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"Compete
More Effectively Worldwide"
Headworks Inks Deal to
Acquire Mahr Screens
HOUSTON, Texas - Headworks Inc., a
leader in the water and wastewater equipment manufacturing industry,
announced today that it acquired the worldwide screening and
screenings handling operations of Mahr Maschinenbau GmbH, of Vienna,
Austria. Mahr Maschinenbau is a third generation water and
wastewater company with strong market penetration in Europe, the Far
East, and southern Africa .
"This
acquisition is in step with our vision to take Headworks global with
the finest technology available. Headworks now has the ability to
compete more effectively worldwide," said Michele LaNoue,
Headworks' president.
President of Mahr Maschinenbau,
Gernot Mahr said, "After carefully considering other offers,
Headworks was the clear choice. It is a growing company and market
leader, with superior quality control and customer service. I am
confident that Headworks will maintain the high standards of
Austrian workmanship that my family strived to develop in our 75
year history."
Mahr will assume the role of
consultant, introducing Headworks into his existing client base.
Plans are underway to consolidate and expand market presence in
areas either not currently served or that need further development.
Headworks has been marketing the Mahr
Bar Screen in North and South America for eight years. They recently
gained international attention with the announcement that they had
been chosen to fulfill one of the largest screening contracts ever
awarded to supply 22 wastewater screens as part of the fulfillment
of "Contract 4" of the George W. Kuhn Drain improvements
project in Southeast Michigan.
For more information contact: Headworks Inc.
11011 Richmond, Suite 900
Houston, Texas 77042
Phone: 713.647.6667
Fax: 713.647.0999
E-mail: hw@headworksusa.com Web site: http://www.headworksusa.com/
Reduced
Water Consumption by 20-25%
Carolina Turkeys Reduces Water
Consumption
MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 5
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carolina Turkeys became the first turkey
processor to take advantage of the financial and resource savings
made possible by BOC's innovative Macron Loop Process Water Resource
System. The patented, ozone-based system, which has been used
primarily in U.S. broiler plants since its introduction in 1999, can
reduce turkey processor water consumption by millions of gallons per
month, saving customers tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Availability
of water used in the poultry and turkey processing industries has
become a major problem. The cost of incoming water has risen along
with the cost of discharging water. Even when water resources are
available, the public demands that companies exercise proper
stewardship of limited resources. At the same time, stricter food
safety regulations have resulted in a dramatic increase in the
amount of process water consumed in U.S. poultry plants.
Mike Bliss Vice President of
Operations, Carolina Turkeys, states, "We were exceeding our
hydraulic loading levels and needed to find ways to reduce water use
without sacrificing the food safety benefits that bird washing
provides. After looking at different systems, we decided to turn to
the Macron Loop for assistance. Today through improved management
practices and the installation of a water re-use system, we have
reduced our water consumption by 20 to 25 percent, while maintaining
our high standards of food safety."
Carolina Turkeys installed and
commissioned the Macron Loop system at its Mount Olive, North
Carolina plant during the fall of 2001.
"The Macron Loop Process Water
Reuse System can reduce water consumption by anywhere from 4 million
to 12 million gallons each month," says Randy Cable, sales
manager BOC SafeQuest. "Tangible benefits to the customer
include easier compliance with food safety regulations, and savings
throughout the processing system as a result of reduced water
use."
The Macron Loop system relies
primarily on ozone for disinfecting process water. The process water
is passed through a proprietary filtration system that eliminates
solid contaminates as small as 25 microns. The filters also remove
particulates, fats, oils, grease and foam.
Ozone is one of the world's most
powerful oxidants. It is more effective, and more environmentally
friendly than chlorine and other oxidants in sterilizing water, and
it kills microorganisms such as E. coli and salmonella much faster,
without leaving harmful by-products. It is used to disinfect potable
and bottled water as well as wastewater streams.
A recent Food and Drug Administration
ruling that allows ozone for use as an anti-microbial agent in
direct contact with food also enhances the performance and benefits
of technologies like the Macron Process Water Reuse System. It
allows BOC to introduce ozonated water directly onto carcasses
during the washing and chilling processes to increase the
technology's anti-microbial efficacy.
The Macron Loop Process Water Reuse
System comes complete with an on-site ozone generator and oxygen
vessel for the production of ozone from oxygen, which is far
simpler, more efficient and less costly than generating ozone from
air.
The BOC Group, the worldwide
industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services
company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It
employs some 43,000 people and had annual sales over $6 billion in
2001. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the
Internet at http://www.boc.com.
