Sludge Separation

Plan to truck brine out as powder as an alternative to deep well injection

Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District officials would reduce brine through a treatment system and then truck it out of the area in five to 10 loads a day under a plan released Wednesday outlining an alternative to deep well injection.

Asked the cost of the additional step for reducing salty chloride in Santa Clarita Valley wastewater, district spokesman Steven Highter replied: “We can build this within the same rate structure already in place.”

Melbourne Water is hoping to fly more drones around its sewage infrastructure to measure gas concentrations, take sludge samples and monitor the dynamic stresses on plastic covers over the lagoons at its Western Treatment Plant

The Victorian government-owned water authority has already conducted two trials of civil infrastructure inspections using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and is hoping to set up a supplier panel of companies it can contract in for various drone missions.

Creating wealth from Sludge

The Veolia business unit specialised in water treatment solutions for municipalities, announces the introduction of AnoxKaldnes Hydas™ for SBR

The AnoxKaldnes Hybas™, an innovative application of the prove AnoxKaldnes technology, can increase the capacity of a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) wastewater treatment process in the same footprint as a conventional SBR without the need for additional tankage.

Albuquerque plant with 6M gallon sewage spill had prior issues

When power failed at the wastewater treatment plant in south Albuquerque in February, the backup generator was supposed to engage. It didn’t. Because there was no power to a critical pump for more than six hours, tanks overflowed and 6 million gallons of partially-treated sewage flowed into storm drains and out into the Rio Grande.

Apptech Solutions LLC, an innovative design and manufacturer of water and wastewater treatment and conveyance solutions recently announced plans to expand into a 27,000-square-foot facility

The ribbon cutting and open house event included state and local elected officials to celebrate Apptech’s growth in Roanoke County.

Hamburg’s wastewater solution of the future

According to UNESCO, poor wastewater management, or lack of it, means that only 20% of global wastewater receives proper treatment. With wastewater directly impacting biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems, disrupting their integrity and services humans rely on for health and economic development, UN-Water has called for wastewater to be considered as part of an integrated, full-lifecycle, ecosystem-based management system that operates across transboundary and supports sustainable development.

An EU-funded project has developed an innovative system of recycling the wastewater from olive oil production

Algatec II is a collaborative research project addressing the ‘optimization of the biotechnological recycling solution for olive washing water’ funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

By using the water recycling system olive producers use up to 90 percent less water, a major benefit for the environment.

Oil fracking companies seeking to improve their image and pull in a little extra cash are turning their waste water into clean geothermal power 

For every barrel of oil produced from a well, there’s another seven of water, much of it boiling hot. Instead of letting it go to waste, some companies are planning to harness that heat to make electricity they can sell to the grid.