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- Envirogen Wins $1.6 Million Wastewater Treatment Order
- Blue Heron Settles NEDC Lawsuit
- Top Picks at Amazon.com
- Ask Tom! Column!
- Emcore Purchases Fluoride & Arsenic WWT System
- Water and Wastewater.com had over 25,000+ visitors in April!
- Model P53 pH/ORP Analyzer Abundant in Features
- Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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Membrane
Biological Reactor
Envirogen Wins $1.6
Million Wastewater Treatment Order
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., May 30
/PRNewswire/ -- Envirogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENVG) announced receipt of
a $1.6 million order for a membrane biological reactor (MBR) to
treat wastewater from the Aerojet Fine Chemicals production facility
located in Rancho Cordova, California. Envirogen is responsible for
initial treatability work through full design and reactor
construction and start-up.
Robert
S. Hillas, president and chief executive officer of Envirogen,
observed, "This order further confirms our assertion that
Envirogen's MBR's are ideally suited to meet the requirements of
fine chemical batch manufacturing plants. The MBR maintains a high
biomass concentration that matches well with batch chemical
production processes. Furthermore, the EPA's Effluent Treatment
Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing issued in September 1998
identify advanced biological treatment as a preferred means of
wastewater treatment.
"The high biomass concentration
facilitated by the MBR yields unusually high destruction
efficiencies, even for recalcitrant compounds, and is tolerant of
changing influent streams resulting from batch processing
operations. Given the variability of the production process, a key
factor in the selection of Envirogen for this order was the ongoing
support that Envirogen can supply the customer to determine how to
biologically treat new chemical compounds before they enter the
wastewater stream."
Envirogen is a broad-based
environmental systems and services company providing its customers
with the maximum benefit per dollar spent for environmental
protection. Through the application of its industry leading
technologies, Envirogen provides cost-effective means to remove
pollution from the air, water and soil.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 29 /PRNewswire/
-- Blue Heron Paper Company has entered into a settlement of the
lawsuit brought by the Northwest Environmental Defense Center and
Willamette Riverkeepers. The lawsuit, brought under the Clean Water
Act, concerned the temperature of Blue Heron's wastewater. In
response to the legal challenge, Blue Heron worked with the Oregon
Department of Environmental Quality to accelerate the renewal, and
necessary modifications, of its permit, which had been pending since
1997.
As part of the settlement, Blue Heron
has agreed to accept a new permit from DEQ that will require it to
make unprecedented reductions in the amount of heat it discharges.
The new permit also will require Blue Heron to reduce the turbidity
of its discharges. The permit will impose a variety of other
requirements much stricter than the prior permit. New permit
conditions include requirements to conduct studies to determine the
potential impacts of the discharges and to find additional ways to
reduce heat and turbidity. Along with accepting the new permit, Blue
Heron also committed to assist in a river restoration project and to
pay an undisclosed amount to the plaintiffs.
Over the past year, Blue Heron has
vigorously resisted NEDC and Riverkeepers' allegations and has
denied any violations. "We simply determined that settling the
lawsuit on these terms is more efficient than litigating," said
Blue Heron president, Mike Siebers. "Trying to get this new
permit has been a long, tedious and expensive process for our small,
employee-owned Company. We've been the first facility to have to
address Oregon's new temperature rules. Blue Heron remains committed
to do its part to improve the health of the Willamette River while
maintaining a competitive business. We owe that to all our employees
and the community. At this point, the most important thing for us is
to get the new permit in place and to make sure our future spending
goes to real environmental improvements, not to attorneys."
Blue Heron makes high quality
newsprint and specialty paper products primarily from recycled
newspapers and magazines. It produces approximately 220,000 tons of
paper per year and employs 250 people. Last May, Blue Heron
purchased the historic Oregon City Mill from Smurfit Newsprint
Corporation. NEDC's claims predate Blue Heron's acquisition of the
mill.
SOURCE: Blue Heron Paper Company
The
Reading Room
Top Picks at Amazon.com
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"...this book is a fantastic resource, for both teaching
and design purposes"
"Practicing engineers
will find the book especially useful for accurate, direct
advice on designing batch and fixed-bed adsorption systems.
Contaminant removal will be an ever-present challenge to
environmental engineers."
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!
WE NEED YOUR GUEST ARTICLES
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Column.
For more information, please contact Tom Keenan
at: info@nesa.ie
Arsenic
Removal
Emcore Purchases
Fluoride & Arsenic WWT System
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--May 30, 2001--Microbar, the leading independent supplier of
chemical management systems to the global semiconductor industry,
today announced that EMCORE has purchased its second EnChem(TM)
wastewater system to remove both fluoride and arsenic in its process
waste streams.
