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Lab Test Interferences
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...
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Chemical Oxygen Demand Testing
For me, always traveling, always working at different sites, having to ship lab equipment and set up under less than ideal conditions, I...
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Increase DO in a Bioreactor with Hydrogen Peroxide & GPS-X Simulation
Introduction Hydrogen peroxide can be used to increase the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in an aerobic bioreactor, often referred...
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BOD, COD, and TOC
The organic strength of wastewater is measured in three ways: 1) as 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), 2) chemical oxygen demand...
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Rules of Thumb—Wastewater Treatment
Some Simple Guides This post provides tips and insights I've come across focused on wastewater treatment topics. A search on Google for...
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Estimating Organic Content
The following is quoted from W. Wesley Eckenfelder, Jr. in his excellent textbook “Industrial Water Pollution Control”, Third Edition,...
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Testing Equipment
Testing Equipment for Water, Reverse Osmosis, and Wastewater There are several "sets" of laboratory equipment that are critical for...
