Ensuring your odour removal method is suitable for your application is vital
Due to the variety of odours / nuisance gases that are present in the Wastewater Treatment Industry ensuring your odour removal method is suitable for your application is vital.
Selecting the right filter for the...
Opex costs and carbon footprint cut at Carbarns WwTW
Carbarns Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) is located in Wishaw, to the South-East of Glasgow, within the Clyde River valley. The site is part of the ‘Clyde 7’ group of Scottish Water treatment facilities, serving...
Project Case Study : Thames Water Coppermills Treatment Works, Walthamstow
Client: Barhale Ltd
Background
Two 1.5m diameter outflow tunnels, each being 240m in length, required inspection and clearing of approximately 300 tonnes of silt.
For Barhale to perform the tunnel cleaning, Vanderkamp provided an over-pumping solution to...
Mixers stand the test of time
Installed in anoxic zones during 2007 at over 20 wastewater treatment plants, the Landia POP-I Flowmakers were seen at the time as the equipment that could offer the very best in performance and efficiency,...
Coir-bed passive filtration for effluent disinfection and improvement of water quality
Dr Evangelos Petropoulos
Premier Tech Water & Environment
There are approximately 5,000 off-mains small sewage discharges (SSD) in England annually. These predominantly involve small treatment plants (< 50PE (people equivalent)), often subjected to 12566-3 or 12566-7...
Achieve the best performance from your WWT plant
At OMEX we understand the importance of keeping the wastewater treatment facility at optimum performance. Below our operations manager, Dimitris Theodoridis, highlights the key points to achieve the best performance from your WWT plant:
Keep...
Protecting the environment at site of sewage leak
A damaged sewer main with the potential to cause severe environmental pollution prompted an emergency callout from Northumbrian Water Group to Selwood’s pump rental solutions teams.
The background
The pipe, underneath a car park at Cat...
Non-thermal Plasma removes 90% of three target active pharmaceutical ingredients
Process Engineer, Ben Hazard, of Te-Tech Process Solutions, discusses the results of pilot plant trials looking at the removal of an anti-inflammatory, an anticonvulsant and an antibiotic using an advanced oxidation process.
Trace levels of...
An introduction to Metagenomics
Kevin Sheeran and Dr Mikael Khan, of environmental consultancy Aqua Enviro, examine the technology’s potential applications in wastewater and water.
Biological treatment is the bedrock of wastewater treatment globally.
Communities of bacteria facilitate sanitation, resource recovery...
Ground-breaking project leads to advanced wastewater grit removal system
An innovative two-year research project has been completed to optimise an advanced wastewater grit removal technology.
Suspended solids carried in water can cause a range of harmful effects in rivers, lakes and oceans, making the...