"This
repeat order from EMCORE validates the technology, performance
capabilities and value that our EnChem(TM) system provides our
customers," said Bob MacKnight, president of Microbar. "We
are excited that EMCORE has chosen our wastewater treatment
technology to meet their growing fab needs."
David Aigner, Director of Facilities
for EMCORE's Albuquerque, N.M. operations noted, "The
technology offered by Microbar EnChem(TM) for wastewater treatment,
which allows for the continuous removal and remediation of
constituents from process effluent, enables EMCORE to safely conduct
its operations uninterrupted. The EnChem(TM) system meets both our
expectations and operational specifications."
Due to the explosion of communication
and optical applications utilizing gallium arsenide and more
stringent government regulatory requirements concerning arsenic,
conventional wastewater treatment technology is facing new
challenges. The EnChem(TM) wastewater treatment system employs
innovative technology in a unique configuration to deliver
performance levels for both current and envisioned regulatory
requirements. The EnChem(TM) system is not only scalable to meet
future volume increases, but also adaptable enough to meet changing
process requirements. In addition, the EnChem(TM) system provides
lower cost of ownership through a fully automated control system and
by achieving performance levels that enable customers to reuse and
recycle their water. Leading edge technology silicon and compound
semiconductor facilities across the country employ the EnChem(TM)
wastewater treatment system.
About Microbar
Founded in 1991, Microbar
Incorporated is the leading provider of chemical management
solutions for top-tier semiconductor companies. Microbar's solutions
address the growing critical needs of advanced chemical delivery and
management by providing a complete delivery approach that ensures
on-wafer results, by preserving all process chemistry constituents
from supplier to final point-of-use. Core product areas include
photolithography, CMP, low-k, and copper electroplating processes.
Microbar also offers a unique low-pressure wastewater technology,
known as EnChem, to meet the requirements presented by CMP, copper
and HF processes. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Microbar is a
privately held, venture backed company that has maintained a greater
than 50 percent CAGR for the past seven years.
For more information contact:
Microbar Incorporated
Hulon Robertson, 408/542-9083
Fax: 408/541-9158 Hrobertson@microbar.com
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Easy-to-Use
Analyzer
Model P53 pH/ORP
Analyzer Abundant in Features
Milwaukee, WI - GLI International, Inc.
- The Model P53 pH/ORP Analyzer from GLI is a compact, full-featured
yet easy-to-use analyzer. It offers benefits usually found in
only larger, more expensive analyzers.
The
Model P53 can accept many different types of pH/ORP sensors: GLl
Differential sensors, conventional electrode pairs or standard
combination electrodes. Its large backlit LCD displays the
measured pH, process temperature, and two analog output values.
Menu screens contain up to six full lines of text to logically guide
the user through setup, calibration, and operation. Its
powerful firmware provides multi-language operation including
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Each isolated analog output is 4-20
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mounting. The P53 also exceeds U.S. and European standards for
EMI and RFI.
For more information contact:
Mr. Tim
Schilz
Manager of Marketing GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
P.O. Box 245022
Milwaukee, WI 53224
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in his WWTP clarifiers
This rampant growth of
thread-filamentous type algae is interfering with equipment and
water quality. Any suggestions for control? Will chlorine work?
Rather not use Copper sulfate. 4MGD Extended aeration mostly chicken
processing plant waste. Use MgOH for alkalinity (nitrogen removal).
I was wondering what methods were
available for reducing Ni and Pb levels in a metal hydroxide sludge.
The sludge itself is defined as a solid waste, from a belt filter
press device in a steel-making plant. I have looked at plenty of
info regarding metal reduction from wastewaters and effluents, but
not necessarily solid sludges.
If anyone has any ideas on the methods available, the costs
involved, the levels of reduction, etc., I would be most grateful.
This week's photo featured on our
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Robert
S. Hillas, president and chief executive officer of Envirogen,
observed, "This order further confirms our assertion that
Envirogen's MBR's are ideally suited to meet the requirements of
fine chemical batch manufacturing plants. The MBR maintains a high
biomass concentration that matches well with batch chemical
production processes. Furthermore, the EPA's Effluent Treatment
Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing issued in September 1998
identify advanced biological treatment as a preferred means of
wastewater treatment.
"...this book is a fantastic resource, for both teaching
and design purposes"
The
Model P53 can accept many different types of pH/ORP sensors: GLl
Differential sensors, conventional electrode pairs or standard
combination electrodes. Its large backlit LCD displays the
measured pH, process temperature, and two analog output values.
Menu screens contain up to six full lines of text to logically guide
the user through setup, calibration, and operation. Its
powerful firmware provides multi-language operation including
standard: English, French, German or Spanish.