INDUSTRIAL WATER ARTICLES

Chemical treatment control helps streamline operations at steel mill

The website home page for Nucor-Crawfordsville reads, "In an old cornfield in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in America's rust belt, a maverick company called Nucor is attempting nothing less than the resurrection of the American dream."

Multi-variable output pressure instrumentation increases process efficiencies for water applications

Multi-variable sensors (with more than one output) offering pressure + temperature, upstream pressure (P) + differential pressure (dP), and upstream liquid or gas temperature + ...

Mine's movable wastewater system helps reduce life-cycle costs

Originally constructed in 1971, the Granduc Copper Mine outside of Stewart, British Columbia, was a mother lode of copper deposits -- producing hundreds of millions of pounds in its heyday.

Stormwater solutions spearhead restoration of rocket testing facility

At Santa Susana, a former rocket engine testing facility in southern California, Boeing is using sophisticated engineered stormwater treatment systems to ensure that rainwater leaving the site exceeds standards for drinking water.

PepsiCo achieves safe water access goal

PepsiCo has announced that the company has achieved its previously stated goal of partnering to provide access to safe water to three million people in developing countries by the end of 2015.

High Efficiency Evaporation Process launched for oil sands wastewater

Aquatech has launched the HEVAP™ high efficiency evaporation process for treating produced water from oil sands thermal processes such as Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)...

Forward Osmosis attracts funding for petrochemical wastewater recycling in Qatar

Oil and gas exploration company ConocoPhillips has secured a $700,000 grant from Qatar Foundation's Qatar National Research Fund to develop an application using Forward Osmosis technology to treat produced wastewater from gas fields in Qatar...

Irish firm secures industrial water reuse contract in Brazil

Water and waste processing company CDEnviro has secured its first major contract in Brazil after participating on a Trade Mission organised by Invest Northern Ireland...

Gas detection system

The new Sierra Monitor Sentry IT Fire and Gas Detection System has the capability of simultaneous interface via RS-485 Modbus, analog 4-20, relay contact, and SentryBus, which insures that both new and legacy sensor modules can be deployed.

Produced water evaporation system to help Canada oil sands conserve water, costs

GE's produced water evaporation technology has been chosen by Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. for its West Ells project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada.