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The
"Fyne" Process
PCI-Water and WoSW
Receive IChemE Award
Membrane filtration specialists
PCI-Water and West of Scotland Water have received a commendation
from the judges in the Water category of the Institute of Chemical
Engineers Safety and Environment Awards presented recently at a
ceremony in London. The award was for a joint venture aimed at
developing technology for the removal of colour from upland surface
waters.
Known
as the 'Fyne' process, the technology uses tubular nanofiltration
(NF) membranes to produce high-quality drinking water. NF membranes
remove organic colour-producing contaminants - mainly humic and
fulvic acids ? from the raw water, thereby preventing the formation
of disinfection by-products such as trihalomethanes. The technology
was developed as a result of field trials conducted in WoSW, using
PCI-Water's expertise in membrane systems.
Tubular membranes ? at the heart of
most Fyne systems, provide significant environmental benefits. Not
only can the membranes accommodate wide varieties in raw water
quality - reducing the need for pre-filtration ? but they can also
be mechanically cleaned, so chemical consumption is minimal and no
chemical sludges are produced. Moreover, high recovery rates ensure
that there is little wastage of feedwater.
Fyne plants are compact, readily
transportable, fully automatic and have low staffing requirements,
so they are ideal for treating surface waters in the isolated rural
communities found in Scotland. At present, 42 membrane filtration
plants are either installed or under construction. In many cases,
Fyne systems have replaced traditional water treatment technology
such as sand filtration and simple chlorination.
PCI Membranes is a Thames Water
business operating through six business units providing a broad
spectrum of filtration technologies and products for liquid
separation applications used in industrial processing and municipal
water industries.
For more information contact:
Ms. Gale Rudd PCI Membranes
Laverstoke Mill,
Whitchurch, Hampshire
RG28 7NR, UK
Tel.: +44 (0) 1256 896966
Fax.: +44 (0) 1256 893835
E-mail: pcimembranes@pcimem.com
Web site: http://www.pcimem.com/
"..Methane
is a free fuel source.."
City of Fort Worth
Turns Waste Into Watts at Wastewater Treatment Plant
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 5
/PRNewswire/ -- The City of Fort Worth's Village Creek Wastewater
Treatment Plant uses a combination of technologies to conserve
electricity, generate power, reduce costs and use fuel and heat
efficiently.
The city burns methane gas produced
during an organic treatment process in two new combustion turbines
to provide about half the electricity needed to operate the plant
around the clock.
The City of Fort Worth and the Texas
Water Development Board (TWDB) collaborated to finance and install
the turbines. The entire project is expected to save the city an
average of about $1 million a year over a 20-year period. TWDB
provided a $9 million low-interest loan to finance the majority of
the $10 million cost of purchasing the turbines and renovating the
building that houses them.
TXU Energy Services, a subsidiary of
global energy services company, TXU (NYSE: TXU), operates and
maintains the twin 5.2-megawatt generators. TXU Energy Services will
also seek additional biogas sources, decide the most cost effective
way to operate the turbines and broker any surplus power back to the
grid. Natural gas is another fuel source option for the turbines.
The cleaner burning turbine
generators replace older, less-efficient internal combustion engines
that had been in operation for 40 years and supplied about 30
percent of the plant's electricity. The combustion turbines are
located in an existing building at the wastewater treatment plant.
"This project makes sense for
the city from both an environmental and business stand point.
Environmentally, the project allows us to have a positive impact on
air quality in the region, which we all know is a prime concern.
Plus, the city can use the air credits from this project as a future
economic development tool. On the business side, the contract saves
the city money. The water department would have had to hire
additional employees and consultants if it had not privatized this
part of its operation. Also, methane is a free fuel source for us,
so it is wise to continue capturing and using it," said Mike
Groomer, Assistant City Manager. "These are the types of
partnership initiatives government and private industry need to
continue pursuing."
Village Creek is one of the few
wastewater treatment plants in the nation able to interconnect with
a transmission system and sell power generated by combustion
turbines back to the local electric service provider. Eventually,
when power demand at the plant is at its lowest, the turbines may
produce enough electricity to sell back into the electrical grid.
A heat recovery system captures
high-temperature exhaust from the turbines to ensure a constant
temperature (95-100 degrees F) for the waste treatment process. It
will also be used to heat the plant's administration building during
the winter.
"Given TXU's experience with
distributed generation projects, we are uniquely qualified to manage
on-site generation systems like the one at Village Creek," said
Dan Reiff, vice president, commercial and industrial, TXU Energy
Services, a competitive subsidiary of TXU. "We're pleased that
we could partner with the City of Fort Worth to operate and maintain
an efficient, environmentally clean energy source. The Village Creek
project is representative of the many innovations that will emerge
when the Texas electric market opens on Jan. 1, 2002."
