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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 3, November 15, 1999
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Praxiair Trailigaz Wins Big in Vegas!
> German Landfill Selects Leachate Treatment System
> This Weeks Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Remote Control Lagoon Dredging Reduces Labor & Exposure
> We had over 84,000 hits in October!
> Tight Technical Job Market Spurs HR Creativity
> 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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Press releases, show announcements and industry news wanted!
Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
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Praxiair Trailigaz Wins Big in Vegas!
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Two hundred thousand tourists a day thirst for instant wealth
at Las Vegas, Nevada's world-famous casinos. They also help
the 1.2 million local residents consume 110 billion gallons
of drinking water annually from nearby Lake Mead. By the year
2002, that water will be purified with Praxair Trailigaz Ozone
Company's oxygen and ozone generating systems, which will be
installed at the Southern Nevada Water Authority's two
municipal water-treatment plants. Praxair Trailigaz Ozone is
the North American joint venture between Praxair and Trailigaz,
the world's leading supplier of ozone systems.
Signed in August, Praxair Trailigaz Ozone's $13 million contract
with the Southern Nevada Water Authority will be the largest
municipal ozone installation in North America.
"Las Vegas is converting to ozone for water treatment in order
to use less chlorine as a disinfectant, thereby reducing both
the chlorine aftertaste and the potential hazards of on-site
chemical storage," said Stewart Mehlman, president, Praxair
Trailigaz Ozone Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. "Ozone also is more
effective at eliminating organisms, such as cryptosporidium
and giardia, in water, which have been associated with health
problems. And, like many cities in North America, Las Vegas
is preparing for legislative changes that will significantly
limit the levels of chlorinated byproducts caused by disinfection
of drinking water."
Doug Selby, the Southern Nevada Water Authority's director
of engineering, says the use of ozone will maintain the high
quality of Las Vegas' drinking water. "Ozone is an effective
disinfectant and proven killer of water-borne pathogens,"
Selby said. "Ozone use will allow us to meet higher standards
for our customer's." Las Vegas’ Alfred Merritt Smith plant
will be retrofitted with five 4,000-pounds-perday ozone
generators, fed by two 50-tons-per-day oxygen generating systems
using vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) technology.
Startup of the new system is scheduled for June 2000. The new
River Mountains facility will use three 2,000-pounds-perday
ozone generators, each fed by two 25-tons-per-day VPSA plants,
starting in February 2002.
For more information contact:
Praxiair Trailigaz
11501 Goldcoast Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45249
Telephone: 513-530-7702
Fax: 513-530-7711
mailto:ptoc@praxair.com
Web Site:
http://www.praxair.com/
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German Landfill Selects Leachate Treatment System
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HAMBURG, GERMANY --ECO Purification Systems received an order
for the turnkey delivery of an ECOCHOICE catalytic ozonation
installation to treat leachate water from the “Georgeswerder”
landfill in Hamburg, Germany. This installation follows on
the steps of another order for an ECOCHOICE installation at
the Berg Landfill in Germany received last year.
With a design flow of 44 gallons per minute, the ECOCHOICE
system will be capable of reducing Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
from up to 2000 mg/l to 220 mg/l and Absorbable Organic
Halides (AOX) from 2 mg/l to 0.25 mg/l. The installation
will utilize an ozone generator with a capacity of 15.4 lbs.
per hour.
The ECOCHOICE system was selected for its capability to meat
treatment objectives with significant lower ozone consumption,
and therefore operating costs, than conventional ozone/UV
systems that were investigated.
“This installation continues to provide validation that the
ECOCHOICE technology can meet or surpass water treatment
objectives at significantly lower operating costs than other
advanced treatment technologies,” notes John D. Johns,
Director of Market Development for EPS USA.
“In addition to successful landfill leachate treatment,
ECOCHOICE has proven effective at groundwater and industrial
waste water treatment under a variety of operating and
organic load conditions,” he continues.
ECOCHOICE is an advanced oxidation process that has eliminated
the need for UV lights and process chemicals and consumes
significantly less ozone than other ozone based treatment
systems.
ECO Purification Systems has been operating industrial
scale ECOCHOICE Systems since early 1991.
For more information, contact:
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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:
"Bioremediation
Principles"
(McGraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental
Engineering)
by J. Eweis, et al, Hard Cover, 312 pages, March 1998
"Water
Treatment Membrane Processes" (AWWA Research Foundation)
by Peter Odendaal, M. Wiesner and J. Mallevialle (editors)
Hard Cover, August 1996
"Water
Management Models: A Guide to Software"
by Ralph Wurbs & Ernst Wurbs, Paperback, 249 pages, January 1995
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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Remote Control Lagoon Dredging Reduces Labor & Exposure
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Radio Remote Sense™ is the new LWT™ system for complete remote
control of dredging and waste lagoon pumping. Hand held panel
controls dredge from distances of 1100 feet or more. Operator
can move about the site and stay in control of dredging.
Revolving lights on the dredge indicate when auger, pump or
travel motors are running to signal dredge operation and control.
Remote control enhances operator comfort and safety, reduces
labor and increases production.
LWT's "Remote Senses" for total control: Solids Sense™
lets you
set solids density then it continually adjusts to maintain it.
Monitoring the density it can react faster than an operator to
maintain uniform concentration. Bottom Sense™ follows pond
contour and raises the head if bottom is contacted to save pond
liners. Auto Sense™ and Lateral Sense™ complete control of
movement setting limits on the area to be dredged.
