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Purified water delivered trouble-free

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies   PURA is a standardized, pre-validated generation system for purified water for flowrates up to 6 m3/h (26 gal/min). Each package is complete with a multipurpose tank, reverse osmosis (RO) unit, polishing treatment with continuous…

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Optimizing Biological Water Treatment in Petroleum Refining

Wastewater streams from petroleum refineries present some of the largest ranges of variation in contaminant loadings and contain some of the toughest contaminant profiles to treat. These factors render the wastewater treatment processes difficult to control. The most challenging area…

BASF to acquire ultrafiltration specialist inge watertechnologies AG

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement with the investor group of inge watertechnologies AG (Greifenberg, Germany; www.inge.ag) to acquire the company and its ultrafiltration membrane business. “This transaction is an important step in strengthening BASF’s technology and…

Biodegradation and Testing of Scale Inhibitors

Water systems are common in the chemical process industries (CPI). Mixing, heating, concentrating and evaporating water in these systems will often result in an accumulation of inorganic scale, which can markedly decrease process-system efficiency. Scale inhibitors are chemical substances that,…

Maximize Efficiency of Water Treatment Aeration

The IntelliView Line of aeration controls and control systems is designed to maximize efficiency of blowers and compressors in wastewater operations. A system can be purchased as a part of the vendor’s own aeration-blower system or integrated into third-party installations,…

Sludge thickening and heat-transfer solutions

Alfa Laval The Aldrum drum thickener (photo) provides very gentle sludge handling and recovery. The unit is a range of mechanical sludge thickeners and works on the principle of conveying polyelectrolyte-treated sludge through a slowly rotating drum filter. The sludge…

These pure-water plants are made to order

The modular design of the Septron Line 100-300 (photo) permits the system components to be assembled to meet individual requirements. The units for electrodeionization and reverse osmosis can be combined and positioned individually. Two versions are available. The VAL version…

This UV system is designed to efficiently treat water

Caldon Carbon The C3500 D (photo) utilizes 500-W ultraviolet (UV) lamps in a small footprint to provide overall efficiency and economic savings compared to other low-pressure, high-output (LPHO) systems, says the manufacturer. The high-wattage system relies on a patent-pending design,…

Measure turbidity, suspended solids, and sludge blanket level

The TSS Portable hand-held meter (photo) offers turbidity, suspended solids and sludge-blanket level measurement in one instrument. The TSS is ideal for remote monitoring of rivers and applications involving municipal and industrial wastewater, and drinking water. Additionally, this instrument can…

This membrane bioreactor is a complete packaged system

The Puron Plus membrane bioreactor (MBR) system is a skid-mounted packaged plant that provides customers with a full scope of supply from prescreening and biological treatment through to the final membrane clarification step. The Puron Plus is designed for both…