Viewpoint

• Election, Economy and the Environment
  Housing starts having slipped followed by the sub-prime mortgage folly and seesawing stock indexes and interest rates may make 2008 a tumultuous year economically ...

Case Study

• Saving Energy through Boiler Water Treatment
  Canada’s largest carpet maker, Beaulieu, turns to purified tannin-based chemical additives from Servivap to improve boiler efficiency, reduce corrosion.
• Ohio Frozen Pizza Plant Initiative Enhances the Environment
  • General Mills, GE Water & Process Technologies Find Alternative to Dissolved Air Flotation an Innovative Treatment Solution for Difficult Surface Water

Environmental Compliance

• Watershed-Based Permitting Continues Evolving
  In Industrial WaterWorld’s September/October 2007 issue, I discussed how water quality trading began gaining traction at the EPA.

Regulatory Report

• Superfund, Climate Change, Infrastructure & Revenue Shortfalls Top Concerns
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency quit talks with Dow Chemical Co. aimed at a study and interim cleanup of dioxin contamination...

Investor Index

• Industrial Water Use and Sustainable Development
  Sustainable development is moving higher on the priority list of companies, regulators and activists.

Executive Corner

• Eckenfelder on the Evolution of ‘Bugs’
  At a luncheon in Providence, RI, last summer, over 100 people rose to applaud the career of Dr. Wes Eckenfelder Jr. after an amusing, anectdote-filled keynote given from the...

Pump It Up

• Water Use Reductions and the Cost Savings
  Savings with water use reductions can be huge. And, today, especially in the Atlanta area where drought recently left reservoirs high and dry, water is precious and should be conserved everywhere.

Trends & Technology

• Current Market Outlook and Opportunities Good for Ultra-Pure Water
  The ultra-pure water (UPW) generation process is a series of unit operations designed to remove contaminants from water to achieve an ultra-pure level.
• A Reliable Technology for Production of Pyrogen-Free Water
  Up to a few years ago, the European Pharmacopoeia still insisted pyrogen-free water be produced by distillation.

• Power Plant Co-Location Reduces Desalination Costs, Environmental Impacts
  Two key historical barriers for wider implementation of seawater desalination are water production costs and environmental impact of the plant concentrate.

New Products

• New Products
  A datasheet is now available for the new ADS Spider™, a “place-anywhere” alarm monitoring system with optional battery pack ...

Showcase

• Product Showcase
  The first in a new series of chemical analyzers from ABB, the Navigator 600 Silica analyzer uses a fourth of the reagents consumed by units from other manufacturers.

Water Briefs

• Water Briefs
  Bayer-spinoff Lanxess AG announced will cease production of ion exchange resins and related products at its U.

New Literature

• New Literature
  The new “Water Treatment Selection Guide: Industrial Biocides” from Alco Chemical delivers concise information on the company’s full range of dithiocarbamates...