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,…
Aquatrend is a plant monitoring service that puts a water treatment expert on the customer’s team to help plant engineers to operate water-treatment facilities. First, the company’s specialists work with customer’s plant engineering team to perform a detailed audit of…
ITT The high-pressure feed pump is an integral part of the reverse osmosis (RO) process. The new Model 3393 high-pressure ring section pump (photo) is capable of delivering 150 to 3,100 gal/min of feedwater (34 m3/h to 700 m3/h) depending…
GenGard 8000 is the latest offering from this company’s GenGard family of cooling-water treatment technology. The new version of the product has expanded its capability to handle a wider range of pH values for cooling water, including neutral to alkaline…
Held at McCormick Place (Chicago, Ill.) October 18 – 22, the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC 08, promises water quality education, training and access to cutting-edge technologies. With an attendence of over 20,000…
Dow Water & Process Solutions Designed with increased area and length to yield cost savings on system design and fabrication, the new Ultrafiltration SFP-2880 (photo) is the largest pressurized ultrafiltration module on the market, says the manufacturer. Ideal for a…
With the new generation of sludgeforce decanters, the energy consumption has been reduced to 0.7 kWh/m3 compared to 1.3–1.5 kWh/m3 required by conventional decanters. This achievement has been made possible by design changes, such as constructing the machine for extreme…
The 1,500-m2 Puron module for membrane bioreactor (MBR) applications features an optimized permeate extraction manifold and air supply lines, thus reducing the number of piping connections during installation. Designed for large-scale MBR projects, the module promises optimal solids management and…
Siemens Water Technologies The Petro membrane bioreactor (MBR) system (photo) has been specially designed for the petroleum, petrochemical and other chemical process industries (CPI). It is a wastewater treatment process that combines various biological treatment processes with an integrated, immersed…