Improved Centrifuge Designs for High Cake Solids
The new generation of advanced centrifuges pioneered by Humboldt Wedag can readily produce 30 ? 2% TS cake on most raw and digested primary and waste activated sludge, wherein the primary...
Composting Works for Small Wastewater Treatment Plants
The City of Cooper City, Florida, faced with the undesirable position of relying on outside contractors for sludge disposal needs, undertook the task of developing a self-sufficient sludge...
Aerobic Thermophilic Digestion or Liquid Composting of Municipal Sludges
A study funded by Supply and Services Canada through the Wastewater Technology Center of Environment Canada, and the Province of British Columbia is being undertaken over a two year period...
Experimental Study of Windrow Composting of Sludge
An experimental field study of the windrow composition of sludge at the City of Dallas, Texas, Southside Waste Water Treatment Plant was conducted to provide data for possible design of...
Design of Solidified/Stabilized Sludge Landfills
Rehabilitation of highly moist, compressible, and heavy metal-containing wastewater treatment sludges for final disposal in a landfill setting requires consideration of several factors....
Environmental Analysis of Sludge Disposal Options
In a Court-ordered agreement to eliminate disposal of sludge from its treatment plants into the ocean, the City of Los Angeles was required to evaluate alternatives for transporting and...
Water Oxidation of Sludges and Toxic Wastes
Waste treatment technologies such as subcritical and supercritical water oxidation processes offer innovative alternatives to vexing sludge and toxic wastewater treatment problems. This...
Design and Implementation of a Risk-Based Remedial Action Program for Underground Tank Removal at a Dioxin-Contaminated Site
The unknown or uncertain conditions often inherent in hazardous waste site remediation projects complicate the job of the responsible professional to adequately assess and manage associated...
Jet Injection Model Studies for the City of Los Angeles
The Hypersion Treatment Plant for the City of Los Angeles is currently undergoing an expansion project. A major component of this system is a sludge recycling system. And it is essential...
Linking an Environmental Expert System with a DBMS
Sludge in the Nineties
Strict new regulations proposed for sludge disposal have toughened the challenge ahead for engineers. The regulations are the first to ever address sludge disposal in a comprehensive,...
Dewatering Sludge, Hot News for Cold Places
CZ '89 Covers Coastal Gamut From Surfers to Sludge
Slurry Walled Sludge Saves Millions
Roller Compacted Concrete with Marginal Aggregates
Roller compacted concrete is a technology which is vastly expanding beyond the traditional uses of pavement and dam oriented projects. Hornsby Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant required...
ASA: An Expert System for Activated Sludge Analysis
Resource Recovery in Indianapolis
Rolling Incinerators
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) is using a mobile incinerator to clean up a former oil and solvent storage/transfer operation which was badly contaminated. The benefits...
Take Back the Land
Municipal sludge applied to land devastated by strip mining has brought thousands of acres of Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania land back to life. After two years of testing at a Palmerton,...
Leaching of Nitrate from Freely Drained?Irrigated Fields Treated with Municipal Sludges
A municipal sludge land application experiment was initiated in 1975 near Riverside, California. From 1975 to 1983 sludges from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area were applied on experimental...
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