The Dowex Marathon C10 is a strong-acid cation-exchange resin for removing contaminants from water in industrial water demineralization, condensate polishing and softening. An improved version of the product has been launched with a reduced mean particle size that increases resin…
After a nine-month field demonstration at BTX, Inc.’s Sleepy well site in Indiana, Pa., Altela Inc.’s (Albuquerque, N.M.; www.altelainc.com) AltelaRain 4000 water desalination system has been shown to turn Marcellus Shale wastewater into distilled water. The demonstration, funded by the…
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies PURA is a standardized, pre-validated generation system for purified water for flowrates up to 6 m3/h (26 gal/min). Each package is complete with a multipurpose tank, reverse osmosis (RO) unit, polishing treatment with continuous…
Wastewater streams from petroleum refineries present some of the largest ranges of variation in contaminant loadings and contain some of the toughest contaminant profiles to treat. These factors render the wastewater treatment processes difficult to control. The most challenging area…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement with the investor group of inge watertechnologies AG (Greifenberg, Germany; www.inge.ag) to acquire the company and its ultrafiltration membrane business. “This transaction is an important step in strengthening BASF’s technology and…
Water systems are common in the chemical process industries (CPI). Mixing, heating, concentrating and evaporating water in these systems will often result in an accumulation of inorganic scale, which can markedly decrease process-system efficiency. Scale inhibitors are chemical substances that,…
The DCP007 Series of industrial photometers (photo) can measure the concentration of light-absorbing substances over the wavelength of 280 to 2,000 nm. The new units use solid-state LED lamps and laser diode technology, and a dual wavelength, four-channel measurement technique…
Pieralisi Launched at IFAT last month, this new series of decanters (photo) has been designed specifically for the dewatering of sludge from industrial wastewater. The designers of the new decanter series have given particular attention to energy savings: thanks to…
Last month, a total of 17,722 visitors and 995 exhibitors attended WEFTEC.09, the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) 82nd annual technical exhibition and conference held in Orlando, Fla. Particularly in this time of economic concerns, the strong showing reinforces the importance…
BioAir Solutions Using its proprietary EcoBase synthetic media, this firm has developed a line of odor control products (photo) that remove both organic and inorganic odorous compounds from the airstreams of industrial wastewater-treatment plant. Units are available for covering airstreams…