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Water Works
Water Industry construction, growth continues
despite global economic slowdown
Product Review
Water Sampling & Analytical
December/January 2009/2010 - Vol. 24, Issue 6

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Regulars
PACKAGE TREATMENT
3 Perspective
24 Compact Treatment Systems to Serve Grain Mills
4 News
32 Product Review: Water Sampling & Analytical ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
34 Technology Roundup: Odor Control 26 Acoustic Doppler Flow Monitoring System Tackles the World’s
37 New Products Largest River
40 Ad Index/Web Promo
CREATIVE FINANCE Regional Spotlight

10 Innovative Financing in Sanitation for Poor People ASIA
11 E-Billing Software Streamlines Construction Management 28 High Quality Effluent helps Restore Chinese Lake
28 Nalco Opens new Facility in China
Editorial Focus 29 Company to Design, Build Pharmaceutical Wastewater Plant
PROCESS MONITORING
29 Brunei Begins Channel Dredging Project
12 Sampling Strategies Focus On Yield Enhancement
Through Loss Reduction At Fonterra Dairy Cooperative 31 Cleantech Eliminates Chemical use at Industrial Plant
SOLAR POWER PUMPING

14 Delivering Clean Water with Clean Energy Product Features
36 Student Helps Develop Self Erecting Flood barrier
REDUCING CHEMICAL COSTS
16 Water Treatment Delivers Environmental, Economic Promise 36 Coating System Offers Quick Return to Service in Damp Environments
36 Company Releases Updated Stormwater mapping software
SOUTHEAST ASIA
18 Turnkey Project Brings Piped Drinking Water to 300,000 People
PROCES OPTIMIZATION
20 Energy Efficiency of Water and Wastewater Treatment:
News Highlights
An International Benchmarking Program
4 GLV Acquires Majority Stake in Christ Water Technology
6 Company Names New Managing Director for South Asia Pacific
WATER REUSE 6 ITT Inks $2.6 Million Deal for Offshore Platform Equipment
22 Continuous Sand Filters Used in Major Saudi Irrigation Project 8 Brazilian City Conducts Large-Scale Pipe Bursting
9 Water For People wins International Recognition
NUTRIENT REMOVAL
23 Chinese Market Turning To Nutrient Removal
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Perspective
Water Market
Continues Growth Despite
Global Recession
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orld demand for water treatment prod- In the least developed parts of Asia and Africa, mar-
James Laughlin
ucts is projected to increase 5.7 per- ket gains will be among the fastest in the world, but
Managing Editor
cent per year to $59 billion in 2013, well even spectacular growth will leave several hundred mil-
above the rate of economic growth in lion people without access to safe water or even mini-
essentially every region. In addition, the marketplace is mal sanitation facilities.
evolving, with smaller players filling local needs as the In the large Middle Eastern market, gains will be
influence of larger, global companies wanes, according prompted by continued expansion of desalination ca-
to two recent market reports. pacity in the region, not only in the “textbook case”
According to a report from the Freedonia Group, desalination leaders Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
based in the USA, large, yet still developing markets Emirates and Kuwait, but also in countries such as Al-
such as China and India will register the fastest growth geria, Israel and Libya. The expansion of desalination
in the next few years, due to continued industrial ex- will boost demand for evaporators and membrane sys-
tems, but will limit opportunities for chemicals and other
water treatment products which are not used as much
for desalinated water, which usually has very low levels
“Despite the funding issues that beset the industry on both a global and of dissolved solids, the Freedonia Group reported.
a local scale, water is still seen as an attractive asset class. The private Despite the global recession, or perhaps become
sector has a crucial role to play – by 2015 we estimate that 16% of the of it, a number of fundamental changes are occurring
world’s population will be served by the private sector. This is reflected in within the industry, according to the 11th edition of the
the number of contracts awarded this year, which although small, shows Water Yearbook published by Pinsent Masons, a global
30 contract gains, showing exceptional players can still close deals even in infrastructure law firm and a specialist in water projects.
these difficult times.” Most notable among the changes is the emergence of
smaller players onto the global stage, for instance from
–Dr. David Lloyd Owen, water consultant and author of the Pinsent Masons report China and Brazil, as the trend towards local contracts
continues.
pansion and concerted efforts to expand access to China itself is now the driver of the global water in-
safe water supplies and adequate sanitation facilities, dustry, while member countries of the Organisation for
especially in rural areas. In more developed markets, Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) now
advances will also be fairly strong due to initiatives account for less than half of all contracts (compared to
which focus on improving drinking water quality, reduc- 84% a decade ago). Finally, the “big five” water com-
ing wastewater discharge and increasing wastewater panies, which used to dominate the industry, have now
treatment and reutilization rates. consolidated into the “big two”, but still control a 33%
These and other trends are presented in Freedonia's share of the total global water market.
new study, World Water Treatment Products. Dr. David Lloyd Owen, water consultant and author
While the recent economic downturn will result in of the Pinsent Masons report, said, “Despite the fund-
some deceleration of market growth from the very strong ing issues that beset the industry on both a global and
advances posted in the 2003-2008 period, prospects a local scale, water is still seen as an attractive asset
in most regions will remain substantial, the study found. class. The private sector has a crucial role to play – by
However, the reasons underlying the continuing expan- 2015 we estimate that 16% of the world’s population
sion of the water treatment products market around the will be served by the private sector. This is reflected
world vary immensely between regions. In the most de- in the number of contracts awarded this year, which
veloped markets -- the US, Canada, Japan and most although small, shows 30 contract gains, showing ex-
of Western Europe -- gains will result from efforts to ceptional players can still close deals even in these dif-
increase water reuse rates, improve the aesthetic qual- ficult times.”
ity of drinking water and further reduce the chances of Freedonia's World Water Treatment Products report
water contamination. Such efforts will boost demand is for sale. More information may be found on the com-
for products such as advanced membrane systems, pany's website, www.freedoniagroup.com. The Pinsent
disinfection equipment and specialty chemicals used in Masons Water Yearbook can be downloaded for free by
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Water, Sanitation Professionals

Discuss Millennium Development Goals
Over 400 delegates from 60 countries discussed and management aspects to innovation and finance. vancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),”
water and sanitation solutions in developing countries at “Three years of work have culminated in this won- said Dr David Garman, President of the International
the first IWA Development Congress, organized by the derful congress that has brought together financiers, Water Association.
International Water Association (IWA) and National Au- practitioners, NGOs, utilities and industry to demon- The next IWA Development Congress will be held in
tonomous University of Mexico. Held in Mexico City, the strate solutions applied around the world to strength- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 2011.
congress covered a wide range of topics from technical en the exchange of knowledge and practice in ad-
COMPANY HONORED Flow Monitoring Helps Cut Water Leaks in UK

FOR METERING Electromagnetic flowmeters are play- aged site, C2C has identified a point at
ing a key role in cutting water leakage for which further leakage reduction will be
SERVICES the Ministry of Defense (MoD) in England, uneconomical and the aim is to reach
with reductions of 60% achieved at some that level in each case.
Exceptional service in supporting its AMP4
sites. Leakage has already dropped by “Once we have reached the eco-
water meter replacement program has led
about 528 million (US) gallons per year nomic point of leakage repair, continued
Anglian Water to present its annual “Supplier
across more than 1,500 MoD sites where monitoring will enable us to spot any new
Contribution to Service Excellence Award”
for 2009 to the Utilities Division of Multipart
C2C Services manages water and waste leaks as they occur,” said Robin Phillips,
Supply Chain Solutions. utility assets. Deputy General Manager for C2C.
C2C Services is a consortium of “As for all organizations with private
The Lancashire based company has been Severn Trent Services and Costain. distribution systems, our economic
supporting the Anglian Water program since C2C provides water services to MoD point of repair is significantly lower than
sites in the North, East and Southeast a typical water utility’s because our cost
The highly automated Multipart distribution of England, known as ‘Package C’. The metering project featured use of ABB of leakage is based on the price paid for
centre at Chorley in Lancashire The 25-year, £1 billion ($1.66 billion AquaMaster magmeters. water as opposed to the much lower
US) contract is part of Project Aqua- cost of water production,” Phillips said.
trine, which transferred responsibility for find use for continuously validating cus-
MoD’s water services to three different tody revenue meters used by local water
contractors. companies to generate bills. Another set
Mark Amor, C2C’s water resources of magmeters, called “Night line meters,” GLV Acquires Majority
manager, says that the AquaMaster provide a critical indication of leakage lev- Stake in Christ Water
magmeters from ABB have been central els during periods when legitimate con-
Technology
to the success of C2C’s leak reduction sumption is at its lowest.
2005. Multipart came to the task with a program. “We’ve used a targeted ap- To meet its contractual and business GLV has acquired more than 83 percent of
range of capabilities that included state-of- Austria-based Christ Water Technology AG
proach based on the availability of high needs, C2C monitors the water supply
the-art warehousing and logistics services (“CWT”’). The acquisition fits ideally with
quality data,” he said. across its region to a high standard of GLV’s long-term vision of securing a global
and, most significantly, its Msys.MRM mo-
About 900 magmeters have been accuracy. The information serves for both platform and leadership role as a provider
bile resource management package, which
installed, with more meters planned. leakage cost reduction and billing. C2C of industrial and municipal water treatment
it had developed in-house. solutions.
One set of meters measures the overall must also be able to verify that the me-
The acquisition will complete GLV’s tech-
This fully integrated system enables every consumption at each site by monitor- ters continue to provide accurate read-
nological portfolio in several of its targeted
aspect of the meter exchange and instal- ing the total incoming water. These also ings throughout their lives. For each man- niches. For instance, in addition to its water
lation process to be controlled from bar- intake screening technologies, GLV will be
coded inventory management at Multipart’s able to offer thermal power stations and
distribution center, through to deployment
of the mobile workforce, installation of me-
Amiad Acquires Majority seawater desalination plants comprehen-
sive solutions, including process water
microfiltration, ultrafiltration, demineraliza-
ters and return of old units. As each meter
is uniquely coded there is total traceability
throughout and even meters, ancillary parts
Share in Indian Distributor tion and recycling technologies.
The technological fit between GLV and
CWT will enhance GLV’s position in its
and fittings carried in an engineer’s van can Amiad has acquired a majority stake in such as the provision of equipment for primary end markets including the energy
JSK Engineering Co., an India-based sup- the power and oil & gas industries. Amiad sector, the municipal market and the
be accounted for.
petrochemicals industry. Furthermore, it
plier and manufacturer of products for the holds 40% of JSK and Mr. Mehta holds will provide the company with access to
Msys.MRM is web-based, which gives An- water filtration industry for an initial cash 60% of JSK. additional industrial markets, such as the
glian Water access to performance data on payment of USD $192,000, and further Sudhir Mehta, former owner of JSK microelectronics and solar energy indus-
tries.
the project at all times and from anywhere. performance based payments of between Engg, has been appointed as CEO of
This is available in real time and comprehen- The acquisition will further enhance GLV’s
USD $75,000 and USD $165,000. Amiad India and JSK Engg.
sive reporting can be shown in a simple to presence in emerging markets, notably in
As part of the agreement, the parties Amiad has been making inroads in In- Asia and Europe where CWT records a sig-
use “dashboard” that presents an overall pic-
have incorporated in India two private dia since 2008 and has increased its pen- nificant
ture of performance against targets that can propor-
be drilled down to granular level, including a
limited companies: etration further in 2009. As stated at the tion of its Other recent water
range of KPIs and other key measurements. – Amiad Filtration Systems (India) Pri- time of the interim results on 21 Septem- rev- industry news items at
vate Limited (“Amiad India”) – which will ber 2009, Amiad had targeted India as enues,
while
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Louise Mitcham, metering manager at engage in developing a filtration business its main growth area in 2009. It secured also
Anglian Water, said: “Multipart’s customer in India, including marketing, distribution, its first large project in the municipal seg- contributing to expand GLV’s range of
service and innovative approach to our me- products and services and to increase its
sales and support of filtration products ment for its automatic self cleaning filters revenues and market share in its existing
tering requirements has been superb and and solutions. and AMF technology for drinking water, markets in North America, Western
has significantly improved the efficiency and Europe, the Pacific region and the Middle
– JSK Engg. Private Limited (“JSK and has previously supplied products to
robustness of our replacement program.” East.
Engg”) – which will engage in the devel- power plants and steel mills.
opment of the other business streams,
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Company Names New Managing

Director for South Asia Pacific
Eamonn Kelly is joining Black & Veatch as the new joining Black & Veatch includes seven years with a state- hold in the Australia and
Managing Director for South Asia Pacific. Kelly will be owned water corporation in Victoria, Australia, where he Singapore markets and
responsible for growing the engineering firm’s water served most recently as General Manager for the Plan- developing opportunities
business throughout the region and will be based in ning and Infrastructure Groups. to serve clients in other
Melbourne. “Black & Veatch has a strong reputation in advanced parts of the region.”
Kelly has more than 20 years’ experience in the water technology and project execution plus a history of work-
industry with a majority of the time spent in Australia, ing in the region that dates back many decades,” Kelly
China and other parts of Asia. His experience prior to said. “I’m looking forward to establishing a stronger foot- Eamonn Kelly
Desalination Association Elects New President

The International Desalination Association has an- as 2nd Vice President and was a member of the Orga- tensive water management programs and water-related
nounced that Imad Makhzoumi has been elected its new nizing Committee for the IDA World educational initiatives. Michel Canet is Ex-
President for 2009-2011. In addition, Khoo Teng Chye Congress in Dubai as well as the Op- ecutive Vice-President of Major Projects
has been named the new 1st Vice President and Michel erations and Strategic Planning Com- Group within Veolia Water Solutions &
Canet, 2nd Vice President, for the 2009-2011 term. mittees. Previously, he was Chairman Technologies, a subsidiary of Veolia Water.
Mr. Makhzoumi is the Chief Operating Officer of Fu- of the IDA Membership and Elections He has been directly involved in the devel-
ture Pipe Industries Group. During the past decade, Mr. Committee. opment of large desalination projects and
Makhzoumi has participated in many international and Mr. Khoo Teng Chye has been the water reuse projects in Australia, Middle
regional committees responsible for the development for Chief Executive and a Board Member East and Asia.
safe use of fiberglass non-corrosive pipe systems in high of the Public Utilities Board (PUB) in
temperatures and pressures within desalination plants. Singapore since December 2003. As
He has been an IDA member for more than 14 years Chief Executive, he has led PUB to
and has served as a Director for the last eight years. embark on major corporate changes Company to Provide
Immediately prior to being elected President, he served and has promoted Singapore’s ex- Underground Storage
Imad Makhzoumi Tank Services
Panton McLeod, which provides repairs,

