Presentations by Hibbs
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The Ground is Sinking! Missouri City?s Approach to Reduce The Use of Groundwater
This paper covers a 5 year mandate to reduce groundwater use by 30% followed by a 60% reduction by 2025 for the City of Missouri City, Texas. Discussed are the city?s efforts to coordinate funding, outreach, regulatory, design and construction of the treatment and transmission facilities within this abbreviated timeframe. The result was the constru...
City of Missouri City -Regional Surface Water Treatment Plant
The City of Missouri City, in conjunction with 30plus municipal utility districts within the city limits, completed a 10 MGD (first phase) regional surface water treatment plant to meet the Fort Bend County Subsidence District's mandates for reducing groundwater use. As a part of the facility, microfiltration membranes were utilized to meet both c...
Retrofit and Expansion of a 10 MGD UF System in Granbury, Texas
The Surface Water and Treatment System facility consists of lime-softened clarification, dual media filtration, ultrafiltration membrane filtration, and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane treatment. This system treats water from Lake Granbury in Granbury, Texas, which has elevated levels of chlorides ranging from 50 to 1,400 mg/L. As designed, the syste...
Tap Into MBR - The Hamby WRF Indirect Potable Water Reuse Project
The Hamby WRF project is an important drought resilience planning project where indirect potable water reuse is being applied successfully. Execution of such a project comes with a variety of challenges and lessons learned. An important difference between this projects and others is the use of MBR in a potable reuse scheme. With the plant in operat...
MBR "A to Z" - Fundamentals through Advanced Techniques in Utilizing Membrane
The goal of this presentation is to discuss several key topics on membrane bioreactor technology, including fundamentals of MBR technology, advantages and disadvantages of MBR use, lessons learned in use of different types of MBR technology, and opportunities for use of MBR in potable and non-potable reuse applications. The topics will cover engine...
Case Studies on MBR Technologies Currently Being Implemented in Texas
Because of the historical cost and perceived complexity of MBR technology, there are still a limited number of large MBR facilities in operation in Texas (the majority of the existing facilities are package plants, less than 0.1 MGD). The goal of this presentation is to review case studies for different MBR facilities in Texas (some designed versus...