Table of Contents
WaterWorld
09/01/2005
Volume 5, Issue 5
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Columns
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After Katrina with ITT Royce Technologies’ Jim Dartez
A year ago, Jim Dartez, general manager of ITT Sanitaire’s Royce Technologies, hosted a group of journalists at The Plimsoll Club high atop New Orleans’ World Trade Center during WEFTEC.
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Clean Water Challenges Abound for Industry
Water Quality Standards (WQS) are the foundation for water quality pollution control under the Clean Water Act.
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Power Plants, Cooling Towers & Chlorination - Preventing Biofouling
Cooling water towers, especially during higher temperatures, are susceptible to the growth of algae and slime.
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Stay Cool: Study Your Chemistry?
A cooling tower is something most plant personnel take for granted. The tower system produces a steady flow of plant water that’s continuously recycled with a minimum amount of bother and expense.
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Water Investments: Demand Begins to Outstrip Supply
Investor interest in the water industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, but the availability of attractive investment vehicles continue to decline - as more and more of the publicly traded water companies are snapped up by well-heeled and hungry corporate acquirers.
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Zero-Sludge Treatment of Industrial Wastewater By Ken Norcross
Industrial wastewater treatment is an unusual engineering challenge. Where else in industry are the designers asked to provide a process that will produce a very high level of efficiency and reliability while being given an unpredictable, inconsistent and highly variable raw material with which to work? This conundrum is further compounded if, as is often the case, the waste is highly concentrated, high in salts or hot.
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After Katrina with ITT Royce Technologies’ Jim Dartez
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Features
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Are Ball Valves the Best Choice? - Not Necessarily
The ball valve has been a mainstay of industrial water treatment for 50 years. Originally invented for use in firefighting systems aboard U.
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Don’t Let Valves Come Between You and Accurate Flow Measurement
Getting valves and flow meters to work together is sometimes a challenging task within industrial water and wastewater applications.
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Filter Operation Enhancement with ClO2
Side-stream filtration offers many benefits in cooling tower operation. In a recent report -“Cooling Tower Side-stream Filtration 101,” published in CTI Journal in 2004 - a number of benefits of use of side-stream filtration were described.
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Three Examples:Rising Needs for Stormwater Management Systems
Cities nationwide find stormwater relief with temporary and permanent pumping systems to combat flooding, erosion and water quality degradation.
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Are Ball Valves the Best Choice? - Not Necessarily
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News Briefs
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Water Briefs
Hach Homeland Security Technologies division's Event Monitor Trigger System has been recognized as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of 2005...
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Water Briefs
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Viewpoint
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Fables of the Reconstruction
With a storm surge 80 miles wide and 30 feet high - and post-hurricane flooding inundating New Orleans after levees broke there, Katrina changed everything - much like 9/11 - when it hit the Gulf Coast on Aug.
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Fables of the Reconstruction
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New Products
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Product Showcase
With its rugged NSF-approved epoxy liner that also provides electrical insulating properties, the Ultra Mag® flowmeter from McCrometer combines flow measurement accuracy in liquids, slurries and sludge with low maintenance and long-life.
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New products
ALL-FLO Pump introduces Solenoid Control for air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps.
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Product Showcase
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Product & Services Features
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WATER SAMPLING & MONITORING SYSTEMS
Hach introduces the new DR 5000 Spectrophotometer and TNTplus™ barcoded reagents for streamlined laboratory analysis.
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COOLING WATER TREATMENT
Santa Barbara Control Systems offers the Chemtrol® CT Series controllers for cooling towers, boilers and other industrial applications.
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PRODUCTS Preview
Optimizing pretreatment systems (clarifiers, filters, etc.) is the key to maintaining performance of downstream equipment such as reverse osmosis, demineralizers, and boilers.
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WATER SAMPLING & MONITORING SYSTEMS
TODAY'S HEADLINES
Stormwater technology helps clean up Malaysia riverHydro International's Downstream Defender vortex separator, a stormwater technology, is helping to clean up Kuala Lumpur, a river system in Malaysia. |
German dewatering technology company acquired by XylemPollmann Pumpen Ltd has been acquired by Xylem Inc. for $3 million to expand dewatering business across Europe. |
New AMR/AMI infrastructure changes the way utilities do business, finds new studyA new Sensus white paper has found that new AMR/AMI innovations and infrastructure has improved utility savings and operations. |
PlayPump built at African school in new clean water initiativeA PlayPump has been built at Tshwarelela Primary School in Kimberley, South Africa, in a collaboration between Itron and Sol Plaatje Municipality. |
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