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Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for all living organisms, but its presence in excessive quantities in water bodies poses significant environmental challenges. Its runoff into lakes and rivers, as well as its discharge from municipal and industrial wastewater, can lead to serious environmental consequences. As countries tighten their legislation on water quality, wastewater treatment plants may need to install additional filtration equipment to comply with current as well as future standards.

The demand for oligonucleotide-based drugs is constantly increasing. To meet the increased demand, pump and system manufacturer LEWA is supplying pharmaceutical supplier Bachem with a new inline dilution system to expand production capacities at the company’s main site in Bubendorf (Switzerland) in the company’s largest production building to date. The system enables precise and flexible dosing of dilution solutions.

A Bredel peristaltic hose pump has shown the ideal qualities for transferring thickened sludge in the production of biogas for Scheldestromen water board (Waterschap Scheldestromen) in the Netherlands. A Bredel 65 hose pump is transferring polymer-thickened sludge of 6 to 8% to tanks for fermentation at Scheldestromen water board’s treatment plant in Terneuzen, Zeeland.

With nutrient neutrality requirements being enforced at off-mains properties in areas of England, homeowners need to understand the benefits of non-chemical package treatment plants, writes Andrew Baird, technical director at WCS Environmental Engineering.

GEA has supplied six GEA biosolids Decanter prime 8000 dewatering decanters for the West Delta Wastewater Treatment Plant in Egypt. The state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant can treat up to 7,5 million cubic meters of sewage sludge daily. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this makes it the largest in the world in terms of size and treatment capacity.

Around 359 billion cubic meters of wastewater is produced globally each year. As well as municipal wastewater, a broad range of industrial processes produce wastewater, such as chemical manufacturing, food processing and powerplants.