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August-September 2015
QUENCHING JAPANS
EXPORT DROUGHT
Metawater President Tomoyasu Kida
Shares His Vision for Global Expansion
UK Fracking Delays: A Waterloo
Moment for Wastewater Treatment?
Autonomous Reed Beds:
An Answer for Challenging Clogging
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s Ive said before, the water industry is one of the worlds most underrated and
underappreciated public services out there. In developed nations the water industry
is expected to deliver continuous, clean water 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It
is only until there is a problem that customers start complaining and question how
much they are paying for the service.
In the case of United Utilities in the UKs Midlands, the utility had to recently
instruct 300,000 households to continue boiling their drinking water due to small
traces of cryptosporidium found at a treatment plant. The microscopic bug, which
can cause stomach upsets, was initially discovered during routine tests.
This reminded me of a famous quote by the Dalai Lama: If you think you are too
small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
To rid its supply of the cryptosporidium, the utility installed several ultraviolet
(UV) treatment rigs (see page 54). Calling the move one of its biggest engineering
projects to date, the rigs were sourced from across the UK and Europe.
United Utilities told WWi that routinely our treatment process of coagulation
and filtration is enough to remove cryptosporidium and that the UV technology
was being used after the plant as a belt and braces strategic approach. A formal
investigation by the Drinking Water Inspectorate will address how the bug got into
the water system and the utilitys current treatment infrastructure.
Clearly, dealing with a bug like this is a huge inconvenience, expense and not to
mention public relations nightmare the story made national headlines. Although
the problem was addressed and the solution brought in, the whole exercise got me
thinking (I know, dangerous). Shouldnt UV units, or the equivalent, be held on
standby for such emergencies? Surely the priority of getting public supply back
to normal ASAP would be quicker if such units were available instead of having
to be sourced from across the UK and Europe. Yes, I understand such high-tech
equipment is not exactly cheap to have on standby but what price can you put on
public health, or a utilitys reputation for that matter?
Moving on, as you will have seen on the cover, the focus for this issues Leader
Focus is Japanese water engineering firm, Metawater. Most readers will know the
company from its ceramic membranes and partnership with Dutch company, PWN
Technologies. However, after raising $222 million from an Initial Public Offering
at the end of last year, Metawater is using the cash to go after the international
market and get away from the sluggish domestic one in Japan. It will certainly be an
interesting and challenging journey for the company but one to look out for.
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US: NEVADA
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and
University of Nevada, Reno, will study
the cause of eutrophication, or increased
algae growth, along the nearshore of
Lake Tahoe. Supported by Californias
Lahontan Water Quality Control Board
(LWQCB), the investigation is in response
to widespread concerns with water
quality and ecological degradation of
the lakes nearshore environment. Over
the last decade, nearshore periphyton
growth, a form of algae, has increased
dramatically in Lake Tahoe.
SPAIN
Carlos Jarque has been appointed at chief executive/
CEO of the FCC Group in Spain and takes over
from former chief executive, Juan Bjar. Since 2013
he has been the executive director of corporate,
government and international relations in Latin
American private company, Amrica Mvil, operating
in the telecommunications sector of 17 Latin American
countries, as well as in the U and 10 European countries.
Jarque said: the rehabilitation of FCC and its shares
will continue in order to reinforce the company both
financially and opearationally.
SWEDEN
Engineering company CH2M has won this years
Stockholm Industry Water Award for its efforts in
potable water reuse. The company was awarded by
the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
to continuing to evolve water reuse practices and
working with Singapores national water agency
to help win public acceptance on the countrys
NEWater project. CH2Ms first notable success in
this area dates back to the 1960s.
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OMAN
The Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries
Company (Orpic) has awarded Aquatech a contract to
design and supply a Multiple Effect Distillation (MED)
seawater desalination system for its Sohar Refinery
Improvement Project in Oman. MED technology was
specified to supply 16,056 m3/day to boilers, as well
as service and potable water. Aquatech is supplying
the system to a Petrofac Daelim Joint Venture that
has the full EPC contract for the whole refinery project.
