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Articles Tagged with ''wastewater''

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BioViper wastewater treatment system

December 18, 2019
The BioViper system removes 90% or more biochemical oxygen demand (BODs), cleaning water before it’s sent back to the municipality or reused in a manufacturer’s plant.
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Fabulous Food Plants

Hispanic Cheese Makers' fabulous food plant sets the bar for reducing waste

Hispanic Cheese Makers’ wastewater lagoons are a big project, but a small part of the company’s overall sustainability goal
Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
December 12, 2018
What Hispanic Cheese Makers is doing with its wastewater and with its sustainability efforts overall makes it a model for producers looking for ways to be sustainable and good neighbors, and it’s why Hispanic Cheese Makers is being featured as a Fabulous Food Plant.
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Bush Brothers
Sustainability

Bush Brothers wins Design-Build Institute of America National Merit Award

Company’s rural Tennessee process water reclamation facility handles 2.1 million gallons per day
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
November 19, 2018

Bush Brothers and Company’s new $55 million Process Water Reclamation Facility (PWRF) has won a Design-Build Institute of America National Merit Award.


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Widmer Brothers
Field Reports

Brewery saves 5,000 gallons of water per day with new pump

Water costs go down and so do extra-strength charges in sewage costs
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
October 12, 2018

When a food or beverage processor begins breaking down costs, sometimes startling facts are revealed. Here’s a case in point: Widmer Brothers Brewery (Portland, Ore.), founded in 1984 and part of the Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), had been using a liquid ring vacuum pump to bottle its beers, but realized the technology was consuming roughly 5,000 gallons of water per day.


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Sustainability

Major water savings has California grape packaging supplier ahead of sustainability goals

Company reduced water usage by 40 percent and increased profits in eight weeks
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
June 25, 2018

Styrotek, a manufacturer of expanded polystyrene foam packaging for grapes, recently undertook a major water efficiency program. In eight weeks, the company reduced its water usage from 20 million gallons per year to 12 million.


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Green Series

Water conservation can be a hard sell for processors

Conserving and reusing water offer processors an opportunity to meet sustainability goals and save money.
Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
November 22, 2017
While water conservation may not be as flashy as saving energy, it's an important component of not only sustainability efforts, but of protecting the bottom line.
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wastewater treatment
Wastewater Treatment

How the bottom line is tied to wastewater treatment

Insight into some real-world, win-win situations for treating wastewater.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
February 10, 2017

Sure, you want to be 'green' in the eyes of your community and customers, but there are economic pluses to treating wastewater.


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Technology Sourcebook

Tuthill Vacuum & Blower Systems MPAK 2000 blower package

November 22, 2016
The Tuthill Vacuum & Blower Systems MPAK 2000 blower package features air or gas blowers and an open or closed package design with a field-retrofittable enclosure option.
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Jerky processor integrates ‘green’ wastewater treatment plant
TECH FLASH

Jerky processor integrates ‘green’ wastewater treatment plant

The company sought a wastewater treatment solution to decrease the burden on its local sewer system and recover energy from the waste stream.
Jeremy Gerrard
June 28, 2016

The system solves the plant’s discharge overload issue and generates biogas as a byproduct.


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Yuengling settles alleged CWA violations
TECH FLASH

Yuengling settles alleged CWA violations

The brewery agreed to pay $9.8 million in penalties and wastewater treatment upgrades to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations.
Jeremy Gerrard
June 28, 2016

In a complaint filed concurrently with the settlement, the US alleged Yuengling violated pretreatment permit requirements at least 141 times from 2008 to 2015.


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