Application of a Pre-Engineered, Fully Automated, and Minimal Waste Discharge Ultrafiltration System for Remote Installation in Star Lake, Ny
A pre-engineered, fully automated ultrafiltration system piloted and commissioned for the Town of Fine, NY, is described. The Town, in coordination with neighboring users, elected to install an ultrafiltration system […]
A Novel Method for Modeling Brine and Permeate pH in RO and NF Systems
Concentrate pH in RO and NF applications plays a significant role in the formation of certain scales and the rejection of various contaminants. Incorrectly predicting pH can lead to excessive […]
Startup of the Grip AWT Facilities
The Albert Robles Center (ARC) of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California’s (WRD’s) Groundwater Reliability Improvement Project (GRIP) is a state of the art advanced water treatment facility (AWT) […]
A Tale of Two Winters: Operational Differences to Increase MBR Capacity in Cold Weather Months
Canton Water Reclamation Facility (Canton) has faced hardships meeting capacity during winter months since beginning operation as a membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant. In an attempt to resolve this issue, Canton […]
Optimized Chemical Pretreatment and Membrane Element Performance at a 10 MGD Nanofiltration Plant
The City of Pompano Beach has a 50 million gallon per day (mgd) water treatment plant that includes a 10 mgd nanofiltration (NF) process. The NF process includes five 2-mgd […]
Refinery Wastewater Treatment – 9 Years of Successful MBR Operations
Functionalized Nanoporous Ceramic Membranes Towards Low Cost Electrodialysis
Electrodialysis (ED) stack manufacturers play second fiddle to reverse osmosis because of high capital costs even though their products generate 90% less waste brine and require 80% less energy to […]
Brine Recirculation and Other High Recovery SWRO Process Innovations Utilizing Isobaric Energy Recovery Devices
The Recovery Rate (Recovery) of a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system is defined as the ratio of permeate to total feed flow. The recovery is a key design parameter which, for […]
Full Advanced Treatment for Potable Reuse in Inland Areas-Yeah it is Doable
Full advanced treatment (FAT) consisting of reverse osmosis (RO) and advanced oxidation process (AOP) has been widely used in indirect potable reuse (IPR) applications in California and some other states […]
Multifunctional Nanocomposite Membranes: A Sustainable Environmental Remediation Approach
Since its inception, nanotechnology has shown considerable promise to tackle some of our most daunting societal challenges. Poor water quality is one such issue, and it can potentially be ameliorated […]
