Bossier City is involved in a $72 million project to double the capacity of their water treatment plant. In addition to construction of a new facility, the project will include a rehabilitation of the existing water treatment plant, which is expected to be completed in 2013. The expansion of the water plant will increase capacity […]
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Melbourne Wastewater Plant to Use Ozone
A long-planned upgrade at Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant includes an ozone system with installation beginning in November 2010. with peak flows of around 185 MGD of treated water production, the upgrade to advanced tertiary treatment at Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant will make it among the largest of its kind in the world. After […]
Santa Barbara to Add Ozone Water Treatment
The City of Santa Barbara is getting a $29 million loan to install an ozone water purifier at the Cater Water Treatment Plant as part of a longstanding effort to comply with increasingly stringent federal standards. Ozone water treatment is designed to remove potential carcinogens in the water created when sunlight interacts with leaves, twigs, […]
Pfizer Green Facility Uses Ozone for Water Purification
Pfizer Biotechnology Ireland has constructed the Monoclonal Antibodies (MAbs) Small Scale Facility (SSF) at Shanbally, Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, Ireland. The facility serves to establish a strategic biotechnology manufacturing center of excellence and is planned to support the rapid development of new biotechnology products. Utilizing best practice and Pfizer’s Green Building guidelines, a large number of […]
Ozone Effective for Removing Cyanide From Gold Mining Wastes
African Oxygen, part of The Linde Group, is using ozone for the cyanide destruction process at gold mines. Ozone is generated on site, by using ozone generators and using oxygen. The ozone was injected using a specially developed contacting system to ensure that optimal reaction efficiency took place before the water was pumped into the […]
Japanese Cities to Add Ozone Water Treatment
Hanshin Water Supply Authority’s Amagasaki Waterworks, which supplies purified water to the cities of Kobe, Amagasaki, Nishinomiya and Ashiya has purchased ozone water treatment equipment. The newly installed equipment will start operating in August 2010. Ozone systems disinfect, deodorize, decolorize and remove organic matter with far greater oxidizing power than chlorine, while producing harmless oxygen […]
Ozone and UV Good Choices for Public Safety at Water Parks
In 1998, an outbreak of E. coli at White Water Park near Atlanta resulted in illness for 26 children aged 12 and under, seven hospitalizations for kidney failure, and the death of one child. According to the Center for Disease Control, this tragedy marked an increase in national awareness of the importance of recreational water […]
Columbus, OH to Adopt Ozone for Drinking Water Treatment
The City of Columbus’ Hap Cremean drinking water treatment plant will be converted to the use of ozone and biologically active filtration (BAF) by 2013. The change is driven by the EPA Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts rule that takes effect in 2012. The Hap Cremean plant has a capacity of 100 MGD. A variety of […]
Ozone and UV Good Choices for Treating Water From Green Roofs
A recent report from the Texas Water Development Board entitled: Effect of Roof Material on Water Quality for Rainwater Harvesting Systems was recently published. As the title mentions, the study centered on the effect that different roof material have on the quality of collected rainwater. A survey of the most common roofing materials in Texas […]
Ozone Seen As Best Treatment for Ballast Water
Regional training and workshop on the legal implementation of the ballast water management (BMW) convention was held in Lagos, Nigeria to support the timely and harmonized implementation of ballast water convention in the West and Central Africa region. There has been a growing concern over the problem of invasive alien species in the marine environment […]