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Grass Valley, CA -- Community water
systems across the country facing tougher new federal standards can
get help from PerLorica, a water quality management firm.
"The
most recent specifications by the Environmental Protection Agency
mandate a 99 percent removal of cryptosporidium by water systems
serving 10,000 or fewer drinkers," Ali O'Brien, Operations
Manager of PerLorica, Inc., said.
The new regulation is aimed at
reducing this country's illnesses caused by cryptosporidium, a
parasite that causes diseases similar to food poisoning. Infections
range from 12,000 to 40,000 annually. All public water systems in
the country that use surface water, or ground water that is affected
by surface water fall under the new standards.
All affected systems must conduct
continuous turbidity monitoring. Tests for the parasite in water
systems will need to be conducted every 15 minutes.
The EPA requirement is expected to
affect 11,000 systems serving more than 18 million people. The
agency estimates each of those drinkers could be paying $15 more a
year to finance the tighter monitoring and removal standards.
Nationally the new regulations will cost water systems and their
customers an estimated $39.5 million a year.
"Under the new rules smaller
water systems are being required to test at the levels of major city
systems," Jim Elliott, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
said. "Monitoring water quality electronically is the key to
compliance with these new regulations. PerLorica will send a
representative to meet with officials of any small water system that
requests our help," he added, "to discuss advanced water
monitoring and compliance techniques and how they can provide
significant cost savings."
PerLorica has developed a powerful
water management tool, WaterEye a virtual water system manager, that
will remotely monitor water systems, regularly checking the status
of such things as chlorine content and turbidity (clarity of water).
The WaterEye monitoring system provides real time reports via the
Internet to let water system controllers more efficiently manage
their procedures. It also features automatic report generation for
the appropriate regulatory agency, as required.
WaterEye's compliance calendar
feature assists in managing EPA reporting requirements. It will keep
track of all upcoming tests as well as displaying historical testing
data. WaterEye's on-line compliance calendar will notify users via
e-mail 30 days prior to a testing due date and again seven days
prior to the test.
"WaterEye can save a small water
system a substantial amount of money," Elliott added.
"Daily operator testing is taken over by sensors which test for
pennies a day."
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - The Orange
County Water District (OCWD) was recently awarded a two-year,
$415,000 grant from the Department of Water Resources, through
Proposition 13, to conduct research related to the advanced
purification of municipal wastewater. This grant is part of a larger
$4 million grant awarded to the Desalination Research Innovation
Partnership, a consortium of water agencies that includes OCWD,
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, San Diego County
Water Authority, West Basin Municipal Water District, Santa Clara
Valley Water District, Alameda County Water District, Sonoma County
Water Agency and the University of California.
Membrane
water purification systems, the same used by many bottled water
companies, are the future of water purification technologies around
the globe. As OCWD strives to meet the increasing water demands of
north and central Orange County, membrane treatment systems will
continue to play a major role in water purification and production.
OCWD's Water Resources and Technology (WRT) department will apply
the Proposition 13 funding toward projects designed to support
current and future water reuse programs.
These projects will help enhance
membrane processes to ensure their efficient and cost-effective
operation. Both microfiltration, a pretreatment system for water
purification, and reverse osmosis, used by many bottled water
companies to remove impurities from water, will be examined to study
the fouling that results from purifying wastewater. Fouling is the
deterioration of the membranes during their operation.
A long history of research has been
maintained at OCWD to support the effective management of the
groundwater basin, which provides 75 percent of the water used by
2.2 million people in north and central Orange County.
The Orange County Water District is a
special water agency created by the California Legislature in 1933
to maintain and manage the huge groundwater basin under northern
Orange County. The groundwater basin managed by OCWD supplies 75% of
the water needs to more than 2 million residents.
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Isolates
Flow Disturbances
New VOREL Elbow Eliminates Swirl and
Asymmetrical Flow
San Marcos, CA -- Process engineers
experiencing problems with short runs of piping that cause
cavitation and premature failure of pumps and valves will find the
new VOREL 90o Elbow Flow Conditioner isolates flow disturbances,
reduces swirl and develops a highly symmetrical, repeatable flow
profile with minimal pressure loss at the inlet to their process
equipment.
In
today’s compact plant designs, pumps and valves are required to
operate with inadequate straight runs of pipe upstream of process
equipment mounting locations. This results in swirl, cavitation and
skewed flow profiles prematurely wearing impellors and trim. This
insidious damage results in costly down time of critical process
equipment and soaring maintenance costs.
The VOREL is the simple, cost
effective solution to these unplanned expenses. It replaces the last
pipe elbow upstream of the pump or valve to create a smooth,
symmetrical flow pattern at the inlet. This will extend life and
significantly reduce maintenance costs throughout the plant.