Village Creek Wastewater treatment
plant, the city's sole sewage treatment facility, is permitted to
treat an average of 166-million gallons per day. All products of the
wastewater process are reused. The water is released into the
Trinity River and flows downstream, where it becomes a drinking
water source for Huntsville, Houston and other communities. The
methane is captured and converted into electricity and the biosolids
are dewatered and applied to allowable agricultural land as
fertilizer.
TXU is a multinational leader in
electric and natural gas services, merchant trading, energy
marketing, telecommunications and other energy- related services.
TXU is one of the largest energy services companies in the world
with more than $25 billion in revenue and $43 billion in assets.
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"Easy-to-Use"
USFILTER’S New Online Configuration
Tool
WHITTIER, Calif., Oct. 8, 2001 –
USFilter said today that a new online sales/service tool, eSELECT,
allows its sales personnel to quickly and accurately configure
standard filtration and oily water treatment systems, resulting in
more precise, simpler and quicker design to delivery of filtration
products for customers. The new site allows sales staff to custom
design a system for unique applications and generate a detailed
proposal over the Internet—streamlining the entire process.
Working with BIGMACHINES, USFilter
has created a catalog of its core products in this powerful
configuration tool. eSELECT guides users through an easy-to-use,
step-by-step selection process, choosing components and options to
create a complete system, all without any engineering support.
Based on the user’s choices, the
eSELECT configuration tool controls the options that are visible and
available for selection. The user is asked about process fluids to
determine materials of construction and establish sizing guidelines;
process flows and pressures to select equipment size and turndown;
and future requirements to ensure expandability is considered.
The result is an accurately
configured system with all the necessary options to take the
customer-specified feed stream and produce the required product
stream. The website also automatically compares different systems,
suggests spare parts and even creates a maintenance/service contract
for the specified system.
For existing users, the eSELECT
website includes a powerful Parts Finder tool that makes identifying
and purchasing replacement parts quick and easy.
“eSELECT is the tool we need to
simplify the configuration process and make it easier for our sales
force and customers to specify and order systems, bringing added
value to our customers,” said Mark Wolf, general manager of
USFilter’s Whittier, Calif. facility.
At the Whittier facility, USFilter
manufactures a complete line of oil / water separation equipment and
Pressure Leaf filtration products used in a variety of industries
including hydrocarbon and chemical processing, food and beverage,
brewing and mining.
USFilter is a Vivendi Water company,
the leading global provider of commercial, industrial, municipal and
residential water and wastewater treatment systems, products and
services, with operations in more than 100 countries. Together,
Vivendi Water, Onyx (solid waste and industrial services), Dalkia
(energy management), and Connex (transportation and logistics)
comprise Vivendi Environnement, the largest environmental services
company in the world with annual revenues of more than $23 billion.
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Powerful
Performance
GLI PRO-Series
Transmitters Debut!
GLI International, Inc. (Milwaukee,
Wisconsin); GLI introduces the PRO-Series line of full-featured,
easy to use, transmitters designed with the cost conscious user in
mind.
These
transmitters measure pH, ORP, contacting and electrode-less
conductivity, dissolved oxygen, or flow measurement parameters. All
PRO-Series transmitters feature panel, wall, pipe, or integral
sensor mount configurations in a compact NEMA 4X package. Multiple
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OEMs and system integrators will
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For more information contact:
Mr. Tim Schilz GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
P.O. Box 245022
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Phone: 414-355-3601
Fax: 414-355-8346
e-mail: info@gliint.com
Website: www.gliint.com
Help
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Mr. Zeper wants help with
declorination:
I have been looking at waste water
dechlorination chemicals and have some questions regarding an SO2
substitute called Calcium Thiosulfate (CaTS) solution. Anyhow, the
stuff seems to offer some safety/environmental benefits
(non-hazardous) beyond using stuff like SO2 and claims it
neutralizes more chlorine on a per mole basis than SO2 - the claim
is about 4 moles of chlorine neutralized per mole of CaTS, versus
the 1 mole per mole from SO2.
However, the stuff is sold in liquid
and appears a lot more expensive to use than SO2. Its sold in 25-30%
solutions, and at about 300/ton; we've seen SO2 pure in cylinders at
about 425/ton. Based on the claimed effectiveness and molecular
weights, I calculate that the CaTS solution would have to be priced
at about 170/ton to be equivalent to the usage cost incurred from
using SO2.
Anyhow, is anybody using this stuff?
Does it work well? Is it fast acting? Is it worth the apparent
premium? Do you have any problems working with it? Any
thoughts/comments would be appreciated. (Click
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