Erskine waste water treatment works goes green
Green energy is helping to power Scottish Water’s waste water treatment facility in Erskine.
A £500,000 investment made by the utility’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons has seen 1,720 solar PV panels installed at the...
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...
Selwood launches new environmentally-friendly S160Eco pump
Selwood, the UK’s leading pump rental solutions provider, has unveiled its new S160Eco solids handling pump which delivers increased performance and near-silent operation from an environmentally-friendly engine.
The S160Eco was developed by Selwood to complement...
Water treatment first as Scottish Water trials Nyex
First major drinking water pilot for Arvia’s Nyex treatment system
Trials assess effectiveness on hard-to-treat organics in raw water
Tertiary treatment combines oxidation and adsorption to eliminate wastefirst long-term trial of Arvia’s Nyex...
Is Artificial Intelligence the future for water infrastructure optimisation?
Kevin Sheeran, Technical Specialist, Suez Aqua Enviro, investigates how wastewater utilities can make best use of AI.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will become ubiquitous in our daily lives, powering services from digital assistants to personalised content...
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,...
Teamwork vital to provide optimum solutions for customers’ needs
Wastewater is typically treated in three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary. The first two stages are mostly concerned with removing grit, gravel and solids from the water, whilst the third stage is more complex...
Alternative coagulants: swapping metals for plant-based alternatives
Becci Bragg, from the Science and Optimisation team at South West Water, demonstrates how using more environmentally friendly plant-based alternatives to metal ion coagulants are being introduced and tested at wastewater sites.
Over the last...
Chemical dosing in tricky locations
Even as the covid-19 pandemic continues to stifle investment, water companies have to meet the more stringent requirements for the removal of phosphorus from wastewater brought in under AMP7. Graham Ward at chemical dosing...
Industry and academia need to talk more to solve water challenges
Despite widespread interest in finding innovative ways to monitor and remove pollutants and pathogens from wastewater, a significant unmet challenge remains, as Dr Robin Knight, of IN-PART, discusses.
Water is key to a wide range...