Commissioning is expected in early 2016.
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AUSTRALIA
The Broken Hill 6,000 m3/day desalination plant will undergo a capacity
increase by Australian firm Osmoflo as part of a turnkey solution for existing
client and plant owner, Essential Energy. Brackish water and high salinity
reverse osmosis (RO) technology will be used as part of the upgrade, which
will include onsite and remote ongoing operations and maintenance support
of the plant. The re-instated plus additional RO capacity will be fully
operational from November 2015.
SOUTH KOREA
LG NanoH2O will be part of
a newly launched business
unit called LG Water
Solutions, after the Californian
membrane business was
acquired by Korean chemical
company LG Chem in
April 2014. To coincide
with the rebranding, a new
nanocomposite membrane
manufacturing site is expected
to open for business next
month in Cheong-ju, Korea.
The facility will produce
seawater, brackish water and
tap water RO membranes.
INDIA
Questions have been asked
as to whether the 336,000
m3/day Gujarat desalination
project will make it through to
completion. The $600m plant
was originally contracted by
the Gujarat government to a
Singapore-Japanese alliance,
including Hyflux and Hitachi.
Dahej SEZ CEO SN Patil told
local source Financial Express
that I am not sure whether
the Dahej desalination plant
will take off or not. From
our side, we have allotted
them the land but from their
side there is no response.
Speaking to WWi as part of its
Leader Focus in the April-May
edition, Hyflux CEO Olivia
Lum said Dahej took longer
to close and that Hitachi is
the one driving the project.
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UAE (DUBAI)
Dubais efforts to follow its Emirate brother Abu Dhabi
and build a deep-tunnel sewer network have taken a
step forward. The Dubai Municipality has reportedly
invited companies to bid on two consultancy contracts
in the Deira and Bur Dubai areas. A consultant is needed
to provide supervision services for a 26km tunnel, as
consultants to assist with a 56km-long deep-tunnel
sewer in the Bur area of the city. Abu Dhabi is close to
completing its $1.6 billion Strategic Tunnel Enhancement
Programme (STEP).
INDONESIA
The Dutch Embassy in Jakarta has awarded
consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV a 6.6 million
sanitation project as part of the Urban Sanitation
Development Programme (USDP). Launched in
2010, the 14 million project sets out goals for
wastewater, urban drainage and solid waste.
The project will provide direct support for the
acceleration of sanitation development to some 100
local governments in 10 Indonesian provinces and
supports an ambitious nationwide programme.
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precipitation patterns.
Meanwhile Botswana and
Namibia sit squarely within
a region that is already
vulnerable to climate change.
Water supplies are limited
and risk from floods and
droughts is high. Futhermore,
projected temperature
increases in southern Africa
are likely to exceed the global
average, along with overall
drying and increased rainfall
variability. On the water
demand side, according to
Aqueduct projections, a 40 to
70% - or greater increase is
expected.
Such situations severely
threaten national water
security and economic
growth. As a result, WRI
urged governments to
respond with management
and conservation practices
that will help protect
essential sustainable water
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Perhaps best known for supplying ceramic
membrane filtration systems, Japanese
firm Metawater has ambitious plans to
become a full water engineering service
provider overseas and expand from the
sluggish domestic market. Company
President Tomoyasu Kida speaks
exclusively to WWi magazine about
international expansion plans after the
company went public.
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WASTEWATER OPPORTUNITIES
According to Petts, there has been a
huge amount of interest in shale gas
flowback treatment in recent years,
with many believing that a successful
shale gas industry could stimulate
significant growth in wastewater
treatment markets.
There probably isnt going to be
much of an investment opportunity in
the short-term exploratory phase, he
tells WWi. When we see a scaling-up
to field development, there is likely to
be a greater investment opportunity in
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While Evans believes they would be
relatively limited, if fracking were to
grow in the UK he does see potential
opportunities for water companies - if
they can deliver the value that service
companies provide.
