Microvi MNE Outperforms Established Tertiary Ammonia Removal Process at Thames Water Wastewater Treatment Plant
Thames Water Utilities Ltd. and Microvi Biotechnologies completed a collaborative 9-month trial demonstrating Microvi's novel wastewater treatment, Microvi MNE™ (MNE). The fully automated MNE demonstration plant was configured as a tertiary nitrification system for ammonia removal. Operating between 5-22 degrees Celsius, MNE consistently removed ammonia from wastewater during continuous operation outperforming the ammonia removal rates of the existing nitrifying sand filters. MNE showed resi...
Rice Engineers: Make Wastewater Drinkable Again
A schematic representation of the hybrid water supply system developed by engineers at Rice University. The researchers suggest that delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, and that it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater. (Credit: Lu Liu/Rice University) Model shows recycling could dramatically slash cities’ need for fresh water resources HOUSTON – Delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, according to Rice University r...
New text provides practical knowledge for water modeling
Stormwater, Watershed, and Receiving Water Quality Modeling provides straightforward guidance on a broad spectrum of modeling tools and their capabilities. Its contents offer past, present, and future perspectives of stormwater quality modeling and outline criteria for selecting the appropriate model based on the project or task. Key features: • Presents state-of-the-art guidance on stormwater, watershed and receiving water quality modeling • Discusses regulatory, technological, and...
Rinker Materials™ Directs Traffic at Hendricks Gateway Park
Stormwater Management System Helps Companies Navigate New Industrial Campus MONROVIA, Ind. – Core5 Logistics Center at Hendricks Gateway Park recently opened a nearly two million square-foot multi-facility campus making it one of the highest concentrations of modern logistics and distribution space in the Midwest. Conveniently located along I-70 about 25 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Hendricks Gateway Park required a stormwater management system featuring concrete components from Rink...
Video: Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say
It’s possible that water left sitting for long periods of time could contain excessive amounts of heavy metals and pathogens concentrated in pipes nationwide, say researchers who have begun a field study on the impact of a pandemic shutdown on buildings.
Water quality could change in buildings closed down during COVID-19 pandemic, engineers say
Purdue engineering professor Andrew Whelton holds up a water sample from a building faucet. The pink color indicates the presence of chlorine, a disinfectant. Whelton’s team is investigating how water quality might change in buildings during a time of limited occupancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Purdue University photo/Matt Kerkhoff) Study part of national effort to understand how extended shutdowns affect water quality in buildings WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — While restaurants, gyms,...
New Technical Document Addresses Suitability of CPVC Piping Systems For Commercial Building Applications
Available free on PPI’s website, TN-62 “Suitability and Fitness of CPVC Piping Systems for Commercial Building Applications” describes material advantages and capabilities that should be considered when designing CPVC systems for commercial plumbing and mechanical systems IRVING, Texas – April 8, 2020 - The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI), has published a new guide related to the use of CPVC piping systems in commercial buildings. Available on PPI’s website, TN-62 “Suitability and F...
Overview of Rain Loads Provisions for Standard ASCE 7-16 Announced in New ASCE Press Book
RESTON, Va. – Rain Loads: Guide to the Rain Load Provisions of ASCE 7-16 provides the practicing structural engineer with a detailed description of the rain load provisions of Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE 7-16. Authors O’Rourke and Lewis discuss the key parameters that underpin the provisions and illustrate the application of those provisions. Through more than 35 examples, the correct applications of the rain load provisions are illust...
New ASCE Standard 70 Helps in Estimating Hydraulic Properties of Groundwater Systems
Reston, Va. – ASCE’s newest standard, Estimation of Aquifer Hydraulic Properties by Inverse Numerical Modeling of Aquifer Pumping, ANSI/ASCE/EWRI 70-19, is the fifth in a series of standards that seeks to enhance the probabilistic and empirical characterization and understanding of the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kstat), a key groundwater parameter. Providing guidelines for estimating the hydraulic properties of a groundwater system by inverse numerical modeling of aquifer pumping tests...
CULTEC, Inc. Achieves a Published ASTM Product Standard
BROOKFIELD, Connecticut – CULTEC, Inc. successfully balloted a newly approved and published ASTM product standard, designated as ASTM F3430-20, Specification for Cellular Polypropylene (PP) Corrugated Wall Stormwater Collection Chambers. This new standard defines the requirements for PP chambers manufactured by the structural foam process, which produces chambers with a cellular wall. Since this was the first product of its kind brought before the ASTM Committee F17 on Plastic Piping, CULTEC...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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