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Remote site data transmission
Active mixing solves problems
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IT-based automation
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By reducing source-water requirements,
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As a government-regulated system,
removal
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stringent than those imposed for reuse. Violations of discharge requirements can result
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Possible Treatment
Processes
Reuse treatments found in the food & beverage industry may be biological, as with use of a
batch reactor or bioreactor, or may involve disinfection, using chlorine, UV or ozone based
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Stratification is forestalled
because inflow water circulates
through the entire tank, moving
what's at the bottom to the top.
Insufficient mixing allows water to thermally stratify within a tank. During freezing
weather, temperatures in the lower portion
tures in the tank decline with increasing elevation until ice forms
residual.
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the densest layers are, and transports it to the top of the tank.
Soon, temperatures are nearly identical throughout the tank and
ice cannot form.
Craft says Lyons uses the mixer year-around to combat problems from water stratification. Pulling water right off the tank floor
ensures the most efficient mixing of important boundary layers
without disturbing the sediment providing uniform distribution of disinfectant and uniform water age, as well as preventing
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water.
Floatable solids do so because their
weight by volume is less than that of water.
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News in brief
Experts call for review of US
drinking water standards
The U.S. EPA should review its standards
on secondary drinking water contaminants,
according to a paper published in the
American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Authors Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil
and environmental engineering at Virginia
Tech, and Gary A. Burlingame, director
of the Philadelphia Water Department's
Bureau of Laboratory Services, said that
a variety of factors could change consumer perceptions of drinking water quality,
including California's drought conditions,
the increase in hydraulic fracturing and
the country's aging infrastructure of rusty,
degrading pipes.
Dietrich and Burlingame argued that
these and other developments mean that
a critical review and rethink is needed concerning the EPA's secondary standards in
order to maintain consumers' confidence in
tap water as well as in its sensory quality.
These "secondary maximum contaminant
levels" cover substances including aluminum, chloride, copper, fluoride, foaming
agents, iron, manganese, silver, sulfate,
total dissolved solids and zinc, as well as
the water's color, odor, pH and corrosivity.
Research by Dietrich and Burlingame
suggests that the current standards for
chloride, copper, iron and manganese
are too high to minimize sensory effects.
Furthermore, they said, the standards
for corrosivity and foaming agents "may
be outdated" and the standard for odor
"requires rethinking as the test does not
correlate with consumer complaints."
Episodes that negatively impact consumer confidence and perception of tap water
still occur and may increase, yet secondary maximum contaminant levels are not
monitored or enforced nationally. As a
human waste is entering and being discharged from the city's stormwater system.
Fort Smith will also pay a $300,000 civil
penalty and will spend $400,000 on a program to help low-income areas of the city
repair and replace privately-owned portions
of the sewer network.
According to the EPA, this settlement
agreement will substantially reduce the
number of sewage discharges and improve
water quality. It will cut discharges of 3,492
pounds of total suspended solids, 3,343
pounds of biological oxygen demand, 543
pounds of nitrogen and 78 pounds of phosphorus from the Fort Smith sewage system
each year.
High levels of these pollutants can
reduce oxygen levels in water bodies,
threatening the health of aquatic plants and
animals, for example by causing excessive
algae growth.
"It is clear that current production methods are unsustainable and there are
genuine risks of food shortages, rising food
prices, droughts and social unrest for future
generations unless we make more efficient
use of water," he added.
By 2050 around two-thirds of the
world's population will be living in "water
scarce" areas, compared to just seven
percent at present.
IChemE is calling for a global target
to cut the amount of water used in food
production worldwide by 20 percent.
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