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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 17, July 10, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Water and Waste Water Dot Com
John Yazek, Co-Editor, mailto:jyazek@h2ochem.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Sponsor's Message
> Azurix Acquires Baker Hughes' Water, Wastewater Operations
> ESDU Introduces New Process and Environmental Technology
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> H2OChem.com’s Technical Tip of the Week
> EPA Takes Action to Address MTBE Contamination
> United Water Acquired by Suez Lyonnaise Des Eaux
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Azurix Acquires Baker Hughes' Water, Wastewater Operations
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HOUSTON, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Azurix Corp. has acquired
Baker Hughes Industrial Services Inc. (BHIS), an industrial
water and wastewater operations and engineering support
company primarily serving customers in the refinery and
petrochemical market.
The company will be renamed Azurix Industrial Operations
Corp. and become part of Azurix Industrials Corp., which
provides outsourcing services to industrial customers.
"Our acquisition of this well-established company gives
Azurix an industrial services platform and expertise in the
North American market, where there are significant
opportunities for growth," said Rebecca P. Mark, Azurix
chairman and CEO. "BHIS's excellent safety record,
environmental compliance history and established industry
relationships provide important synergies that will help
Azurix compete for new business as more industrial customers
explore opportunities to outsource their water and
wastewater-related services."
The current contracts held by BHIS provide annual revenues
of about $10 million. BHIS has served as the contract
operator at the Lower Neches Valley Authority wastewater
treatment facility in Beaumont, Texas, since the plant
began operating in 1976. As the largest privately owned
regional wastewater treatment plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast,
the facility demonstrates how public-private partnerships
can be highly effective in meeting the demands of the
industrial market, the company says.
The facility receives and treats an average flow of 17
million gals/day of industrial wastewater from five
independent industrial manufacturers of refining and
petrochemical products.
For more information contact:
Azurix Corp.
333 Clay Street, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77002-7361
Telephone: 713-646-6001
Fax: 713-345-5358
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ESDU Introduces New Process and Environmental Technology
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Methodology and Software Improves Process Integration, Heat
Exchange, Water Management, and Crude Oil Fouling Remediation
To Save Design Engineers Time & Money
DENVER, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ESDU International PLC (ESDU),
a division of the leading engineering and technical information
provider IHS Engineering, today announced the release of several
new tools and technology to assist in complex design and
retrofit analysis of processing plants and equipment.
ESDU Process and Environmental Technology is a collection of
guidelines, methods, software and training developed to assist
process designers and engineers in new plant design and retrofit
projects. These tools are developed under the ESDU process
ensuring validation by international experts, best practice,
and data that is practical, clear and concise in its use and
application.
ESDU provides solutions to problems encountered in key disciplines
of process integration, heat exchange, water management and crude
oil fouling. The collection includes a wide range of design guides
and software programs covering heat transfer and fluid flow
mechanics
for process engineering applications. These technologies are
applicable to many industrial sectors including oil refining,
petrochem, chemical, steel, textile, food, and paper
and pulp processing.
Process integration is an important means of improving the
efficiency of industrial processes. ESDU has developed software
tools that can be used in integrated plant design and are
simple to follow and easy to understand. ESDU's INTEGRITY(TM)
software program provides a simple, rapid and straightforward
route for the design of heat exchanger networks in new plants.
The network design methodology assists engineers in plant
layout, controlling expensive piping costs and designing
safer more easily understood plants. The simplicity provides
a cost-effective means to combat expensive plant design and
maintenance issues. A comprehensive training package is
available to enable INTEGRITY users to achieve maximum
benefit in applying the program to their design projects.
To address water conservation, ESDU developed the AQUAINT(TM)
software tool that allows an engineer to optimize freshwater
use in single contaminant systems.
According to Cripps, "The ESDU water conservation data items
and associated software and training encapsulate the best
new methodology, developed to tackle these problems in a
systematic manner. Benefits are available even for small-
and medium-sized sites, showing how to turn theory into
practice by identifying ways of minimizing water and effluent
flows without excessive investment. This is a win-win situation
for both the industry and environment."
The ESDU products mentioned are available to subscribers
through the Internet or CD-ROM.
For additional information contact:
Pat Wimberly
ESDU International
15 Inverness Way East, Suite C203
Englewood, Colorado 80112
Telephone: toll-free 800-716-3447 (USA/Canada)
Telephone: +1-303-858-6147 (International)
Fax: +1-303-858-6240
Web site: http://www.esdu.com/
mailto:patw@ihs.com
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Guide
for the Design Construction and Repair of Ferrocement"
by ACI Committee 549
Paperback, June 1988
"Self-Assessment
Guide for Surface Water Treatment Plant Optimization"
by Robert C. Renner, Bob A. Hegg, Awwa Research Foundation
Paperback, October 1997
"Adsorption
Design for Wastewater Treatment"
by David O. Cooney
Hardcover, June 1998
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/readingroom.htm
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H2OChem.com’s Technical Tip of the Week
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REMOVING CHELATED METALS FROM WASTE STREAMS
Last week's technical tip dealt with removing metals in
wastewater streams. Under some circumstances, these metals
are chelated. Removing chelated metals can require one
or a combination of steps.
