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[...]Changing from aerobic to anaerobic sludge stabilisation More and more municipalities in Germany are striving to optimise the energy efficiency of wastewater treatment on their sewage plants. Generally, there are two options: energetic rehabilitation or expansion of the treatment plant capacity. An expansion of the treatment plant capacity is possible through the construction of a new biological stage, but is counterproductive in terms of energy optimisation, since an additional biological treatment stage requires a considerable amount of additional aeration energy. This solution also increases[...]

[...]Groß-Gerau, Germany The Gerauer Land waterworks supplies around 65,000 inhabitants in the Hessian district of Groß-Gerau with drinking water. The water supply amounts to around 3.3 million m³ per year. The water supply is ensured by extracting groundwater from their own ten deep wells, then treating it to produce drinking water by means of iron removal and demanganisation, and feeding it into the network via a central pressure booster station. After more than half a century of operation, the valves, pipelines, pumps and technical doors had reached the end of their service life. When renewing [...]

[...]Star, Idaho, USA The Star Water and Sewer District knew change was going to come. The plant’s existing in-channel grinder technology wasn’t just aging, it was obsolete. The unit was also in need of repairs that could force two weeks of downtime. Regardless of what they did to “fix” the existing unit, its performance would lag behind newer screening technology. Consultants and engineers pointed the district to HUBER and its ROTAMAT® STAR fine screen as a replacement that would take the plant into the future. The single-most important result that Star Sewer and Water District Waste Water [...]

[...]HUBER presents the HUBER Multi-Rake Bar Screen RakeMax® CF, an innovative variant of the well-proven RakeMax® system with a Centre Flow screen. The model impresses with its hydraulic throughput capacity by means of a U-shaped bar rack, even with small bar spacings and in narrow channels. It offers an optimal hydraulic utilisation of existing channels and the screen is unsusceptible to grit, gravel and stones. Due to its different design options the RakeMax® CF covers a very wide range of applications, allowing us to respond to the individual needs of our customers and to specific constructional[...]

[...]The regular inspection of installations is an important aspect not to be underestimated where drinking water and wastewater structures need to be maintained as valuable elements of our supply and disposal networks. Regular inspections are the only way to ensure the plants and their peripherals can safely be operated a long time. It is of fundamental importance to early identify defects, damage and weak points by regular inspection so that these can be expertly eliminated as soon as possible. The risks of continuing with run-down equipment are not to be neglected, especially not in the field of drinking[...]

[...]In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, enough water of high quality is naturally available at any time. One could almost forget that our most important resource is highly sensitive and gives life not only to humans and animals but also to germs and microorganisms. There are therefore good reasons to protect our water resources and use air filters in drinking water reservoirs. “We have never always built water reservoirs without air filters. Why should we use air filters now?” You may have heard this provocative counter-question sometimes from a customer when you recommended that he should improve his[...]

[...]Coarse screens are the protective equipment of a screening system. Their task is not removing the incoming screenings from the water flow, but coarse screens are used to protect downstream finer screening systems (or machine technology in general) in the event that massive amounts of coarse material or extreme-size debris occur. Such unusual events in the operation of a screen include the occurrence of large-volume flotsam (e.g. tree trunks, tyres, etc.), man-sized screenings rolls, suddenly occurring huge quantities of screenings or large debris and sediment loads at the channel bottom. Such disturbing[...]

[...]An innovative building block for your digitisation strategy The main duty of the screens installed in the inlet to sewage treatment plants is to protect downstream machines and systems and ensure perfect operation of the sewage treatment plant. When selecting the headworks screens it is usually assumed that coarse material up to a certain maximum size will occur. Increasingly, however, unforeseen material such as cans, wood pallets, large tree branches or even iron rods are also found in sewers. Although such coarse material should definitely not be present in a sewer, there is no possibility [...]

[...]Stay on the safe side! The need for security has strongly increased especially in the recent past. This development can be recognized in nearly all situations of life. The security requirements are however especially high where a great many people could be affected very easily. Drinking water supply is an example for such a case. The facilities in this sensitive environment are often in a very poor condition. To identify potential weak points, the authorities recently simulated burglary attempts on public institutions, among them also drinking water supply structures. This campaign lead to [...]

[...]In September 2015, new standards went into force which for the first time refer explicitly to manhole covers made of stainless steel: DIN EN 124-3:2015-09, manhole tops and gully tops for use in vehicular and pedestrian areas Compared to the previous DIN EN 124, several additional tests have been added, such as: Securing of the cover / grating within the frame Skid resistance test Tipping behaviour test, etc. From 2017 on at the latest, relevant products must comply with the new DIN EN 124 standards. Since the transitional period has begun already, it is recommendable to prepare tender specifications[...]