This presentation discusses the challenges associated with recovering produced water for potable water use. It discuses regulatory challenges, economic factors, and treatment approaches utilized in pilot testing....

This paper describes the start-up of the East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (ECCV) 10.9 million-gallon-per-day (MGD) brackish water reverse osmosis (RO) treatment facility in 2012 during record breaking temperatures. The plant provides a renewable water source to areas of southeast metro Denver currently served exclusively by no...

The New Belgium Brewing Company recently evaluated the effectiveness, reliability, and robustness of submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) technology at their Fort Collins, Colorado craft brewery. The pilot study drivers were the performance limitations of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) digesters, space constraints and a desire to...

A newly built zero-liquid discharge industrial wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of groundwater flow from a railroad tunnel provides an excellent example of an elegant solution to a highly constrained challenge. The design of the plant was constrained by a lack of sewer or water connections, a small space in the midst of a ski resort to ...

This presentation uses operations at an existing 10 mgd inland desalter facility (with an additional 10 mgd expansion currently being designed) and analysis from a four-stage pilot system to outline strategies to reduce the cost of high recovery RO, increase recovery of costly water resources thereby decreasing reliance on non-renewable water, and ...

A newly built zero-liquid discharge industrial wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of groundwater flow from a railroad tunnel provides an excellent example of an elegant solution to a highly constrained challenge. The lessee of the one-hundred-year-old Moffat Tunnel in the Rocky Mountains was newly required to treat the water flowing from ...