Effluent should be recycled back into brewery operations with less reticence than is currently the case, according to South African wastewater specialists Talbot & Talbot. Throughout many parts of the world there are areas or entire regions where water is scarce and water quality highly suspect. In these situations beer quality is often compromised and production schedule disrupted. The use of properly treated effluent presents the brewer with a safer option and greater security of supply.
11 January 2012
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A new carrier medium for biological sewage water treatment has been developed that result in significant increases in facility capacities. Stefan Christof Bidinger, Bernd Dzedzig, Dr.-Ing. Markus Geiger and Bernd Rauch of Multi Umwelttechnologie AG describe how the Mutag BioChip is tackling micro-organisms in the treatment of sewage.
21 October 2011
New tubular ceramic membranes have been developed that provide a high packing density of the filtration area. These new ceramic membrane filter elements have been proven in case studies in oily wastewater treatment applications. Steffen Heidenreich and Winfried Michell of Pall Filtersystems GmbH describe the findings.
21 October 2011
Anthony Bennett looks at alternative sources of water and examines how they can be treated by advanced filtration and separation technologies to reduce the pressure on potable water sources.
26 August 2011
Anaerobic digesters are now required to handle an increasingly wider type of waste material. Ensuring effective mixing in the digester can make significant improvements in efficiency.
30 June 2011
A new membrane bioreactor system has been installed as the wastewater treatment facility for a snack foods operation in Alabama, USA. The quality of the wastewater is now good enough to be discharged into the local water coarse ecosystem, avoiding significant municipal surcharges in the process.
29 June 2011
Membrane bioreactor technology has been selected to meet current and future wastewater treatment needs and environmental standards in California.
24 June 2011
Iron contamination can present a number of problems for water filtration systems for agricultural, industrial and municipal applications. Daniel Ityel of Amiad Filtration Systems outlines the problems and introduces a new method of micro-fibre filtration after oxidation.
16 June 2011
The shipping industry is required to treat wastewater to comply with increasingly strict environmental legislation. A solution was needed which could quickly and efficiently treat and dispose of the washing water used in paint removal. A filter station was developed with a compact filter system which combines filtration and briquetting in one device.
02 December 2010
Salt water intrusion in the local wells meant a wastewater treatment plant in the Village of Tequesta, Florida, US, required a desalination system. After soliciting bids from a variety of engineering firms, local officials chose two RO systems which subsequently required no cleaning in the eight years since installation.
02 November 2010