AZUD at IFAT 2016

IFAT is the World`s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management, and is a place where visitors can find strategies and solutions for using resources in intelligent cycles in a manner that ensures their long-term ...

Recently in India a project started for local treatment of urban sewage streams for healthy reuse (LOTUS HR). This project aims to clean one of the most polluted streams in Delhi. “India is facing its worst water crisis in a decade,” says Tanya Singh of Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). “Its rapid urbanization keeps on putting more stress on fresh water supply, while simultaneously water resources are polluted by untreated wastewater discharge.” Taking measures to maintain...

Available for local commercial projects, the new BioDisc plant range underlines Kingspan Water’s commitment to deliver fully compliant ways to effectively treat, pump and separate wastewater. With the release of the BioDisc, Kingspan can now offer the Australian market one of the largest and most technologically advanced wastewater treatment ranges available globally. Strict environmental standards and building control regulations place a greater responsibility on end users to ensure the correct sewage...

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg opened last Friday in Beijing a new biogas plant, which uses Cambi’s thermal hydrolysis process at the XiaoHongMen wastewater treatment plant. Cambi is building five large plants in Beijing, producing energy from the sewage sludge from more than 20 million people in an environmentally sustainable, yet profitable way. Cambi’s award-winning process, thermal hydrolysis (CambiTHP®), is patented and sold worldwide. Sewage sludge is pre-treated at high temperature...

Here the new topics for the SPECIAL ISSUES of Waste Management Journal:1. Closing the cycle of material and residues in the circular economy2. Aftercare and remediation of landfills3. Optimization of putrescible organics management (food waste, animal waste, sewage sludge, etc.)4. Waste management strategies, policies, regulations and social issuesInterested authors may submit their abstract no later than May 2nd.bit.ly/2n9sKcy

Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) has been awarded a cover project in New York, USA. GTI will design, fabricate, and deliver twosuspended coversas part of a sewage treatment plant improvement project. One portion of the project involves converting two secondary clarifiers into gravity thickeners. GTI’s suspended covers will be mounted on the 26 ft (8 m) diameter steel clarifiers tocontrol odorsandbetter regulate temperaturewithin the tanks. Odor had become a concern at the sewage treatment plant,...