We very much take the view that
as an environmental company there
is a place to lend our expertise to help
mitigate the environmental impact of
fracking in the event that it goes ahead,
he adds. I think those opportunities
are limited, but they may be more than
in the US where most of the flowback
water is deep well injected.
For the UK water industry it would
seem that fracking is of interest, but
is unlikely to produce any kind of
gold rush. And for even those limited
opportunities to be realised will require
the fracking companies to ramp up the
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WATER SECTOR
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IN KOSOVO
Kosovo was devastated both by
the 1998/1999 war and the decade
of isolationism and systematic
discrimination which preceded it.
Among the very poorest countries
in Europe and with a population
of less than two million, the
chronically underfunded water
sector mirrors its traumatic past.
By Jeremy Josephs
STEPPING UP
Given this backdrop it would surely
take a brave man or woman to volunteer
to put his or her head above the Balkans
water parapet. But Baton Begolli, an
environmental engineer from Ankaras
Middle East Technical University with
a Masters degree in environmental
management from the University of
East Anglia in the UK, showed no such
hesitation when the call came.
He worked as director of Kosovos
Water Department and as an advisor
to the Minister in the Ministry of
Environment and Spatial planning. He
then went on to be seconded by the
Swiss Cooperation Office as a Water
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While most sludge treatment
technology used today is the
same as invented back in
Victorian England, drivers and
issues are very different. Energy
and resource recovery were
not a major concern in the
early 1900s as they are today.
Taking a nostalgic look back at
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ONLINE SOLUTION
Given the buildings irregular shape,
featuring overlapping levels, several
hundred water points and some 30
kilometers of pipes, together with
variable usage throughout the day, a
robust solution both for the supply of
water and the evacuation of wastewater
was a prime consideration. Evacuating
wastewater from public toilets, dressing
rooms, offices, rehearsals rooms and
teaching areas, amounting around 500
regularly used fixtures, was the first
consideration.
From the outset of the project, Cunin
Group challenged the initial wastewater
specification, which involved lift vessels
and submersible pumps, due to the
risk of clogging and the build-up of
unpleasant odours in this prestigious
and sensitive location. Having been
awarded the contract a proposal was
submitted by KSB that departed from
a conventional approach. This was the
SRL online pump evacuation lift station
system, where the wastewater does not
stagnate, nor is there potential for the
pumps to become blocked.
The SRL systems had to match the
narrowness and tight dimensions of
the available spaces (and pit traps). The
online lift station is compact because
there is no requirement for the storage
of wastewater and being a modular
solution, it can be passed through
narrow hatches of the pit trap to be
assembled in situ.
The SRL online stations were designed
and constructed by the Engineering
Department of KSB Deville-les-Rouen,
and each of the three stations comprises
two pumps with frequency inverters for
speed control. The principle of the dry
pit proved ideal for this project, with the
closed pumping design eliminating the
possibility of odours and gases escaping
because the effluent being transported
inside the pipe does not stagnate. It
also has the additional benefit that it
removes the need for maintenance
personnel to work with dirty water.
The ability for the Amarex SRL to
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thought the day and year.
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Another factor that must be considered is aircraft safety.
In addition to reducing the standing water hazard on
runways, airports spend time and money to minimise
hazards from bird strikes on aircraft by reducing
attractions for birds.
Temporary or permanent surface water pools that
could attract water fowl to the vicinity of an airport are
considered dangerous. Along migration routes such as
the Mid-West corridor, where large waterfowl move in
huge seasonal numbers, extra care must be taken.
Conventional land-based methods of managing
airport runoff, such as temporary ponds and wetlands,
therefore run counter to Federal Aviation Authority
(FAA) guidelines, which do not allow ponds that retain
water for longer than 48 hours.
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STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
AIRPORT EXPANSION
This was the situation facing Dane
County Regional Airport, in Wisconsin,
which is a joint civil-military
commercial airport serving the Madison
area in south-central Wisconsin.