Ultrafiltration, Ultrasound set to give Textile Effluents a Thorough Clean cleaning and inspection services for facili-
ties used in the storage of drinking water
in the United Kingdom, has signed an
As part of the PURIFAST project, the EU commission has provided 2.2 million euros to help fund the development of an innovative
agreement to provide its services on more
and efficient method of treating problematic effluents such as those produced in the textile industry. than 400 underground water storage tanks
In addition to input from Germany – comprising the ultrafiltration specialists inge watertechnologies and the Rhine-Westphalian across Scotland over the next six months.
Institute of Water Research (IWW Water Centre) – other partners in the project include GIDA, Next Technology Tecnotessile and the The deal is the latest high-profile work that
companies LAVO and Tintoria King Colour from Italy, as well as the University of Florence and the French company Polymem. Panton McLeod has provided for Scottish
Water. For the past 15 years, the firm has
Ultrafiltration treats water using purely physical means in order to remove suspended solids, particles and bacteria. Textile effluents provided expertise in cleaning, inspecting
feature a high degree of contamination, which poses a particular challenge to the ultrafiltration membrane. inge watertechnologies and repairing water structures across Scot-
land – which has included major work as
has been conducting research as part of the PURIFAST project in order to optimally tailor both its patented Multibore membrane and
part of some of the biggest water projects
process control system to the project’s requirements. The aspects being addressed include pore size and geometry, membrane hy- Scottish Water has undertaken, such as
drophilicity, determining the best flux and the optimum backflush flow rate, deploying cleaning chemicals and minimizing their use, etc. the £120 million Loch Katrine scheme.
In order to put the new technique to the test, a facility has been set up in the textile town of Prato in Tuscany to treat the municipal The latest projects, which have been
wastewater, which is heavily contaminated by the textile industry. This test project involved the simultaneous installation of three, arranged as part of an ongoing Price
and Supply Agreement, will see Panton
independently controlled membrane lines to enable the optimum adjustments to be identified as quickly as possible. The acid test McLeod clean and disinfect more than
comes next year with the installation of the process at the textile dyeing facilities of the Italian company Tintoria King Colour. 400 service reservoirs and water tanks
across the Ness, Don, Tayside and Ayrshire
Peter Berg, Chief Technology Officer of inge watertechnologies, explains further: “If we succeed in cleaning up textile effluents regions, to help further improve water purity
at a reasonable cost using ultrafiltration and ultrasound, this should lead to a boom in the recycling of industrial effluents. The treat- for Scottish Water customers.
ment of organic substances such as dyes in ultrafiltered water is currently tackled by reverse osmosis. However, this is an expensive Under the agreement Panton McLeod will
method, especially when you consider the amount of energy it requires. If ultrafiltration and ultrasound can provide a better return on be providing a range of services for Scot-
tish Water, including traditional drain-down
investment, then nothing will stand in the way of deploying this new system on a global scale.”
cleaning, inspection and repair work. The
firm will also be using its environmen-
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units – to inspect and clean some service
ITT Inks $2.6 Million Deal for Mexican Offshore Platform Equipment reservoirs while they are still on-line, ensur-
ing that customers do not face any service
ITT C’treat Offshore has announced a $2.6 million deal with Dragados Offshore to supply the entire potable and process water disruptions.
treatment systems for an offshore oil platform in the Bay of Campeche, off the eastern coast of Mexico. The project includes ITT The machines are remotely operated and
fitted with cameras and lighting equipment,
Goulds pumps and ITT C’treat water process systems necessary for maintaining life support systems on-board, including drinking
which allows staff controlling the sub to
water and process water. assess the interior of the tanks without
“The main focus on a platform is oil production, but if critical support systems fail, production stops,” said Dragados Offshore having to drain the facilities first. They are
also used solely within clean potable water
Mexico Project Director Jose A. Garcia-Figueras. “The water systems we install must be made of reliable equipment to ensure that environments and are cleaned and disin-
freshwater availability does not become a concern for platform managers.” fected prior to every use to ensure they can
ITT C’treat has 30 years of experience in providing freshwater systems to the offshore petroleum industry. The company’s desali- be safely used in the public water supply.
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Company to Provide Underground Storage Tank Services

Panton McLeod, which provides repairs, cleaning biggest water projects Scottish Water has undertaken, The firm will also be using its environmentally friendly ro-
and inspection services for facilities used in the storage such as the £120 million Loch Katrine scheme. bots – the VR600 and ROV units – to inspect and clean
of drinking water in the United Kingdom, has signed an The latest projects, which have been arranged as some service reservoirs while they are still on-line, ensur-
agreement to provide its services on more than 400 un- part of an ongoing Price and Supply Agreement, will see ing that customers do not face any service disruptions.
derground water storage tanks across Scotland over the Panton McLeod clean and disinfect more than 400 ser- The machines are remotely operated and fitted with
next six months. vice reservoirs and water tanks across the Ness, Don, cameras and lighting equipment, which allows staff con-
The deal is the latest high-profile work that Panton Tayside and Ayrshire regions, to help further improve trolling the sub to assess the interior of the tanks with-
McLeod has provided for Scottish Water. For the past water purity for Scottish Water customers. out having to drain the facilities first. They are also used
15 years, the firm has provided expertise in cleaning, in- Under the agreement Panton McLeod will be provid- solely within clean potable water environments and are
specting and repairing water structures across Scotland ing a range of services for Scottish Water, including tra- cleaned and disinfected prior to every use to ensure they
– which has included major work as part of some of the ditional drain-down cleaning, inspection and repair work. can be safely used in the public water supply.
Brazilian City Conducts Large-Scale Pipe Bursting The Grundoburst system was used to replace 2.4 km of
defective drinking water pipe in 20 days.
Campinas, also known as the Brazilian Silicon Valley, ing rods, started to replace the
is one of the largest cities in Brazil with more than 1 mil- old asbestos cement pipes ID 50
lion inhabitants in its metropolitan area. In some districts mm with PE pipes OD 63 mm in
the city’s water authority SANASA was facing ongoing the calm residential area “Colinas
drinking water loss caused by leaks in the 30 year old do Ermitage”. The total replace-
pipeline network. For economic, ecologic and time rea- ment length of 400 m was burst
sons, it was decided to completely renew the damaged in sections of 50 m - 100 m due
drinking water pipelines instead of repeatedly repairing to several sewer, gas and telecom-
them. For this reason Sanasa purchased a Grundoburst munication lines along the bursting
400 G3 (Manufacturer: Tracto-Technik GmbH & Co. KG, path and a large drain pipe running
Germany) as the first water authority in Brazil to do so. parallel to the old drinking water
The actual replacement works are carried out by pipeline.
SANASA, having started in the district of Sousas with As the exact position of this ex-
about 2.4 km of defective drinking water pipes to be isting underground service line was
exchanged trenchlessly. On June 16th the Grundoburst not known, this was the perfect
400 G3, equipped with Ø 35 mm Quick Lock burst- task for applying the static pipe
bursting technique. Despite many repair clamps fixing

the old asbestos cement drinking water pipeline, the
Ground Reserviors complete replacement project in Sousas was completed
Elevated Water Tanks within 20 days including disassembly of the construction
and intermediate pits and re-establishing of the water
Standpipes
supply, which had to be by-passed during the bursting
Wastewater Treatment process.
SANASA will extend its pipe rehabilitation program
-'./0-1-' using the pipe bursting technique to further districts of

Campinas. In the near future 1600 m of the old asbestos
2'34'56789-: cement pipeline will be replaced with new PE pipes OD
63 mm and 400 m with new PE pipes ND 90 mm.

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Worldwide News
Chopper Pumps Help cut Costs

at Sewage Facility
Reducing costs associated with un- space and this required operators to
planned maintenance and achieving sig- have breathing apparatus and escape
nificant savings on energy consumption sets to meet health and safety require-
were the important benefits achieved ments. Therefore, when contractors
at a Severn Trent Water facility, follow- were called in to regularly unblock the
ing the installation of Vaughan Chopper original pumps, maintenance costs
Pumps, supplied by P&M Pumps. escalated further, in the region of
The Sewage Treatment works at £100,000 for one year. erating continuously at a fixed speed.
Netheridge in Gloucester had experi- Initially, Severn Trent Water oper- The pumps are 12” discharge PE12U’s
enced problems with existing pumps ated one Vaughan Chopper pump on with 90 Kw, 970 rpm motors.
which were continuously blocking and a trial basis for an extended period to Jeff Beddall, a Work Flow Techni-
also suffered from leaking glands. The see if it would meet the challenges cian at Netheridge Treatment Works
application was pumping raw sew- of the demanding application. This comments, “We have achieved signifi-
age from 20 meters below ground pump is still used as a stand-by on cant savings on labor and electricity
from wet wells to the inlet works. To VSD Drive. Following the successful consumption, the problems we were
complicate matters the pumps were trial, additional pumps were installed experiencing of blockages and leaking
housed in a dry well which was sub- and the process now involves a total glands with the original pumps have
sequently classified as a confined of four Vaughan Chopper pumps op- been eliminated.” RAISING THE
Water For People wins International Recognition STANDARD
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Council on Water (AMCOW) recently for its commitment
era and typhoid fever are common throughout the country
due to the lack of clean water and proper sanitation. DETECTION
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operation Commission (BECC) and the North American De- lons a day (mgd) and the treatment process will be upgraded
velopment Bank (NADB) have announced the certification from advanced primary to secondary. The project, which will
and financing of four wastewater treatment projects that will benefit 360,000 residents, will cost an estimated US$35.7
benefit over 1.8 million residents of the United States-Mexico million to build and will receive a US$8 million grant from
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The projects certified and approved for financing include: (BEIF), which operates with funding from the U.S. Environ-
Expansion and Upgrade of the South Wastewater Treat- mental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Creative Finance
By David Trouba
Innovative Financing
in Sanitation for Poor People
“The Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council’s main foray and contribution in innova-
tive sanitation financing came in 2008 with the creation of Global Sanitation Fund.”
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t is estimated that 2.5 billion people lack a decent, safe toi- financing mechanism in sanitation. The future should see more.
let. The Millennium Development Goal target of halving the This is because today we are seeing a shifting paradigm around san-
number of people without access to sanitation by 2015 is the itation in general, and this affects how financing is done. Until recently,
furthest of the various global development targets set in 2000 sanitation has been stuck in a box as an old-fashioned, uncreative,
from being achieved. public sector activity. Most governments and agencies have seen sani-
Around the world, 10 million children die every year. Poor sanita- tation as something done to people – and usually tacked on to water
tion and hygiene are the chief or underlying causes in over half of programs as a minor aspect. Governmental sanitation policies – if they
these deaths. Unfortunately, donors, governments, organizations existed at all – were based on subsidizing the cost of latrines or toilets,
and other financiers have until recently virtually orphaned sanitation i.e. building toilets for people whether they wanted them or not.
by placing it as an add-on to water programs or ignoring it. We hear Across the developing world about half of those toilets built by
or see these days that celebrities champion water causes left and governments are used for some other purpose -- as store rooms for
right, but who sticks out their neck and their voice to champion toilets food, goats, bicycles and other valued possessions. The engineers
and excrement? built the toilets from their technical point of view – making toilets, dig-
Not many, which is why the United Nations sponsored “Interna- ging sewers, and getting excrement away and out of sight to be dealt
tional Year of Sanitation” in 2008 worked to help raise awareness of with scientifically. In poor countries, with neither the money nor the
the importance of sanitation and the need for new resources – of water for centralized sewerage systems, the engineers didn’t know
people, ideas and money – for the subject. Since 2008, many good how to serve the mass of the people.
things have been happening in the area of sanitation financing. In- But now sanitation is moving out of its box into a new paradigm,
deed, there are more people involved – though not quite the celebri- namely that of a major, market-driven everyday human economic
ties just yet. New ideas are being developed and more money for activity. Governments are changing policies to emphasize hygiene
the sector is likely just around the corner. This is important, because promotion, demand creation and sanitation marketing. Most exter-
good sanitation has a proven, beneficial effect on people’s health, nal development agencies have already changed their policies in this
environment, dignity and economic well being. way. In the future the aid money and government budgets will be
The Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council’s (WSSCC) spent on persuading people to raise sanitation up their own priority
main foray and contribution in innovative sanitation financ-
ing came in 2008 with the creation of Global Sanitation “Across the developing world about half of
Fund (GSF). The purpose of the Global Sanitation Fund
is to help large numbers of poor people to attain safe and those toilets built by governments are used
sustainable sanitation services and adopt good hygiene
practices. It is a single pooled fund open to contributions
for some other purpose – as store rooms
from any source including governments, foundations and
the private sector. The money is allocated to Executing
for food, goats, bicycles and other valued
Agencies in carefully selected countries, which then grant possessions.”
funds to Sub-Grantees who implement the sanitation and
hygiene work programs agreed for each country. The whole sys- lists, and to improve their own sanitation service.
tem is being closely monitored by WSSCC, as well as in country and Then, once demand is generated, the local entrepreneurs and
global audit mechanisms. service providers will be ready to meet this increased demand. Think
People-centered and nationally owned, it is a demand-driven of this: just as almost anybody in the world can now get a cell phone
mechanism to bring new funds into the sector, and it is the first fund and good customer service, so everybody should be able to get a
of its kind. Currently there is about $60 million in the fund. The GSF toilet with full customer service – supplying the components, con-
is just getting underway, with procurements over the last few months structing it, maintaining it and collecting the contents to use for their
taking place for Executing Agencies and Country Programme Moni- economic value.
tors in Madagascar, Senegal, Uganda and Nepal, with other coun- With the demand for toilets created, a tremendous opportunity
tries set to follow. will exist for a market to be served. In this scenario, the market will
While WSSCC is not a donor or funding agency per se, through the meet the people’s demands by providing for toilets at the household
Global Sanitation Fund WSSCC will promote innovation in sanitation level, pit emptying, public toilet management, fertilizer sales, meth-
work and provide some resources to help the innovation that is show- ane generation, and a range of other profitable business lines related
cased and the knowledge that is generated to be shared and dissemi- to sanitation. The work of meeting this demand will be done mostly
nated widely. It is, we hope, an example of just one innovative type of by small local entrepreneurs and not by big commercial companies.
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Creative Finance
E-Billing Software
Streamlines Construction Management
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ater industry con- to take advantage of the opportuni-
tractor KMI Plus, ties for electronic information man-
has been able agement across its supply chain and
to transform its create time, cost and productivity
finance function savings.
following the implementation of e- Peter Hellewell, Cost & Administra-
billing software from ECM specialist, tion Manager, at KMI Plus, explains,
The Content Group. The Formscape “We wanted to reduce the volume
Business Editions software enables of paper within the finance depart-
the company to receive and manage ment, reduce the admin burden on
invoices. finance staff and improve transpar-
In taking a forward-thinking ap- ency across the supply chain.”
proach to financial information man- In order to meet these goals, the
agement, KMI Plus is now able to company selected Enterprise Con-
process hundreds of invoices in min- tent Management (ECM) specialist,
utes rather than days, and the com- The Content Group, to implement a
pany is also able to archive historical new e-billing platform. “The Content
accounting information electronically Group’s experience with other con-
rather than having to take up valuable tractors with similar business issues
storage space in the office. KMI Plus’ and processes gave us confidence in
suppliers also benefit from a reduc- their ability to meet our expectations,
tion in their paper, printing and post- and we liked the professionalism and
age costs, and they are guaranteed technical knowledge of their consul-
to be paid on time. tants,” Hellewell said.
KMI Plus has a hugely complex
COMPANY BACKGROUND supply chain and over a 12-month
KMI brings together the combined KMI Plus is part of United Utilities AMP4 Capital Program period the company receives in
strengths of Kier Group PLC, The delivery team. the region of 80,000 invoices. With
Murphy Group and Interserve Project this in mind, KMI Plus was keen to
Services Ltd., creating a partnership to meet the current and future automate the delivery of invoices from its suppliers. To achieve this
demands of the UK Water Industry Asset Management Programme. objective, The Content Group recommended the Formscape docu-
KMI also operates alongside Mouchel as KMI Plus providing detailed ment process automation system, and the Invu document archiving
design and construction services as part of United Utilities’ £400mil- system. Both systems were integrated with the company’s COINS
lion AMP4 Capital Programme delivery team. The Parent Companies financial software, enabling the creation of a paperless invoicing strat-
of KMI have a combined annual turnover in excess of £4 billion, giving egy across the entire organisation.
the organisation the financial strength, skills, and resources neces- Over time, the majority of KMI Plus’ suppliers have embraced the
sary to execute water projects of any size throughout the UK. new e-billing business model and have started to submit electronic
invoices. Currently, over 60% of invoices are submitted electronically
PAPERLESS INVOICING and the company has set a goal of increasing this to 80% by April
As a forward-thinking construction company, KMI Plus was keen 2010. WWi Enquiry No. 148
Those entrepreneurs will need help accessing the market and they benefits for every dollar invested, for people, local entrepreneurs, and
will need loan or equity finance. So work is underway by a wide range the people supporting them. WWi
of actors, from sanitation professionals to bankers, to help find and
supply the finance that is needed to create the market. About the Author: David Trouba is Programme Officer Commu-
Just how big is the sanitation market? Most experts say the mar- nications, for the Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council
ket is relatively substantive, requiring a minimum of US $8 billion per (WSSCC). Trouba joined WSSCC in April 2008. Prior to joining the
year, for a period of 10 years to meet the MDG target for sanita- Council, he worked for 10 years at the Stockholm International Water
tion. This translates to an estimated investment of US$85 billion with Institute (SIWI), serving most recently as its Communications Director.
an estimated US$650 billion worth of social externalities, presenting He was responsible for the overall communications, marketing and
scalable opportunities for banks, the social sector and other inves- media strategies for SIWI and its various sub-programs, including the
tors. In other words, nearly 8 dollars in direct and indirect economic World Water Week in Stockholm. Enquiry No. 107
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Process Monitoring
By Rachel Schneider
Sampling Strategies Focus On Yield Enhancement

