Optimising wastewater treatment plant performance
23 March, 2015Wastewater treatment processes have been driven to reduce nutrient concentrations over the past couple of decades to improve receiving water quality particularly in inland waterways. This has led to the installation of complex and often energy-intensive processes. Recently, focus has been on optimising existing treatment processes both in terms of energy usage and plant performance to maximise performance, capacity and operation of the plants.
Australian-invented technology tackles odours at meat processor
12 March, 2015When producing specialty meat products and fresh food, it is common for odours to be generated in the production cycle. This was the case at the Illawarra Meat Company where hams, sausages and other smallgoods are processed.
TurboMax Turbo Blower
18 February, 2015The TurboMax Turbo Blower is an aeration blower said to provide savings of 20-40% in energy-intensive processes at wastewater treatment plants. The blower is compact and lightweight, with minimal installation requirements.
Trility to rehabilitate Redcliffe Sewage Treatment Plant
28 January, 2015Following a competitive procurement process, Trility has been selected to deliver the Design, Build, Operate and Maintain contract for the rehabilitation of South-East Queensland's Redcliffe Sewage Treatment Plant. The plant services residents and businesses in the Redcliffe Peninsula and surrounding areas.
Double the benefits with combined wastewater technologies
21 January, 2015Compact and robust dissolved air flotation (DAF) systems reduce chemical oxygen demand in industrial wastewater effluents by 70-80%. But impressive as these results are, they may not always be enough.
Hamilton City Council meets compliance demands with system upgrade
15 January, 2015Leveraging the FactoryTalk Integrated Production and Performance Suite from Rockwell Automation, Hamilton City Council implemented an upgrade to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at the Pukete Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Hamilton City Council meets compliance demands with system upgrade
15 January, 2015Leveraging the FactoryTalk Integrated Production and Performance Suite from Rockwell Automation, Hamilton City Council implemented an upgrade to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at the Pukete Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Grundfos to treat Singapore's wastewater
05 December, 2014Pump manufacturer Grundfos has been awarded a S$1.4 million R&D grant by the Singapore Environment and Water Industry Programme Office to develop a novel wastewater filtration technology that can significantly reduce capital investment and operational costs for wastewater treatment.
Queensland wastewater treatment plant to be upgraded
25 November, 2014Aquatec Maxcon has been awarded a design and construct contract to undertake the upgrade of Queensland's Kingaroy wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The plant will be the first in Australia to utilise Nereda aerobic granular sludge technology.
Are food, beverage and primary processors literally pouring profit down the drain?
28 October, 2014Forward-thinking companies are now taking the initiative to search the globe for best-practice methods to achieve as close to possible as zero waste in their plants. One of the most dramatic but least publicised results of this search for excellence is the installation of anaerobic digestion plants.
Yarra Valley Water to probe Park Orchards
17 October, 2014Yarra Valley Water is using water-quality monitoring probes as part of a trial to deliver sewerage services to the Melbourne suburb of Park Orchards. According to project manager David Diaz, the probes will help monitor the health of the local environment to assess whether containing all treated sewage from septic tanks on each property is an environmentally sound sewerage solution.
NOV Mono CT203 TR Muncher twin-shaft grinder
08 October, 2014Designed for the efficient maceration of abrasive sludges, the CT203 Muncher from NOV Mono is a twin-shaft, slow-speed, high-torque grinder that macerate the solids within a flow. The product is suitable for a wide variety of pump protection and other industrial duties.
Oil-free screw blowers increase sewage plant efficiency
13 August, 2014Two Atlas Copco ZS 55+ oil-free screw blowers with variable speed drive (VSD) are supplying energy-efficient compressed air to process sewage at a treatment plant in Versmold, Germany.
New CEO for BioGill
13 August, 2014Steve Atherton has been appointed chief executive officer at biotechnology company BioGill. The company was established to commercialise BioGill wastewater treatment technology, developed in ANSTO research laboratories.
Centrifugal compressors at sewage treatment plant
06 August, 2014The sewage treatment plant in the city of Gütersloh, Germany, treats an average of between 6.5 and 7 million m3 of sewage water. Up until recently, three Atlas Copco ZB 130 VSD centrifugal compressors and two older single-stage screw compressors supplied the compressed air for the biological process that occurs in the plant’s exceptionally deep sedimentation tanks.
