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Portable Sludge Level Improves Regulatory Compliance

March 30, 2015March 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Markland’s handheld sludge blanket level detector measures silt/sludge interface levels in clarifiers, tanks and lagoons, and helps provide valuable sludge/biosolids level profiles, the company says. The Sludge Gun, which can be used wherever solids are separated from liquids including industrial processes and water and wastewater treatment plants, allows users to ... Read more »

Applied CleanTech’s Wastewater Recycling Goes Global

March 26, 2015April 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Applied CleanTech says it has finalized its pilot program with Veolia France, Mexico and Alberta in implementing its sewage recycling system (SRS) technology globally. On average, each person produces 60 gallons of waste per day, ACT says. The sewage mining company’s technology and process turns wastewater into raw materials for ... Read more »

Industrial Plants Spend $18bn on Water Flow Control, Treatment Annually

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Annual purchases of liquid (including water and process fluids) flow control and treatment products and services in the heavy industrial sector will exceed $18 billion per year, according to a McIlvaine study. McIlvaine in Industrial Water: Plants and Projects tracks activities at more than 20,000 plants. The report segments these ... Read more »

Microvi’s Wastewater Technology Reduces Ammonia, Nitrate

March 17, 2015March 16, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A third-party evaluation conducted by the Johns Hopkins University/MWH Alliance has demonstrated that Microvi Biotechnologies’ innovative biocatalytic technologies for nitrification and denitrification are effective in treating wastewater for nitrogen removal. The study was performed at the Alliance laboratory, which is housed at the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. ... Read more »

Fracking Center Expands Wastewater Treatment Standard

March 2, 2015February 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Center for Sustainable Shale Development, a collaborative established in 2013 between Chevron, Shell and other natural gas companies and environmental groups to set fracking standards, has expanded its wastewater Performance Standard 1 to address the treatment of shale wastewater at permitted facilities. The expanded standard represents the culmination of ... Read more »

Suez Environnement Wins $95M Wastewater Treatment Contract

February 17, 2015May 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Suez Environnement has won a €84 million ($95 million) contract to operate and maintain two wastewater treatment plants at Gabal El Asfar in Cairo, Egypt. This contract was won in consortium with three Egyptian companies: DHCU, ARCOM and ICAT. Cabal El Asfar is the biggest wastewater treatment facility on the ... Read more »

Rotary Drum Screen Separates Solids from Waste Streams Without Clogging

February 16, 2015February 13, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A compact rotary drum screen from Munson Machinery removes solids from industrial and municipal waste streams, and recovers solid product from process streams, at rates from 600 to 2,790 gal/min (2,270 to 10,560 liter/min) without blinding or clogging the screen, while reducing floor space and headroom requirements compared with non-rotating ... Read more »

Wärtsilä Wastewater Treatment Helps Cruise Ship Meet Environmental Regulations

February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

One of the world’s major cruise ships, the Queen Mary 2, is being fitted with a Wärtsilä advanced wastewater treatment system to enable the ship to fully comply with the International Maritime Organization’s water pollution regulations. The Wärtsilä Hamworthy Membrane BioReactor (MBR) systems are designed to facilitate the management and ... Read more »

Saxlund Technology Turns Sewage Sludge to Energy

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

BioEnergy and bulk materials handling company Saxlund International, part of the Opcon energy and environmental group, has secured contracts from Barhale Trant Utilities to design and supply sludge cake truck loading silos for Southern Water waste water treatment works in the UK. The projects, at Budds Farm in Havant and ... Read more »

Wastewater Treatment Saves Winery $4,000 on Sewer Surcharges

January 29, 2015January 28, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A new wastewater treatment system has saved a Canadian winery $4,000 annually on sewer surcharges and removed as much as 97 percent of biochemical oxygen demand from the winery’s wastewater, Storm Water Solutions reports. Ontario’s Cave Spring Winery needed a better filtration system. The Bloom Centre for Sustainability, a nonprofit ... Read more »

Mitsubishi Electric wastewater recycling

Mitsubishi Technology Enables Low-Cost Wastewater Recycling

January 28, 2015January 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Mitsubishi Electric has developed a water treatment technology that enables industrial wastewater and sewage to be recycled on a low-cost basis. The company says the technology efficiently removes persistent organic substances in wastewater by using hydroxyl (OH) radicals generated through an electric discharge created at a gas/liquid interface. Mitsubishi Electric, ... Read more »

Power Plant Saves 1.3 Million Gallons of Water per Day

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Covanta’s Delaware Valley energy-from-waste facility in Chester, Pennsylvania, has saved 1.3 million gallons a day from local water supplies by installing General Electric’s RePAK water reuse technology in the power plant’s cooling tower. GE honored Covanta with the Return on Environment award to recognize the company for its reductions in ... Read more »

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