To go the entire tip click below:
http://h2ochem.com/tips/default.asp#tip
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EPA Takes Action to Address MTBE Contamination
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WASHINGTON, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- EPA Administrator Carol
M. Browner today announced that the Clinton-Gore Administration
will fund two $1 million pilot projects, one each in New York
and California, to assist with the cleanup of the gasoline
additive MTBE in contaminated community water supplies. Areas
of Long Island, N.Y., and Santa Monica, Calif., are among
those communities most affected by MTBE contamination.
"To protect public health and the environment, the Clinton-Gore
Administration has called on Congress to eliminate MTBE from
gasoline, and we've begun regulatory action aimed at phasing
it out," said Browner. "However, in the meantime, action
must
be taken to help communities already affected by MTBE leaks.
Today, we are providing additional funding to help New York
and California remove MTBE contamination in affected communities
and prevent future problems from leaking tanks."
New York is being awarded $1 million to accelerate cleanup at
50 MTBE contaminated sites on Long Island. The funds for
Santa Monica, Calif. will be used to help the state and the
city with the cleanup of MTBE contaminated groundwater.
MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, is an additive in gasoline
used by many refiners to meet a provision of the Clean Air Act
that calls for the use of oxygenates in fuels. In 1999, the
Clinton-Gore Administration convened a Blue-Ribbon Panel to
investigate if MTBE posed special risks to water supplies.
In the Fall of 1999, the Panel presented scientific proof
confirming that MTBE threatens water supplies. The
Administration subsequently called on Congress to phase down
or eliminate MTBE. The Administration also has begun
regulatory action to control MTBE under the Toxics Substances
Control Act.
SOURCE Environmental Protection Agency
Web Site: http://www.epa.gov/
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United Water Acquired by Suez Lyonnaise Des Eaux
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United Water Receives Final Approval From New Jersey Regulators
for Its Acquisition by Suez Lyonnaise Des Eaux
HARRINGTON PARK, N.J., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- United Water
Resources (NYSE: UWR) today announced that the New Jersey Board
of Public Utilities (BPU) approved the acquisition of the
company by Paris-based Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux ((LY: Paris
Bourse), the world leader in private infrastructure services.
The BPU decision brings United Water one step closer to obtaining
the regulatory approvals needed to finalize the transaction.
United Water anticipates the last remaining approval later
this month from the New York State Public Service Commission.
The company expects that closing of the transaction will occur
in late July shortly following receipt of final regulatory
approvals in New York.
United Water is a holding company engaged in water-related
businesses and real estate investments with a history that
dates back to 1869. As the nation's second-largest water
services company, United Water provides water and wastewater
services through its regulated utilities and non-regulated
municipal contract operations to more than 7.5 million people
in over 400 communities in 17 states. The company has been
continuously listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1889
and has paid cash dividends on its common stock since 1886.
For more information contact:
Ms. Carolyn Iglesias
United Water Management & Services
Telephone: 201-767-2836
Web site: http://www.unitedwater.com/
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Alther needs help with sulfates removal:
If you have a 50 gpm wastewater stream, with 500 ppm sulfates,
and you wish to remove that, what is the most economical method
to do so?
George Alther
Biomin, Inc.
Telephone: 248-544-2552
mailto:Biomin@AOL.com
Ms. Frost wants to check the composition W-T chemicals:
My client wants to check the composition of various water
treatment chemicals such as P-DADMAC Cationic Polymer, Quicklime,
Hydrofluosilic acid, etc. Can anyone recommend a laboratory
to analyze the chemicals for their make-up?
Martha Frost
Telephone: 626-568-6437
mailto:martha.frost@mw.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo shows the microfiltration part of a 2.5 m3/hr
waste water treatment plant coupling proprietary physical
chemistry with microfiltration. The plant has been installed
at one of the factories of the SWATCH Group in Switzerland
and treats waste water coming from the surface treatment and
vibro-polishing activities. It is equipped with a automatic
back flush system using the filtrate, the membrane surface
is 12 m2.
Photograph courtesy of Mr. Perret Jacques Px TECH SA, Switzerland
http://www.groupepx.com/pxtech/index.html
We would love to have your photo of a water treatment process,
new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with a
description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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From the Job Fair
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NEED CONSULTANT - TIFFANY BEACH RESIDENCES, SAUDI ARABIA
We are the design and development division of an integrated
travel and tourism developer. We are currently involved on a
project in Saudi Arabia where extensive water treatment is
required to create a lagoon of sea quality water, within an
existing area of water with a high salinity content. Are you
able to advise of any consultants who may be able to assist
us in this project?
Your cooperation with regard to this matter is greatly
appreciated.
With best regards,
Ian Millington
Integron Design Ltd
mailto:integron@spidernet.com.cy
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