Paying to landfill water and organics attached to grit output from a grit removal system can significantly increase a plant’s operating costs....
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Calculate How Much Grit is Costing Your Plant Using this Free Spreadsheet
Conventional grit removal systems, on average, allow 60% of all grit that enters your treatment plant to pass through and damage downstream...
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A New Approach to Dewatering Helped a Massachusetts Plant Resolve a Compliance Issue
For decades the Montague Water Pollution Control Facility received pulp and paper waste from two mills, and some parts of a 2010...
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Wastewater Work Gave This Kansas Operator a Chance to Help the Streams He Cares Deeply About
Wastewater work gave Jamie Belden a chance to help the streams he cares deeply about while earning a good wage.
After many years...
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Compressed Air System Ready For Delivery
Kaeser's Air System Enclosures are complete compressed air systems delivered ready to operate in a secure, weatherproof enclosure. Each is designed for...
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Rotary Screw Blowers: More Air For Your Money
Kaeser screw blowers are available in sizes up to 335 hp and flows to 5,650 cfm, use up to 35% less energy...
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HeadCell Eliminates Expensive Maintenance Costs
Rapid population growth pushed the treatment needs for the Airport WRF in Chandler, Arizona, from 5 mgd to 27 mgd over two...
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Want to Save on Energy? Rotary Screw Blowers are Key.
Kaeser’s screw blowers bring wastewater treatment plants all the advantages of screw blower technology with the added benefits of an integrated complete...
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Pre-Cast Grit King: Advanced Grit Protection Priced for Smaller Plants
Advanced grit management systems have often been a luxury item for small plants — until now. Grit King hydrodynamic vortex separation is...
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The Proper Application of Rotary Lobe and Rotary Screw Blower Technology
The wide range of low-pressure technology available offers numerous choices when it comes to efficiently meeting the needs of low-pressure applications. For...
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Why Your Blower System’s Isentropic Efficiency is a Key Metric
Learn more about isentropic efficiency and specific performance as they relate to blowers.Isentropic efficiency is the ratio between theoretical power and real...
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Don’t Let Your Blower System Shut Down the Plant
Kaeser believes the more you know about operating blower systems the more you'll get out of them. That's why it’s committed to...
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Combined Gravity Settler and Continuous Backwash Sand Filter Provide Enhanced Nutrient Removal Advantage
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With increasing population trends and facing tighter nutrient regulations on the horizon, a municipal wastewater treatment facility in Georgia was in search...
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Improve Effluent Quality and Reduce Turbidity with the MRI Inclined Plate Settler
Entry 242116MRI’s Inclined Plate Settler System has proven to deliver the highest flow rates and solids removal available, providing unsurpassed clarifier function...



















