It has been demonstrated that existing technologies for advanced water treatment can successfully upgrade wastewater to drinking water quality in large scale. There are installation for water reuse/water reclaim in California that are treating municipal wastewater to drinking water quality in volumes over 70 MGD. These technologies employed include membrane filtration, RO, UV and ozone. […]
Month: November 2013
Drinking Water Utilities Treatment Practices Based On Recent Disinfection Rules
The Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rules, know as LT2ESWTR was promulgated in 2006 obligating large drinking water utilities to comply with the rules by 2012. The rule was designed to prevent cryptosporidium, a difficult to kill pathogen from entering the drinking water supply. An incident in Milwaukee resulted in thousands of people […]
Advanced Oxidation Facilitates Industrial Wastewater Reuse
Advanced wastewater treatment technologies can allow industrial enterprises to reuse water and thus decrease industries use of fresh water resources. Currently, these processes are expensive and are probably only suitable for developed economies. This is compatible with the nature of industrial water use which increases with per capita GDP. Industries consuming the most water include […]
Santa Barbara Brings Ozone Drinking Water Plant On Line
Santa Barbara brings an advanced ozone water treatment plant on line to improve water quality after two years of development. Water for the City of Santa Barbara comes from Lake Cachuma and the Gibraltar Reservoir, both located on the Santa Ynez River. The water is treated at the William B. Cater Water Treatment Plant (Cater […]
Sappi Fine Paper’s Cloquet Mill Installs the Largest Single Ozone Generator in the World
After $170 million in expenditures and a one-year construction period, Sappi Fine Paper’s capital conversion project was completed. The new production line is designed to produce specialized cellulose. The mill employs the largest single ozone generator of its kind in the world. In the first two weeks of the new facility’s start-up curve, average production […]