Through Loss Reduction At
Fonterra Dairy Cooperative
• Use of portable samplers has enabled wastewater loss surveys and investigations to be
performed more effectively in specific process improvement and end-of-pipe situations.
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t its Edgecumbe cream products plant, new sampler “We also perform sampling to gain measurement of product loss
technology is playing an important role in helping New components to compare against process control targets,” said Fon-
Zealand’s Fonterra Dairy Cooperative further optimize terra Senior Technologist Harold Prieditis. “From this data we initiate
process control and minimize product loss. corrective action for loss minimization where applicable.”
Sampling is a critically important task in the dairy in- Prieditis said yield enhancement through loss reduction and con-
dustry. Since the 1970s, special emphasis has been given to waste- tinuous improvement is an important strategy for Fonterra.
water sampling because tighter restrictions on wastewater discharge “At a current value of about $5.20/kg milk solids, significant finan-
have placed greater accountability on the industry. Today, wastewater cial gains are possible by reducing losses by even a small amount,”
sampling is also highly important in loss reduction programs, to help he said.
maximize the bottom line. Fortunately, in- Sampling at Fonterra’s many processing
novations in sampling technology have plants is conducted from process pipelines,
helped bring efficiencies to these pro- or from wastewater sumps and drains, ei-
grams and lessen the time and labor ther inside or external to the plant.
workload. “External wastewater drains are moni-
The Fonterra Dairy Cooperative in New tored daily by specialized permanent
Zealand is the country’s largest company, measurement systems,” Prieditis said.
with revenue representing more than 25 “Sometimes external upstream contribu-
percent of total New Zealand exports. It tory drains need to be surveyed for loss
is also the world’s largest dairy exporter, segregation purposes and a portable
processing about 15 billion liters of dairy type of sampler may be used for this.”
products annually and exporting to more
than 140 markets. Fonterra is owned by EQUIPPED FOR ALL SAMPLING
more than 10,000 supplier shareholders METHODS
who together own about 3.8 million cows. Sampling systems in use at Fonterra
Fonterra’s strong drive for innova- production sites include various types
tion and efficiency has prompted loss and models of air operated piston sam-
monitoring technology and information plers, a range of solenoid valves, vacuum
systems to be installed at all of its manu- samplers, and several types of peristaltic
facturing sites. The objective is to mini- samplers.
mize the amount of milk solids going into “There are even some innovative and
wastewater from processing operations The portable SD900 sampler is being used by techni- very good low-technology solutions in
and equipment cleaning. Fonterra has de- cal staff at the Edgecumbe Cream Products Plant sampling dairy wastewater,” Prieditis said.
to quantify wastewater losses from various process
veloped specialized treatment and mea- start-up and shut-down stages, then feedback of this “Due to the large range of sampling du-
surement techniques aimed at achieving information to Plant Operators is used to improve ties and the variety of conditions present,
best-in-class dairy production and pro- control by minimizing product losses in line flushes. there is no single type of sampler that is
cessing, as well as wastewater management and beneficial reuse. best suited for every application. But portable and automatic sam-
plers have a very important role in many of our wastewater survey
DETERMINING EFFICIENCIES, REDUCING LOSSES and monitoring situations.”
To monitor compliance to specific resource consent (discharge) For example, Fonterra recently deployed a Hach Sigma SD900
conditions, determine efficiency and operation parameters before Automatic Sampler (Hach SD900) for wastewater sampling at its
and after wastewater treatment, and to monitor trials for acceptance Edgecumbe site. The site consists of three main manufacturing fa-
criteria during project commissioning, Fonterra conducts ongo- cilities: cream products, protein, and whey plants. Whole milk is re-
ing sampling programs to perform analysis and characterization of ceived daily from nearby farms. The milk is then pasteurized and sep-
wastewater composition. arated into skim milk and cream. The cream is directed to the cream
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Process Monitoring
products plant for manufacture into ples by hour of the day via a rotator
export butter and anhydrous milk or carousel function independent
fat. The new portable sampler is of time or flow paced sampling,”
used at the cream products plant Prieditis said. “This is so that
to quantify wastewater losses from composition of the wastewater in
various process start-up and shut- the 24x1L sample bottles can be
down stages. aligned properly to the manufac-
By quantifying wastewater turing processes involved.”
losses through the use of ongoing “There are instances where
sampling, the amount of product for logistical and safety reasons,
losses in line flushes is minimized. it’s preferable to use a portable
“The cream products plant re- 12vdc sampler with flexibility of
quired a portable sampler as part greater control options, and the
of its design for a new permanent The Cream Products Plant at Edgecumbe required a spare portable Hach SD900 meets that criteria
wastewater loss monitoring system sampler to be available for on-demand type of survey work as part well,” Prieditis said. “The sampler’s
of a new systems monitoring project in late 2008. The Hach SD900
installed in August 2008,” Prieditis sampler enables wastewater loss surveys and investigations to be ability to take a specified sample
said. “The update was necessary done more effectively in specific process improvement and end-of- volume consistently from a vari-
because the availability of spare pipe situations. able flow and the apportionment
parts and consumable items and of samples into 24x1L sample
the cost of imported components for our older types of samplers bottles are important features. Plus, the sampler’s programmable in-
had become serious issues.” tegrated microprocessor makes it ideal for use in situations requiring
The Hach SD900 has enabled wastewater loss surveys and in- more complex sampling capability.”
vestigations to be performed more effectively in specific process im- Based on the positive experience with its initial SD900 Sampler,
provement and end-of-pipe situations. Fonterra has since specified 15 additional units. WWi
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SAMPLING About the Author: Rachel Schneider is the Flow & Sampling Prod-
“An important requirement of a sampler for wastewater survey uct Manager at the Hach Company in Loveland, Colorado, USA.
work in the dairy industry is to be able to segregate composite sam- Enquiry No. 100
GEFCO 14th Annual

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Solar Power Pumping

By David Bernell
Delivering Clean Water

with Clean Energy
• Solar-powered pumps are being used to provide water to regions that have little or no
grid-supplied electricity.
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ccording to the United Nations Human Development the Nyapea installation. “The USPC inverters were the perfect solu-
Report, more than 1.1 billion people have inadequate tion from a design, installation, and operational standpoint. The units
access to clean water. This number is growing, making are working without the need for maintenance and are making it very
access to fresh water an increasingly critical problem to easy for users to monitor the well and the water pumping system.”
be addressed, particularly in developing nations where Following on the heels of BBM’s Uganda installations, the USPC
electrical infrastructure is not available. Innovative solutions to help was adopted for use in the Northeast African country of Eritrea,
solve this problem have become a necessity, and one such solution where 10 solar pumping stations were installed to provide water to
is the Universal Solar Pump Controller (USPC), a unique “gridless” communities that lack electrical infrastructure.
pump-controlling technology that converts solar energy to electricity
for powering pumping devices. THE TECHNOLOGY
The USPC, developed by AeroVironment, Inc. (AV), helps provide The USPC originated in 1993, when Coors Brewing Company
water to regions that have little or no grid-tied electricity. In the East entered the solar market through a subsidiary called Golden Pho-
African Republic of Uganda, much of the country remains uncon- ton, which sought to create a new, inexpensive solar panel made of
nected to the electrical grid, and in the town of Kitgum, more than cadmium telluride. Golden Photon contracted with AV to build a solar
300 kilometers north of Kampala, the capital of Uganda, the USPC pump controller (SPC). It was envisioned that the technology could
provides water to the community using solar generated electricity. be used to pump water for rural towns and villages that had no ac-
The Austrian firm BBM built the solar water pumping stations cess to an electrical grid.
for the town of Kitgum. AV’s USPC was selected to drive the water After the AV-Golden Photon project concluded, the SPC con-
pumps, and two 10,000-Watt USPC units are now helping to provide cept continued, becoming AV’s Universal Solar Pump Controller. AV
Kitgum with fresh water daily. One is installed at the Kitgum Technical added the U for “universal” after its engineers modified the software
Institute, and this system now pumps more than 26,500 gallons of to run a multitude of motors with various solar module technologies
water per day. Another unit is deployed in a system that yields some (thin film or crystalline), offering a major advantage over other solar
15,850 gallons daily at the Y.Y. Okot Memorial College. inverters on the market.
A third USPC, a 5,000 watt unit, was later installed in Nyapea, The USPC can be used to drive a single-phase or three-phase
Uganda, to provide water to the region’s major hospital. While the AC submersible pump directly from photovoltaic modules. It main-
project was under construction, BBM used the USPC to help train tains a constant volts/Hz ratio to allow standard AC pumps to run at
technicians and engineers on the techniques of solar water pumping. lower speeds without distress. This enables easy, soft starts and the
“Maintaining water supply is the biggest problem for all institutions efficient use of lower-than-peak photovoltaic output levels over the
in Uganda,” said Norbert Demmelbauer, BBM’s project manager on course of the day with off-the-shelf pumps.
The USPC can be used to drive a single-phase or three-phase AC sub-

mersible pump directly from photovoltaic modules.
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The Universal Solar Pump Controller (USPC)

converts solar energy to electricity for power-
Solar Power Pumping
ing pumping devices.
The USPC offers variable speed opera- “Each pump supplies approximately 30,000 gallons of water per day,
tion, which maximizes system performance which would otherwise cost the state about $15,000 a month.”
by adjusting pump speed to match the Parsons adds that this allows California to use the savings to pay
available solar power. This allows the con- for feed instead of electricity – a very important factor in the continued
troller to maximize the amount of water survival of the state’s last native breeding herd of Tule Elk, whose
delivered to the user. In addition, its peak offspring have been used to repopulate other areas of the Western
power tracking capability lets the control- United States.
ler constantly adjust for peak output from For more information about AeroVironment, go to www.avinc.com.
a solar array; this is important because the WWi
voltage and current set points for maximum
power vary throughout the day as solar in- About the Author: David Bernell is Senior Clean Energy Advisor
solation and temperature change. at Think Energy, Inc., a renewable energy consulting firm in Silver
Adding to its cost-effectiveness, the Spring, MD, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oregon
USPC has a power conversion efficiency of 97 percent, which is State University. Enquiry No. 101
higher than many other stand alone or
off-grid photovoltaic inverters. Minimum
and maximum speeds are configurable,
and the controller’s power electronics
are programmed to automatically shut
down in the case of a dry well, clogged
Why is Frank so happy?
pump, or shorted wiring. The controller Frank is a Water Resources Engineer
Engineer.
also has a remote shutdown switch for
filling water tanks and a fault-detection Frank just finished a storm and sanitary sewer modeling project for a local city.
LED display.
An additional feature, especially im- He only had to use one comprehensive model.
portant in a climate like Uganda’s, is the
He saved valuable time using existing GIS data.
USPC’s ability to regulate its maximum
operating temperature internally. In- He impressed his client with remarkable
stead of shutting off at a specified tem- tabular and visual results.
perature, the unit gradually reduces its
power usage. This prevents overheat- He knows the results he got were accurate
ing so that the controller can continue because the model was
running in very hot weather. fully dynamic, time tested,
The USPC is also designed to make EPA and FEMA approved
installation simple. The technology em- and engineer supported.
ploys a configurable DIP (dual in-line
package) switch feature, which lets Best of all, he saved his client
the installer easily establish settings in nearly a million dollars and
the field without software or other so- they re-hired him for their
phisticated devices. This significantly next project.
simplifies installation in remote settings.
Lastly, as it is designed for use in harsh
conditions, the controller is enclosed in
a rugged, outdoor-rated NEMA (Na-
tional Electrical Manufacturers Associa-
tion) 3R steel case.
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oped nations and remote areas any-
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Reducing Chemical Costs