It is the second largest airport in the
state, with more than 100 daily flights
and more than 1.6 million passengers
passing through each year. In recent
years, the airport has undertaken a
series of construction projects, adding
new runways, parking facilities, airport
ramps and office space.
One of these projects involved
rebuilding an access road around the
airport and resurfacing 5.3 acres of
parking lots. To meet State stormwater
regulations for this development, airport
officials were required to increase the
capacity of their existing stormwater
treatment system, which included a
small retention pond.
A traditional solution to increasing the
airports stormwater treatment capacity
might include expanding the size of the
existing pond. However, the location
of the pond in relation to the runways
could have created a problem by
attracting large water birds that posed a
danger to aircraft.
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EXISTING DRAINAGE
Project team members from the airport
and GRAEF, Inc., its consulting engineer
on the project, reviewed several
manufactured filtration systems before
choosing the Up-Flo Filter from
Hydro International. The Wisconsin
DNR requires treatment options to
be modeled in WinSLAMM, a Source
Loading and Management software
program developed by PV & Associates.
Using real rainfall data from Madison
Airport, WinSLAMM was used to
generate probability distributions of
flows that were expected from the 5.3
acre site. Planned for release late in 2014
version 10.2 of WinSLAMM will have
the Up-Flo filter coded in as a standard
BMP option and will allow engineers to
size the filter according to the treatment
goals.
Performance data from filter field
testing was applied to the WinSLAMM
outputs to determine the size required
to comply with the DNRs goal of 40%
TSS reduction.
The filtration system removes
trash, sediment, nutrients, metals and
hydrocarbons from stormwater runoff.
In terms of maintenance, confined
space-trained personnel with a standard
vactor truck can clean the sump and
All things considered, airport drainage is a complex subject. Attractions for birds need to be reduced for aircraft safety
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by consulting engineer GRAEF before deciding on this option from Hydro International
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AUTONOMOUS
REED
BED
INSTALLATIONS
Understanding Challenging Clogging
Constructed wetlands have gained
popularity to treat industrial and
municipal wastewater. Although
these can be operated for 10 years
without human intervention,
eventually they can become
clogged. A 1.1 EU funded twoyear project set out to address
how autonomous reed bed
installations (ARBI) can help lead
to a reduction in clogging rate.
By Theodore Hughes-Riley
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HUMAN INTERVENTION
A common feature added to commercial
wetlands is aeration which increases the
oxygen-transfer within the beds, and
therefore treatment performance as the
prime mechanism of action is aerobic
microbial degradation.
Furthermore, the heating of wetlands
can prevent certain microorganisms
becoming dormant in the winter
months, further improving the beds
operability in all seasons.
Wetlands have been seen to operate
without human intervention for
around 10 years before the microbial
biofilms and particulates significantly
occlude the interstitial spaces in the
aggregate and severely retard water
flow. Eventually these voids become
so occluded, or clogged, that the bed
will experience bypass or surface flow,
leading ultimately to untreated water
reaching the water course.
As a result, maintenance of beds in
this state must be carried out, which is
both time consuming and costly. One
method currently used to reduce the
effects of clogging is step-feeding. As
biofilm growth is most pronounced
When it comes to
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The diagram above is a representation of the components that make up an autonomous reed
bed installation (ARBI) module.
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This chart shows the reduction in COD for an aerated and a non-aerated bed, with the
influent COD concentration shown for comparison. Five different oxygen set-points were used,
where 0.5 ppm was the lowest seen to significantly improve the treatment efficiency.
BUBBLE SIZE
The fact that the prototype testing stage
has been reached shows that one of the
major project aims, to fully develop a
modular constructed wetland system,
has been achieved.
A lot of the efforts of the project have
gone into developing the ideal design for
these modules and as a consequence the
optimal operational parameters had to be
investigated. One area that was a focus of
research activities, was determining the
preferential parameters for the aeration
system, this included details such as the
correct bubble size for uniform distribution
across the bed and critically the level
of the dissolved oxygen within the bed
that would yield the best contaminant
removal. While additional improvements
are seen at higher levels of aeration, these
are not sufficiently beneficial to warrant
the additional power required. Another
key goal of the project was to contribute to
addressing the gap between research and
innovation on eco-technologies applied to
wastewater treatment.
