offshore Drilling Contractors
Houston, Texas (14 November 2018) – In response to the Senate’s passage today of the Coast Guard Authorization Act, which includes legislation on ballast water discharge, IADC President Jason McFarland issued the following statement: “We have long advocated for sensible, uniform regulation when it comes to ballast water discharge. IADC members with offshore operations own and ...
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POREX Tubular Membrane Filter Featured at Indowater 2013 Program
Yee Keong Wan, South East Asia Sales Manager for Porex Filtration, presented the advantages of the Porex Tubular Membrane Filter (TMF) Modules for use in Metals Removal for Water Reuse/Recycle and Metals Recovery at indowater 2013. Porex Filtration brings unique solutions to high-solids filtration and separation applications including water and wastewater, paints, inks, polishing slurries, ...
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Genesis Water Technologies, Inc. editorially featured in Industrial Water & Waste Digest
Genesis Water Technologies, Inc. a global leader in innovative, sustainable water & waste water solutions announces it was editorially featured in the October/November issue of prestigious trade magazine, Industrial Water & Waste Digest. This particular article focused around our companies project case study in Columbia to succesfully treat the process water of a large oil/gas client. ...
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Extraordinary design- next generation separator
Mercer International The extraordinary design of this removable plate coalescer allows the highest possible efficiency with the lowest practical maintenance. The Multi-Pack system can be easily field adjusted and/or upgraded to meet a variety of applications or changes in wastewater characteristics. These unique features make the Multi-Pack ideally suited for company-wide standardization. ...
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The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT wastewater treatment system
Practical Applications, Inc. (PAI), a leading environmental company, has been awarded the contract to design and build the central wastewater treatment system for the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MIT. The system is designed to treat wastewater flows continuously at 215,000 GPD (gallons per day) with peak flows at 300 GPM (gallons per minute). The system employs ...
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Grundfos Acquires Yeomans Chicago Corporation
Yeomans, Peerless & Paco acquisitions add to the strong organic growth of Grundfos North America Olathe, Kansas, December 10, 2008 Just one year after the international pump corporation Grundfos added Peerless Pump Company to its group of companies, they have now acquired Yeomans Chicago Corporation (YCC) of Aurora, IL, which specializes in pumps for waste water. Five years ago, Grundfos ...
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Chelsea's expert reports on recent findings at the Fluorometry for Ballast Water Compliance Monitoring Conference
Chelsea's Richard Burt and Veronica Chan will be attending the Alliance for Coastal Technologies / Maritime Environmental Research Center workshop on Fluorometry for Ballast Water Compliance Monitoring Workshop, 14 & 15 June 2012 at the SESYNC Center, Annapolis, USA. The introduction of invasive marine species into new environments by ships’ ballast water is one of the great threats to ...
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Custom Oil/Water/Solids Separators
Compromise has marked the ordinary designs in the Oil/Water Separator space in the last decade. Mercer offers custom-designed separators for your application; we offer a wide variety of tank materials of construction as well as coating options. Mercer International delivers both HIGH EFFICIENCY and LOW MAINTENANCE. They will also field adjust your existing unit to show you why they have set the ...
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Measuring oil/grease levels in water to help oil/gas industry comply with permit discharge regulations
Determining total oil/grease levels to ensure compliance with governmental regulatory permit requirements for discharging wastewater is a worldwide problem facing all segments of the oil and gas industry. To ensure compliance with these regulations and avoid fines for exceeding permit discharge levels, more frequent wastewater measurements are necessary to determine the total oil/grease ...
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EPA to hold listening session to obtain public input for the next vessel general permit
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a listening session seeking input on suggested improvements for the next Vessel General Permit (VGP). The VGP is a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit that regulates discharges incidental to the normal operation of certain vessels. EPA seeks public comment on requirements currently contained in the ...
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Hydraulic Fracturing Companies Using Oil Skimmers to Clean Flowback
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a process that recovers natural gas and oil from deep shale formations that contain large amounts of the fuels. Fracking requires the drilling of a well vertically underground, past the deepest aquifer containing fresh groundwater. Steel surface casing is inserted down the well and cement is pumped in to create a barrier between the well bore and groundwater. ...
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BOD/COD Portable Field Meter Giveaway from Real Tech
A new generation of organic testing instruments help wastewater treatment plants gain access to organics results in seconds with no costly reagents or consumables required. Effective organics removal is essential for wastewater treatment. Organic matter can negatively impact the environment by depleting oxygen; therefore, removal is essential to preserve aquatic health and required to meet ...
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Envirochemie builds a wastewater recycling plant for cosmetic production in Brazil
A German-founded, international cosmetics manufacturer has awarded Envirochemie a second contract to plan and build a wastewater treatment facility in Latin America, featuring membrane technology for integrated water recycling processes. The entire wastewater technology for the production of body creams, shampoos, sun creams and deodorants is designed to ensure the treated wastewater and ...
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On-Site Wastewater Analysis
The US EPA, as well as other governmental regulatory agencies, have instituted stricter regulations covering discharges of “oily wastes” from facilities into publicity owed treatment plants (POTWs) facilities, forcing numerous industries to monitor their effluent more closely prior to discharge. This regulations affect such industries as food – both processors and restaurants, metal fabrication, ...
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Low-Flow series OWS (5-30 gpm)
Mercer International The extraordinary design of this removable plate coalescer allows the highest possible efficiency with the lowest practical maintenance. The "small flow" series is an industrial-duty separator ideal for smaller vehicle wash stations, sump/pit wastewater, groundwater treatment, and various wastewater treatment applications with solids present. Standard sizes are available in ...
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Hilcorp Energy Company Fined for Violating the Clean Water Act
The Hilcorp Energy Company of Houston has been fined $26,100 by the Environmental Protection Agency for Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure violations under the Clean Water Act. A March 28, 2012, inspection of the South Pass Block 24 offshore oil production facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, found the company failed to address secondary containment for spilled gasoline and ...
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Webinar - Water Quality: Reducing Risks with Optimized Data Management
Water Quality is a topic garnering increasingly more attention from regulatory bodies and environmental watch dogs. We are seeing more inspections, heftier fines and in some unfortunate cases contaminations that could have been avoided. If you are responsible for overseeing your organizations water quality mandates you have numerous elements to manage, whether it be timely water sampling, ...
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CECO acquires Compass Water Solutions
CECO Environmental, a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company whose solutions protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment, has acquired Compass Water Solutions, Inc. ("Compass") a leading global supplier of membrane-based industrial water and wastewater treatment systems that help customers achieve regulatory compliance of water discharge at the ...
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Ni-thickener overflow application
In #miningindustry waste stream are often overlooked to recover valuable minerals to improve the yield performance. Drivers: Metal recovery for higher yield and #environmental regulations for discharge. Solution: A test was carried out in Sofi’s R&D facility in Espoo, Finland to assess the Sofi Filter’s performance in recovering very fine solid particles from ore concentrate ...
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Water Expo China set to attract first time exhibitors
As well as the world’s best-known names in water technology, Water Expo China is also attracting many first time exhibitors who are keen to help solve China’s water problems. “China’s water market is developing very quickly, creating demand and opportunities for businesses and industry organisations,” said Mr Jason Cao, General Manager of Messe Frankfurt (Shanghai) Co Ltd. “This is why our show ...
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