Coatings guide
Sherwin-Williams' new water and wastewater treatment brochure features the company's line of coatings for specific service conditions. The brochure is one of a new series of brochures for the Industrial and Marine Coating Market. Titled "Covering a World of Environments: High Performance Coatings for Demanding Service Conditions," the brochure describes coatings such as acrylic, epoxy and urethane systems. It also provides information on coatings that resist galvanic corrosion in immersion applications, coatings that meet ANSI-NSF Standard 61 and coatings for tank and pipe exteriors developed to resist abrasion, moisture and chemicals.
Sherwin-Williams
Cleveland, OH
Tel: 800-524-5979
Web: www.sherwin-williams.com
Tank cleaning, inspection
Weda Water offers a brochure on its VR-600 remote-operated, submersible vehicle used to clean the bottoms of reservoirs without draining them or using divers. The 136.4 pound robotic cleaner is portable and maneuvers in tight locations with its individual drive systems. It can clean 1,000 square feet per hour, depending on sediment depth and density. It features a Pan & Scan high-resolution camera for tank inspection and a sonar system that allows for hydro-acoustic navigation and position plotting.
Weda Water Inc.
Export, PA
Tel: 724-325-6000
Web: www.wedawater.com
Headworks, screens
Waterlink Separations offers an 8-page brochure featuring Hycor liquid/solid separation equipment. The line includes pre-treatment, primary screening and residuals management, and features a family of coarse and fine screens, prepackaged headwork systems, screening conveyors, septage receiving systems, screenings and grit washers and sludge thickeners.
Waterlink Separations
Lake Bluff, IL
Tel: 847-473-3700
Web: www.waterlink.com
Storage tanks
Superior Tank offers a brochure on its bolted steel storage tanks. The tanks feature TGIC polyester exterior coatings designed to protect the tanks from sunlight and severe weather conditions. Their interior epoxy coatings adhere to NSF 61 standards. The tanks are available in standard sizes and configurations from 4,000 gallons to more than 2 million gallons.
Superior Tank Co.
Santa Fe Springs, CA
Tel: 800-221-8265
Web: www.superiortank.com
PVC flanges
A two-page product data sheet from PlastineticsRegistered covers the company's line of PVC Van Stone style flanges for use in PVC piping systems. The 10", 12", 14", and 16" flanges have a free-floating ring that enables the bolt holes to be aligned after the flange has been cemented to the pipe, providing instant alignment and easier on-site assembly. The flange rings are manufactured from glass reinforced PVC composite. Sizes 18", 20" and 24" flange hubs are formed of PVC pipe as a single piece construction containing no cement or hand welding, along with a cast ductile iron back-up ring with a baked-on polyester resin coating. The iron ring design eliminates the need for bolt retightening.
Plastinetics Inc.
Towaco, NJ
Tel: 973-316-6600
Web: www.plastinetics.com
Cloth-media filter
Aqua-Aerobic Systems offers the DisKITtrademark, a comprehensive package which introduces the AquaDiskRegistered Cloth-Media Filter. The filter system is proven to produce reuse quality effluent in a variety of municipal wastewater applications. Each DisKIT features an interactive CD-ROM that incorporates full-color photos of the AquaDisk Filter, pilot study reports, testimonials from operators, animation and video clips. The kit also includes information on upcoming seminars, various case histories, a sample of the cloth-media and more.
Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.
Rockford, IL
Tel: 815-639-4582
Web: www.aqua-aerobic.com
UV disinfection
Ecometrics has released a four-page brochure highlighting its latest UV disinfection systems. The company's UV technology features high intensity low pressure lamps, electronic ballasts, automatic cleaning systems and advanced monitoring methods. Its high intensity systems deliver greater UV dosage per lamp, allowing the systems to be configured with fewer lamps than conventional systems. The systems can be used in a wide range of applications including municipal, industrial and commercial process water treatment, wastewater treatment, aquaculture and laboratory use.
