Most reliable and effective way to remove scum

Installation of the UK’s first two Scum Skimmers has been completed: one on a Final Settlement Tank (FST) at Europe’s largest sewage works, Thames Water Beckton WWTW, and the other on a Primary Settlement...

Water solutions for the future

The world might be its oyster, but for one innovative company, the UK is the pearl within, HELEN COMPSON hears. SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions has a 10-year plan in place to become the...

What if we simply didn’t treat wastewater?

The importance of industrial wastewater (pre-)treatment If our wastewater is going to be treated at a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) anyway, why can’t my people simply pour it down the drain?’ As BakerCorp’s Filtration Manager...

Cutting operating expenses with Sulzer HST Turbocompressors™

High speed turbocompressors help one of Sulzer’s customers reduce energy, maintenance costs and improve performance Built nearly a century ago, a Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) located in a major city in the North of the...

Chemical dosing systems: repair or replace?

Is it time to scrap your malfunctioning or broken-down chemical dosing system, or should you carry on repairing it? In fact, there are more options than just those two, and with proper maintenance you...

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...

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...

Turning wastewater into something refined

The irony of wastewater, the waste product of the use of water, is that it is already in the location where fresh water is needed. It is time the linear use of our most...

Belzona keeps power plant pumping for 
37 years and counting

Pumps are at the heart of any fluid handling system and notably are the second most common piece of machinery used in general industry. Coupled with a heavy reliance on pumps and the detrimental...

AI-powered energy management — a way towards net-zero and increased resilience for the water...

The way the world generates, distributes, stores, buys and consumes energy is changing faster than ever before. The transition towards a ‘greener’ power grid with increased penetration of renewables is being driven by the...