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+86
Million Gallons Per Day
USFilter Receives Contract For
Largest Microfiltration Plant
High-Technology Plant Leads Southern
Calif. Water District into the Future of Water Reclamation
PALM DESERT, Calif., March 4, 2002
– USFilter reached a significant milestone in membrane filtration
technology last week when it received a contract to provide the
largest microfiltration plant in the world for the Orange County
Water District (OCWD) and the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD)
in Fountain Valley, Calif.
The
$25 million Memcor continuous microfiltration – submerged (CMF-S)
system will be a crucial part of an advanced water reclamation
project. The CMF-S system will draw secondary wastewater from the
nearby sanitation district and inject it into deep groundwater
aquifers to prevent seawater intrusion. When the plant is
commissioned in 2004, the 86.7-million gallon per day (mgd) unit
will produce enough water to fill over 1000 Olympic size swimming
pools everyday.
Located in an arid region where water
resources are precious, the OCWD currently purchases imported water
from the Colorado River and the State Water Project. The high costs
associated with imported water, combined with an increasing
population that is expected to reach 2.8 million by 2020, drove the
OCWD to consider a more reliable, cost-effective water treatment
system.
Tom Dawes, program director for the
project, explained that the microfiltration system offered by
USFilter would allow the district to effectively manage its water
resources with little or no increase in cost. In addition, it can
employ a new water source that is completely independent of the
imported water.
“This is a big step for Orange
County: high-quality, dependable water processed with half the
energy that it takes to import the water. This is a big energy
savings for California,” said Dawes.
Based on a 25-year life cycle,
USFilter’s CMF-S system offered the lowest capital and operating
costs evaluated by the district’s consulting engineers. When asked
why the OCWD chose USFilter’s microfiltration equipment, Dawes
explained that, “USFilter is the leader in the business.”
“We tested every microfiltration
system over the last six years, and we qualified USFilter as one of
the suppliers that could meet our needs for the life cycle of the
membranes. Then, we went into negotiations, and USFilter came out
the winner,” said Dawes.
In 1997, the water and sanitation
districts of Orange County formed the Groundwater Replenishment (GWR)
system, a joint project specifically created to purify highly
treated secondary wastewater currently released into the ocean. The
GWR System will process the wastewater through an intricate membrane
treatment plant to be constructed on the Fountain Valley water
campus, occupied by both Orange County’s water district and sewer
district. The treatment plant will include the CMF-S microfiltration
unit, reverse osmosis system, and ultraviolet disinfection
equipment, as well as supplementary pumping, power and chemical
facilities.
USFilter’s CMF-S system will purify
the water to levels that surpass drinking water standards, and be
injected into the local groundwater basin to prevent seawater
intrusion. The remaining water not directly injected into the basin
will be introduced into a groundwater aquifer through the district’s
Santa Ana River percolation basins, located in the cities of Anaheim
and Orange.
In the fall of 2002, USFilter will
begin its first stage of construction of a temporary CMF-S system
that will process 6.7-mgd. This system will be incorporated into an
80-mgd permanent system that will produce a total of 86.7-mgd of
microfiltered water.
Currently, the OCWD employs an
existing 8-mgd lime clarification system that serves as pretreatment
to a reverse osmosis unit. The 6.7-mgd CMF-S unit will replace this
existing system.
Dawes explained the significance of
the new treatment plant. “The largest microfiltration plant in the
world is going to make Orange County the world leader in water
reclamation.”
With the addition of the award for
the GWR System, USFilter continues to be the leader in
microfiltration and has developed a number of technologies as a
result to help municipalities treat water and wastewater with
membrane filtration. Technologies such as pretreatment,
microfiltration and reverse osmosis for instance, help provide safe
drinking water and water for reuse, recycle and recharge.
USFilter’s cutting edge membrane
technologies and research for products like the CMF-S help
communities across the country provide cost-effective high quality
water treatment. For example, commissioning is underway for a Memcor
CMF-S system at the Sandhurst Water Treatment Plant in Victoria,
southeast Australia. This system will produce 33-mgd of drinking
water for the Coliban Water Authority and when employed will be the
largest microfiltration plant in the world.
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Cost
Effective Monitoring
Monitoring-Reporting
System for Wastewater Applications
ASTON, Pennsylvania - Phonetics,
Inc., a pioneer in autodialers and monitoring equipment, announced
that its Sensaphone 2000 monitoring-reporting technology provides
water, wastewater, and environmental remediation facility managers
with cost-effective monitoring and control options. The system,
capable of safeguarding facilities 24 hours a day, can help
companies save thousands of dollars by avoiding dangerous conditions
and costly downtime.
