The Beaver Dam (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant is an extended aeration facility. Its activated sludge process allows the wastewater to spend 24...
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Aeration Efficiency Project Complete. Next Step: Net-Zero Energy.
Entries Tagged Blower
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The Source of Shelbyville's Energy Efficiency? The Energy of Leadership and Staff.
Thanks to the energy of management and staff, the Shelbyville (Indiana) Water Resource Recovery Facility has significantly reduced its energy use.
“Our people...
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WEFTEC Product Preview - September 2020
Aerzen Rental temporary
oil-free blowers
Aerzen Rental provides temporary oil-free blower packages engineered for aggressive rental environments with onboard variable-frequency drives, remote monitoring and...
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An Engineering Background Put Heather Phillips in a Good Place To Be a Resource for Plant Operations
Heather Phillips has seen the clean-water business from two key perspectives.
She started her career with a major engineering consultancy. A dozen years...
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Upgrading to a Bio-P Process Required Open Communication and a Proactive, Patient Approach at Wastewater Facility
How do you accommodate a two-year upgrade of a treatment plant, change over to new processes, keep staff abreast and involved, and...
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Biogas Does More Than Power Cogeneration Systems. Now It Powers Vehicles.
When it came time to replace the biogas-fueled combined heat and power system at the Theresa Street Water Resource Recovery Facility in...
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Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.
When Jacobs took over operations of the wastewater treatment plant in Trinidad, Colorado, the team quickly found that the aeration system was...
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Quality Staff Begets Quality Performance at Wisconsin Clean-Water Plant
The Racine (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant has occupied a 21-acre site on the west shore of Lake Michigan since 1937. Plant leaders...
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End-to-End Recycling Initiative Is the Pride of Reclamation Facility in Semiarid New Mexico
The Ogallala Aquifer is an essential source of water for America’s breadbasket in the west-central high plains. It is being drawn down...
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Dale Clark and His Team Achieved $22,000 in Annual Energy Savings for Only a Tiny Investment
Saving energy in clean-water plants often starts with the efficient use of air.
Dale Clark and his team at the lagoon-based clean-water facility...
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Energy Savings: For a New Hampshire Clean-Water Plant, It's Not Complicated
The journey toward an energy efficiency award for the Winnipesaukee River Basin Program started many years ago.
In 2019, the New Hampshire Department...
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Product Focus - March 2020
Chemical Feed Pumps
Grundfos Pumps SMART Digital
Grundfos Pumps SMART Digital dosing pumps deliver reliable, safe and cost-effective chemical dosing for water and...
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Product Focus - January 2020
Asset Management
Flottweg Separation Technology Xelletor
Xelletor series separators from Flottweg Separation Technology include a rotor and scroll designed to reduce the consumption...
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Effective Planning and Consistent Maintenance Helped This Plant Win the 'Stanley Cup of Wastewater'
When the Bloomington-Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant won a 2018 Plant of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Water Pollution...
