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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. 1, November 1, 1999
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
Copyright 1999, Water and Waste Water Dot Com
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We are trying out a new feature, an on-the-fly translator to
translate our web pages into either, French, German or Spanish.
What this service does is take a web page as you see it and
grab the text from the page, translates it from English to
another language and re-inserts the text back into the same
web page. It's quite amazing and we think it might help
some of our visitors understand and navigate our web site
better.
We kindly ask our members who speak or read these languages
to try out this feature on some demo pages we have set up on
our sister web site, Powder and Bulk Dot Com. You can view
them by going to:
Dust Collectors Category, Bridge Page
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Dust Collectors Links Page
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The Translator button is located at the bottom of the page in
the case of the two links pages on dust collectors and in the
navigation bar on the right for the newsletter archive page.
Tell us what you think about this technology by sending me
an email at: jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
EARLY PUBLICATION
We are sending this first newsletter out a bit early this
week as we will be away attending a trade show in Atlanta.
Our normal dispatch will be mid-week with the issue for the
following week.
Thanks, Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Sponsor This Newsletter
> Points of Interest from the Internet
> New High-Output UV System Introduced
> This Weeks Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Gardner Denver Announces Acquisition of Air Relief, Inc.
> We had over 69,000 hits in September!
> 25,000 U.S. Companies Have It - Few People Know What It Is
> New Radium Removal, Ground Water Treatment Facility
> 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
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
We give full credit to contributing authors. If so please send
it to:
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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Sponsors Message
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We would like to welcome a new sponsor to our sister web site,
Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
GEMCO VALVE COMPANY
Gemco is a manufacture of solids and slurry processing valves
and retractable sleeves for the powder and bulk solids industry
since 1930. Solids handling spherical disc valves with pneumatic
or electro-pneumatic positioners for full flow and dribble flow
accurate weighing. Applications for OEMs and end users include
foods, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, minerals plus many more.
For more information contact:
Mr. Jim Lenihan
Gemco Valve Company
301 Smally Avenue
Middlesex, NJ 08846
Telephone (toll-free): 800-654-3626
Telephone (outside US): +1-732-752-7900
Fax: 732-424-2483
mailto:jlenihan@gemcovalve.com
Web site: http://www.gemcovalve.com/
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Points of Interest from the Internet
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A great web site you might want to check out is called Search
Engine Watch. All of us at one time or another use search
engines for finding information on the internet.
Search Engine Watch keeps tabs on the latest developments on
all the major search engines. Take a look and see how yours
rates in the number of pages indexed.
Also for the webmasters, they have a great monthly newsletter
about the latest changes, month-by-month. We read it every month
and love it!
Did you know that Northern Lights is the largest search engine
with over 150 million web pages indexed? Did you know that
there is a new search engine being by Stanford University
called "Google"? You might want to check them both out!
You can visit Search Engine Watch at:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
and Northern Light at:
http://www.northernlight.com/
and finally the new search engine, Google at:
http://www.google.com/
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New High-Output UV System Introduced
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As larger and larger wastewater plants add ultraviolet
disinfection, the demand for a energy efficient ultraviolet
system is of great interest. Infilco Degremont, Inc. introduced
the new Aquaray® 40 HOVLS (High Output Vertical Lamp System).
The lamp quantities are significantly less than those employed
on the low pressure, low intensity systems. They run at much
lower temperatures, use less energy, and reduce the quartz
jacket fouling associated with medium pressure, high intensity
systems.
In addition to utilizing these latest lamp developments, the
Aquaray 40 HOVLS system employs many other operational benefits
and labor saving features.
Aquaray™ HLS Ultraviolet System For the smaller plant with
secondary and tertiary effluent flows up to 4 MGD, the new
Infilco Degremont Aquaray™ HLS ultraviolet system can be
effectively used to disinfect wastewater. The new horizontal
open channel UV systems feature energy efficient electronic
ballasts, lightweight UV lamp modules, standard UL labeled
control enclosures, and a modular design that allows for
easy design, installation and operation.
For more information contact:
Infilco Degremont Inc.
P.O. Box 71390
Richmond, VA 23255-1390
Telephone: 804-756-7600
Fax: 804-756-7830
maito:schrierj@idi-online.com
Web site: http://www.infilcodegremont.com/
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Well we have done it now! We are proudly now Amazon.com
Affiliates for Amazon.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.de
(Germany). We finalized our Amazon.de applications with a
little help from a wonderful, German-speaking employee at
Amazon.com.