By Olaf Pohlmann
Water Treatment The BASF Facility in the Netherlands installed an ultrasonic water
treatment system from Ashland Hercules Water Technologies.
Delivers Environmental, Economic Promise
O
btaining maximum benefit from water Engineers from BASF and Ashland worked together
used for industrial processes is a top- to replace the dosing and storage systems for cooling
most priority for manufacturing fa- water chemicals and install a Sonoxide B25 system in
cilities. Often water treatment regimes combination with Enviroplus® scale and corrosion in-
require robust chemical applications hibitor, which is non-toxic and minimizes environmental
that can involve not only costs, but also impact the impact by making use of natural, biodegradable and
ability of a manufacturing site to reduce its influence The patented Sonoxide technology renewable ingredients
on the environment. works by passing water through an (biodegradable BCA-
ultrasonic chamber where bacterial
A two-year collaboration between Ashland Hercu- cells are exposed to a combination
polymers and low phos-
les Water Technologies (AHWT), a commercial unit of of low-power, high-frequency ultra- phorous PSA phospho-
Ashland Inc., and BASF has shown that by using a sound and micro-bubble aeration. nate). As a result, neither
combination of ultrasonic microbiological control and bleach nor sulfuric acid was necessary for the contin-
corrosion inhibitors, not only can environmental performance be en- ued treatment of cooling water at the BASF facility.
hanced, but a dramatic reduction in total costs of operations can also Through the new treatment program, the cooling water now runs
be documented. four cycles of concentrations, instead of the previous three cycles.
In 2007, BASF Nederland B.V. was looking beyond the standard The ability to use retained water for an additional cycle reduces overall
methods for cooling water treatment at the company’s resin produc- water consumption and reduces the blow down by 30 percent. The
tion plant in the Netherlands. Knowing that the European Union’s (EU) system parameters are controlled by an Ashland Onguard® E control-
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) directive would ler, and the corrosion rate is measured by corrosion coupons.
soon be adopted (codified Jan. 15, 2008), BASF wanted the best The patented Sonoxide technology works by passing water through
available technology for its existing cooling water system. The current an ultrasonic chamber where bacterial cells are exposed to a combina-
system, a 150 m³ half-open cooling water circuit with indirect cool- tion of low-power, high-frequency ultrasound and micro-bubble aera-
ing of chillers of a secondary circuit and direct process cooling, was tion. When exposed to the system, some bacteria cells die and some
ready for an upgrade. become impaired resulting in the reduction of overall bacteria levels and
BASF used nine criteria to review available water treatment pro- the elimination of biofilm within the total cooling water system.
grams. The most important measure was to evaluate the environ- The BASF cooling water system has passed the two-year mile-
mental performance of a program and its potential to improve the stone under this program. Microbiological control is monitored regu-
plant’s environmental footprint. In addition, the company followed larly by Ashland and results consistently show water quality levels
the guidelines for reduction of emissions of chemical substances to well within acceptable guidelines. Samples tested for Legionella also
water out of the IPPC document. In line with the BAT approach, the show that control is being maintained.
applications of the potential techniques to reduce emissions to the In addition to microbial control, corrosion rates have been low-
aquatic environment were considered in the following manner: ered (from 0.3-0.4 mpy to 0.23 mpy). In 2009, BASF applied for the
1. selection of cooling configuration with lower emission level to sur- Responsible Care* award of the VNCI (chemical association in the
face water, Netherlands) and received an honorable mention by the jury for the
2. application of alternative (non-chemical) cooling water treatment, company’s efforts in improving its environmental profile.
3. selection of cooling water additives with the aim of reducing im- Cost was another consideration BASF used in evaluating an ef-
pact on the environment, fective water treatment program. When BASF compared its previous
4. optimized application (monitoring and dosage) water treatment costs to those associated with the ultrasonic water
of cooling water additives. treatment system, engineers found that operating expenses were
reduced by 80 percent, chemical use was reduced by 90 percent
Ultimately, BASF opted to replace its complete and feed water savings of 20 percent were achieved. Results show
cooling water treatment program, which was a con- a preliminary annual savings of 20,000 euros from feed water and
jugated phosphate treatment requiring a pH adjust- chemical use reductions.
Edwin Jonker, AHWT Repre- ment through sulfuric acid dosing and bleach as In addition to the savings and performance improvements achieved
sentative (Sonoxide Champion the biocide program. by BASF the overall environmental concerns were reduced.
Netherlands); Eduard de Baat,
BASF; and Olaf Pohlmann The company determined that Ashland’s Son- “We’ve eliminated the need for our utility operator to handle concen-
Sonoxide Commercial Lead oxide® ultrasonic water treatment system was the trated acid and chlorine containers. This means that he can now focus
EMEA, hold the Responsible on more meaningful parts of his job, which can lead to new improve-
optimal solution as part of an overall water treat-
Care award for BASF’s efforts
in improving its environmental ment program. ments in other areas of system performance,” said de Baat. WWi
profile. “We looked into the best available treatment tech-
nology for our cooling water system and the benefits of Ashland’s pro- About the Author: Olaf Pohlmann is SONOXIDE® Commercial
gram are clear and simple — it just works,” said Eduard de Baat, senior Lead at EMEA, Ashland Hercules Water Technologies.
process engineer, BASF. Enquiry No. 102
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Regional Spolight: Southeast Asia

By Andrew Walker
Turnkey Project
Brings Piped Drinking Water to 300,000 People
• The turnkey project was designed to provide a complete system from “catchment to con-
sumer,” with all design, construction and commissioning the responsibility of one company.
The NWS&DB is the principal government authority for the nation of

Sri Lanka responsible for providing safe drinking water and sanitation for
the population. A workforce of about 8,000 is employed nationwide.
AMPARA DISTRICT
The Ampara district is on the east coast of Sri Lanka, population
circa 611,000, with a tropical climate and a long dry season. The
district is rural and primarily agricultural, relying on a large irrigation
network of reservoirs and canals for rice paddy farming.
However, there are water quality and scarcity issues with the tradi-
tional water sources due to intensive farming and resultant fertilizer, soil
and chemical run-off. In the densely populated coastal towns, limited
land availability has resulted in some septic sanitation systems being in-
Raw water fed to the treat-
stalled very close to drinking water wells, with contamination common.
ment plant is extracted from With a growing population, the need for pipe borne safe water has
an irrigation reservoir. never been greater in Ampara.
PROJECT SCOPE
Working closely with NWS&DB, Outotec’s resulting solution was
M
ore than 300,000 people in a remote district of Sri challenging but achievable.
Lanka are today enjoying quality drinking water due The project structure was turnkey “catchment to consumer”,
to a turnkey project undertaken by Outotec for Sri meaning that all design, construction and commissioning from the raw
Lanka’s National Water Supply and Drainage Board water reservoir all the way to the distribution networks at town street
(NWS&DB). level, was under the direct responsibility of Outotec. Outotec was the
The project, built between 1999-2007 in the Ampara district, head contractor, working closely with process designers and equip-
350km from the capital Colombo, is comfortably coping with harsh ment suppliers, and hand-in-hand with local Sri Lankan partners.
local conditions, including unreliable power supply, limited mainte- The combined Phase I and II project scope included raw water
nance, large seasonal raw water quality variations and fluctuations intake structure, a 15.86 mgd (72 ML/day) DAF filtration treatment
in demand. plant including all chemical dosing and residuals handling, clearwater
“After more than two years from Phase II commissioning, the treat- storage, transmission mains, five booster pump stations each with
ment plant is continuing to provide good quality water to consumers, 1600 m3 capacity, nine elevated storage towers of 1125 m3 or 1600
within design targets, 24/7,” said Outotec Project Director Steve Gif- m3 capacity, and nine distribution networks, covering a total project
fin, based in Sri Lanka. area of approximately 500 km2.
The project – which NWS&DB plans to follow with another cover-
ing a further 350,000 people – is a source of satisfaction to Outotec, REMOTE LOCATION
which undertakes turnkey projects throughout Asia and Australasia. The Ampara District location, 350 km from the capital Colombo,
The Ampara district on the east coast of Sri Lanka is one of the created difficulties. An undeveloped region, poor in infrastructure,
least developed areas in the country, being semi-rural, affected by with limited available technology and little local skilled/semi-skilled la-
civil war and disturbance, with the completion of large-scale projects bor, the region’s recent history of civil unrest and difficulty in attracting
presenting a significant challenge. outside contractors had its own unique set of challenges, requiring
In 1997, Sri Lanka’s National Water Supply and Drainage Board patience, flexibility and strong management.
launched a program to provide a large population of previously un-
served communities with quality piped drinking water under the COORDINATION
ECTAD (Eastern Coastal Towns of Ampara District) project. Project management was an extremely complex task due to the
Outotec was awarded the initial and subsequent phase of this magnitude of the project, interaction between the various cultures on
project, carried out from 1999 to 2007. As the complete turnkey sup- the job, language barriers and geographic distance between involved
plier, Outotec was tasked with the design, construction and commis- parties. Mechanical and process design was carried out in Australia, civil
sioning of a water supply scheme, which was to provide piped water and electrical design and detailing in Sri Lanka, with significant partici-
to 300,000 people in the Ampara District for the first time. pation from NSW&DB. An office of expat and local personnel was es-
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folding and external crane methods
As a result of Outotec’s successful implementation of these tech-

nological firsts, other installations in Sri Lanka have begun to adopt
some of the same solutions.
The combined Phase I and II project scope included raw water intake
structure, and a 15.86 mgd (72 ML/day) DAF filtration treatment plant
including all chemical dosing and residuals handling. TREATMENT PROCESS
Raw water fed to the treatment plant is extracted from an irrigation
tablished in Sri Lanka to manage the various project phases, providing reservoir. The treatment process involves pre-chlorination, followed
project management, drafting and engineering personnel. Equipment by coagulant addition, taste and odor control, flash mixing, mechani-
was sourced from vendors in Asia, Europe, USA and Australia. cal flocculation, dissolved air flotation (DAF) over monomedia sand
At its peak, up to 1200 workers were involved in the construction filters, post-chlorine disinfection, lime pH correction and clearwater
process across as many as 20 sites. The project was completed in a storage. Plant residuals handling comprises of thickening with floccu-
timeframe seldom achieved in Sri Lanka. lant dosing, thickener sludge storage, and decanter centrifugation.
SRI LANKAN FIRSTS THE FUTURE

As a result of Outotec undertaking these two project phases, the After more than two years from Phase II commissioning, the treat-
Ampara District has witnessed the implementation of some “techno- ment plant is still providing good quality water to consumers, within
logical firsts” in Sri Lanka, which include: the design targets. The system is comfortably coping with the harsh
1. Water pretreatment through DAF (dissolved air flotation) before local conditions, including unreliable power supply, limited mainte-
filtration - DAF is an internationally favored process for algae af- nance, large seasonal raw water quality variations and fluctuations
fected waters, replacing conventional sedimentation in demand.
2. PAC (powdered activated carbon) systems to combat taste and With ECTAD Phase I and II successfully completed by Outotec,
odor – to remove seasonal non-toxic algal taste and odor com- a further project expansion is planned by NSW&DB. This expansion
pounds, as well as adsorption of potential algal toxins will cover up to 350,000 people in the inland unserved areas of the
3. Decanter centrifuges for thickener sludge de-watering – to pro- Ampara District, bringing the total coverage of the district to 611,000
duce a solid transportable cake for offsite disposal people by 2020. Completion of the extension would make the overall
4. Self-lift slip formwork for tower shaft construction – to improve ECTAD scheme one of the largest rural water supply schemes in Sri
quality, safety and reduce construction times, compared to scaf- Lanka. WWi Enquiry No. 103
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By Stefania Galletti and Dave Landon
Benchmarking:
Water and Wastewater Energy Efficiency
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Rc plc, a UK consultancy offering services in
the water, waste and environment sectors, is
coordinating an international program on En-
ergy Efficiency Benchmarking addressed to
water and wastewater services operators.
The program, which started in 2006, currently involves nine water
utilities including four based in the UK, four in Italy and one in Ireland. It
is designed to help utilities identify areas where they can save energy,
monitor improvements in energy use resulting from process changes,
and identify and share Best Practice with others.
WRc is actively seeking additional utilities to participate in the program.
It is important to note that the program focuses upon electricity
consumption reduction, not on the comparison of electricity costs as Aeration systems are a major consumer of energy at wastewater treat-
these can be based on different prices across different geographical ment plants.
areas. However, one of the most relevant objectives of the program is
the reduction of energy costs. In order to effectively manage electricity use at treatment works
Following initial phases to investigate advanced energy bench- and in the distribution network, consistent and tailored monitoring
marking techniques, to develop a web-based software, and to de- of consumption is the key starting point, followed by an analysis of
fine a Best Practice Methodology, the program is now fully operating meter readings (or electricity estimates if readings are not available),
and has been rolled out to permit participants to model any water or eventually leading to the identification of problematic areas. The
wastewater treatment works of their choice. choice of follow-up actions or an intervention plan, when needed, is
The program’s main objective is to provide an answer to the fol- greatly assisted by a benchmarking exercise, both internally and with
lowing questions: external operators, as well as by discussions, sharing of experiences
• Energy: how much are we using, where are we using it and how and know-how on relevant topics.
do we compare with each other? Each of the stages just described has been considered during the
• What is the benchmark for energy efficient treatment? development of the WRc Energy Efficiency Benchmarking Program and
the creation of its web-based software EnergyPI, which can be found
• What can be reasonably achieved in terms of further efficiencies
on a site-specific basis? at www.energypi.com. While full access and use of the software are re-
stricted to those water utilities taking part in the program, some general
Both in water supply and wastewater treatment, electricity con- information on the project has been made available on the website.
sumption is the greatest element of operational costs. The ever-rising For each works entered, the software EnergyPI allows the user to:
price of electricity and concerns over global warming reinforce the need 1. Create the treatment works “schematic”, a simplified graphical
to understand whether electricity is used efficiently, to be able to locate model;
possible inefficiencies and plan for effective interventions where energy 2. Enter the works static data (Population Equivalent - PE, load, flow
use can be reasonably reduced without compromising performance. rate, etc.) and static data of each individual process identified in
the works schematic;
3. Upload time series (primarily flow rates, elec-
Figure 1. Graph showing the monthly variation of actual EPI for the aeration process tricity consumption – meter readings or estimated
– and physical/chemical data) for the whole site as
250000 well as each single process;
Implementation of control scheme
4. Run the calculations, which provide specific ef-
Actual EPI (kwh/1000m3)
ficiency parameters entitled Energy Performance

200000 Indicators (EPIs);
5. Display the results through a choice of outputs
which include detailed routine reports, monthly
150000
reports of EPIs for the site and its individual pro-
cesses, and comparison graphs showing a site’s
performance in terms of electricity use against the
100000 performance of similar sites modeled in the soft-
ware. The comparison can be carried out between
sites of the same utility or sites of the other partici-
50000 pating companies, on an anonymous basis.
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Both the assessment of efficient performance
pr ay n g p t c t v c n b a r r a
A M Ju J Au Se O No De Ja Fe M Ap M and the benchmarking exercise are based on the
Actual Average Range (Actual) Theoretical Average definition of EPIs. These are efficiency parameters,
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selected by the project liaison group and implemented in the model’s
calculations. Using the data entered and uploaded by the user, the ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS
software provides a variety of actual and theoretical EPIs. The re-
spective values are compared and evaluated to determine how ef- Turbidity Monitor AMI Turbiwell –
ficiently the electricity is used at a works, or by an individual process. Nephelometric non-contact turbidity
The comparison is expanded to the processes and/or works of the monitor for potable water,
other participants, with the facility to select other works with simi-
surface water and effluent.
lar size and effluent characteristics. When the output suggests that
electricity is used inefficiently, “explanatory factors” are automatically
flagged. Operational adjustments or intervention plans may then be
recommended.
As an example, the formula below refers to the actual EPI of a
pump, expressed in kWh/Megalitre of flow volume:
Electricity Consumption (kWh/day)
PumpEPI (actual) in kWh/Ml =
Daily Flow Rate (MI/day)
The pump’s actual EPI is compared with the theoretical (or ideal) EPI,
calculated from the pump’s parameters through the following formula:
Head x 9.81 x 100

Pump EPI (theoretical) in kWh/MI =
3.6 x Efficiency
where: Energy unit conversion: 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ;

the pump head is expressed in m;
the efficiency is a percentage (%).
Similar equations have been implemented in the software for all com-
mon treatment processes and for the site as a whole. The comparison
between actual and theoretical EPIs allows the user to make an informed
and rational decision aimed at identifying possibilities of improvement.
WRc plays an ongoing role in guiding the participating utilities
in modeling strategy, providing user support in creation of models,
understanding the output and facilitating collaboration between par-
ticipants. Meetings are held twice a year to facilitate discussion and
share experiences and initiatives among the participants, as well as
investigate new ideas and technologies. This leads to a better under-
standing by participants of the Best Practice Methodology.
The performance assessment and benchmarking become even
more significant and useful as more participants join the program. The
software website provides an area for discussion where users can inter-
act and share information and experiences on energy saving initiatives, No direct contact with the sample –
especially between the project meetings. Actively participating in the no fouling of the optical elements.
program also provides a means to monitoring the effects of energy sav-
ing initiatives, and to learn from the experiences of other participants. White LED method.
The graph in Figure 2, a screen shot from the EnergyPI software, Measuring range: 0-100 NTU.
illustrates such benefits.
The graph refers to a wastewater treatment works with PE of
Average sample consumption of
10 liters/hour.
90,000. The operator has used the EnergyPI software to monitor the
effects of an initiative on aeration control in an activated sludge tank. Heated precision optics to avoid
Electricity savings up to 2,000 kWh/day have been achieved since condensation.
implementation of the scheme (Nov 2007). The user has also used the
Automatic purging of the
software to monitor further improvements by adjusting the algorithm
sample chamber.
of the aeration control device. This scheme has been presented by
the operator at WRc and discussed with the other participants, who EPA approval pending.
have been able to estimate the level of electricity savings that the ap-
plication could determine at their own wastewater treatment sites. www.swan-analytical-usa.com
Energy and R&D Managers of the participating companies are now
actively monitoring some of their water and wastewater treatment sites. SWAN ANALYTICAL USA Inc.
The objective is to be able to identify where electricity is used inefficiently 225 Larkin Drive, Unit 4, Wheeling, IL 60090
and what can be done to cut consumption and associated costs, and Phone: (847) 687 4774
therefore also reduce CO2 emissions from operational activities. email: info@swan-analytical-usa.com
For further information on the EnergyPI software, please contact:
benchmarking@wrcplc.co.uk or Amanda Burch (Business Develop- Until December 31st, 2009, SWAN instruments and spare parts are
ment Manager) at +44 (0) 1793 865086. WWi exclusively sold in the USA by IAC. Address: 1 Orchard Park Road,
Madison CT 06443. Phone: 203 245 03 80
Enquiry No. 104
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Water Reuse
By Chris Taylor
Continuous Sand Filters

Used in Major Saudi Irrigation Project
• In Dhahran now, 100 percent of wastewater is treated to a tertiary level and is suitable
for irrigation.
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he Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, north of within the community.
Dhahran, in Saudi Arabia, will be able to recycle 10 mgd Abqaig, al-Hasa and Tanijib communities all have tertiary waste-
of high quality tertiary water for irrigation purposes, sav- water treatment facilities, and DUD is currently conducting a study to
ing approximately 3 billion gallons of groundwater every upgrade Rahima and ‘Udhailiyah STPs to a tertiary level. According
year. Twenty-four DynaSand filters, from Nordic Water to Munir M. Rafie, Aramco’s executive director, Community, Buildings
Products, were used in this project. and Office Services, this is in line with the company’s interest in the
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is located in one of the world’s most treatment of sanitary drainage water, because of the company’s belief
arid regions, yet beneath the surface lie reserves of fresh water; a in protecting the health and sanitation of the environment and com-
resource which worldwide is only now being seen as finite and in munity. He added that the treatment plants are the most developed
need of conservation and protection. In a country where desert tem- in the region, and are operated according to the latest technology
peratures can approach 45 degrees Centigrade (113 degrees Fahr- available worldwide.
enheit), this concern is even more immediate. The protection of this Throughout the wastewater treatment and effluent re-use pro-
life-giving element falls in Dhahran to DUD - Dhahran Utilities Depart- cesses, the filtration requirements were met by Nordic Water Prod-
ment - which performs a critical function in the distribution of water, ucts (formerly Waterlink) and that company’s DynaSand continuous
the collection of wastewater, and water well maintenance. sand filter. The filters have been used in more than 8,000 installations
As part of DUD’s continuing campaign to conserve water through over 10 years. They have no moving parts, which simplifies mainte-
reclamation and treatment, last summer the department celebrated nance, and they do not have to be taken out of operation for back-
the completion of the expansions of Dhahran North Sewage Treat- washing or cleaning. Simultaneous with the filtration process, fouled
ment Plant (NSTP) and the Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant sand is cleaned in a dedicated wash process and the suspended
(AWTP). Combined, the projects will add 40 percent to the plants’ solids discharged with the wash water.
treatment volume capacity, and will contribute to the annual saving of The DynaSand filter is based on the counterflow principle. The
billions of gallons of groundwater. water to be treated is admitted through the inlet distributor (1) in the
The work was undertaken by Saudi Aramco which owns and op- lower section of the unit and is cleaned as it flows upward through the
erates many water reclamation facilities. The NSTP is located in Doha, sand bed, prior to discharge through the filtrate outlet (2) at the top.
and the AWTP is located inside the Dhahran community. These two The sand containing the entrapped impurities is conveyed from the
plants serve the Saudi Aramco community as well as Doha, Dana, tapered bottom section of the unit (3), by means of an air-lift pump (4),
and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). to the sand washer (5) at the top. Cleaning of the sand commences
The Dhahran NSTP has been expanded from 8 to 10 million gal- in the pump itself, in which particles of dirt are separated from the
lons per day (mgd) to meet anticipated demand by the year 2010; sand grains by the turbulent mixing action.
and in line with original plans to increase the recycling of tertiary wa- The contaminated sand spills from the pump outlet into the washer
ter, the AWT plant has been expanded from 3 to 10 mgd. Work at labyrinth (6), in which it is washed by a small flow of clean water. The
the NST plant included the installation of two additional settling tanks impurities are discharged through the wash water outlet (7), while the
and a bypass overflow line to divert effluent to the emergency pond grains of clean sand (which are heavier) are retained to the sand bed
during heavy rains. About 3 mgd of the NSTP secondary effluent is (8). As a result, the bed is in constant downward motion through the
further treated at the tertiary level for use in irrigation throughout the unit. Thus, water purification and sand washing both take place con-
community’s planted areas. tinuously, enabling the filter to remain in service without interruption.
The expansion activities at the AWT plant included a new 6 mgd Twenty-four individual filter modules were installed at the Ad-
continuous backwash filter, a 1.5 million gallon storage tank, a new ir- vanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, each having six square meters
rigation pump station and tertiary distribution piping. The project also of horizontal surface area, to be installed in six concrete cells. The
replaced the existing chlorine gas used in both plants with sodium filters’ designed flow capacity is 3,950 gallons per minute, equivalent
hypochlorite. to 897 cubic meters per hour, with maximum capacity some 17 per-
In Dhahran now, 100 percent of wastewater is treated to a ter- cent beyond that. WWi
tiary level and is suitable for irrigation; the effluent pumped out of the
NSTP and treated at the secondary level is pumped to the AWTP and
treated at the tertiary level.
The greatest use for reclaimed water irrigation is for community
landscaping and sports fields. Community landscaping includes
parks for family activities, common green areas in housing develop-
ments, and roadside strips. In Dhahran, some reclaimed water is also
used to water resident’s front gardens, and to grow grass turf for use Enquiry No. 105
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Nutrient Removal
A typical VertiCel installation in the United
States. Similar systems are being used in China.
Chinese Market
Turning to Nutrient removal
T
he VertiCel Process, an advanced biological nutrient requirements for the country’s regulatory agency.
removal technology from Siemens Water Technolo- In its existing design, the anoxic oxidation process at the Xianyang
gies, has seen increased recognition in the Chinese Road wastewater treatment plant was unable to meet the new Class
municipal wastewater market. North China Municipal 1A Total Nitrogen (TN) discharge standards of 15 mg/l. There were
Engineering Design & Research Institute (NCMEDRI) several critical requirements for the plant upgrade: timing was critical
and Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute due to a tight construction schedule; space was limited, so existing
(TMEDI) have recently accepted the process technology and infrastructure needed to be used; and normal plant performance was
selected it for their respective municipal wastewater treatment essential during the construction of the new plant. In view of these
plant up-grade projects. The energy-efficient wastewater pro- challenges, the technology upgrade needed to meet both the dis-
cess not only meets stringent effluent requirements of China’s charge standards and also be easily retrofitted into the existing plant.
new Class 1A standards for nitrogen and phosphorus removal, The VertiCel biological nutrient removal system combines me-
but is engineered to save space and energy. chanical aeration in the anoxic tank with diffused aeration in the aer-
The Design Institutes’ acceptance was based on recent results of obic zones optimizing process efficiency. Since the aerated anoxic
a large-scale pilot plant in the city of Tianjin. Siemens Water Technolo- processes used in the VertiCel process nitrifies throughout the entire
gies supplied the VertiCel process to Tianjin Capital Environmental process, it can be retrofitted into existing tanks.
Protection Co., Ltd. (TJCEP) for the retrofit of one of its five existing The system design consumes on average 30% less power when
90,000 cubic meters per day (CMD) wastewater treatment trains at compared to traditional aeration systems. The flexibility of the system
the Xianyang Road Wastewater Treatment Plant. The full-scale pi- allowed the TJCEP to adopt the process to meet its specific needs,
lot system demonstrated the process as a cost-effective solution for while meeting effluent standards. The pilot demonstration was com-
upgrade of existing wastewater treatment infrastructure to meet the pleted in June 2009. Siemens was awarded the contract to update
new Class 1A standards, the most stringent wastewater discharge the 450,000 CMD Xianyang Road Treatment Plant.
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Package Treatment
By Andrew Walker
Compact Treatment Systems

to Serve Grain Mills
• The treatment plants will provide drinking water for the mills, process water for a large-scale
bakery and boiler water backfeed.
T
he industrial production of baked goods and pasta re- ter, organic and fertilizer residues and produces the required drinking
quires great amounts of high-grade treated water so water quality.
that the processes run perfectly and the quality of the In Ruhabat, where the grain mill complex is connected to a large-
end-product is right. In Turkmenistan, Unionmatex In- scale bakery, what is demanded for a production line for baked
dustrieanlagen, a German turnkey supplier of industrial goods and pasta is, among other things, extremely low-salt water in
plants, is building several large-scale grain mill plants with a con- even higher quality with a conductivity of less than 150 μS/cm, and
nected bakery. for another production line of even less than 50 μS/cm. To achieve
The company is relying on Berkefeld water treatment technology to this objective, in the second treatment stage the process steps of
manage the water cycle ranging from the production of drinking and softening and reverse osmosis by a Berkefeld maxiRO™ system will
process water and purification to the recycling of the wastewater. be employed.
“For this project of our customers in Turkmenistan we need a The water part of the overall project of Unionmatex encompasses
the water cycle right up to wastewater. For the latter, Berkefeld is
supplying its WWT 9 Biopur
The water treat-
ment system was
designed and built
at the Berkefeld
production site in
Celle, Germany,
fully assembled on
basic frameworks
and thoroughly
tested in ad-
vance.
type plug-and-
play wastewater
treatment plant. This
robust biological plant copes with
wastewater quantities with organic loads correspond-
ing to 50 or 150 inhabitant equivalents. A follow-up Berkal™ high-
performance disc filter with fully automatic backwashing cleans the
compact water treatment system with ro- water of further suspended particles. The entire wastewater treat-
bust and proven process technology that can be installed ment enables an extremely effective reuse of wastewater, which is
on-site without complications and reliably supply water in the quality then used to water green spaces.
demanded,” said Jürgen P. R. Grobe, Managing Director of Union- “In this demanding project for Unionmatex we have deployed
matex. many elements of our product offer,” said Volker Alps, head of Indus-
Berkefeld, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, try Projects and Building Technology at Berkefeld. “Especially suc-
is supplying a river-water treatment plant for the grain mills in Serdar cessful was the intelligent combination of our process technologies,
and in Ruhabat. The treatment plants will provide drinking water for ranging from drinking and process water to wastewater. Together
the mills, process water for a large-scale bakery and the boiler wa- with our partners at Unionmatex we have supplied a well-rounded
ter backfeed. The raw water used stems from the Karakum Canal concept for the water management of this industrial project.” WWi
which, originating in the Himalayas, crosses the Karakum Desert and
on whose banks intensive agricultural activity takes place. The water
technology was designed and built at the Berkefeld production site in
Celle, Germany, fully assembled on basic frameworks and thoroughly
tested in advance.
In its first treatment stage, the plant encompasses gravel filtration,
UFlex™ ultrafiltration, activated carbon filters, a pure water tank and
booster pumps. This process rids the river water of suspended mat- Enquiry No. 106
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Environmental Monitoring
By Andrew Walker
Boat used during the 2009 Amazon campaign. The

Power and Communications Module (PCM) was secured
to the roof of the vessel, along with the GPS antenna.
Acoustic Doppler Flow Monitoring System

