Notes from the War Room Don’t Let Performance Data Kill Your Strategy
Setting up a performance measurement system with levels of service, metrics and targets is a good start. A great second…
Strategic IT Planning via Enterprise Architecture * A Case Study from Portland Water Bureau * Portland, Oregon
This paper describes how the Portland Water Bureau (PWB) successfully leveraged the enterprise architecture approach to strategic information technology (IT)…
Petroleum Refinery Stripped Sour Water Treatment Using the Activated Sludge Process
A pilot study was performed over 91 days to determine if the activated sludge process could treat a segregated stripped…
*Discussion of Arnaldos, M., Pagilla, K., 2010. Effluent Dissolved Organic Nitrogen and Dissolved Phosphorus Removal by Enhanced Coagulation and Microfiltration. Water Research 44, 5306-5315.*
The paper is an important contribution and provides valuable information on the methods developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology…
Process Design of Wastewater Treatment for the NREL Cellulosic Ethanol Model
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is evaluating a novel process for the production of ethanol from the cellulosic feedstock,…
Models for nitrification process design: one or two AOB populations?
Models for engineering design of nitrifying systems use one ammonia oxidizer biomass (AOB) state variable. A simple extension using two…
*You Want It When???* Utilizing 3D Design to Assist with Fast Track Delivery
Sixteen months to develop a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER), design a 30 MGD pump station, and begin operation seems a…
How a Physical Pump Model Helped Saved Construction Costs and Reduce O&M Headaches
The existing Lake Townsend Dam (and integral raw water pump station) in Greensboro, NC (City) was failing due to alkali…
Framework for Integrating Sustainability Into Remediation Projects
The US Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) created this Framework to enable sustainability parameters to be integrated and balanced throughout the…
Large Scale Ex-Situ Biotreatment of Source Material at a Superfund Site Impacted with Chlorinated and Non-Chlorinated Chemicals
Ex-situ biotreatment was the selected remedy for the source areas at a Superfund site (Site) impacted with chlorinated and non-chlorinated…
Enhanced Biodegradation of TCE by Groundwater Recirculation in a Shallow Aquifer with Dramatic Seasonal Groundwater Elevation Fluctuations
Brown and Caldwell conducted a pilot test to remediate trichloroethylene (TCE) in groundwater associated with past operation of a Formerly…
Treatment of Wastewaters Containing Bisphenol A: State of the Science Review
The presence of microconstituents in effluents from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their receiving waters has attracted considerable recent…