Both the UK and German sites can be searched from our search
boxes located in the navigation bar on each web page. Just
type in your keyword or phrase and click...up pops a list of
books meeting your search criteria.
Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Water
Treatment Plant Design"
by ASCE and AWWA
Hard Cover, 1024 pages, 3rd Edition, December 1997
"Wastewater
Microbiology"
(Wiley Series in Ecological and Applied Microbiology)
by Gabriel Bitton
Paperback, 488 pages, May 1994
"Facility
Piping Systems Handbook"
By Michael Frankel
Hard Cover, January 1996
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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Gardner Denver Announces Acquisition of Air Relief, Inc.
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QUINCY, Ill., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Gardner Denver, Inc.
(NYSE: GDI), a leading manufacturer of compressors and blowers
for industrial applications and pumps for petroleum and
industrial markets, reported its acquisition of Air Relief,
Inc. in a cash for stock transaction. Air Relief, located in
Mayfield, Kentucky, is an independent provider of replacement
parts and service for centrifugal compressors. For the year
ended June 30, 1999, Air Relief's revenues were approximately
$11 million.
Ross Centanni, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Gardner Denver, said, "The completion of this acquisition
will speed Gardner Denver's penetration of the centrifugal
compressor market, which we will enter through our recently
executed long-term strategic alliance with Samsung Aerospace
Industrial Co. of South Korea. This alliance provides Gardner
Denver with technology and manufacturing rights of the Samsung
centrifugal compressor for North and South America and Western
European countries. The addition of centrifugal compressors is
a natural extension of our existing reciprocating and rotary
screw compressor products lines.
Air Relief will add key centrifugal compressor engineering,
assembly, sales and service capabilities to enable us to better
support this new product line. We are excited about the
opportunities that the acquisition of Air Relief and alliance
with Samsung present, and look forward to improved compressed
air solutions and services offered for our customers."
For more information contact:
Gardner Denver, Inc.
1800 Gardner Expressway
Quincy, IL 62301
Web site: http://www.gardnerdenver.com/
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25,000 U.S. Companies Have It - Few People Know What It Is
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October 6,1999 (INB) -- U.S. companies are increasingly
recognizing the need to establish ISO 9000 systems. At
present, approximately 1 in 500 U.S. businesses are
registered to ISO 9000. The lengthy list is comprised of
many well-known national firms. It includes Ford Motor
Company, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, and Federal Express
as well as numerous medium to small enterprises.
Surprisingly, the majority of people do not know what ISO
is, much less that these companies have achieved
registration.
ISO 9000 is a management system designed to help companies
produce consistent products and services. There are over
25,000 U.S. companies, and over 270,000 companies worldwide
registered to ISO. Some companies will only do business with
firms that are ISO registered. ISO registration has also
become a requirement for many government contracts. ISO is
the only international standard in the marketplace today.
As ISO has become more popular, many companies have attained
ISO 9000 registration for cost savings and prestige.
According to a survey conducted in conjunction with Dun &
Bradstreet, cost savings range from thousands of dollars per
year to several hundred thousand dollars per year.
Companies often spend thousands to millions of dollars to
become registered. Registration to ISO 9000 is evidence that
these companies are committed to increasing quality,
reducing costs and providing a better product or service.
ISORegistered.com <http://www.ISORegistered.com>
was created
to provide valuable information to quality professionals and
build public awareness about ISO. It is the only worldwide
directory specifically designed and developed to help
registered companies promote their registration, products
and services and to provide a one-stop information resource
on ISO and related standards.
Marci Stell, Marketing Manager for ISORegistered.com, Inc.,
explains ISORegistered.com's main goals: "Our objective is
to contribute timely, useful information about ISO-related
news, as well as guidance to quality professionals on a
constant basis. On even terms, we strive to provide
registered firms with the most highly promoted low-cost
method for marketing their certification, products and
services."
ISORegistered.com can be viewed on the Internet at:
<http://www.isoregistered.com>.
For more information on ISO 9000 and/or ISORegistered.com
contact Darryl Graham please call 1-800-845-0567.
