Wastewater operators can employ efficient components to drive down system energy costs. Here are some of the latest asset management products, drives, heat exchangers and recovery systems, efficiently-designed motors, pumps, blowers and mixers, and renewable energy systems that plants are utilizing to help manage energy consumption.

Wastewater treatment methods vary from open-air aerated chemically treated lagoons to moving-bed biological and membrane reactors. Here are several systems that are on the cutting edge of wastewater treatment technology.