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Contract Wins: OriginOil, ISI, Solidia Technologies, Cool Planet, Locus

October 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

OriginOil, developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS), a high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, has signed its first pay-per-barrel agreement with Industrial Systems, Inc. (ISI) for a water treatment system integrating OriginOil’s process as the first stage of treatment. ISI will operate the EWS Model P160, ... Read more »

Cox Enterprises and Manheim Cut Daily Water Demand 60%

October 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Cox Enterprises and its Manheim auction operation in Georgia have saved 2 million gallons of water annually and reduced daily water demand by 60 percent since opening the Water Conservation Center in 2008. Manheim, a global provider of vehicle remarketing services headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., opened the center in 2008 ... Read more »

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Radioactive Contaminants Found at Fracking Wastewater Disposal Site

October 3, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Elevated levels of radioactivity, salts and metals have been found in river water and sediments at a site where treated water from oil and gas operations is discharged into a western Pennsylvania creek, according to a Duke University study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study examined ... Read more »

Veolia’s Zero Liquid Waste Process Treats Consol’s Mine Water

October 3, 2013October 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Veolia Water has commissioned and begun operational management of a zero liquid waste (ZLW) facility that will treat 3,5000 gallons per minute of mine drainage at Consol Energy’s Northern West Virginia Water Treatment Facility near Mannington, W. Va. By employing a ZLW process, water of low quality is extracted and ... Read more »

Veolia Wastewater Treatment Processes ‘Improve Efficiency, Reduce Costs’

October 2, 2013October 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Veolia has announced two new processes that improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of anaerobic wastewater treatment: Memthane (pictured) and Biobed Advanced, both developed by Biothane, the company’s anaerobic technology center. Anaerobic technology plays a key role in using wastewater as a resource. It combines the treatment of production effluents with ... Read more »

Water Treatment Chemical Market to Hit $6.7bn in 2017

October 1, 2013October 3, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

US demand for water treatment chemicals will rise 3.2 percent per year to reach $6.7 billion in 2017, an increase driven by growth in the oil, gas and mining industries and a rebound in manufacturing production, according to a study by the Freedonia Group. The Cleveland, Ohio-based industry market research ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Xylem, Tetra Tech, Presona, Rotork, Abt Associates

October 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Xylem has won a contract worth RMB 11.48 million ($1.87 million) to provide an ozone generation and introduction system to help ensure a safe municipal water supply in the Jinshan district of Shanghai. Xylem will provide its Wedeco-branded ozone generation and introduction system and will also provide its integrated service ... Read more »

Omni Treats 140,000 Barrels of Produced Water from Fracking

September 18, 2013November 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Since June, Omni Water Solutions has treated more than 140,000 barrels of Marathon Oil’s flowback and produced water in Texas’ Eagle Ford shale to reduce boron and enable re-use of the cleaned water for drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Marathon Oil has been using Omni’s Hippo mobile water treatment ... Read more »

Omega Protein Saves 18m Gallons of Water Annually

September 16, 2013September 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Omega Protein Corporation has developed processes to conserve about 18 million gallons of water annually by reclaiming water through the processing of fish, rather than removing that water from the ground, the company says. The water is treated and then used in the plant to wash down equipment and used ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: Xylem, WesTech, ACS, Carbon Sciences

September 13, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Xylem: The global water technology company has appointed Steven R. Loranger as CEO and president, effective immediately. Loranger was chairman, president and CEO of ITT Corporation when it spun its water businesses off as Xylem in 2011. He ... Read more »

Select, Fountain Quail Team Up on Fracking Water Treatment

September 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Select Energy Services and Fountain Quail Water Management have formed a joint venture to expand their oilfield and shale gas water treatment and recycling services. Fountain Quail Water Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aqua-Pure Ventures, an oilfield and shale gas wastewater recycler. The companies have completed a recycling ... Read more »

Reverse Osmosis System Cuts Food Plant’s Eco Footprint

August 27, 2013 by Leon Walker

Layne Christensen’s 350-gallon-per-minute reverse osmosis system has reduced the environmental impacts and energy use of a food processing plant’s water treatment system, reports Water & Wastes Digest. The unnamed large food processing plant is based in Wisconsin and packages green beans, carrots and potatoes. As a means of reducing its ... Read more »

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