wastewater treatment problem Articles
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Handling food processor wastewater treatment surprises with automatic scraper strainers
For food processors, removing suspended solids such as fats, grease, grit, contaminants, and leftover process materials from liquids is necessary to comply with regulations like the EPA’s Clean Water Act, which sets wastewater standards for industry and national water quality criteria for pollutants in surface waters. To remain compliant, processors often use clarifiers, also known as ...
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Enhanced Performance & Cost Reduction - Case Study
Improve mixer fleet health while simultaneously eliminating unplanned downtime with Philadelphia Mixing Solutions’ Aftermarket Services The Problem: A municipal wastewater treatment facility in New Jersey had 4 Aeration Tanks with an aging fleet of 53 mechanical low speed surface aerators. This equipment had been running for 20+ years and was beginning to show its age, resulting in an ...
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Addressing Water Quality in the Philippines
High levels of nutrients in Laguna de Bay near Manila are responsible for an overgrowth of water hyacinths and a depletion of oxygen levels in the water. Wastewater treatment regulations aim to improve economic and health problems The Republic of the Philippines, which comprises more than 7,000 islands, has the fifth longest coastline of any nation in the world at more than 36,000 miles. But ...
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Top 10 Wastewater Problems, Causes and Solutions
Wastewater management is an undesirable task for facility managers and their staff. But, it’s an important job, because wastewater problems can quickly turn into a very expensive and unsanitary mess. Below is advice from our engineers about the ten most common wastewater treatment problems you may encounter at your facility and how you can fix them. Problem #1: Floc is too small What to ...
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“Wastewater Wise” Articles by Dan Theobald, Greenville, SC resident - Editorial Team Member of Grand View Media’s Water Technology!
Thanks for this opportunity to share resources promoting a healthy Environment; free to access below: As an Editorial Team Member (http://www.esdlt.com/articles-authored-by-dan-theobald-published-on-wastewater-processing/) with Grand View Media, monthly repeat acknowledgements are published for educating professionals and the general public promoting a healthy Environment. Also, Water Today ...
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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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Solving a messy problem: Covering wastewater treatment in Halton region Ontario, Canada case study
The Regional Municipality of Halton or Halton Region is located in Southern Ontario, part of the greater Toronto area. Halton owns and operates seven wastewater treatment plants for four Ontario cities in its jurisdiction. These plants are designed to treat wastewater from homes and businesses turning the effluents into biosolids. Turning waste into food requires a process that starts with the ...
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Reduction and control of total Nitrogen in a cheese factory case study
Treatment system enhancement using Microcat - DEN Denitrifiers - BSE 099 Problem The wastewater treatment system receiving wastewater from a cheese factory in the EU has difficulty meeting total nitrogen effluent discharge requirements. The wastewater flow rate is 2000 cubic meters per day. The treatment system consists of two sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) operating in parallel. Since the ...
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Ice Cream
Problem: This ice cream maker, established almost 70 years ago, is one of the largest premium ice cream companies in the USA. The plant discharged its wastewater to the local sanitation plant until 1987, at which time heavy restrictions were placed on their discharge permit. The plant manager hired a consulting firm, and together they proceeded to investigate wastewater treatment systems that ...
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Ecoflo ® Cluster Treatment System - Municipality of St-Joseph-de-Kamouraska, QC, Canada
Customer: Municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Kamouraska County of Kamouraska, QC, Canada Located approximately 180 kilometres East of Quebec City, and 20 km (12.5 mi) from Rivière-du-Loup, the municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Kamouraska is part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent Administrative region. Founded in 1922, its economy is based primarily on agriculture and lumber. This peaceful rural ...
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