High-Efficiency Mixers Help Three Wastewater Operators Save Energy and Costs

Mixers in aeration and sludge tanks can account for up to 10% of a wastewater treatment plant’s overall energy use. By selecting energy-efficient mixers, operators can reduce energy consumption attributed to mixing by as much as 50%. Discover how three wastewater operators have achieved significant energy and cost savings with Xylem’s Flygt mixers. When looking […]

Biological Treatment Hire Keeps Wastewater Plant Compliant

Biological Treatment Hire Keeps Wastewater Plant Compliant

A Northumbrian Water wastewater treatment plant has kept its biological treatment online and within environmental consent during an equipment upgrade with the installation of two temporary T300 WCSEE Hybrid submerged moving-bed, fixed-film reactors from wastewater equipment specialist WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE). Managers at Mickleton wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) in northern England, with a 300-population equivalent, […]

Enhanced Treatment Can Speed-Up Spill Reduction

Enhanced Treatment Can Speed-Up Spill Reduction

Enhanced wastewater treatment holds the key to reducing sewage overflows to the environment in a sustainable way, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services. Public and political pressure on water companies to address the issue of sewage spills into rivers and seas means overflows are no longer solely an issue for operations teams. They top […]

KSB Highlights New High-Efficiency Mixers

KSB Highlights New High-Efficiency Mixers

The KSB Group presents the latest generation of its AmaProp mixers for use in the sludge and biological waste water treatment. The electric drives are either IE5 Ultra Premium Efficiency synchronous reluctance motors or IE3 Premium Efficiency asynchronous motors with ratings from 0.85 to 20.0 kW. Unlike conventional synchronous motors, the IE5 synchronous reluctance motors […]

Hybrid-SAF Technology Selected for Sensitive Scottish Site

Hybrid-SAF Technology Selected for Sensitive Scottish Site

Technology from wastewater treatment specialist WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE) has been selected by Scottish Water to deliver a tightened ammonia removal consent at a village treatment works. The updated consent has led the public utility to upgrade Edgehead wastewater treatment works (WwTW) in Midlothian, east of Edinburgh. The upgrade will involve the delivery and installation […]