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GE Partners with Walmart, Intel, Statoil, 5 Others on Water, Energy Efficiency

November 2, 2015November 4, 2015 by Karen Henry

General Electric Ecomagination is partnering with BHP Billiton, Goldman Sachs and MWH, Intel, Masdar, Statoil, Total and Walmart to accelerate innovation in water and energy efficiency. The partners have taken on the following initiatives to improve productivity, reduce impact and increase returns: GE and BHP Billiton will work jointly to ... Read more »

Water Treatment Prevents Costly Plant Shutdowns

October 26, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water and wastewater treatment provider ACWA Services’ nitrate removal system has helped Yorkshire Water combat rising nitrate levels, which had previously necessitated costly plant shutdowns. Nitrate levels at the UK’s Yorkshire Water’s Tophill Low water treatment works, which supplies half of Hull’s daily drinking water, some 68 million liters, are ... Read more »

Wastewater Treatment Plants ‘Not Equipped to Eliminate New Chemical Compounds’

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The most polluted waters are located around wastewater treatment plants, which don’t have the technology to eliminate new chemical compounds, reports Phys.org. The website, reporting on a paper published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, says the plants can’t property treat the new compounds because legislation aimed at ... Read more »

$470M Wastewater-to-Energy Plant Online

October 9, 2015April 4, 2017 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DC Water’s $470 million waste-to-energy project is now online, producing a net 10 MW of electricity from the wastewater treatment process, which represents about one-third of the Washington, DC Blue Plains plant’s energy needs. The facilities include a dewatering building, 32 thermal hydrolysis vessels, four concrete 80-foot high anaerobic digesters ... Read more »

Biological Treatment Provides Energy-Neutral Wastewater Treatment

October 6, 2015October 5, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric’s biological treatment, ZeeLung, offers four-times greater aeration efficiency while removing nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous and organic pollutants from sewage.

Water Treatment Reduces Carbon Footprint 20%

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Karen Henry

Next-generation water treatment systems can reduce a customer’s carbon footprint and salt consumption by as much as 20 percent, according to manufacturer De Nora Water Technologies. De Nora Water Technologies’ new generation of ClorTec on-site sodium hypochlorite systems feature simplified instrumentation and a new rack design for ease of operation ... Read more »

NYC One Step Closer to Net-Zero Energy Goal at Wastewater Treatment Plants

October 2, 2015 by Karen Henry

The New York Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced the installation of three new boilers and a new exhaust capture system at the Port Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant on Staten Island. The $30 million project builds toward the OneNYC initiative of achieving net-zero energy use at the city’s wastewater treatment ... Read more »

‘Better Buildings, Better Plants’ Saves $2.4B Over Five Years

October 2, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

The Energy Department announced on September 30 that the Better Buildings, Better Plants Program has saved $2.4 billion during the past five years. The program rests on a pledge by manufacturers and water and wastewater treatment agencies to cut energy intensity by about 25 percent over a ten year period. ... Read more »

Bion Patents Process to Recover Nitrogen from Waste

October 1, 2015September 30, 2015 by Karen Henry

Bion Environmental Technologies has filed a new patent application for a process that recovers a nitrogen-rich, non-synthetic fertilizer product from a livestock waste stream. The fertilizer contains 12 percent to 15 percent nitrogen in a solid crystalline form that is water-soluble and provides readily available nitrogen. It contains none of ... Read more »

Aquatech to Supply Thermal Desalination System for Refinery

September 1, 2015August 31, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Aquatech, a global water and wastewater technology provider for the industrial and infrastructure markets, has been awarded a contract to design and supply a multiple effect distillation (MED) seawater desalination system for Orpic’s Sohar Refinery Improvement Project in Oman. Orpic (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company) specified MED technology ... Read more »

Cargill Avoids 1M Metric Tons of GHG Emissions

August 24, 2015August 24, 2015 by Karen Henry

Cargill avoided more than 1 million metric tons of fossil-fuel-based greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 by using renewable energy, according to the company’s 2015 corporate responsibility report. Renewable sources made up 14.1 percent of the company’s energy portfolio in 2015. The company reached all of its 2015 environmental performance goals, achieving ... Read more »

Grand Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant Installs Landia Chopper Pumps

August 12, 2015August 11, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Grand Canyon’s South Rim Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) will soon have six new Landia non-clog chopper pumps. The Landia chopper pumps, which are designed with an external knife system to prevent solids from entering the pumps’ casing, will be installed adjacent to the plant’s returned activated sludge and waste ... Read more »

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