Ecometrics Inc.
Silverdale, PA
Tel: 800-755-2904
Web: www.ecometrics.com
Intake screens
The Johnson Screens' passive intake system is described in a new brochure. A new screen design maximizes the uniformity of water intake flow resulting in a significant increase in capacity while reducing the overall screen size. The brochure also discusses fish diversion screens, Z-Alloytrademark zebra mussel systems and the Hydrobursttrademark backwash systems.
USFilter Johnson Screens
Tel: 651-638-3218
Web: www.johnsonscreens.com
Liquid/solids separation
USFilter has published a new technical brochure "Liquid/Solid Separation Systems." The 12-page, 4-color brochure includes standard system specifications and highlights the system's features, benefits and applications. The brochure describes clarification technology for liquid/solid separation including conventional circular clarifiers, parallel plate separation and dissolved air flotation. Also included is a process selection guide to aid in the discussion of "when to use what." USFilter has a Bench Top Simulator that provides a means of testing all three technologies for effectiveness on actual representative samples.
USFilter's Davis Products
Thomasville, GA
Tel: 800-841-1550, ext. 8737
Web: www.usfilter.com
Water supply
Ionics offers a new eight-page Public Water Supply brochure that highlights the company's membrane-based technologies. Solutions for nitrate removal and removal of microorganisms such as giardia and cryptosporidium are addressed. The brochure covers ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and electrodialysis equipment. It also provides case histories on the company's build-own-operate services.
Ionics Inc.
Watertown, MA
Tel: 617-926-2500
Web: www.ionics.com
Educational products
The National Drinking Water Clearinghouse offers a Drinking Water Products Catalog featuring 240 educational products to assist small communities with their drinking water system needs. Topics covered include design manuals, management, operations and maintenance, public education, public-private partnerships, regulations, technologies and training guides, among others.
National Drinking Water Clearinghouse
Morgantown, WV
Tel: 800-624-8301
Electronic scales
Scaletron offers a new product catalog providing information on the company's line of electronic scales and indicators used to weigh commonly used chemicals. The company's Total Electronic system provides scale weights and the automated use reports now required in the industry.
Scaletron Industries Inc.
Plumsteadville, PA
Tel: 800-257-5911
Web: www.scaletronscales.com
Gas delivery systems
Scott Specialty Gases has published an updated edition of its Design & Safety Handbook for Specialty Gas Delivery Systems. The 54-page handbook is available on-line and is downloadable by logging on to the company's web site. The handbook provides descriptive background information about typical delivery system components. It can be used to design a system to provide gas to an application point at a specified purity level, pressure and flow rate.
Scott Specialty Gases
Plumsteadville, PA
Tel: 215-766-8861
Web: www.scottgas.com
Concrete Tanks
Preload has published new literature on the design and construction of wire-wound prestressed concrete tanks. The brochure describes the step-by-step construction process, including floor and footing, precast wall panels, panel erection, dome roof and circumferential prestressing and shotcrete cover. Photographs of tanks under construction and cutaway illustrations complete the 12-page brochure.
Preload Inc.
Tel: 888-773-5623
Web: www.preload.com
Grinder literature
JWC Environmental has introduced a new Engineering Catalog CD that describes the features and benefits of its product line, using drawings, diagrams, data sheets, video clips and brochures. Products include sewage waste grinders, high flow fine screens and removal equipment for wastewater treatment. Products range from the Muffin MonsterRegistered grinders to the new Auger MonstersRegistered. Each product is outlined and drawn to detail.
JWC Environmental
Costa Mesa, CA
Tel: 800-331-2277
Web: www.jwce.com
Ultraviolet Disinfection
Suntec environmental has released a new brochure on the LPX200 Open Channel Ultraviolet Disinfection System. The 6-page color bulletin includes product photographs and information. The literature describes product design, features, specifications and performance. The LPX200 system can be configured to suit virtually any field situation and can be furnished with the simplest of manual controls or sophisticated distributed control systems. The brochure also includes drawings on a typical system architecture and typical system overview.