Tackles the World’s Largest River
T
he Amazon River is a system so massive it nearly defies Much depends on the success of their measurements – not just sci-
description. Draining a watershed bigger than Western entific knowledge on one of the world’s great river systems, but also
Europe, the Amazon carries 52.2 million gallons per the establishment of hydrological budgets and resource manage-
second to the Atlantic. That’s 209,000 cubic meters per ment tools, the operation of the region’s hydroelectric power grid,
second. It’s 7.38 million cfs. Nearly 16 times the average and the safety of villages and cities downstream during floods.
discharge of the Mississippi River. Enough to fill Lake Erie in less than SonTek has proven the RiverSurveyor M9 on rivers around the
a month. More fresh water flow than anywhere on earth. world, large and small. But the Amazon was sure to push the tech-
To a hydrologist, every aspect of measuring the Amazon is a chal- nology to the limit.
lenge of the highest magnitude. Paulo Gamaro is hydrologist for Itaipu Binacional, which produced
“Everything is big,” says SonTek Application Specialist David Ve- 94.7 million megawatt hours of electricity in 2008, securing its posi-
lasco. “Everything is far away. Everything takes longer. And there’s no tion as the world’s largest-producing hydroelectric plant. Itaipu Bina-
Radio Shack on the margin you can run to.” cional supplies 25% of Brazil’s electricity and 75% of the electricity
It’s not just the fact that the Amazon carries 15 percent of the that powers neighboring Paraguay.
world’s fresh water that makes it so challenging to analyze. There are “Discharges are very important to us,” Gamaro said. “We have
logistics to consider. There are to know accurate inflow to the dam. We do not have big capacity
no bridges spanning the river to store water – what goes in comes out, and we have very severe
to provide a stable platform for restrictions downstream.”
instruments. It’s hard to cross: Discharge data – the volume of water flowing past a fixed point in
a current of more than 3.5 a river over a given time – helps Gamaro and his team set daily energy
meters per second (11.5 fps) production forecasts and determine how to operate the plant to pro-
sweeps small boats off track duce electricity while keeping water flowing in a manner that is safe
and challenges the skills and for residents downstream. Where hydroelectric dams supply most of
nerve of the pilots of larger YSI’s Application Specialist Pierre the nations’ energy needs, that’s no routine task.
craft. It’s even hard to hold still Sterling reviews data being streamed
as the current drags anchors live from the M9 and displayed in RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
real-time on a laptop.
across the muddy bottom. Brazil’s Amazon hydrologists have long risen to the challenges
There’s also the challenging bathymetry of the system. A single posed by the river. Pilots of the region’s traditional 28-meter (92-
crossing can pass over a flat, level bottom in one area and mega- foot), two-tiered riverboats have mastered the art of maintaining their
ripples in another. Broad shallows give way to channels that plunge course with sextant readings or keeping a stationary target on the
100 meters (330 feet) deep. The muddy bottom is in nearly constant deck lined up with tower-mounted theodolites near the far bank, al-
motion – which hydrologists call a “moving bed” – creating enormous lowing teams to take transect measurements with impellers and lead
challenges for accurately measuring velocity and properly positioning lines or older Doppler systems.
vessels at a known location. “It takes an experienced driver to do that,” Velasco said. “They’ve
gotten amazingly good at crossing the river.
THE MISSION: TESTING AND TRAINING “A lot of the challenge in taking readings in the Amazon is not
And if that isn’t enough, the summer of 2009 about the measurement of velocity, but about knowing exactly where
represented a 100-year flood in the Amazon Ba- the boat is,” he added. “That’s not an easy task to do.”
sin. On July 5, 2009, floodwaters peaked about six It also takes remarkable dedication, he said.
inches (15 cm) above the previous high-water mark “A 10-person crew could take at
established in 1953. A week later, Velasco and a least 12 hours to do one measure-
SonTek team arrived in Brazil on a 10-day mission ment at each location, and often
to put the RiverSurveyor M9 acoustic Doppler pro- longer,” Velasco said. “There are 30
filer to the ultimate test and participate in a national locations along the transect and at
training session to train a new generation of Brazil- least two depths at each location, so
ian hydrologists on the M9’s technology. that’s at least 60 measurements of
A workboat during a discharge
measurement in the Amazon Amazon experts in Brazil were familiar with acous- velocity.”
Ship track for Meeting of the
River. tic Doppler technology, which they have used to study
Waters transect, overlaid on
flood events in the Amazon and other large rivers. They also provided PLUG AND PLAY Google Earth satellite photo.
invaluable feedback on the new RiverSurveyor system, and have been The effort required to employ older Start of transect was on north-
west margin and river was
maintaining an ongoing dialogue with YSI on the instruments. technology on the Amazon meant the
flowing from left to right on im-
Brazil’s hydrologists – a network of state, academic and regional first difference between the local stan- age, as indicated by the purple
specialists whose efforts are coordinated by the Agência Nacional dards and the RiverSurveyor M9 were velocity vectors. Total dis-
charge at this site was 168,581
de Águas (ANA), the national water agency – have a daunting task. evident minutes after setup began. m3/s (5.95 million ft3/s).
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Environmental Monitoring
Lower-frequency (1.0 MHz) beams provide bigger cells that cap-

ture velocity data deep in the river, Velasco said. The higher-frequency
range (3.0 MHz) delivers smaller cells for measurement in shallower
water. A vertical echosounder – the first time one has ever been in-
tegrated into a discharge system – guides the automatic frequency
selection while delivering accurate depth readings and minimizing er-
ror from incorrect depth measurements.
In addition to demonstrating its ease of use, the M9 performed be-
yond expectations in depth, velocity and discharge measurements,
Velasco said.
“Our brochure says we can profile to 30 meters with the 1 MHz
beams, but we were actually profiling water in excess of 50 meters
deep,” he said. “We measured velocity in about 80 percent of the
A theodolite operator welcomes the crew bringing his lunch. With transects lasting
up to 12 hours and no replacement crew, theodolite operators often spend several river, which is very acceptable, even in smaller systems. The vertical
hours every day at stations like this, calling out angles and time-stamps via radio to echosounder beam delivers bathymetry data to 80 meters, so we still
the boat performing the actual velocity measurements. got excellent volume data for estimating discharge on the remaining
The SonTek team mounted the RiverSurveyor M9 on the gunwale 20 percent. If we can measure there, we can tackle just about any
of the boat, used a single cable to connect a GPS receiver and Pow- flood nature can throw at us.
er and Communications Module (PCM) on the upper deck, and set “The fact that the same instrument can also provide accurate data
up a real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS correction station on the bank of in a one-cubic-meter canal is also pretty amazing,” he said.
the river to provide accuracy to within ±3 centimeters of the vessel’s Ultimately, the data proved to be extremely accurate in four wide-
position. Once a secure mount was fabricated for the surveyor, daily ly diverse sites along the Amazon, on transects ranging from 700
setup took just 30 minutes – from opening up the box to being ready meters (2,300 feet) to more than 5 km (3 miles) across – variations
to make a measurement. between back-to-back transects was generally under 0.2%, and
“The new RiverSurveyor system is as plug-and-play as you can peaked at only 1.2%. WWi
get,” Velasco said. “We designed it from the ground up to be inte- Enquiry No. 106
grated. All the handshaking and protocols were taken into consider-
ation during design. So was simplifying the hardware. There’s a GPS
antenna with a built-in radio and one battery pack. There’s just one
cable between the PCM and the antenna on the roof, and just one
button to power it on. There’s Bluetooth to connect the radio back to MEETING OF THE WATERS
the monitors. There’s one button on the RTK base station. You power Beyond the sheer enormity of the Amazon River system, the remarkable
it on, and you power it off. That’s it.” conditions at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Solimões Rivers near
Plug-and-play simplicity stood in marked contrast to the hours the city of Manaus provided the opportunity for a team from SonTek to put
required to coordinate separate components of the other system. the company’s new RiverSurveyor M9 through a unique trial.
Cabling, handshaking and communications protocols on the mixed- The Solimões – the upper branch of the Amazon – and the Negro meet at
technology system each posed challenges. a nearly 90-degree angle to create a channel 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) across.
Fabricio Vieira Alves, Executive Manager and Water Resources Water in the Rio Negro, which drains broad plains, is black from decaying or-
Specialist for ANA’s Hydrometeorological Network Planning Office, ganic matter and remarkably free of sediment. The Solimões, by contrast, runs
points out that the RiverSurveyor M9 was designed specifically for silty and brown with sediment from its mostly mountain path. Satellite imagery
river applications. shows a clear boundary between the waters from the two rivers for nearly 60
“This technological concept is quite different than the other manu- kilometers (37 miles) before slow churning finally unites them completely.
facturers, who have taken devices originally designed for oceano- “Conditions like this don’t exist anywhere else on earth,” said David Velas-
graphic application and adapted them to freshwater-based applica- co, the SonTek Application Specialist who led the team. The result allowed
tions through the creation of different operational modes,” he said. Velasco and his colleagues to create what amounts to a side-by-side test of
Vieira sees pivotal roles for RiverSurveyors in Brazil’s quarterly data the M9 in a pair of thoroughly different conditions – along a single transect.
collections and its long-term management of its rivers. Sounding the Rio Negro with the RiverSurveyor M9’s four 1 MHz beams,
“The use of acoustic devices will allow us to significantly change the team profiled to a depth of about 30 meters, a very respectable perfor-
our quarterly field campaigns, which will then allow us to cut opera- mance for the conditions. But the Solimões allowed the M9 to really demon-
tional costs and consequently expand the number of active stations,” strate its capabilities.
he said. “We also plan to use the system’s acoustic intensity signal to “Scattering conditions in the Solimões are about as perfect as you can get,”
determine suspended sediment concentration. And ANA is working Velasco said. “There’s just the right amount of sediment and the water’s warm.”
to promote its use in other strategic regions, such as the Brazilian In fact, the RiverSurveyor transects at the Meeting of the Waters deliv-
Northeast, where we need great accuracy for flow measurement in ered important insight on the dynamics of the mixing zone, documenting
support of regulatory limits for minimum discharge.” underwater mixing that is occurring about 500 meters before such activity is
apparent on the surface.
MULTIPLE BEAMS In the Solimões, the M9 delivered outstanding velocity readings to depths
The RiverSurveyor M9 uses nine transducers and multiple fre- of 50 meters and more, Velasco said.
quencies to deliver accurate data across a variety of conditions, au- “We knew we would be pushing the limits of the M9’s specified 30-meter
tomatically switching between frequencies to provide the optimum maximum velocity profiling range,” he said. “Now, our problem is that we’ll need
resolution for the channel depth. to update our brochures, because we’re sure getting more than 30 meters!”
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Regional Spotlight: Asia
High Quality Effluent

helps Restore Chinese Lake
S
iemens Water Technologies
has commissioned a waste-
The Wuxi Xincheng Plant MBR plant produces
water treatment system for the 30,000 cubic meters of effluent per day.
Wuxi Xincheng Plant in China’s
Jiangsu Province. An upgrade
to the existing wastewater treatment plant,
the system includes a Siemens advanced
Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) sys-
tem. It is producing 30,000 cubic meters
per day of high quality effluent that meets or
exceeds the national discharge standard of
Class I-A, allowing the treated water to be
safely discharged to Taihu Lake.
The MBR system at Wuxi Xincheng inte-
grates the conventional biological treatment
process with membrane filtration using Sie-
mens’ Memcor membranes. It can signifi-
cantly reduce both nitrogen and phospho-
rus in the treated effluent by breaking down
the organic nutrients and filtering the solids.
Compared with conventional technology,
the MBR system requires about 75% less
footprint to install, which is important for ex-
isting plants with limited space.
Siemens completed this MBR project within 12 months after signing the contract.
Located in the highly developed and densely populated Yangtze River Delta, the Taihu Lake has been increasingly polluted in recent years. As
part of its efforts to clean up the Lake, Jiangsu province set out to improve sewage treatment capacities in cities surrounding the lake area.
The MBR system will allow the Xincheng plant to better serve over 100 high tech enterprises in the Wuxi New District’s industrial park, which has
experienced a 20 to 25 percent annual increase in wastewater.
Nalco Opens new Facility in China

Nalco has opened a new Asia Pacific center for industry market- “Our Shanghai office will allow us to bring together the sales, mar-
ing, supply chain, technology development and training located in keting and support functions for China and parts of our Asia Pacific
Shanghai, China. The 6,600 square meter (70,000 square foot), five- regional operations under one roof,” said Eric Melin, Executive Vice
story facility located on Da Du He Road is the latest in a series of ex- President and President, Asia Pacific. “We’ll be better able to meet
pansions by Nalco in China that includes a new manufacturing plant the needs of the growing number of private and state-owned enter-
that opened in the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park last year. prises that make China such an attractive growth market for Nalco.”
“Nalco has a long history in China and we have great expectations Reflecting the growth of the paper industry in Asia, especially
for a bright future,” said Erik Fyrwald, Nalco Chairman and CEO. “Our China, the new Technology Demonstration Center will focus on in-
goal is to double our number of employees and double sales in China novation and customer support to provide papermakers with better
in the next five years, making it our second largest market behind only solutions for retention, drainage and formation, deposit control, func-
the United States.” tional areas and water and resource conservation. The new facility will
The new facility includes a 1,000-square-meter Customer Experi- also concentrate on sensors, automation and industrial water treat-
ence and Training Center which will provide training for new sales en- ment working in concert with Nalco technology centers in the United
gineers as well as customer seminars and training on industrial water States and Europe.
and process treatment.
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Company to Design, Build Brunei Begins

Pharmaceutical Wastewater Plant Channel Dredging Project
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies will design and commis- In preparation for the rainy season, which may cause flooding,
sion a 700 m3/d wastewater treatment plant to treat effluents from the Brunei government through the Public Works Department under
a pharmaceutical drug manufacturing site in Singapore. The plant the Ministry of Development has deployed a specialized dredger ma-
consists of two key technologies, an AnoxKaldnes™ MBBR biologi- chine in several major channels at the Menglait and Kedayan rivers in
cal treatment system and a high rate Actiflo® clarification unit. The order to maximize floodwater capacity.
combination of VWS technologies offers the client a flexible treatment The IMS Dredger, the first of its kind to be used in Brunei, is part
capable of overcoming variable flow and an efficient solution to re- of the Public Works department’s effort to alleviate flooding by using
move a highly concentrated COD wastewater. and applying new technologies. The new machine comes from a lo-
AnoxKaldnes™ MBBR, is a compact moving bed biofilm reac- cal company, Nur Tharwan Sdn Bhd, and is currently deployed for
tor that operates continuously using specific plastic media to grow operations at the Menglait river near The Mall in Gadong, dredging
biofilm and provides effective biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) out silts and rubbish from the river.
removal capability as well as ammonia and nitrogen removal. An- After finishing the project at the Menglait river, The IMS Dredger will
oxKaldnes, a VWS subsidiary, has installed its MBBR technology at also be deployed to another three dredging projects that are along
more than 500 sites worldwide. the Kedayan river. All four projects will cost around $1 million (USD)
The Actiflo® sand-ballasted clarification and flocculation treatment and will take five to six months.
process (a VWS patented technology), will act as final sludge separa-
tion and provide high quality effluent discharge. The system provides
a footprint up to 20 times smaller than conventional clarification sys-
tems with similar capacity.
The plant has been design with an odor treatment system us-
ing activated carbon for treating gases before release to the atmo-
sphere.
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Power & Water Conference & Exhibition
4-6 October 2010

Qatar International Exhibition Centre, Doha, Qatar
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Cleantech Eliminates Chemical use at Industrial Plant

BiOWiSH™, a new clean technology for wastewater treatment, from a spike in suspended solids,” Mr. Shavanas said.
has completely eliminated the use of chemicals at the Synthite in- The use of chemicals at the plant also transformed Synthite’s
dustrial wastewater treatment plant in India. sludge from purely organic to hazardous, subjecting the company
Synthite, the global market leader in spice oleoresins, engaged in to strict regulatory controls. The plant also required substantial en-
a three-month trial with BiOWiSH™ distributor IWA/Environment to ergy input for aeration to sustain the natural microbial population in
improve the plant’s effectiveness in treating wastewater by adopting the system that digests waste.
the new technology. In addition to eliminating chemicals for settling BiOWiSH Technologies, based in Chicago, IL, USA, owns ex-
solids, the trial reduced aeration energy consumption by over 30% clusive rights to a 100% organic culture that uses a high-speed
and rendered the plant totally sludge-free. Collectively, these out- enzyme cluster to break down organic waste into its final end com-
comes reduced the plant’s annual operating costs by almost 50%. pounds. Using its proprietary technology, the company developed
“In less than three months, we achieved process stability and a product called BiOWiSH™-Aqua for wastewater treatment ap-
chemical free operation in our plant. We’ve saved money on energy plications.
and chemical costs, and no longer have solid waste.” The trial began on May 2009 when BiOWiSH™-Aqua was
The Synthite plant deals with very challenging circumstances: dosed into the plant’s secondary collection tanks on a daily ba-
wastewater varies substantially on a daily and often hourly basis sis. Stable nutrient removal curves were achieved in less than three
due to the wide variety of raw materials processed in its factory. weeks and the plant’s four aerators were then turned off progres-
Prior to the trial, plant operators had to diligently track wastewater sively on a 30-minute on/off cycle to capture energy savings. After
pH (acidity) values and make corresponding adjustments to lime three months, a second dosage device was installed in the plant’s
dosing – a chemical treatment. According to Synthite Engineering equalization tank and chemical dosing was stopped completely.
Manager B. Shavanas, the company wanted to eliminate the use Shortly thereafter the plant eliminated all sludge and its drying beds
of chemicals altogether because it was a key source of process have been re-allocated for other uses.
instability. More information on the technology may be found at www.bio-
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Product Review: Water Sampling & Analytical
Water purification products Coliphage testing

