California Ocean Plan Amendments: Applicability and Requirements for New, Expanded, and Existing Facilities
Although the City of Santa Barbara’s seawater desalination plant and intake are exempt from the Ocean Plan Amendments’ (OPA) requirements, the City has chosen to conduct its subsurface intake (SSI) […]
Optimizing Pretreatment for a High Organic Florida Surface Water
The City of Marco Island is in the process of converting from lime softening to low-pressure reverse osmosis to reduce significant annual operating cost, while significantly improving finished water quality, […]
Design of a 14.8 MGD High Recovery Rate RO Plant for Reclamation of Municipal Wastewater Effluents Utilizing Advanced Membrane Technology
The process of reclamation of secondary or tertiary municipal wastewater effluent utilizing advanced membrane technology is well established. Numerous large capacity systems operate worldwide with a standardized configuration with very […]
Improving Organic Reduction and Overcoming Challenges of a Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Treating Wastewater from Plastic Production
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI) of 2010 required many wastewater treatment plants discharging to affected waterways to meet progressively lower effluent contaminant levels. While the initiative’s impact was felt […]
Making Good Better: Optimizing Salinity Management Using Time-Step Water and Salt Balance
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. To proactively manage their limited water resources, many inland utilities and private sector water consumers have embarked and maintained certain level of salinity […]
A Supplier’s Perspective on Interchangeable designs in both Pressurised and Submerged UF
Discusses how progressive design-build project delivery approach was used to successfully deliver the first universal rack membrane filtration system in Pennsylvania. Topics to be addressed include the challenges of implementing […]
New Concept of UF: Integrated-UF (I-UF)
Interest in the Innovation Fluytec has designed a new product line that combines two concepts: Elimination of the housing and the accessories of UF membrane modules, introducing UF fibers directly […]
Membrane Technology for Blue Energy Production Using Water Salinities
Membrane technology has always been crucial to water purification process, but it could become the core element of energy generating system using salinity gradient. Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is one of […]
Combined NF and RO Concentrate Disposal Piping and Deep Injection Well Scaling: A Case Study
The aeration of combined NF and RO concentrate has resulted in unprecedented scaling in both the downstream disposal piping and deep injection well at the City of Deerfield Beach West […]
Landfill Leachate MBR Plant Utilizing PTFE MF Membrane
PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) MF/UF membrane has a unique highly porous three-dimensional fibril structure not seen in other polymeric membranes. PTFE is temperature resistant and exceptionally high chemical resistant. Its temperature resistance […]