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New Radium Removal, Ground Water Treatment Facility
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Layne Christensen Company announced that its Integrated
Groundwater Services (IGS) division has been awarded a
$2.36 million contract for the design and construction of
two groundwater treatment facilities for the City of Vineland,
New Jersey. This contract will result in the construction of
a 1,400 gpm radium removal facility at Vineland's Well 13 and
a 2,000 gpm facility for removal of both radium and nitrates
at Well 12. Pilot testing to finalize design parameters for
these systems is underway and completion of both facilities
is scheduled for the summer of 2000. Vineland elected to
pursue these projects on a design-build basis due to substantial
time savings over more standard project delivery methods.
Recent water quality testing by the State of New Jersey
detected elevated levels of Radium-224 in numerous wells in
southern and central New Jersey. Radium-224 was not previously
detected in water quality analyses because it has a short
half-life, approximately 3.5 days. Typically, water samples
are held for two weeks or longer prior to testing for
radionuclides. By this time the concentrations of Radium-224
have dissipated.
The City of Vineland reacted quickly issuing a Request for
Qualifications (RFQ) followed by a Request for Proposals from
selected firms. IGS was selected over 10 other firms responding
to the initial RFQ. This project is the first phase of a program
to treat up to 8 wells for radium. The overall project is
estimated at $7.6 million.
Mike Havener, IGS General Manager stated, "This is the first
design-build water treatment project which Layne Christensen
has been awarded since announcing our new Integrated Groundwater
Services initiative. Layne Christensen's substantial reputation
and distribution network is contributing to an increasing
number of requests for design-build turnkey projects that
incorporate our groundwater product lines."
Layne Christensen provides sophisticated services and related
products for the water supply, mineral exploration, geotechnical
construction and environmental markets.
For more information contact
Layne Christensen Company
4446 West 1730 South
P.O. Box 30777
Salt Lake City, UT 84130
Telephone (toll free): 800-453-8418
Telephone outside N. America: 801-974-5544
Fax: 801-972-6769
mailto:info@christensenproducts.com
http://www.christensenproducts.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. Donnelly needs alternate methods for reducing COD:
I am a final year student at the University of Limerick in
Ireland and I am trying to find information on COD reduction
of final effluent streams from industrial wastewater treatment
plants. I already have information on carbon filters but need
to find some alternative methods. Please could you help me.
Kind regards,
Fintan Donnelly
Environmental Science student
mailto:fintandonnelly@hotmail.com
Mr. Randall is looking for flotation clarifier help:
I'm a technical writer documenting the operation of a flotation
water clarifier. I know that the "inputs" are water with
suspended solids, air, a coagulant and a flocculant.
My question is whether there's an ionic attraction between
the air bubbles and the flocculant particulate? If not,
what makes the particulate float to the surface?
W. Randall
mailto:wrandall@ix.netcom.com
Mr. Ha wants help with combined sewer systems:
Hi This is SangSun Ha a graduate school student majoring in
environmental engineering in South Korea. Nowadays I got some
challenge.
My project concerns with combined sewer system, especially
combined sewer overflow regulator facilities. I am correcting
data for it. I found that almost of the installation of Korean
overflow regulator facilities are malfunction.
My professor let me to seek the developed country's situation.
I.e. the type of regulator facilities in accordance with theirs
flow capacity and maintenance method for those. I knew that
there is mainly three type; fixed, semi-auto, automatic.
Please give me an opportunity to study advanced technology of
yours.
PS. If you don't have any related data, can you recommend
some another contact point such as web-address or e-mail
address of an expert in that field.
Thanks for your consideration,
SangSun Ha
mailto:ecoshop@madang.ajou.ac.kr
Mr Lund needs help with a vegetable oil plant:
I am investigating the water treatment problems for a
vegetable oil plant in northern Africa. The water quality
is very poor and creates great operational problems
(plugging) for heat exchangers and other equipment.
A water treatment system is obviously needed, both for
adjusting the pH and for getting rid of particles, humus etc.
Can anyone help me with an appropriate system, alternatives,
equipment, dimensions etc. The treated water consumption
is approximately 100 m3/hr.
Regards,
Per Lund
mailto:plu@ids-group.no
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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If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
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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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We have a new posting from the Job Fair this week:
WATER PLANT OPERATOR
Wanted: Water Plant Operator with the Town of Long View, NC.
Must possess N.C. C-surface certification or higher. Salary
based on experience and certification.
If interested please contact:
Mr. Mark Hahn
Telephone: 828-322-8021
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