Five Solutions to Remove Pfas from Water
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have become a serious challenge for the water sector as they are difficult to remove and even harder to destroy. As innovations continue to emerge, Aquatech Online looks at five solutions to tackling these harmful chemicals. What is PFAS? Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX, and many other chemicals, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Often referred to as 'forever chemicals', these chemicals have been manufactured and used in industries across the world since the 1940s. As of July 2020, there are over 2,200 confirmed sites of PFAS contamination across all 50 states in the US. PFAS has been found in food packaging, commercial household products,
How Cameras Revolutionized The Plumbing and Drain Cleaning Industry
While working the General Pipe Cleaner’s booth at a trade show several years ago, I struck up a conversation with a drain cleaning pro who used our products. He looked around at the different items we had in the booth, pointed at our line of camera inspection systems and said, “You know, I just spent $1,500 getting my
DUTCH-DUBAI PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD CARBON-NEUTRAL DESALINATION SYSTEM
Dutch start-up Desolenator BV has signed an agreement with the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) to design and build a carbon-neutral water purification and desalination system powered by solar energy.
Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program
The Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program conducts research to develop technologies and other solutions to improve the economics and reliability, sustain the safety, and extend the operation of our nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants. It has two objectives with respect to long-term operations: (1) to provide science- and technology-based solutions to industry to overcome the current labor-intensive business model and associated practices; and (2) to manage the aging of systems, structures, and components (SSCs) so nuclear power plants can continue to operate safely and cost-effectively.
500 Billion Gallons Of Water Prevented From Flooding Communities In 2021, Using Xylem Technology
Xylem’s Latest Sustainability Report Tracks Progress in Solving Global Water Challenges Company on pace to achieve net zero carbon emissions. Net GHG emission intensity reduced 12% More than half of Xylem’s 22 major facilities now operating on 100% renewable energy Helped customers reuse more than 285 billion gallons
What Are Microfiltration Membranes?
Microfiltration is a low pressure separation process utilizing membranes with very open pore structures. Microfiltration filters can be made with both organic materials, such as polymer based membranes, as well as inorganic materials, such as ceramic or stainless steel. In selecting the appropriate membrane, spiral-wound polymeric microfiltration filters are often the starting point for consideration, based on spiral MF’s balance of durability, membrane area per unit, and significantly lower membrane unit cost, and equipment capital cost vs. ceramic and stainless options. MF Products Microfiltration membranes have the most open pore sizes of all polymeric membranes. With a pore size range of 0.1 to 10μm, microfiltration membranes are capable of separating large suspended solids such as
Water Treatment Industry Turns To Ozone To Tackle Contaminants And Improve Quality
The water and wastewater treatment industry are increasingly turning to ozone as the oxidizing agent of choice to remove a swathe of ‘environmental’ contaminants that have emerged in recent years, says engineering company Statiflo. The company has seen a sharp increase in orders for its gas dispersion system from
The Water Footprint Of Data – GWT Examines How To Optimise Water Treatment In Data Centres
Our world is becoming increasingly reliant on internet access – from day-to-day activities, work, travel and communication to banking, manufacturing and building automation, almost everything we do requires an internet connection.
Biosolids Disposal And Reuse: Emerging Opportunities
Biosolids Reuse: Why Now? Biosolids reuse and land application is a decade-old strategy, yet we are seeing a current push to innovate as landfill space becomes limited and concern grows over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Ontario, plans are underway to develop and implement a food and organic waste disposal ban regulation under the Environmental Protection Act. The anticipated regulation would support the beneficial reuse of organic resources, including biosolids and sludge. Coming forth as both a necessity and an opportunity, reusing biosolids is one of the most sustainable ways to achieve a circular economy, ideally by eliminating waste and recovering renewable energy. Reuse Options New and evolving technologies have opened the door to many different resource recovery and reuse
INDUSTRIAL MIXERS & AGITATORS
Industrial mixers are an integral part of many industrial processes. The right industrial agitators can improve the quality of your product and the efficiency of your process. Edelmann & Associates offers Ekato Mixers – custom-built industrial agitators engineered for blending, emulsion, suspending solids, gassing, and
Saudi Arabia’s desalination projects eye sustainability and energy
Saudi Arabia is leading the way with sustainable, energy-efficient desalination projects while maintaining its position as a world leader in desalinated water production. The Middle East and North African region have some of the lowest water availability levels per capita among the world’s most water-scarce regions. This makes the region heavily dependent on desalination, even though desalination directly impacts the issue of sustainability and renewable energy. Developers in the Kingdom, however, aim to maintain their plants and operations in line with the country’s Vision 2030 goals and its leadership position in desalinated water production. Saudi energy firm ACWA Power is moving away from thermal-powered systems and switching entirely to reverse osmosis plants to facilitate efficient
Desalination May Be Key To Averting Global Water Shortage, But It Will Take Time
Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to it worldwide. Desalination represents an increasingly popular way of addressing this. Desalination is the process of extracting salt from saline water to make it drinkable. There are two main types of desalination. In the
Rosenberg Worley To Design World’s First Subsea Desalination Plant
Design of the world’s first subsea desalination plant has commenced at Rosenberg Worley in Stavanger, Norway. Waterise’s desalination concept has the potential to meet increasing demand for clean freshwater around the world. It provides a deep-water solution using an energy-efficient reverse osmosis filtration process.
