Entries Tagged Nitrogen Removal

The negative impact humans can have on their own environment is on full display, with climate change, land alterations and harmful algal...

The Water Research Foundation has granted $200,000 for a project called Advancing Low-Energy Biological Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal (project number 5083). The project will...

The tendency for most of us when it comes to human wastewater is out of sight, out of mind. Rarely do we...

For centuries, pelagic Sargassum, a floating brown seaweed, has grown in low nutrient waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, supported by natural nutrient...

Facing a need to reduce effluent nitrogen and phosphorus, the Kansas city of Great Bend had a choice: Try to get it...

Stricter effluent nutrient limits pose a dilemma for clean-water plant teams: How to comply with the new permit, and at what cost? Major...

The New York State Center for Clean Water Technology at Stony Brook University has made a series of discoveries regarding a new...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new way to treat sewage that is simpler, cheaper and greener than...

Stricter effluent nutrient limits pose a dilemma for clean-water plant teams: How to comply with the new permit, and at what cost? Major...

When facing what seemed insurmountable odds to meet aggressive new effluent nutrient limits, the Murfreesboro Water Resources Department team members banded together. They...

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have announced a process they developed called NPHarvest, which allows for the recovery of nitrogen and...

Last summer, Treatment Plant Operator hosted a live webinar in which in which Veolia Water Technologies gave a presentation on IFAS/MBBR and deammonification technologies,...

Nancy Pugh of the Louisa County (Virginia) Water Authority was recently named Wastewater Operator Specialist of the Year by the Virginia Rural...

Entry 244641A 29-year-old man from Atlantic County, New Jersey, died after contracting Naegleria fowleri — also called the “brain-eating amoeba” — after...