The new Thermo Scientifi c Waterbook showcases the diverse port- Charm Sciences has launched Fast Phage, a quick way to screen for
folio of Thermo Scientifi c laboratory water purifi cation products. The coliphage in water. The system provides positive prediction within 8
76-page Waterbook in- hours and coliphage plaque confi rmation at 16 hours – enabling a
cludes a comprehensive same-day public health response to contaminated drinking water.
introduction to lab water Fast Phage includes single-dose ready-to-use reagents, making the
impurities and purifi cation test simple and convenient to perform. Test kits are available for
technologies, as well as a male-specifi c (F+) and somatic coliphage. The test is a simplifi ed
section devoted to helping modifi cation of EPA Method 1601, an approved coliphage detection
customers identify purifi - method specifi ed in the Ground Water Rule. Its 16-hour plaque re-
cation products uniquely sult is equivalent to Method 1601 according to performance criteria
designed to support their defi ned in the method. The test features a rapid and easy-to-read
specifi c scientifi c applica- fl uorescence prediction step. The same-day fl uorescent feature is
tion needs. System speci- predictive of the 16-hour result in external lab evaluations.
fi cations and features are Charm Sciences Inc., Lawrence, MA, USA, www.charm.com
outlined in simple-to-read Enquiry No. 117
“quick look” comparison
tables. Product informa-
tion is structured for easy
Refrigerated sampler cabinets
identifi cation of system op- Hach’s Sigma All-Weather Refrigerated Sampler has a robust de-
tions and either required sign that ensures operation in the face of environmental challenges,
or optional accessories. A maintains accurate temperature control, pro-
Green section highlights smart system designs, and a support and tects sample quality, and provides securityy
maintenance section explains validation and calibration options. in remote operation. The unique top-mount--
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Milford, MA, USA, www.thermo.com/wa- ed compressor is located away from anyy
terbook.
_____ standing water, rodents and heavy corro-
Enquiry No. 114 sive gases typically found at fl oor level. Ad--
ditionally, the compressor’s heat dissi-
pates into the air, not into the sample
Trace metal analyzers compartment, preserving testing qual-
TraceDetect has introduced its SafeGuard™ III automated trace met- ity and reducing wear and tear on the
al analyzers for the drinking water and wastewater industries. The refrigeration system. The sampler has
analyzers can be used to monitor for arsenic, selenium, lead, cop- a thermal microprocessor control sys-
per, chromium, nickel, cobalt, iron, aluminum, uranium, vanadium, tem. The insulated lid protects the con-
zinc, and others. They provide accurate, real-time measurement of troller, pump and pump tubing from the
contaminant levels down to 1 ppb. The analyzers can lower operat- elements. For extreme applications, a
ing costs and improve quality control by optimizing coagulant lev- factory installed controller compartment
els. TraceDetect’s online and at line arsenic and trace metal analyz- heater keeps the sampler performing opti-
ers incorporate the company’s “Chemist in the Box”™ technology, mally when in temperatures from –40 to 120ºF.
which handles trace metal measurement from start to fi nish: sample Hach Co., Loveland, CO, USA, www.hach.com/samplerguide
preparation, dilution, mixing, measuring, and calibration. Operator Enquiry No. 118
variability is virtually eliminated with automated sampling and auto-
calibration. TraceDetect, www.tracedetect.com.
Enquiry No. 115
Turbidity, chlorine meter
The LTC-3000 is a benchtop turbidity/chlorine me-
ter that meets EPA 180.1 for turbidity
Toxicity analyzer and EPA 330.5 for chlorine. The
turbidity range is 0-4,000 NTU with
SciTOX has shipped the fi rst commercial orders for its Alpha toxicity a MDL of 0.05 NTU. The Free and
analyzer, which was released in April 2009. The Rapid Toxicity Mea- Total chlorine range is 0-10 ppm
surement Systems (RTMS) provide wastewater customers with an with a MDL of 0.02 ppm. The me-
early warning of potential upsets to their treatment systems, reducing ter can store 4,000 data points which
the risk of non-compliant discharges and higher operating costs. The can be downloaded to a computer or
toxic response measured by the analyzers applies to organic and in- printer, allows six different languages,
organic toxins. The Alpha, and future platforms marketed by SciTOX, and employs a universal AC adapter for
will be employed in laboratories, in-process, and in fi eld applications. worldwide use.
SciTOX Limited, Christchurch, New Zealand, www.scitox.com. LaMotte Co., Chestertown, MD, USA, www.lamotte.com
Enquiry No. 116 Enquiry No. 119
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Product Review: Water Sampling & Analytical
Water quality instrument Manganese analyzer

The Ultrameter II™ from Myron L Co. is ideal for on- ABB Instrumentation has introduced the Aztec
the-spot measurements where lab-accuracy is re- 600 Manganese online analytical analyzer for
quired. The instrument provides a comprehensive potable water treatment. Built on the company’s
testing solution with the ability to measure up new analytical instrument platform, the colorimet-
to six parameters: conductivity; resistivity; TDS; ric monitor offers enhanced accuracy with simple
pH; ORP and temperature. It is waterproof and operation and maintenance. It uses an LED and
submersible to three feet, and offers easy key- detector to measure the passage of light through
pad calibration and one-touch measurement func- a sample. A single piston pump provides all the sample and reagent
tions. Autoranging capabilities deliver maximum fl uid handling for measurement, mixing and disposal. Measurements
resolution in diverse applications with accuracy of are taken before and after color reagents are added to compensate
±1% of reading. All sensors are internal for increased for background color and turbidity. These measurements are com-
durability, and the pH sensor is user-replaceable. The pared against the calibrated values to calculate the sample being
instrument also has memory storage of 100 readings measured. The analyzer can measure up to six samples per hour.
and an IR port for data downloading. ABB Instrumentation, Warminster, PA, USA, www.abb.com/instru-
Myron L Co., Carlsbad, CA, USA, www.myronl.com mentation
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Spectrophotometers Colorimeter
The new AA-7000 Series atomic absorption spectrophotometer from The MC500 Multi-Parameter Colorimeter from Orbeco-Hellige tests
Shimadzu Scientifi c Instruments incorporates recently developed for a wide range of water quality parameters and is suited for use in
3-D optics for enhanced fl ame and furnace either the fi eld or laboratory.
analysis. The spectrophotometer’s 3-D Using the company’s “Open
optical system is capable of producing Reagent System” (which uses
maximum performance for Powder Pack™, stable tab-
both fl ame detection (Pb lets and liquid reagents) the
0.015 ppm) and furnace instrument features a six-LED
detection (Pb 0.00005 photodetector array which
ppm). This is achieved supports 70 pre-programmed
through optimal adjust- methods (from Alkalinity
ment of the light beam and through Zinc) and 20 user de-
digital fi lter, and by using fi ned methods.
optical components that re- Up to 1,000 data sets can be stored in the instrument’s internal
strict light loss. With a new graphite furnace design, the series has memory to assure good record keeping, and can be transferred to
achieved improved lower limits of detection for furnace analysis in all a computer using a waterproof infrared data port. The colorimeter
fi elds, as compared to Shimadzu’s previous series designs. comes with 24 mm sample cells, 10 mm sample cells, 16 mm tube
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. adapter, batteries operators’ manual and carrying case.
Columbia, MD, USA, www.ssi.shimadzu.com Orbeco-Hellige, www.orbeco.com
DO MONITORING
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has grant-
ed nationwide approval to three In-Situ® RDO® optical
dissolved oxygen methods under the Alternate Test
Procedure (ATP) process. The methods are the only
optical- or luminescence-based DO methods to pass
the ATP approval process for measuring BOD, CBOD
and DO under the Clean Water Act. Ten federal- or
state-certified laboratories tested over 1,300 samples
in nine water and wastewater sample matrices, in-
cluding municipal and industrial wastewater, surface
water, drinking water and other categories. No signifi-
cant matrix interferences were observed in any of the
1,300 samples tested.
In-Situ Inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA, www.in-situ.com
Enquiry No. 124
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Round-up: Odor Control
Dry-scrubbing
media
Hydrogen Peroxide Solvay Chemicals’ Interox® Hydrogen Peroxide is
Purafil’s Environmental Systems Division (ESD) used to control sulfide odors either in the aeration
has released its newest dry-scrubbing media, basin or polishing ponds. In sewage treatment, it
Odorcarb™ Ultra, as the first activated alumina can control sulfide and reduce corrosion through-
media with the ability to remove 0.30 grams of out the treatment system, including rising mains
and in the treatment plant itself. Hydrogen perox-
ide reaction products are environmentally compat-
ible, consisting of simply water and oxygen.
Solvay Chemicals Inc., www.solvay.com
Enquiry No. 112
Wet scrubber systems

Severn Trent Services offers the EST™
Wet Odor Control Scrubber Systems in
multi-stage and low-profile construction
to treat malodorous gases emanating
from municipal and industrial wastewa-
ter treatment facilities. The Type “SOS”
- SideWinder Odor Scrubber is a low
profile multistage gas absorption system
hydrogen sulfide per cubic centimeter of me- for capacities to 20,000 cfm. The system
dia. The new product replaces Odorcarb II as treats odors emanating from wastewater
the primary component of Purafil ESD’s odor treatment plants, composting sites and
control applications. Similar to its predecessor, other industrial sites that generate odors.
the new, improved media also contains the Me- Caustic and bleach solutions treat hydro- Severn Trent Services, Colmar, PA, USA,
dia Life Indicator Pellets (patent-pending). The gen sulfide and other sulfur bearing compounds. www.severntrentservices.com
blue pellets appear white after chemisorption Sulfuric acid solutions treat ammonia, amines and Enquiry No. 145
to distinguish new media from spent media. other basic compounds.
Odorcarb Ultra is UL classified and landfill dis-
posable.
Purafil, Doraville, GA, USA, www.purafil.com
Enquiry No. 143
Odor control
Siemens Water Technologies offer a full service tomer site and application as unique, making treat-
odor control program approach to helping waste- ment recommendations based on data collected at
water collection and treatment facilities control the site. The final treatment solution may include
odors. With a wide range of odor control technolo- one or more odor control products to achieve the
H2S monitoring gies for the liquid and the vapor phase, the compa- best results in the most cost effective way.
The Model Q45S odor monitoring system from

ny can provide a single product or combination of Siemens Water Technologies Corp., www.
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Analytical Technology Inc. uses a specially de-

equipment and treatment methods as well as cus- siemens.com/industry-solutions
signed “wet H2S sensor” and can measure con-
tomized service contracts. Rather than take a “one Enquiry No. 146
size fits all” approach, Siemens treats every cus-
centrations up to
200 ppm or very
low levels down
to 0.5 ppm. The
monitor provides
Bioscrubber
a large LCD The Duall BIO-PRO™ is an easy-to-access, low-
profile bioscrubber that is environmentally friendly.
display show-
Gaseous pollutants are absorbed then biodegraded
ing concentration with a second display line by bacteria immobilized as fixed films on multiple
to show other status information. Two 5 amp biomedia cassettes. Recirculation of microorganisms
present in the recycle liquid continuously scours
alarm relays are offered along with a 4-20 mA the biobeds and creates virtually no significant pH
signal. Analytical Technology Inc., Collegeville, gradient thus providing a homogenous acidic pH
PA, Web: www.analyticaltechnology.com En- traversing the first biobed and a neutral pH in the
second. This unique horizontal cross flow design with multiple biobeds creates the optimum medium for
quiry No. 144 both autotrophic and heterotrophic bacterial growth.
Duall Division, Met-Pro Corp., www.dualldiv.com
Enquiry No. 147
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Product Features
Student Helps Develop Company Releases Updated

