Padre Dam Municipal Water District (USA) opened its Advanced Water Purification Demonstration Facility in late April of this year. The demonstration facility will use advanced water purification technologies to purify and test approximately 100,000 gallons of recycled water each day. The facility was designed to deal with California’s severe drought conditions by developing a new […]
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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 […]
San Diego Moves Forward with IPR Demonstration Employing Advanced Oxidation
San Diego City Council members approved a Water Purification Demonstration project using a indirect potable reuse (IPR) program. Implementation of an IPR would provide a significant new local water supply, while reducing the amount of primary effluent discharged to the ocean, helping the City avoid a $1.5 billion upgrade of the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment […]
Boulder Installs UV Wastewater Disinfection
Boulder’s wastewater treatment plant started up a new $3 million UV disinfection system purify the city’s wastewater. Flows are 12.5 million gallons per day of wastewater. Costs are comparable to the previously used chlorine gas/sulfur dioxide chemicals previously employed, however the safety and environmental aspects of UV are dramtically better than the chemicals. The UV […]
Muttenz Switzerland to Treat Groundwater with Advanced Oxidation
The groundwater in Muttenz, Switzerland will be purified using a combination of advanced oxidation, adsorption and ultrafiltration. The water is subject to organic trace substances and occasionally impacted by Rhine filtrate. Difficult to treat compounds will be oxidized using ozone and hydrogen peroxide. The ozone and peroxide react to form hydroxyl radicals that are fast […]
Korean Drinking Water Plant Purchases First Advanced Oxidation Treatment Process
A municipal drinking water system in a new high-tech industrial zone in South Korea has contracted for an ultraviolet (UV) advanced oxidation process (AOP) treatment technology. This is the firts time such a technology will be applied in Korea for drinking water. The water treatment facility will treat more than 26 million gallons per day, […]
Water Reuse Requires Multiple Barrier Approach
In previous posts we have talked about reuse of wastewater for drinking purposes including the feelings of Americans towards the use of wastewater for their water supply. In reality, many American’s already use wastewater as their drinking water source. If your drinking water plant is down stream of another cities wastewater plant, you are in […]
Ozone and Advanced Oxidation Find Opportunities in Fracking Water Treatment
Fracking has created a large application for various water treatment technologies such as ozone and advanced oxidation processes. Both processes have been used to either breakdown organic contaminants in the water, remove Fe and other minerals or for disinfection of the water prior to injection. An advantage of ozone based processes is that the ozone […]
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 […]
Australian Floods May Have Been Prevented by Water Reuse Schemes
The long Australian drought increase interest in Australia for people to talk seriously about recycling our sewage to use as drinking water. It is possible that if recycling schemes had been in place, the massive floods that followed last year might not have happened. There are two kinds of recycled water: ‘Indirect potable reuse’ or […]