Additionally, a core area of the research
was to investigate the capabilities of
magnetic resonance to detect the clogging
level within the constructed wetlands. This
was as well subsequently developing a
field deployable probe intended for long
term embedding into wetlands.
While various types of MR probe
were investigated in this project, the
final MR probe was prepared using
permanent Neodymium magnets in a
fully waterproofed housing, suitable for
long-term embedding into gravel beds.
The clogging probes collect information
about the sample using MR relaxation
measurements which tell us about the
environment of water molecules and
therefore tell us about the extent of
clogging.
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OPTIMISING
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IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Insufficient pressure caused by high flow during peak demand
can lead to customer complaints. Boosting pressure to
address these issues can have a significant negative impact
on leakage levels, burst frequency and energy consumption.
Manila Water in the Philippines chose a solution that helped
to not only save 580 m3/day but saved operator time.
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COCA-COLAS
GLOBAL WATER
CHALLENGE
Aiming to be water neutral by 2020, Coca-Cola has set the challenge to use less than a litre of water in
the manufacturing of a litre of its products. Ahead of Aquatech Amsterdam, which is increasingly looking
at industrial water, this article looks at how one of the worlds largest beverage companies is improving its
logistics to become a more efficient user of water.
By Greg Koch
t Coca-Cola weve been paying
close attention to global water
challenges for some time. Were
a global beverage company that relies on
water for our finished beverages, their
production and to grow key agricultural
ingredients. Every day in more than 200
countries and territories, were working
to improve our water efficiency, manage
wastewater and stormwater discharges,
mitigate water-related risks, and
replenish the water we use.
Since we make our products where we
sell them, we have a business imperative
to work to ensure the sustainability
of local water sources everywhere we
operate. So, while we strive to improve
our internal business efficiencies, we
recognise thats not enough.
Our water stewardship program
focuses exactly on such responsible
behavior for all of the Coca-Cola
businesses globally. The program sets
plans and goals in place for everything
from source water assessment and
protection plans to water efficiency
improvements and returning the water
we use to communities and nature
through treated wastewater and
replenishment projects. We have also
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SUSTAINABLE MUNICIPAL
WASTEWATER SOLUTIONS
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Growing populations. Today, more than
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billion people live in cities and the
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to rise.
Imagine what this means for
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these complex and conflicting
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Proco Products
This year at Aquatech, Proco Products,
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750 Inline check valve. This enclosed body
design is suited for heavy duty applications
where elements such as abrasive slurries or
sludge are present. The Series 750 features
a maintenance free design with no hinges
or seals to bind or freeze. No external
power sources are required, thereby making
operation costs obsolete. In addition, the
unique advantage of the valve is its ability to
offer zero valve slam, which can often occur
upon pump shut down.
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Aquatech Amsterdam.
Brkerts modular multi-channel
multiCELL transmitter/controller
type 8619 is a customisable measuring
system with an extended range of
functionalities that can work with
multiple types of sensors. With this
new variant, fluid technology specialist
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type 8619 which has been available only
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The new, separate housing version
offers more flexibility in installation, for
example on walls, railings or pipelines.
The new variant can be supplied with
a 1236 VDC supply, as before, or
alternatively with 110/230 VAC supply.
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Fibrelite
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Grundfos
Hobas Engineering
Hyflux Ltd.
Lama Filtration Systems
LG NANOh20
Merck Millipore
Microdyn
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Netzsch Mohnopumpen GmbH
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Siemens AG
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
A selection of events related to the water and wastewater industry in 2015 can be found here.
For a full list, visit: www.wwinternational.com and click on the Events tab at the top of the page.
September 03-05, 2015
Istanbul Water Expo
Istanbul, Turkey
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