Electronic solenoid valves control hydraulic systems on dredges
for travel speed, traversing winch speed, pump speed and depth
of the 4 or 8 foot auger/cutter heads. Hydraulic power gives
soft start/stop, greater control and smooth operation. Pit Hog™
systems automate control of both electric and engine power plants.
LWT manufactures a full line of Pit Hog dredges, submersible
pumps, agitating and cleaning equipment for liquid waste handling.
For more information contact
Liquid Waste Technology, Inc.
422 Main Street
Box 250
Somerset, Wisconsin 54025
Telephone: 715-257-5464
Toll Free: 800-243-1406
Fax: 715-247-3934
mailto:info@lwtpithog.com
Web site: http://www.lwtpithog.com/
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Tight Technical Job Market Spurs HR Creativity
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SYRACUSE, NY - November 9, 1999 (INB) -- Facing a critical
shortage of engineers and technical professionals, more than
40 Upstate New York companies have joined forces to attract
employees. The daVinci Project http://www.daVinciTimes.org
named for Leonardo, artist, inventor and engineer recruits
talent through a collaborative web site, emphasizing the
under-publicized but significant lifestyle benefits and
career opportunities of this region.
The daVinci site http://www.daVinciTimes.org
was named in
the top 50 Best of the Best recruiting sites by
CareerXroads, a leading national career site directory. Job
seekers can post resumes, search more than 250 openings and
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lifestyle, community and technical resource information. In
just over 18 months, the site registered millions of hits,
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The expanding technology sector in Upstate New York is
creating a wealth of technical jobs an estimated
2,000-3,000 openings over the next three years in daVinci
Project companies alone. The consortium allows these
companies to pool resources, offering a diversity of
positions in technical specialties that include electrical,
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RF/microwave and consulting engineering, as well as software
and IT.
The Project's collaborative effort extends beyond the
innovative web site This fall, member businesses will share
recruiting strategies in best of practice seminars, a far
cry from the cutthroat competition for employees more
typical of the high tech arena. And the consortium's
Community Partnerships with academia, economic development
programs and non-profit organizations focus on cultivating
and retaining local engineering talent.
This region is gearing up for the technology renaissance
gaining momentum here. Upstate New York has a rich history
of leading-edge thinking, from the first U.S. engineering
college, to the origins of the women's movement, to the
country's first synthetic penicillin. And it is fitting that
the area's current resurgence includes a state - and
federally - funded revitalization of the Erie Canal the
first implementation of Leonardo's canal lock system design.
The daVinci Project's member companies comprise a broad
spectrum of high technology and range from small start-ups
to multinational industry leaders, such as Carrier, Lockheed
Martin and Philips.
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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.
Ms. Bossert has problems with organic acid:
We are doing a plant profile on organic acid loading through
processes, what are normal loadings for mainly domestic light
industry? Have compared 2 methods of testing. distillation
and the simplified method by Dr. Richards, our results have a
large discrepancy with results. We have had toxicity within
the plant and I think its off the T.F.'s from high organic
acids.
Does anyone know what normal loading should be and the difference
between the 2 methods?
Thanks,
Marie Bossert
mailto:mbossert@ci.yakima.wa.us
Mr. North needs help with runoff:
Looking for simple systems to treat water runoff into storm
drains for a small commercial building (approximate 10,500 sq. ft.
of paved surface).
If anyone has info on where to look, please send info!
Thanks,
R. North
mailto:_rnorth@msn.com
Mr. Guevara needs help with industrial wastewater:
I need to get the following information for using as the
preliminary information for writing a class paper on a
particular critical industrial wastewater.
Could anyone provide me a list of five most critical
industrial waters, prioritically selected based on their
severity of the negative characteristics, and lack of
enough cost- effective treatment processes. (No need to
be very specific; Categorization to the group levels,
such as "Tannery wastes" and "Fertilizer wastes"
is
fairly enough.)
Further, any information on their current treatments &
respective treatment limitations, recent modifications
in these treatments or development of other alternative
(innovative) techniques for such wastes, and pointers
to the literature references (both in web and books) may
reduce my burden a lot in my preliminary selection of
an appropriate waste for detailed study.
Please let me know through to the group or to my
personal e-address,
mailto:cheguevara2@eudoramail.com
Thanks in advance, ciao.
Guevara, S.C.
Mr. Davis wants to get his licence:
I am interested in getting my wastewater 1 certification
and would appreciate any advice on the where's and how's
I would like to do this by correspondence school, if
possible.
Any one have any good referrals or know of a program I
could look into?? I would welcome any leads....
I'm in California
Curt Davis
mailto:papacurtD@hotmail.com
Mr. Zulkifli needs help with worms:
I have been applying a lipase base enzyme at my customer
WWTP to control oil/grease and seems to be okay. Now the
enzyme is introduce based on oil loading continuously.
For the past 2 days I found that there is a lot of small
red colored worms in their secondary aerated pond . My
questions are:
1. What is this small red colored worms? are they dangerous
if discharge to the river?
2. Does this indicate that bug activities at the aerated
lagoon has become out of control?
Please reply by e-mail, Thank you.
Mohd Zulkifli
mailto:matzul@tm.net.my
Mr. Wilson has questions about zeolites:
We are currently testing a custom blend of zeolites for
waste water treatment. Has anyone had experience in this
area? We are also looking for other applications and would
consider testing samples from other sites.
We are willing share the findings with parties interested
in participating in this bench test. Send all replies to me.
All info will be confidential if required.
Don Wilson
President
AquaLite Water Purification Systems
mailto:biotechproducts@home.com
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