The firm has made investments in small companies like Aquarius Technologies, a Wisconsin-based wastewater treatment firm.
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Once early costs drop, the researchers believe this version could undercut current wastewater treatment plants.
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Right now, wastewater treatment accounts for roughly three percent of the electricity consumed in the U.S.—but not for long.
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In some places, current technology for small, compact wastewater treatment plants has improved, offering advantages over larger, centralized systems.
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
Well, we generate about 8 million tons of sludge annually (this accounts for 30-80 % total electricity in wastewater treatment).
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The sustainable living project is considerably less esoteric: a wastewater treatment plant built with the very latest in green technologies and construction techniques.
He decided to upgrade a proposed wastewater treatment plant for Omega into a grander project that could have an impact far beyond the Rhinebeck campus.
That trend will also increase pressure on wastewater treatment and disposal.
The EPA wants to monitor municipal wastewater treatment plants that receive certain types of silicones to assess whether they cause any harm to the environment.
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The winner in that category: Pasteurization Technology Group, a San Leandro, Calif. startup that treats wastewater using an energy-efficient process that recycles the methane produced by wastewater treatment.
Three main topics will be tackled, namely removal of particulate and colloidal matter within drinking water production and in wastewater treatment, and reduction of colloidal carriers mobilised from waste disposals.
What emerged was a wish list from customers that included cleaner ways to burn coal and more efficient wastewater treatment systems, as well as nuclear power and hydrogen fuel cells.
In fact, based on your own reporting, the industry has increased their recycling threefold over the last 18 months alone, significantly lessening the burden for further wastewater treatment and disposal.
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The impact of this tech domestically is substantial, but the real excitement is in the developing world, where wastewater treatment plants tend to be far and few between and electricity is seriously in need.
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Using so-called anaerobic digestion, ExoGen aims to make wastewater treatment for industry and agriculture much more efficient by creating a significant amount of energy — throwing off electrons and methane gas — during the treatment process that partially offsets the energy required to treat the wastewater.
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"If this technology works on a commercial scale the way we believe it will, the treatment of wastewater could be a huge energy producer, not a huge energy cost, " said Hong Liu, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering.
Without these things, we would not have clean, drinkable water, or the ability to convey wastewater away from our homes to treatment facilities, or systems to handle the vast amounts of garbage we produce, or anything to drive on to accommodate our four-wheel lifestyles.
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As a result, some wastewater associated with shale gas is transported to treatment plants that are not properly equipped, the agency adds.
While this concern is certainly legitimate, the more immediate concern has been the treatment of millions of gallons of fracking wastewater.
Another method, used mainly in Pennsylvania, is to simply use treatment facilities to clean up the fracking wastewater before it heads into local rivers and streams.
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