VOREL was developed using the same
tab-type flow conditioning technology as the straight run VORTAB
Flow Conditioners, which have been laboratory proven and
successfully installed in hundreds of plants worldwide. To validate
the new VOREL design - ball valves, gate valves, out of plane and in
plane elbows and swirl generators were installed at the immediate
inlet of the VOREL and tested in state-of-the-art gas, air and
liquid calibration facilities. VOREL isolated flow irregularities
and conditioned the flow stream into a uniform symmetrical velocity
profile in all instances.
Swirl reduction and velocity profile
correction occur naturally in long lengths of straight pipe due to
diffusion and turbulent mixing. VOREL’s anti-swirl and inclined
vortex generating profile correction tabs, projecting from the
inside pipe surface, generate vortices that accelerate and amplify
these natural pipe effects to create a uniform, non swirling,
symmetrical flow profile in a much shorter section of pipe.
The simple, flexible designs of the
new VOREL elbow and VORTAB Insert Sleeve, Short Run, Meter Run and
Field Kit configurations provide a cost effective solution to
compressed installations for pumps, valves and other process
equipment. VOREL and VORTAB provide the most effective flow
disturbance isolation, lowest pressure drops and least affect by
fouling of any of the flow and process conditioner technologies on
the market today.
VOREL and VORTAB process conditioners
can be made from carbon steel, 316 stainless steel or Hastelloy
C-276. A variety of process connections are also available--ANSI
flanges, male NPT threads, butt welded preps or retaining wafers.
The VORTAB Company is a global
supplier committed to meeting the needs of its customers through
innovative solutions to the most challenging requirements for
optimizing the performance of process equipment in gases or liquids.
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Portable Gantry Crane Assembles in
Minutes
Porta-Gantry Cranes are lightweight,
portable and manufactured of an exotic aluminum alloy that is highly
corrosion resistant. This alloy is ideally suited to withstand the
harsh environments found in water and wastewater treatment plants.
Units
can be assembled by one person in a matter of minutes and can be
transported to remote sites in the back of a compact pickup or
standard size van. For heavy lifts a new 2 ton (mini size) is
available. It has a capacity of 4,400 lbs. but only weighs 163 lbs.
assembled. It can be assembled by one person in under ten minutes
without the need for any rigging equipment.
The Porta-Gantry legs can be used
with different beam lengths further increasing the versatility of
the units without incurring major additional costs. Short 6 and 8
ft. beams makes it ideal for working in confined spaces, in basement
pump rooms or on roof tops. 20 ft. beams weighing only 94 lbs. and
rated at 1,100 lbs. makes lifting covers or stretching over wide
openings a reality and not just a possibility.
The Porta-Gantry is a less expensive
and more flexible alternative to "I" beams, monorails,
steel davit arms or cumbersome tripods. One unit can often do an
entire region. All of REID'S products exceed OSHA, State, Federal
and Provincial standards for portable lifting equipment.
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Help
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Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Robert needs help with food
plant BOD reduction:
I work at a food manufacturing plant
which produces fats and oil based products. The current BOD level
allowed by our city treatment is 500 m/l.
We are using flocculent and anionic
coagulant through a DAF system. At present our BOD levels are
running 2,000 to 2,800 m/l. We have determined that the cause of
this is sugar-based products that come from our process area through
cleanup.
I am looking a equipment suppliers
for laboratory sized bio waste treatment. I would like
to start some lab studies on feasibility testing of wastewater.
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Thanks,
Chris Buechler
Process Development Engineer
Intermediates Technical Center
Solutia
PO Box 97
Gonzalez, Florida 32560-0097
Tel 850-968-7428
Fax 850-968-8610
E-mail: crbuec@solutia.com
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This
week's photo is of Aquastore process and emergency water storage
tank installed at a Palatka, Florida wallboard manufacturing plant,
Lafarge Gypsum. The tank 31 feet in diameter and 102 feet tall
and holds 569,000 gallons of water.
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water treatment process, new plant or equipment "action
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Engineer with the ability to work
with municipalities on their stormwater problems and develop
designs, reports, and sewer models; have working knowledge of USEPA
rules for Phase II (small communities) under the NPDES storm water
program; and be able to cultivate successful client relationships
and make presentations to the public. 5+ years of experience
required.
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Membrane
water purification systems, the same used by many bottled water
companies, are the future of water purification technologies around
the globe. As OCWD strives to meet the increasing water demands of
north and central Orange County, membrane treatment systems will
continue to play a major role in water purification and production.
OCWD's Water Resources and Technology (WRT) department will apply
the Proposition 13 funding toward projects designed to support
current and future water reuse programs.
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