Kemira Launches a New Polymer with Exceptional Dewatering Performance

Delivering potable water to the residents, commerce and industrial infrastructure of Montréal is a massive task for the City’s Water Department. The Department operates six water treatment plants, the largest of which are Atwater and Charles-J.-Des Baillets.

A Qdos 60 PU peristaltic pump has completed three years of maintenance-free operation without any messy leaks of polymer in a trial at the City of Oak Ridge water treatment plant in Tennessee, United States.

For half a century residents and commerce across eight municipalities of the greater London Area of south western Ontario have received their potable water supply from Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant (WTP) near Grand Bend and over this period the community has been well served.

Valmet will deliver solids measurements and Valmet Sludge Dewatering Optimizer to Águas do Tejo Atlântico in Alcantara, Lisbon, Portugal. The optimization, together with reliable solids measurements use, aims at improving the plant’s energy and environmental efficiency.

Trials with Watson-Marlow’s new Conveying Wave Technology (CWT) pump at a water treatment plant in north-west France proved it was ideal for meeting abnormally high pressure constraints, explains Philippe De Miranda, industrial sales engineer, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, France.

The El Temsah lake in Egypt has become heavily polluted in recent years from decades of run-off from the region’s farms. Reversing the pollution is a key part of Egypt’s water diversification strategy to provide clean water for agriculture and ease pressure on the River Nile’s strained resources.