Normally, this blog focuses on ozone and advanced oxidation technologies for water and air treatment. An interesting non chemical water treatment for algae control might be of interest to the readership of the blog. Algae blooms can create both aesthetic and other problems for tanks, ponds and lakes. Chemical treatments are routinely used, but require […]
Month: August 2012
Ontario Studies Advanced Oxidation for Wastewater Treatment
Ontario is investing in innovative solutions to help protect Great Lakes water quality. The Keswick Water Pollution Control Plant is testing an advanced oxidation process to reduce the amount of phosphorus and micro pollutants such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products entering Lake Simcoe. Advanced oxidation processes have been demonstrated to remove pharmaceutical and personal […]
Poughkeepsie Looks to Ozone To Treat Drinking Water
New federal drinking water standards could require the Poughkeepsie water plant to make $16 million in upgrades. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring municipal water plants to do more to restrict disinfectant byproducts (DBP) in drinking water that could pose health hazards. Poughkeepsies’ Water Treatment Facility is looking at injecting ozone into the drinking […]
Singapore’s River Safari Uses Ozone Water Treatment
Singapore operates a number of parks under its Wildlife Reserve brand. These include the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, and the Jurong Bird Park. The newest park is River Safari, the first river themed park in Asia. It will include eight major rivers from around the world including the Mississippi, Congo, Nile, Ganges, Murray, Mekong, Yangtze […]
Upcoming Ozone Related Meetings and Conferences 2012
The following ozone related conferences are being held this year: September 1-2 Mexican Ozone Congress in Mexico City, Mexico (www.rubiopharma.com/seminarios.asp) Spetember 16-21 IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition in Busan, Korea (www.iwa2012busan.org) September 24-26 International Ozone Association Meeting in Milwaukee, WI USA (www.io3a.org) September 29-October 3 WEFTEC2012 in New Orleans, LA USA (www.weftec.org) October 22-23 […]
Ozone for Disinfection By Products Control in Drinking Water
Disinfection of drinking water often involves a trade off between inactivating pathogens and creating undesirable disinfection by products in water. Because chlorination is still the most widely used method of disinfection, problems with the formation of chlorinated byproducts due to the interaction of chlorine with organic compounds found in water is a major issue. Two […]
Olympics Threaten By Ozone
Normally, in this blog we focus on the application of ozone in the treatment of water. Given that the Olympics are taking place in London the following news item caught our eye. During the week leading up to the Olympic Games, London experienced its worst ozone episode for six years. Fortunately fresh westerly winds began […]