Yorkshire Water working with Anglian on sludge trade deal

Yorkshire Water is working in partnership with Anglian Water to ensure sludge can be treated efficiently. As part of the short-term partnership, sludge will be transported from Anglian’s treatment works in Great Billing to Yorkshire...

Why IIoT is set to transform water management

By Stephen Major, Nokia’s Digital Industries Lead - Utility Sector The pressure is on for water companies right now. Rising temperatures, rapid population growth and increasing urbanisation are having a huge effect on water availability. Even...

Aluminum monitoring for wastewater treatment

Reliable analysis from high to low concentration ranges Aluminum salts can be used in wastewater treatment as coagulation agent and flocculant. However, because of its toxic effect on fish, it is important to remove aluminum...

Innovation driving sustainable solutions to treat Yorkshire’s wastewater

Yorkshire Water and its partners Stantec and BarhaleDoosan JV are currently constructing an integrated wetland at Clifton wastewater treatment works to help reduce reliance on energy intensive treatment processes.  Here Yorkshire Water project lead Michael...

Leveraging the cloud for better design of water and wastewater treatment plants

For many years, the availability of integrated design and process simulation packages has not serviced industrial, reuse and drinking water plant designs as well as it has for biological treatment plants. Engineers and designers in...

Solution of the corrosion of sewage systems and the release of Hydrogen Sulfide problems

MagTreat-S® is a well-stabilized, non-foaming suspension of magnesium hydroxide which is used as an alkali in marine scrubbers. It is based on the natural mineral brucite and is made in various slurry make down...

Healthy dosing

Good maintenance of chemical dosing systems is essential to meeting increased water quality compliance challenges. Graham Ward of WES has some money-saving and environmentally sound advice on this subject for water companies and contractors The...

Inefficient wastewater level measurement system

In a wastewater level measurement system that was originally set up with float switches, the first switch initiates the filling of the tank when the level drops to a minimum. A second switch stops...

A new approach for implementing vacuum degassing of digested sludge

Common operational problems with AAD plants are high loading and partly overloading of digesters - with the high dry solids concentration and high viscosity resulting in gas entrapment. This contributes to direct emissions being...

Water and wastewater treatment plants: The devil is in the design Inadequate water treatment...

Does the design of water and wastewater treatment plants in your business still rely on manual, repetitive and linear approaches? If yes, then, chances are that your designs are being delivered inefficiently. According to a recent...