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Franklin Miller Becomes a Water and
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We are pleased to announce that
Franklin Miller, Inc. has become a sponsor of Water and
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For
over 80 years and three generations Franklin Miller has been a
leader in size reduction technology.
Their company got its start in the
making of ice crushers in the early 1900s. Today their broad line of
comminutors includes units for chemical processing, pharmaceuticals,
foodstuffs, minerals, wastewater treatment and many other
industries.
Franklin Miller's unique combination
of experience in both dry solids processing and liquid systems has
made them uniquely capable of solving many difficult customer
process problems.
(Alexandria, VA) - The Water
Environment Federation (WEF) today welcomed the release of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Water Quality Trading
Policy. According to WEF Executive Director, Bill Bertera, "WEF
supports many of the provisions in the Policy and believes it is a
positive step towards recognizing trading as a tool to achieve water
quality improvements. Overall, the Federation strongly supports the
concept of trading as an innovative approach to reaching water
quality goals."
The
purpose of the Policy is to encourage states, interstate agencies,
and tribes to develop and implement voluntary water quality trading
programs that facilitate implementation of TMDLs, reduce the costs
of compliance with Clean Water Act regulations, establish incentives
for voluntary reductions, and promote watershed-based initiatives.
As a follow-up to EPA's "Framework for Watershed-Based Effluent
Trading", the Policy draws upon lessons learned from pilot
programs and state experiences developing water quality trading
programs conducted since the September 1996 document was released.
WEF supports EPA's water quality trading initiative and endorses
trading as a potentially cost-effective, market-incentive method to
further local, regional, and national clean water goals.
WEF supports EPA's recognition that
trading is a voluntary approach that may be used to more efficiently
protect and restore water quality and beneficial uses of the
nation's waters. Specifically, WEF supports the Policy's emphasis on
watersheds and cooperation between point and nonpoint sources. The
Federation has long advocated the watershed management approach and
the principle that water quality oriented activities across
regulatory programs should be combined to form a strong, integrated
basis for planning, priority setting, and implementation on a
watershed basis.
WEF initiated Water Quality 2000, a
cooperative effort of over 70 organizations to propose and promote
national policies and goals for the 21st century to protect and
enhance water quality. As a leader in education and technology
transfer, WEF has also worked in conjunction with EPA and other
federal agencies to sponsor four national Watershed Management
conferences and two national TMDL conferences.
For additional information about
water quality trading and other clean water issues, visit the WEF
website at www.wef.org
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New
Features and Enhancements
USFilter Issued Patent for Diffuser
System
WAUKESHA, Wis., Jan. 17, 2003 –
USFilter recently received a key patent for its DualAir diffuser
assembly and hollow rivet attachment. U.S. Patent No. 6,464,211,
issued Oct. 15, 2002, describes an innovative design for attaching
9-in. membrane disc diffusers to an air distribution pipe.
Developed
by USFilter’s Envirex Products, the DualAir fine-bubble diffuser
system is used to aerate wastewater inside a treatment tank. The
system consists of two diffuser bases connected by a curved saddle
that fits over conventional PVC air distribution piping. This allows
twice as many saddles to be mounted to a given length of pipe,
compared to conventional single-pod diffuser designs.
The DualAir diffuser saddle is
secured to the aeration pipe by a pair of hollow core rivets with
internal threads. Each hollow rivet serves as a regulating orifice,
helping to ensure uniform air distribution to all of the diffusers
on the distribution pipe network.
Conventional diffusers are
permanently glued to the air distribution pipes, and are typically
attached at a single, small area at the top of the pipe. For this
reason, the joints are more likely to break when excessive torque is
applied to loosen a threaded retaining ring during membrane
replacement, especially in cold weather.
With the DualAir fine-bubble diffuser
system, the two-rivet connection between the diffuser assembly and
the distribution pipe grips the pipe over a large area, much like an
“eagle claw,” reducing the possibility of damage when torque is
applied during maintenance.