The Sensaphone 2000 monitors pressure
transducers, flow meters, water levels, timers, temperature, power
failure, and alarms at water and wastewater treatment plants; as
well as pumping stations, operating equipment, labs, and office
facilities. The system provides options that include data logging,
downloadable event logging, graphing, and polling. It can monitor
flow meters in real-time graphical form using bars, gauge, or
contact status forms. Users are immediately notified about
environmental changes and alarm conditions to help minimize
contamination, overflow, and expensive repairs.
The Sensaphone 2000 system minimizes
contamination, overflow, and costly repairs by monitoring
environmental conditions at water/wastewater facilities. The
Sensaphone 2000 reporting and monitoring capabilities also provide
great flexibility - allowing users to receive notification of
problems and solicit reports from any location at any time. The
system can issue data reports and alarm messages via any combination
of phone, fax, pager, or e-mail. In addition, the Sensaphone 2000
collects, stores, and sends data from industrial controllers, chart
recorders, and network servers for real-time reporting.
"The Sensaphone 2000 system can
pay for itself in reduced downtime and repair costs with its first
alert call," said Pete Ferry, Technical Service Supervisor.
"And, the systems are designed for the user's convenience. With
its feature-rich capabilities, such as extensive data-logging and
flexible dial-out, Sensaphone 2000 automates and simplifies many
activities and improves overall operations."
About Sensaphone 2000
Sensaphone 2000 can report on up to
eight remote, analog or digital conditions, including room
temperature, outside temperature, humidity, tank levels, tank
temperature, pressure, flow rates, flooding, and HVAC controllers,
plus power failure. It can be programmed to communicate with up to
32 destinations to deliver alarm messages or status reports in
real-time, and user programmability allows customization. Sensaphone
2000 also has extensive built-in data-logging features capable of
storing up to 32,000 records. It has the most flexible dial-out
capabilities of all Sensaphone models - from any combination of
telephone, fax, pager, or e-mail. Plus, alarm and critical data
point information is automatically formatted into a Web page and
uploaded to a specific Web site for online access.
About Phonetics, Inc.
Phonetics, Inc. is a pioneer in
autodialers and remains at the forefront of design, setting industry
standards for advancements in technology. Its family of Sensaphone®
products is a comprehensive line of feature-rich, flexible
autodialer technology for monitoring equipment, safeguarding
property, and reporting critical data. Phonetics serves a variety of
applications/industries, including telecommunications, computer
rooms, oil & gas, water/wastewater, HVAC & refrigeration,
science/health labs, agriculture, greenhouses, vacation homes, and
wine cellars & humidors.
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Biddle need help with
instrumentation:
In an effort to cut costs, we are
gradually reducing the manning levels, particularly at our small
rural wastewater treatment works. To compensate, we are considering
adding instruments to monitor critical parameters and linking these
via telemetry to a regional control center. Instruments would
include:
- sludge blanket detectors,
- turbidity monitors
- final effluent ammonia and phosphate monitors.
Does anyone have experience of
long-term field reliability of these instruments and whether they
have been effective at detecting process failures. I am concerned
that spurious alarm signals might lead to the instruments being
ignored, then they won't be maintained, and we will have wasted
money!!
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I have a farm and the problem that I
am facing is the Green Houses air/water cooling cartridge got
blocked with sulfate as it is 2000 PPM in the feed brackish water
out of 5000 ppm total TDS . Is there any system can remove sulfate
before it reach the cartridge system. I am thinking of hexa met
phosphate as a solution (coagulant tank). Could you advise please .
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This
week's photo is of installation of
a C. W. Neal baffle at the Delhi, CA waste water treatment
plant. Note the gap at the floor, this allows a regulated 4"
flow at the base only. Also the center of this baffle raises to
allow the floor to be mucked out.
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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.
Canal Winchester, a rapidly growing,
central Ohio community of app, 5,000 people is seeking a plant
operator for its Water Treatment Plant and distribution system.
Applicants are desired to possess a
minimum of an Ohio Class I Water license or have the ability to
obtain license within 18 months of hire. A valid Ohio driver's
license with an acceptable driving record is required, and must have
the ability to obtain an Ohio Class B CDL within 6 months of hire.
Salary will start at $11.98/hr. with
a complete family benefit package. Please submit your resume or
application to:
Village of Canal Winchester
Attention: Dave Riley
36 South High Street, and Canal
Winchester, Ohio 43110
by 4:30p.m. on March 17, 2002.
Resumes may also be E-mailed to driley357@yahoo.com
The Village of Canal Winchester is an
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