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by Antone Austin, Water Consultant at AWIA
How can I calculate the cost of the power for a reverse osmosis plant generated by a diesel generator? How can I best reduce the RO energy consumption and ...
Technology Reverse Osmosis Energy Energy Reduction Energy Efficiency Reverse Osmosis Energy Efficiency Energy
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by David Kimani, Executive Secretary, Mukuru Water & Sanitation Project
We are running a WASH project which is suffering hugely due to lack of water supply. I ask Water Network members for your advice on simple technological ...
Technology Drinking Water Treatment Water Treatment & Control Water Treatment Solutions Drinking Water Water Purification Water Treatment Systems
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by Mary Meyer, President /CEO at Osprey EcoConsult Nigeria Ltd. / CEO Osprey Spill Control
We have a serious case of groundwater contamination at Nisisioken Ogale, in Eleme LGA. The pollution is due to the Nigerian National Petroleum ...
Technology Oil & Gas Oil Water Separation Water Wells Groundwater Pollution Heavy Oil
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by Chris Medidas, Hydrogeologist at Oceana Gold
How can I decrease the pH of siltation ponds because we are currently discharging water of the pH around 11 from the underground. The natural pH of the water ...
Academic Waste Water Treatments Quality Water Quality Hydrodynamics & Water Quality Hydrogeology
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by Stephen Grocott, Chief Technical Development Officer
We have a problem with anhydrite (CaSO4) scaling on heat transfer surfaces of a series of brine concentrators (mostly MgSO4 at 20 – 40% TDS and pH 0.8 – 2.0). ...
Academic Treatment Scale & Corrosion Desalination Brine Discharge Modeling & Analysis Scale Inhibitors Desalination Water Treatment Systems
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I have a customer that has about 1500 customers and has a fluoride level of 4.3 ppm system average. The maximum contaminant level goal, as an adequate margin ...
Technology Standards & Quality Purification Quality Quality Maintenance Water Quality Management Water Purification Fluoride
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We are planning to use sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in few drinking water applications to raise the pH: Na2CO3 to raise pH ...
Academic Drinking Water Security Standards & Quality Drinking Water Treatment Drinking Water Managment Drinking Water Water Quality Management
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by Dhiraj Anurajan, Water Treatment
I want to treat RO reject water with silica of 80 ppm, with a double RO pass. The recovery needs to be 80%. By design, I have the langelier saturation ...
Academic Purification Reverse Osmosis Quality Water Quality Water Quality Management
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by Ali Khan, Manager WASH at Shifa Foundation
I am a WASH manager in Pakistan and I would like to know how to properly conduct an Escherichia coli test with the DelAgua kit (Petri dish with ...
Technology Bacteria E. coli Standards & Quality Water Quality Water Quality Management E. coli
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by Ali Khan, Manager WASH at Shifa Foundation
We are working on the installation of hand pumps and we are faced with saline water with TDS over 2000 ppm. What is the low-cost solution for ...
Technology Drinking Water Treatment Household Water Treatment Water Treatment & Control Water Treatment Solutions Saline Water Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
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by Md.Mezanur Rahaman, FSM and WASH Engineer
Dear members of The Water Network, I am a Municipal Engineer working in Bangladesh. We are in process of optimising our water supply network. I want to ...
Technology Chlorination Leakage Detection Water Supply Water Utility Leakage Leakage Reduction Utility Pipe Network
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by Shashikant Thakur, Director at Dew Envirotech Pvt Ltd
We are working on a zero liquid discharge unit, the plant manufacture baker yeast from sugarcane molasses. Input BOD/COD are in the range of 30000/60000 mg/l. ...
Technology Treatment Sludge Separation COD Removal Sludge Treatment Purification Technology Zero Discharge Environment & Water Water microbiology Treatment Chemicals Zero Liquid Discharge Sludge Treatment & Management Water Treatment Systems
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by Cees Vallentgoed, at BioCASE Industrial Wastewater Consultancy
The filling of a trickling filter with a diameter of 53 m2 and a reactor volume of 320 m3 has to be renewed. To comply with new effluent standards in the ...
Technology Carbon Filtering Sand Filter Ultrafiltration Purification Technology Filters Filtration Filtration
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by tony searles, marketing and sales at british steel
Is there any microfilter capable of filtering Aluminium, Strontium and Barium from drinking water? Can any microfilters be used to purify aquifers water as ...
Technology Drinking Water Security Treatment Purification Filtration Filters Filtration Solutions Filtration Nanofiltration
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by Ahmed Khafagy, Technical support Team
We have a river water plant which treats the river water to drinking water, using the ultrafiltration (UF) system. The intake water has high ammonia content. ...
Technology Treatment Ultrafiltration Filtration Filters Filtration Solutions Water Supply
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by Syed Shoaib Mohideen, NRW Specialist at SUEZ
I am working on a water supply rehabilitation and leakage reduction project and water supply network designs and NRW maintenance. Which is the best software ...
Technology Modeling Infrastructure Management Utility Pipe Network Hydrological Modelling Water Software Pipelines Pipes and Pipelines
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Which material is the best to use for pipes for oil and gas supply? I need a material which will not influence the gas or oil in any way nor be degraded ...
Academic Oil & Gas Corrosion Prevention Pipeline Installation & Maintenance Pipelines Oil & Gas Pipelines
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by SRIDHAR M, SENIOR ENGINEER (NRW ENGINEER ) at Larsen & Toubro Ltd
Which technology is the most accurate for finding an invisible leak in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes?
Technology Leakage Detection Leakage Leakage Reduction Utility Pipe Network Pipes and Pipelines
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We have ultrafiltration (UF) in our water pretreatment. Our feed water turbidity 0.54 NTU Borewell water. We want to change the pretreatment from UF to media ...
Technology Treatment Ultrafiltration Filtration Filters Filtration Solutions
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Can activated charcoal or carbon effectively neutralize xylene and other hazardous organic chemicals? Is there a treatment method before disposal which will ...
Academic Environment Lab Safety Organic Chemicals Environment Laboratory