As clean-water plants strive to become resource recovery facilities, energy neutrality is a key goal. There are two components to get there:...
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Editorial
How Fine-Tuning Aeration Can Decrease Your Electric Bill
The Fredericksburg (Iowa) Wastewater Treatment Plant has faced challenges from change in its industrial flow and from upgrades to aging equipment.A key...
Editorial
Revitalizing Old Aeration Blowers With VFDs
Variable-frequency drives (VFDs) have been used for decades to control multistage centrifugal blowers. The increasingly popular turbo blowers also use VFDs for...
Editorial
Biogas and Solar Drive Hill Canyon Wastewater Plant
Since mid-September 2014, all electricity at the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant has come from on-site sources. With about 1 MW of...
Editorial
Puerto Rico Utility Begins Energy Efficiency Updates
The Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority is the only source of water and wastewater services for nearly all of Puerto Rico’s...
Editorial
Career Builder: Willison Traces Career To Outdoor Interests
With barely eight years in the wastewater industry, operator Joshua “Josh” Willison is a young man with a bright future. Serving the...
Online Exclusives
Realize Energy Savings with Variable Frequency Drives
Next Generation Controls and variable-frequency drives from Hoffman & Lamson offer 20 percent annual savings in energy usage when compared to inlet...
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Ohio WWTP Saves Energy With Aeration Systems Upgrade
The city of Newark, Ohio, sought relief from excessive electric bills through significant process upgrades. The Licking River Wastewater Treatment Plant on...
Editorial
Good Timing
It was a happy coincidence. As officials in Pittsfield, Mass., were working on an ambitious energy efficiency plan for the wastewater treatment...
Videos
"Close To Home" - Moberly, MO - February 2014 TPO Video Profile
Farmland next to the wastewater treatment plant is part of the recipe for an award-winning biosolids program in Moberly, Mo. Ask Ben...
Editorial
Efficient by Design
When the mid-1950s wastewater treatment plant became too small to meet demand, the community of Washington, Iowa, decided to build new and...
Editorial
Wastewater Treatment Systems
Aeration Equipment
Process aerator/mixerThe surface-mounted Aire-O2 Triton process aerator/mixer from Aeration Industries International adapts to municipal and industrial treatment facilities. Its strong horizontal...
Editorial
Joining Hands
Business is thriving in Edmonton, capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Forecast to be one of the country’s fastest growing...
Online Exclusives
Atlas Copco Included in Forbes’ Top 100 World’s Most Innovative Companies
Atlas Copco is listed among the world’s 100 most innovative companies by Forbes magazine for the third year in a row.Forbes named...
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Atlas Copco Included in Forbes’ Top 100 World’s Most Innovative Companies
Atlas Copco is listed among the world’s 100 most innovative companies by Forbes magazine for the third year in a row.Forbes named...
Editorial
Behaving Like a Business
There are a number of possible reasons to put digester gas to work — to further sustainability goals, to reduce harmful greenhouse...
Editorial
A Better Way to Aerate
When an energy audit recommended variable-frequency drives for blowers, team members at the New Ulm (Minn.) Wastewater Treatment Plant weren’t so sure...