This increased flexibility in
mounting the diffuser assembly to the distribution pipe network also
simplifies the task of mounting numerous diffuser assemblies along
the length of a distribution pipe when submerged in a treatment
tank, and further minimizes the cost associated with installing,
cleaning and/or replacing the diffuser assembly.
USFilter Corporation, a Vivendi
Environnement company, is North America’s largest water company
providing comprehensive water and wastewater systems and services to
commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers. Visit
the company’s web sites at www.usfilter.com
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Drinking
Water Industry
AWWA & Commerce
Dept. Partner To Expand Exports
WASHINGTON D.C. – The
American Water Works Association (AWWA), the largest drinking water
organization in the world, today announced an agreement with the
U.S. Department of Commerce to enhance international opportunities
for the drinking water industry. The agreement between the two
organizations recognizes the critical importance of environmental
technologies to the U.S. and international economies, and the
contribution of those technologies to global sustainable development
and protection of public health.
Established
in 1881, AWWA is the oldest and largest nonprofit scientific and
educational organization dedicated to safe drinking water in the
world. AWWA has 56,000 members worldwide and its 4,500 utility
members serve 80 percent of America’s population.
“This alliance creates
an opportunity to enhance international trade of environmental
technologies and to develop infrastructure projects that support
growing populations, economic development, and protect the public
health for people worldwide,” said Jack Hoffbuhr, AWWA executive
director. “AWWA is truly very honored to partner with the U.S.
Department of Commerce and to exchange resources so that we may
collectively work toward a unified goal of protecting public health.”
“This agreement
demonstrates our commitment to public-private partnerships that
stimulate international trade,” said Linda Conlin, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development. “This will benefit
the U.S. environmental industry, enhance U.S. exports and advance
the Administration’s commitment to provide better access to safe
drinking water to people around the globe.”
The benefits of this
mutual agreement to the drinking water industry and international
community include:
The opportunity to
continue to advance programs to deliver safe, clean drinking
water to those most in need.
To support
sustainable development overseas, protect public health,
encourage responsible growth, and minimize the impact of
population growth on the environment and the world population as
a whole.
To support joint
U.S. and foreign economic development by establishing
partnerships abroad.
AWWA is the
authoritative resource for knowledge, information, and advocacy to
improve the quality and supply of drinking water in North America
and beyond. AWWA is the largest organization of water professionals
in the world. AWWA advances public health, safety and welfare by
uniting the efforts of the full spectrum of the drinking water
community. Through our collective strength we become better stewards
of water for the greatest good of the people and the environment.
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Stahl wants help with SO2
tank:
At the Eugene plant we use one-ton
cylinders of Cl2 and SO2 for chlorination and dechlorination,
feeding liquid chemical into water-bath evaporators and the
resulting gas through standard water injectors.
Now here's the strange doings: Our
SO2 pressure usually runs from 20-40 PSI on the liquid chemical
header. The other night a guy valved on a full cylinder of SO2 and
saw two odd things. First, he noticed that the cylinder yoke valve,
the pigtail, and the header itself were hot instead of cold (usually
as the liquid chemical surges into an empty header the sudden
evaporation cools the header). Second, the header pressure shot up
to 75 PSI. Over the next several hours the pressure dropped to 65
PSI, but that is still much higher than our system has ever run on
the SO2 side.
The evaporator temperature is normal.
As far as we can tell the one-ton cylinder was not overfilled with
SO2, and anyway I can't see how that would explain the sudden
heating of the header. If there was water in the header then the
heat of solution when the SO2 formed sulfuric acid dissolved in the
water might explain the heat, but would that explain the persistent
high pressure? And we've never gotten water in that header, to the
best of our knowledge, let alone all the way to the yoke valve at
the business end of the pigtail.
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This
week's photo is of DSM's plant in Augusta, GA were Fisher Tank
Company resurrected an unused 260' diameter x 15' deep wastewater
pond, lined it with steel plate. Within four weeks of the
initial contract, DSM added 10 million gallons to its wastewater
treatment capacity.
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Established
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educational organization dedicated to safe drinking water in the
world. AWWA has 56,000 members worldwide and its 4,500 utility
members serve 80 percent of America’s population.