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Implementing Integrated Zero Liquid Discharge

Reviewing results from 11 installation shows what can be achieved. There are many technological solutions available to help ethanol plants achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD). Traditional ZLD systems...

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Social Responsibility in Corporate America

Corporate social responsibility, commonly referred to as CSR,  has emerged as a significant theme in the global, and local, business community affecting relationships between investors, customers,...

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Protect Your Facility and Your Staff from Legionella

  This electron micrograph depicts an amoeba as it entraps a Legionella Pneumophila bacterium (green) with an extended pseudopod. Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and...

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Ozone Generators: A New Technology for Biocide Treatment

The use of Ozone has become an optional biocide in smaller cooling towers, evaporative condensers and process applications where low to moderate traditional biocides, such as bleach and bromine,  have...

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Tips & Tricks for Spring Tower Start-Up

Many cooling towers start-up in the spring. A little effort spent getting your cooling tower ready in the spring will pay big dividends throughout the summer cooling season. Follow these steps to...

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Minimizing White Rust In Galvanized Cooling Towers

Galvanized coatings for cooling tower systems have been used in the industry since the 1950s. The galvanizing process binds a layer of zinc metal to steel. When properly applied and passivated, the...

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Benefits of Sidestream & Media Filtration in Cooling Towers

Cooling towers scrub large volumes of air and effectively remove solids consisting of dust, microbiological organisms, and various airborne debris. Make-up water to the tower adds suspended solids in...

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Preventing Scale Formation in Reverse Osmosis Systems

http://www.uswaterservices.com/contact_us.php5By Wes ByrneReverse osmosis (RO) systems behave similar to a boiler or a cooling tower in that they cause the dissolved salts in their makeup water to...

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Flow Accelerated Corrosion

Few subjects have captured the attention of boiler cycle chemistry experts and research dollars in the past 10+ years as flow accelerated corrosion (FAC).  Having previously been most concerned about...

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Optimize Your Industrial Water Softener With A Brine Elution Study

Sodium zeolite softening is an ion exchange method for removing hardness from water sources achieved by exchanging calcium and magnesium ions for sodium. This process is ideal when applied to domestic,...

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Reverse Osmosis (RO) Membrane Autopsy: What You Need to Know

A membrane autopsy is a good description of the analysis that can be performed on a fouled membrane. It can also be the key to determining how to prevent fouling of new membranes and to maximize the...

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Water Use for Ethanol Production: Where Are We Today?

by Sara Schoenborn, Assistant Editor at Agriview With a steadily growing global population, it has become the focus of all those involved in agriculture to learn and adapt new ways of producing more...

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Asset Protection & System Optimization: What You Need to Know

Asset protection is a concept that is steadily gaining notoriety in today’s industry. Many plants are looking for ways to optimize their system to get the most they can from their capital equipment,...

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The Value of Remote Visual Inspections Through Borescoping

Visual inspection of chiller and evaporator tubes is a great tool to determine the effectiveness of a water treatment program. Effective use of a borescope can visually determine if a water treatment...

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The Sometimes Maddening Question of Boiler Lay-Up

With more and more steam boilers being asked to provide intermittent service, there is renewed focus on the proper treatment of boiler systems while they are offline. In the Power industry it is not...

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Maximize Asset Protection & Minimize Chemical Costs by Maintaining Your...

When treating Thermal Energy Systems or Large Chilled Water systems the following standards should be followed to minimize costs to chemically treat these systems and protect the equipment assets....

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U.S. Water Reports – A Web Based Reporting System

In our continuous effort to assist our customers in maximizing the potential of their water treatment systems, U.S. Water completed a major upgrade to the web based U.S. Water Reports system. The...

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U.S. Water pHytOUT Successfully Controls Mineral Deposits

Ethanol plants are often challenged with mineral deposits and the loss of heat transfer efficiency in distillation that accompanies these deposits. pHytOUT(R) is a patented deposit control technology...

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Improve System Efficiency at U.S. Water’s Cooling Seminar

Join U.S. Water in Plymouth, MN on March 28, 2013 for an in-depth educational experience. This seminar will educate your operations and engineering staff of the proper methods to design and maintain an...

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