Jan 21, 2025 · Water Technology provides water treatment professionals with news and information on industrial water and wastewater management topics including treatment, monitoring, storage, disposal and reuse.

Dec 5, 2024 · Almost all freshwater entering a fab will leave as wastewater, and that wastewater needs to go somewhere. For perspective, as of February 15, 2023, of the 622 NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permits issued to New York state municipalities, only 39 of those permits are for 15 mgd or greater. Therefore, almost every municipality in New York state that has secured, or may ...

Aug 6, 2024 · Some of the most common of these include raw/incoming water treatment, boiler feed water treatment (chiefly focused on combatting scale/mineralization of a heat exchanger surfaces), cooling tower water treatment systems to keep heat exchanger and chiller thermal energy transfer surfaces clean from scale and bio foulants, or wastewater treatment to meet government discharge requirements.

Oct 8, 2014 · In order to get the most accurate results, samples need to be collected properly. While every lab may have their own set of sampling standard operating procedures (SOP), there are some common best practices for collecting samples.

Oct 3, 2024 · Several key trends are driving innovation in the water sector today. One major trend is the continued advancement of water treatment technologies, such as reuse and membrane filtration in wastewater treatment. As water scarcity increases, these treatment technologies are becoming crucial in meeting the rising demand for clean water.

Jul 30, 2014 · Legionella, a bacteria found naturally in the environment — typically in water, thrives in warm waters; this bacteria in water is a health risk if aerosolized (e.g., in a shower or air conditioning system) and inhaled, resulting in a type of pneumonia known as Legionnaires disease. Enteroviruses are small viruses, such as polioviruses, echoviruses and …

Oct 28, 2021 · As another rough indication, based on simplified equations, the following formula can be used for the first guess: pressure drop ~ L V 2 / D where: L is the length of the pipe, D is the hydraulic diameter of the pipe, and V is the average velocity of the fluid flow (equal to the volumetric flow rate per unit cross-sectional wetted area). Typically, the velocity is …

Sep 9, 2024 · The benefits of effective cooling tower blowdown management. Due to the above, plants that operate cooling towers are continually looking for ways to minimize the size of the blowdown stream as much as possible and to treat the blowdown so that water can be recirculated back as make-up to the tower.

Jun 18, 2014 · Abounding remedies. Excess organic load can be remedied by reducing the waste-activated sludge (WAS) rate by an amount less than 10% per day, to return to proper loading parameters and increase the returned activated sludge (RAS) rates.

Feb 6, 2024 · In the face of escalating environmental challenges and the surging demand for water resources, industrial wastewater treatment solutions stand at the forefront of global priorities. As the world grapples with population growth, urbanization and industrial expansion, the strain on water supplies intensifies, posing a threat to …