Suntec Environmental
Concord, ON
Tel: 905-669-4450
Web: www.suntecuv.com
Pump literature
Sterling Fluid Systems has published literature that provides information on its Sterling Service Division. The division offers a range of OEM quality replacement parts and services for Peerless, Taber, LaBour, Berkefeld, Mokveld, SIHI, Melotte, Halberg and SPP product lines. Written in simple language, the literature includes a division profile, operating philosophy, product photography, parts, service and repair information. It is designed for users involved in the selection, maintenance, repair and operation of pumps of all kinds.
Sterling Fluid Systems
Indianapolis, IN
Tel: 317-925-9661
Web: www.sterlingfluidsystems.com
Laboratory equipment
ThermoQuest Chromatography offers a new product guide listing the company's range of columns and accessories for HPLC and mass spectroscopy. The catalog provides details on a variety of products for sample preparation, liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy. Equipment also is listed for solid phase extraction, sample handling and micro analysis.
ThermoQuest
Needham Hts., MA
Tel: 781-453-2990
Web: www.hypersil.com
Wastewater treatment
Smith & Loveless has released a brochure, "Modular FAST/Pre-Engineered Wastewater Treatment Systems." The brochure, #3007, uses photographs and computer-generated drawings to illustrate features and benefits of the company's technologies. It includes an operational diagram and a listing of suitable applications classified by municipal and industrial market segments. The modular FAST system is a fixed-film, aerobic process that eliminates the need for a clarifier in most applications.
Smith & Loveless
Lenexa, KS
Tel: 913-888-5201
Web: www.smithandloveless.com
Educational software
The Water Environment Federation has released Aqua Venturercopyright on CD-ROM. This public education product tells the story of water, its treatment and use throughout history, and its vital importance to life on Earth. The software brings 10,000 years of history to life with anecdotes, colorful photos, video clips and music. Used either as a game or resource tool, the CD-ROM highlights the role of clean water in the development of civilizations.
Water Environment Fed.
Alexandria, VA
Tel: 800-666-0206
Web: www.wef.org
Air diffusers
Red Valve's newly updated Air Diffuser brochure introduces the new TubeflexRegistered Fine Bubble Air Diffuser. The new diffuser features a hollow core for reduced buoyancy and a flexible connection to eliminate breakage. It incorporates TideflexRegistered Check Valve technology to prevent clogging of the header pipe and reduce maintenance needs. The brochure also details the company's new coarse and fine bubble aeration systems.
Red Valve Co.
Carnegie, PA
Tel: 412-279-0044
Web: www.redvalve.com
Laboratory products
Thermo Orion has released its 2001 Laboratory Products Catalog. The 136-page publication is categorized in dedicated sections by pH, ISE, Colorimetry, Conductivity and Dissolved Oxygen measurements. Each section has concise overviews of the technologies and techniques involved, offering practical information and application references.
Thermo Orion
Beverly, MA
Tel: 800-225-1480
Web: www.thermoorion.com
Fluid sealing
The Fluid Sealing Association (FSA) and European Sealing Association (ESA) have released their Gasket Installation Procedures booklet. This 12-page booklet provides a guide to the successful sealing of a flanged connection. Subjects covered include required tools, surface cleaning and preparation, flange alignment, gasket installation, lubrication of load bearing surfaces, bolt installation and retightening. The booklet, created by international experts in the field, is a complement to plant-approved installation procedures. It contains clear, knowledgeable step-by-step instructions for the safe completion of gasket installation and assembly of bolted flange connections. Designed for maintenance operators, engineers and fitters, the booklet was printed in a size that can be slipped into a shirt or pants pocket for quick on-site reference.
Fluid Sealing Association
Wayne, PA
Tel: 610-971-4850
Web: www.fluidsealing.com
