Temple environmental engineering professor Rominder Suri, Ph.D. is developing new water treatment techniques. With the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation, Suri works in Temple’s Water and Environmental Technology Center searching for alternative water purification methods. One such method involves the use of Ozone gas and ultraviolet light to destroy foreign contaminates. […]
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San Diego Uses Advanced Oxidation to Recycle Wastewater
In summer 2011, the City of San Diego opened the Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Facility, a small-scale, state-of-the-art facility that purifies one MGD of recycled water. The facility is one component of the City’s Water Purification Demonstration Project that is examining the safety and cost of purifying recycled water. San Diego is examining water purification […]
Ozone Used for Wastewater Treatment at Canadian Fish Processing Plant
A $1.1m upgrade to Mainstream Canada’s Pacific National Processing facility has improved ocean water quality for residents of Tofino and for the West Coast of Vancouver Island, according to the company. Mainstream Canada completed an upgrade of the waste water treatment system in its processing plant. The system has been in operation since this spring. […]
Marines to Recycle Wastewater in San Diego for Landscape Irrigation
The Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San diego is pioneering a type of on-site wastewater recycling system. It will divert 10,000 gallons of sewage at the base each day, treat it to state standards and pump it through irrigation lines to the roots of landscape plants. If all works according to plan, passers-by won’t notice […]
Monteray Bay Aquarium Uses Ozone and UV to Treat Water Returned to Bay
Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the largest wastewater dischargers of water into the protected Pacific Grove area of the bay. The State Water Resources Control Board exempted the aquarium from a state ban on dumping wastewater into a marine protected zone. The aquarium continuously takes in about 1,400 gallons of seawater a minute and […]
Massachusetts Regional Water Authority to Combine Ozone and UV for Disinfection
To meet new federal regulations aimed at reducing gastrointestinal illness from Giardia and Cryptosporidium microbes, the Marlborough plant will use ultraviolet light. The combination of treatments will allow for a reduction in the amount of ozone that is added to the water, which in turn will reduce our ozone operating expenses to offset increased operating […]
International Ozone and UV Conference in Paris May 23-27
The 20th World Congress and Exhibition of the International Ozone and International UV Associations is to be held May 23-27 in Paris, France. The technical program has been prepared and will include presentation on Advanced Oxidation, Ozone and UV reactor Design, Industrial Applications of Ozone and UV, Ozone in Agrifood, Ozone and UV Reaction Modeling, […]
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 […]
Nova Scotia Proposes Rules for Treating Cryptosporidium in Drinking Water
Nova Scotia’s proposed provincial guidelines to protect municipal drinking water systems from the harmful parasite cryptosporidium will affect many communities. The changes to the province’s treatment standards for municipal drinking water systems come after many municipalities have built or renovated multimillion-dollar water treatment facilities as part of the Nova Scotia water protection strategy. Both the […]
Spartan Environmental to Exhbit and Present at WQA Aquatech USA
Spartan Environmental Technologies and UV Sciences will jointly exhibit at WQA Aquatech USA March 10-12th in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center. Spartan will feature its SPARTOX fully integrated compact ozone water treatment system on a skid while UV Sciences will feature their compact high efficiency UVSI systems. Both companies will jointly exhibit […]