I tend to go back and forth in my view of just how different industrial wastewater treatment is from municipal treatment. I used to be...

Review of struvite formation in anaerobic digesters and sludge dewatering equipment.

This post provides tips and insights I've come across focused on chemistry topics for wastewater treatment operators. A search on Google...

In this post I focus on aspects of laboratory testing and plant operation that relate to nitrification, a topic I am endlessly fascinated...

This post is starting off very, very small. I'll add to it periodically. What I really have in mind here is an easy place I can go to...

For me, always traveling, always working at different sites, having to ship lab equipment and set up under less than ideal conditions, I...

Turbidity is defined as the degree to which light is scattered by particles suspended in a liquid. The measured turbidity depends on the...

Bacteria are amazingly complex, even though each is comprised of only a single cell. Bacteria make up about 95 percent of all the...

The Unit of "8.34 pounds per gallon" Explained In the United States a common unit of measurement for water is that it weighs 8.34 pounds...

This post will provide data/tables to give you a starting point when it comes to evaluating influent wastewater characteristics in the...

It can be helpful to quickly estimate solids production in wastewater. Certainly, each wastewater treatment plant and its collection...

Introduction Hydrogen peroxide can be used to increase the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in an aerobic bioreactor, often referred...