Finnish wastewater treatment plant gets quick reduction in operating costs
Problem
The wastewater treatment plant in Turku, Finland, processes wastewater from the region’s industries and...
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Case Studies - January 2021
Entries Tagged Blower
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Blower Upgrades Enhance Energy Efficiency. Here's a Way to Quantify the Savings.
Energy is the second largest expense in most water resource recovery facilities. In an activated sludge plant, for example, more than half...
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Many people helped Shelly Higdon advance in her career. Now she takes time to pay it forward.
What does a career spanning more than three decades in one place look like? Ask Michele “Shelly” Higdon, laboratory manager for the Shelbyville (Indiana)...
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Product Focus - November 2020
Aeration Equipment
TRIPLEPOINT ENVIRONMENTAL ARES LAGOON AERATOR
The Ares Lagoon Aerator from Triplepoint Environmental combines aeration efficiency with turbulent mixing in a single, portable unit....
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Aeration Efficiency Project Complete. Next Step: Net-Zero Energy.
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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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...
