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Your dewatering equipment is running. Your DAF system is operating. But you are burning through 8 kg of polymer per tonne of dry solids when you should be using 4 kg. Or worse: you switched to a “cheaper” flocculant to cut costs. Three months later, your cake solids dropped from 22% to 16%, and you […]

Every day, millions of cubic meters of wastewater flow into treatment plants worldwide. What happens between the moment it enters and the moment clean water is discharged? Most people see wastewater treatment as a mystery — dirty water goes in, clean water comes out. But behind this transformation is a carefully orchestrated sequence of physical,

A gate seizes during a storm event. Your inlet channel floods. Your entire plant goes offline until maintenance can free the actuator. Or worse: a gate corrodes through after three years. Emergency replacement costs $15,000 in expedited fabrication and installation. Meanwhile, you are bypassing untreated wastewater because you cannot isolate the affected channel. Gates and

Your discharge permit is tightening. Effluent limits are dropping to 5 mg/L BOD and TSS — sometimes lower. Your engineering team is split. Half are pushing for MBR (Membrane Bioreactor) because “it’s the best available technology.” The other half want conventional activated sludge with tertiary filtration because “MBR is expensive and complicated.” Both sides have

Polymer costs are rising. Your dewatering equipment is burning through 6-10 kg per tonne of dry solids, and the monthly chemical bill keeps climbing. Meanwhile, your operators are spending half their shift cleaning filter belts, unclogging spray nozzles, and dealing with equipment downtime. There is a better option — and it has been gaining ground

Your treatment plant needs more clarification capacity. The problem? You’re out of space. Expanding a conventional settling tank means adding hundreds of square meters of footprint. That’s expensive. And in many cases, impossible. This is the exact scenario where lamella clarifiers (also called inclined plate settlers) deliver massive value. By stacking settling surface area vertically

You’ve designed the biological treatment. You’ve calculated the hydraulic retention time. Everything looks good on paper. Then the oil shows up. Or the fine suspended solids that refuse to settle. Or both. Suddenly, your clarifier isn’t clarifying anymore — and downstream processes are struggling with loads they weren’t designed to handle. This is where Dissolved

Wastewater treatment screens are crucial in the wastewater treatment process. They act as the first line of defense, preventing coarse and fine solids from entering downstream systems and ensuring the stability and efficiency of treatment plants. However, selecting the wrong screen can lead to frequent clogs, increased headloss, and potential damage to downstream equipment. The