Kuwait’s receptiveness to new technology
Karim Al-Sayed, managing director of SLB, talks to The Energy Year about challenges faced by Kuwait’s energy sector and the country’s receptiveness to new technology. SLB is a global technology company.
Vedanta Aluminum Deploys IoT Technology For Water Conservation At Its Power Plants
The IoT technology deployed studies real-time operational data and recommends optimum water quality parameters that ultimately lead to water conservation through increase of CoC (or cycles of concentration i.e., reuse of the same water multiple times for cooling the condenser). This technology has started delivering
Safe Remote Maintenance of Irrigation and Drainage Pumps
IIoT on construction sites: Turck’s cloud solution enables users and operators of Hüdig’s site dewatering solutions to have access to the device status at any time The Hüdig GmbH & Co. KG in Celle is a pump systems specialist manufactures products that include units for irrigation and dewatering. The irrigation pumps are generally used in agriculture. The drainage pumps are mainly used on construction sites where the groundwater has to be lowered during the construction phase. “These pumps have to run around the clock, because considerable financial damage is caused if the building site pit fills up with water,” explains Lennart Heers, sales manager at Hüdig. Technically, the dewatering pumps consist of two installed pumps. An air pump that creates a vacuum and sucks the water out of the
XR425 4” Self-Priming Centrifugal Pump
The XR425 is part of the North Ridge XR series - a line of self-priming centrifugal pumps that are designed for heavy duty operation within the construction, industrial, emergency and marine industries. Designed for the handling of clean, solid laden, flammable and abrasive liquids, its unique internal armoured volute
Using Flow Meters for Sustainable Water Use
Water sustainability is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed on a global scale as it stems from a multitude of critical factors. Environmental change, poor management of resources and rapid population growth have had a significant impact on the quality of human life and water availability in countries across the
3 Corrosion Resistant Metal Coatings Compared
Lightweight metals have emerged as the go-to choice in a wide range of industries. Metals such as aluminium, titanium and now even magnesium have become vital in automotive, aerospace and many consumer applications. The combination of their abundance, exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and versatility means they are a preferred choice for product engineers all over the world. Some lightweight alloys offer superior corrosion resistance even when untreated, but it is inevitable that surface treatment will be necessary in a finish product, for performance, longevity and quality purposes. Magnesium is renowned for its poor corrosion resistance - but what is less well know is that some aluminium alloys, such as 2xxx, 7xxx and other high-strength families containing copper or other transition
Automated Valve Choice Considerations
Learn about the most commonly available automated valve types, how to determine valve sizing, and the different actuator options for process control valves. Like so many of the core technologies integral to automated industrial operations—such as motors, drives, and I/O—valves don’t always receive the attention they
Water Industry Innovations in 2018
As the human population of the world continues to grow rapidly, bridging the gap between supply and demand and providing access to safe, clean water has become a priority and a strategic imperative that must be continuously addressed. Thus, there is a clear need to seek out fresh ideas and new approaches to deal with the challenges of dwindling natural water supplies. Whilst there is still some methods to follow, advances in science and technology are helping to bridge this gap and drive the industry forward. The goal of many of these advances is to enhance sustainability and efficiency of production whilst reducing power usage and wastage to a minimum throughout water infrastructure networks. And the advances that will reach success will be scalable, at low cost, and ecologically
Desalination to the Rescue
The world has very little fresh water and it is running out. At tens of billions of tons yearly, the fresh water of the ice caps is falling into the salty sea which is already 97 percent of the world’s water. Rising sea levels will cause mayhem with the supplies of most of the world’s cities because they sit low down
3D Virtual WETEX & Dubai Solar Show Attracts 63,058 Visitors, Largest Number in Its History
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) organised the Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) and Dubai Solar Show virtually from 26-28 October 2020. The 3D carbon-neutral exhibition attracted 1,076 exhibitors from 52 countries, and 63,058 visitors from around the world. This is the largest number of visitors in the exhibition’s history of 22 years. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, Founder and Chairman of WETEX and Dubai Solar Show, was pleased with the exhibition’s success. “As per the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to transform challenges into opportunities, we organised the exhibition this year on a 3D virtual platform. It has achieved great
Water Expo & Forum: How Conserving Earth’s most Precious Resource is Good for the Planet and for Business
Taking place during World Future Energy Summit 2021, the ninth edition of the Water Expo & Forum will be the most comprehensive event of its kind in the MENA region. Hosted and organised by Reed Exhibitions, experts in combining face-to-face, data and digital tools, the Water Expo & Forum will allow attendees to access