Self Erecting Flood barrier Stormwater mapping software
The recent heavy downpours which have battered parts of the UK MWH Soft, a global provider of environmental and water resources
and caused severe fl ood warnings to be put in place could be a thing applications software, has announced the worldwide availability of
of the past thanks to an ingenious invention by a team of engineers. the V8 generation of its H2OMAP SWMM software. The latest release
The Self Erecting, Low Cost (SELOC) Flood Barrier is based on an provides signifi cant enhancements to the GIS-centric urban drain-
idea by John Greenwood, a Reader in Geotechnical Engineering at age modeling and design product, which is used for the evaluation,
design, management, rehabilitation and operation of wastewater and
The Self Erecting Flood Barrier is based on an stormwater collection systems.
idea by John Greenwood, a Reader in Geotech- The software is a fully dynamic, geospatial wastewater and stormwa-
nical Engineering at Nottingham Trent University ter modeling and management software application that can be used
to model the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle as applied
Nottingham Trent University, and has been de- to urban stormwater and wastewater collection systems. The model
veloped in partnership with AECOM, PAGeo- can perform single-event or long-term (continuous) rainfall runoff
technical and NTU. simulations that account for climate, soil, land use, and topographic
conditions of the watershed. H2OMAP SWMM can also predict run-
The rotary moulded polyethelene units rest unobtrusively at ground off quality, including buildup and washoff of pollutants from primarily
level until the fl ood waters arrive, at which point the fl ood water lifts urban watersheds.
the buoyant barrier units, which are hinged on one edge to auto-
matically provide the fl ood protection. The polyethelene units can be Once runoff quantity and quality are simulated and wastewater loads
covered with a surfacing, such as timber decking or rubber crumb, to at receiving junctions are determined, the routing portion of the
provide a non-slip surface for pedestrians and cyclists. software can use either steady routing, kinematic wave routing or
dynamic wave routing to transport this fl ow through a conveyance
The SELOC Flood Barrier is cheap and quick to install, with initial system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and
estimates suggesting that it will cost at least 50 percent less than hydraulic regulators such as weirs and orifi ces.
alternative fl ood walls. A 50-meter-long wall could be installed in less
than a week, and the barrier can be terminated running into high The model also features an advanced Real-Time Control (RTC)
ground or at vertical wall. scheme for the operational management of hydraulic structures. The
AECOM, www.aecom.com; PAGeotechnical, www.pageo.co.uk. program operates in a complete, database-driven open-architecture
Enquiry No. 110 environment, making it easy to manage and distribute geospatial
data and exchange important modeling information with other ap-
plications and GIS systems. Because it creates and stores all graphic
Coating System Offers Quick Return to data in a native shapefi le format, H2OMAP SWMM instantly becomes
Service in Damp Environments an integral part of the user’s data warehouse, compatible with any
other GIS application.
Sewer and pipeline rehabilitation specialist Ferro Monk Systems, part
of the Clugston Group of companies, has recently completed a number Key new modeling tools include the ability to accurately simulate the
of major projects with its Ultracoat 100% epoxy resin coating system. transport and gravitational settling of sediments (waste solids) over
time throughout the sewer collection system under varying hydraulic
The projects, which were at different locations conditions, the option of designating specifi c conduits as culverts
across the UK, include Spalding and Canvey Is- and computing their inlet control fl ow under dynamic wave fl ow rout-
land, were very different in nature and required ing. An optional baseline time pattern for external infl ows at nodes
the Ferro Monk team to work closely with both can be used to apply a periodic adjustment to the baseline infl ow
the contracted company and their client to un- value (e.g., by month of year, day of week, etc.).
derstand each project’s specifi c requirements.
Other introductions include a new analytical CSTR solution for stor-
Ultracoat is a 100% ep-
In keeping with current national environmen- age unit mass balance, support of subcatchment depression storage
oxy resin coating that
tal standards in the UK, Ultracoat is a “green” can be spray applied for SCS hydrology, the addition of two new types of time condi-
product - 100% epoxy with no volatile organic to damp surfaces. tions (month of the year and day of the week) that can be used in
compounds. The spray applied coating has a any real-time control rule condition clause, and signifi cantly improved
high safety value and can be applied in confi ned spaces with no risk data processing and computational speed. In addition, users can
of combustion to hazardous materials. It is also resistant to algae and now choose to ignore any combination of rainfall/runoff, snowmelt,
bacterial growth. groundwater, fl ow routing, and water quality process models when
The coating can be sprayed onto damp surfaces and applied quickly. running a simulation, resulting in even faster simulation run times.
Its high bond strength means it can strengthen corroded or weakened MWH Soft, Broomfield, Colorado USA, www.mwhsoft.com.
structures and it can adhere to most surfaces, including concrete, Enquiry No. 108
steel, brick, fi berglass and clay. It can be used on tanks, chambers,
manholes and culverts. Ferro Mon Systems, www.ferromonk.co.uk.
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Enquiry No. 113
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New products
LEVEL, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS
Pressure Systems, manufacturer of KPSI Level and Pressure Transduc-
Membrane filtration system ers, has announced that three of its most popular KPSI Transducer mod-
inge watertechnologies AG has made changes to its Multibore mem- els are now
brane to improve mechanical built and ready
properties and strengthen to ship in just
fibers. The membrane is two days, sig-
now even more flexible and nificantly re-
resistant under heavy loads, ducing facility
making the ultrafiltration pro- downtime as-
cess even more reliable. As a sociated with
result, the company now of- a transducer’s
fers a ‘No Membrane Break- failure. Includ-
age’ guarantee. Should fiber ed in the two-
breakage occur, the company day service
will replace the module at no are the hydro-
cost. The permeability of the static, submersible 700, 705 and 750 models, used widely throughout
new membrane has also im- the water and wastewater level measurement industries for applications
proved. Higher permeability with conditions from general purpose to harsh and adverse. The general
means that lower transmem- purpose Model 700 features analog outputs of 4-20 mA and 0-5 vDC in
brane pressure (TMP) is re- custom level ranges up to 700 ft H2O. Static accuracy is ±1 %FS. The
quired for treatment plant Model 705 incorporates a flush Teflon-coated elastomeric diaphragm with
operations – and that means a surface area of 0.90” to prevent clogging. The transducer is available in
longer uptimes between custom level ranges from 6 ft H2O to 115 ft H2O with analog outputs of
backwashing. This makes the 4-20 mA or 0-5 vDC. Static accuracy is ±0.25 %FS. Pressure Systems,
plant more effective and energy-efficient. inge watertechnologies AG, Hampton, VA, www.pressuresystems.com. Enquiry No. 131
Greifenberg, Germany, www.inge.ag. Enquiry No. 128
Manhole covers
The GripTop™ range of access covers from Saint-Gobain PAM UK fea-
tures a unique surface treatment which enhances grip and reduces the
Sodium hypochlorite systems
risk of skidding for cyclists and motorcyclists, especially in wet conditions. Severn Trent Services has released a technical brochure on the Clo-
The covers have been specified for road safety projects around the United rTec® line of on-site sodium hypochlorite generating systems, highlighting
Kingdom. The covers can contribute significantly to the ways the systems can reduce a customers’ carbon footprint and salt
increased safety, con- consumption by as much
tributing to reduced as 20 percent. The new
risks of litigation brochure details the ad-
and costs in the vantages of the on-site
case of an in- generation process and
jury. Saint-Gobain focuses on the environ-
PAM UK, _______
www.saint- mental benefits offered by
gobain-pam.co.uk.
______________ the system. The brochure
Enquiry No. 127 for use in the United States
and other non-European
Union countries can be
downloaded at ____ http://
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Bulking sludge, foam control vices.com/en_us/litera-

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t u re d o w n l o a d s / D o c u -
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The Kemira FilamentEx™ solution is a combination of services and prod- ments/500_0100.pdf. The
_____________
ucts designed to provide full control over the filament content in wastewater brochure for use in the
– not only by testing and analyzing, but also by giving the right “medicine” European Union, which
in the right doses at the right time for each specific wastewater treatment addresses ATEX com-
plant to prevent sludge bulking and foam. Customers may choose between pliance, can be down-
three different levels of service and support. The program includes Test & loaded at http://www.severntrentservices.com/en_us/literaturedownloads/
Analysis; Diagnosis; Dosage; and Continuous Control. Kemira, Helsing- Documents/500_0100EU.pdf. Severn Trent Services, Fort Washington,
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borg, Sweden, www.kemira.com. Enquiry No. 129 PA, USA. Enquiry No. 130
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New products
Reed bed treatment system Valve actuators

A wider range of effluents - including those with high strength contami- The new Generation .2 multi-
nants such as ammonia, petrochemicals, agricultural wastes and capped turn actuator range SA 07.2 – 16.2
landfill leachate – can now be and new actuator controls AC 01.2
treated by reed beds due to have been launched by AUMA. Designed
new Forced Bed Aeration™ to cater to existing market needs, and
(FBA) technology. next generation requirements, capabilities
Currently undergoing UK include the integration of field devices into
trials, ARM Ltd joined forces Asset Management Systems. AUMA has introduced a number of
with US-based Naturally Wal- enhanced features and expanded the functionality of its range, while retain-
lace which has proven the ing proven design principles. Incorporating modularity as a fundamental
system internationally. Case principle, the new actuators and controls are fully compatible with the com-
studies show when air is forced through the system to increase the oxy- pany’s previous products. Mechanical enhancements improve positioning
gen availability, the greater the volume of oxygen in the system, the more accuracy, the output speed range of modulating actuators and the exten-
efficient the treatment becomes. A FBA reed bed can improve the treat- sion of the expected actuator lifetime. These advancements are backed by
ment capabilities of a traditional reed bed by up to 15 times thus allowing improved corrosion protection. AUMA Riester GmbH & Co., Muellheim,
the reed beds to have a smaller footprint, according to company reports. Germany, www.auma.com. Enquiry No. 135
ARM Reed Beds, Staffordshire, UK, www.armreedbeds.co.uk. En-
quiry No. 132
Hi-torque
Dewatering system drives
A new dewatering technology is being introduced to Australia by Eimco Some of the most
Water Technologies-AJM Environmental Services (EWT-AJM) to help reduce powerful drives ever engi-
operating expenses associated with sludge produced in industrial munici- neered in Australasia by Bonfiglioli are featured in the company’s range
pal and agricultural wastewater treatment. The Cinetik™Line of products of HD Hi-Torque drives in capacities up to 1155kW and 1,195,000 Nm of
from LinearElectro-Dewatering torque. With ratios from 23:1 up to 5000:1, the drives combine new gen-
solutions uses electric- eration HD helical drives now being assembled in Australia with Bonfiglioli’s
ity and controlled compact and widely used Trasmital planetary drives. The drives are suited
mechanical pres- for water treatment, including agitators, stirrers and mixers, pumps and
sure to extract ad- fans. Hi-Torque combination drives produce very high power transmission
ditional water from efficiencies. The fully hardened and ground alloy helical gears, in conjunction
mechanically de- with high-strength planetary spur gears, result in reducers that provide up
watered sludge cake. to 91 percent efficiency in four-stage form. The design also offers reduced
The principle relies on the appli- noise emissions, increased thermal capacities and numerous mounting and
cation of an electrical field across the sludge, shaft options. Bonfiglioli Transmission (Australia) Pty Ltd, Glenden-
inducing electro-osmosis across the porous me- ning, Australia, web: www.bonfiglioli.com.au. Enquiry No. 136
dia and pulling on the water molecules instead of pushing on the sludge.
The process can dewater sludge to 50 percent dry solids, reducing volume
and thus cartage and disposal costs.EWT/ AJM Environmental services Sludge aeration
Pty Ltd, Kirrawee, NSW, www.ewt-cinetik.com. Enquiry No. 133 The HiOx® Activated Sludge Aeration System, launched in the UK by
Hydro International’s Wastewater Division, can help increase treatment ca-
pacity and reduce energy demands. Suitable both for retrofitting and new
installations, the system’s 1 mm diameter ultra-fine bubble production and
Piping software high floor area coverage result in 20% or greater Standard Oxygen Transfer
Engineered Software, creator of PIPE-FLO Professional design software, Efficiency (SOTE). It delivers aeration efficiency and flexibility in both high
has announced the release of the metric edition of the book, Piping Sys- rate and conventional nitrify-
tem Fundamentals: The Complete Guide to Gaining a Clear Picture of Your ing activated sludge process-
Piping System. The book was written by author and trainer Ray T. Hardee, es, and ensures Membrane
P.E., and is a guide book for understanding basic design principles in pip- Bioreactor systems operate
ing systems. The book is designed for professionals from a wide range at optimum rates. Lower in-
of audiences, including beginning engineers as well as mechanics, opera- stallation costs are achieved
tors, sales representatives, consulting engineers, and designers needing because each diffuser covers
an overview or refresher on the operation of fluid piping systems. The text a large area, equivalent to 100
includes a free software CD to perform calculations and design systems conventional 22 cm disc dif-
found in the book. Engineered Software Inc., Lacey, WA, USA, www. ____ fusers. The lightweight panels clad in high-strength perforated polyurethane
fluidfundamentals.com. Enquiry No. 134
_______________ (patent pending) enable a high floor area which reduces the need for associ-
ated pipework and ensures lower installation costs. Hydro International,
Cambridgeshire, UK, www.hydro-international.biz. Enquiry No. 137
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New products
Cation exchange resins Directional drilling

Specialty chemicals group LANXESS has developed a new generation The small, compact and therefore very flexible HDD bore rig Grundodrill
of gel-type cation exchange resins for industrial water treatment. Lewatit 4 X is ideally suitable in tight working conditions and has been proven in
MonoPlus S 108 and Lewatit MonoPlus S 108 H are the result of several sandy-clay type soils. The
years of research work, and are noted for an excellent leaching behavior small set up area and the
and outstanding chemical stability. They are also noted for the fact that the low weight hardly cause
resin beads remain in excellent condition even after many operating cycles. any surface damage. The
Even with short cycle times – i.e. with frequent changes between regenera- bore rig is suited for areas
tion and exhaustion – the special monodisperse ion exchange matrix en- difficult to access, where
sures long service life. Because of the high chemical and physical stability of transportation of a heavy
the new resins, there is a significantly lower risk of operating problems with machine would be a prob-
the unit due to fines. LANXESS, Leverkusen, German, www.lanxess. lem, in residential areas, on
com. Enquiry No. 138
___ tight paths, and for house
connections for sewage.
In an operating distance of
UV disinfection more than 100 m the bore
can be expanded to maximally 235 mm. The performance potential of the
Calgon Carbon Corp. has introduced its new C3500™D ultraviolet dis- bore rig is supported by two mixing systems, which are offered alternatively.
infection. The system offers an advanced sensor-based control system, Tracto-Technik GmbH & CO KG, Lennestadt, Germany, ________ www.tracto-
which helps achieve unparalleled efficiency in water reuse disinfection appli- technik.de. Enquiry No. 139
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Water resource management

WIT Press has published a book
entitled “Management of Scarce
Water Resources.” This book
provides a practical approach
to a wide variety of water-related
topics. Using recent case stud-
ies, it explores the problems that
arid and semi-arid countries face
in relation to water resources and
water management, and provides
a framework/guideline to assist
the practitioner in resolving these
problems. The book contains case
cations. It uses 500 Watt lamps in the smallest footprint available to provide studies and practical guidelines
overall efficiency and economic savings compared to other Low Pressure developed from many years of
High Output (LPHO) systems. The C3500™D system depends on a unique project management, private sec-
patent-pending design, which hydraulically “mixes” water across three sets tor participation and Ministerial-
of Delta-shaped (D) wings while minimizing the head loss and exposing the level government experience in
water to a high UV dose to efficiently treat the water. Because of the swirling both Water and Irrigated Agricul-
action generated by the three sets of Delta-shaped wings the water is more ture.WIT Press, Southampton, UK, www.witpress.com. Enquiry No.
uniformly exposed to the UV light.Calgon Carbon Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, 141
www.calgoncarbon.com. Enquiry No. 140
Seawater RO
Koch Membrane Systems recently launched its new solution for large capacity seawater reverse osmosis
(RO) projects. The new system features pre-engineered packaged plants up to 2 mgd as well as larger,
modular building blocks for higher capacity requirements of up to 50 mgd and more. Featuring a lightweight,
large diameter pressure vessel-element combination, the new offering will use MegaMagnum® Plus seawater
elements. Koch Membrane Systems Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA, www.kochmembrane.com Enquiry
No. 142
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Diaphragm Pump Axially split volute casing pump
The ARO Fluid Technologies business of Ritz Pumpenfabrik has released a new, axially split volute casing pump.
Ingersoll Rand has expanded its ARO EXP This redesigned pump can perform a wide range of tasks in water pro-
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three-inch ported 2:1 High Pressure pump. casings and double flow impellers which are circulated
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is suited for applications that require the Ritz looked at this and improved flow ratios and opti-
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pressures exceeding 6.9 bar. By using the openings in the double flow radial impeller and perfect
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to double output pressure, the PH30F can values – high above the normal 75 – 85% for spiral pumps.
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to 590 liters/min. The pump is also capable of providing pressure boosts in accommodate flows up to 5000 m3/h and heads higher than 150 m. The
applications where downstream system pressure drop is high, or in situa- pump is suitable for pump media temperatures up to 110°C and features
tions where inlet air pressure is below the desired operating level. Ingersoll outstanding NPSH values which keep the risk of cavitation to a minimum.
Rand Industrial Technologies, Lancashire, England, __________
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December/January 2009/2010 - Vol. 24, Issue 6

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Cover image courtesy KMI Plus.

CREATIVE FINANCE Regional Spotlight

SOLAR POWER PUMPING

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PennWell Publishing Ltd (UK) Editorial Offices

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Without the right valves, Butterfly valves

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Water, Sanitation Professionals

COMPANY HONORED Flow Monitoring Helps Cut Water Leaks in UK

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Company Names New Managing

Desalination Association Elects New President

Panton McLeod, which provides repairs,

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bursting technique. Despite many repair clamps fixing

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Chopper Pumps Help cut Costs

Guide Offers Tips for Adapting to Climate Change

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Sampling Strategies Focus On Yield Enhancement

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GEFCO 14th Annual

History & Evolution of Drilling

Course schedule set for May 10-14,

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Solar Power Pumping

Delivering Clean Water

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The Universal Solar Pump Controller (USPC)

CLOSER TO THE GRID

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Reducing Chemical Costs

Delivers Environmental, Economic Promise

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For Accuracy and Conﬁdence

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Please visit: www.hach.com

Regional Spolight: Southeast Asia

The NWS&DB is the principal government authority for the nation of

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As a result of Outotec’s successful implementation of these tech-

SRI LANKAN FIRSTS THE FUTURE

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