-
Sanitaire ICEAS SBR in St. Joseph, WI: Sanitaire ICEAS SBR technology improves effluent water quality for St. Joseph WWTP
With obsolete equipment and a growing population making it increasingly difficult to achieve state-mandated effluent water quality levels, St. Joseph Sanitary...
-
Sanitaire and Flygt team up for efficiency in Fond du Lac, WI: State-of-the-art treatment equipment greatly reduces plant's energy consumption
Driven by compliance with more stringent water treatment standards, the Fond du Lac Wastewater Treatment Plant in Wisconsin leveraged the upgrade opportunity...
-
Flygt submersible mixers in San Antonio, TX: Flygt mixers clear sediment and save man-hours for San Antonio utility
The San Antonio River can experience high water events that leave a thick buildup of mud on the floors of the intake structure of the CPS Energy of San Antonio...
-
Flygt submersible mixers in Reno, NV: Flygt mixers prevent buildup and reduce wetwell cleaning charges
The city of Reno, Nevada has long battled the buildup of fats, oils, and grease in the wetwells of wastewater lift stations in the valleys with this high...
-
Improving aerobic sludge digestion efficiency: Flygt jet aerators boost profitability
The aerobic sludge digester cells at the Langley Wastewater Treatment Plant required major overhaul. This was due to limited capacity, sludge overspray from...
-
PRO3MIX Advanced Oxidation Process Eliminates Metaldehyde
Like many water companies operating in agricultural regions, Anglian Water in the UK is challenged by a potable raw water supply that can have occurrences of...
-
Oxelia - Combined Oxidation and Biological Filtration Process for Tertiary Wastewater Treatment
In Germany and Switzerland, there are currently discussions on the implementation of an additional treatment step at municipal wastewater treatment plants for...
-
Sustainability through Automation of Wastewater Treatment
As energy prices rise and effluent quality regulations tighten across the country, many wastewater treatment plants turn to automating their control strategy...
-
Process Control Features to Optimize Energy Efficiency and Process Stability
Before online instrumentation, process adjustments to biological activated sludge processes were made based on delayed results from laboratory testing. The...
-
Ozone Enhanced Biofiltration for Municipal Wastewater Use
With climate change, population growth and water scarcity, there is a growing demand to manage water resources in a sustainable approach. Recently, ozonation...
-
Increasing Denitrification in Sequencing Batch Reactors with Continuous Influent Feed
In this study, the denitrification capacity of a continuous influent feed sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was measured and evaluated trough tests at a pilot...
-
AOPs for degrading metaldehyde in surface water used for drinking water
Intensive farming and the associated use of pesticides is one of the main reasons that these regulated substances can be found in the drinking water reservoirs...
-
Flow reversals in a mixer powered high loss race track channel; a CFD study and its application to real pilot channel
Flow reversals, revealed as surface currents in the opposite direction of the intended flow, are sometimes observed in race tracks or other closed channel type...
-
Recycling Earth's rapidly shrinking resource: A Basic Primer on How Food and Beverage Plants Can Reuse Water Effectively and Efficiently
A basic primer on how food and beverage plants can reuse water effectively and efficiently.
-
Xylem provides temporary bypass at Denver treatment plant
In Colorado, the project team for an expansion and renovation of a wastewater treatment plant was in need of a bypass system to move a peak flow of 128 million...
-
The Optimal Pump Station
Environmental concerns and economic pressure impose increasing demands on pumping wastewater. Pumping Stations are required to pass on sewage solids as...
-
Cooling water for gas-fired power plant
Challenge A gas-fired power plant in southern Sweden required a supply of cooling water to be pumped through a long pipe, which is sensitive to water hammer,...
-
Circular stormwater pump station
Challenge One of the largest airports serving France required a stormwater treatment plant to handle the inflow from a large gravity sewer collecting water...
-
Circular sewage and stormwater pump station
Challenge A large combined sewage and stormwater station will be built in one of the largest cities in the world. The flow is high, the head is fairly low, and...
-
More energy-efficient pump station
Challenge Four high-efficiency 100 kW Flygt N-pumps operating with variable frequency drives (VFDs) deliver a total volume of 0.8 m3/s (12,700 US gpm) and...
-
Large capacity circular wet well
Challenge Very deep, large capacity and limited footprint: these are common demands by customers for their pump stations designs. Recently, two such pump...
-
Circular wastewater lift station
Challenge A 54,000-acre service area in a major city in Texas required assistance to handle a projected 50% increase in population and subsequent increase in...
-
Compact stormwater pump station
Challenge Placement of a new stormwater pump station in a 10 m x 5 m (32 × 18 ft) area between two roads and a hotel in one mid-western state’s major cities....
-
Combined sewage and stormwater pump station
Challenge To develop a combined stormwater and sewage pump station at the lowest possible cost. Solution The station was designed with three Flygt CP 3501 and...
