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Five Key Areas To Improve Your Wastewater System
Wastewater management is a multifaceted endeavor. Below are five critical areas that can significantly enhance your system's effectiveness. 1. Generating reliable laboratory data While it’s true what they say, “you can’t control what you don’t measure,” at...
Types of Organic Compounds In Industrial Wastewater
Testing for different categories of compounds in wastewater—such as readily biodegradable, slowly biodegradable, recalcitrant, and toxic compounds is crucial for several reasons related to environmental protection, wastewater treatment efficiency, and public health....
Free vs Bound Chemical Analysis
The return of healthy biological solids is essential to the performance of activated sludge systems. Along with concentrated biomass, inhibitory and toxic chemicals that can cause WET testing failures or treatment deficiencies may be returned to the system by being...
Flow Cytometry in Wastewater Treatment
Flow cytometry is a laser-based technology that rapidly analyzes a single cell or particle of interest using fluorescent nucleic acid stains. This powerful tool has been used in the medical field for decades to help advance the understanding of immunology, virology,...
Lab Lines Newsletter Issue 3 January 2024
AAL Testing Suites
Pulp and Paper Within our Pulp and Paper testing suite, AAL offers two test groups unique to the Pulp and Paper industry. Terpenes and Resin Acids are two chemical classes found naturally in trees. Turpentine, which consists of terpenes such as alpha-Pinene and...
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Types of Organic Compounds In Industrial Wastewater
Testing for different categories of compounds in wastewater—such as readily biodegradable, slowly biodegradable, recalcitrant, and toxic compounds is crucial for several reasons related to environmental protection, wastewater treatment efficiency, and public health....
Flow Cytometry in Wastewater Treatment
Flow cytometry is a laser-based technology that rapidly analyzes a single cell or particle of interest using fluorescent nucleic acid stains. This powerful tool has been used in the medical field for decades to help advance the understanding of immunology, virology,...
Five Key Areas To Improve Your Wastewater System
Wastewater management is a multifaceted endeavor. Below are five critical areas that can significantly enhance your system's effectiveness. 1. Generating reliable laboratory data While it’s true what they say, “you can’t control what you don’t measure,” at...
Odor and H2S Control
EBS recently assisted a paper mill with odor issues associated with their aerated stabilization basin (ASB) wastewater treatment system. The formation of reduced sulfur compounds (hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide) occurred in a large unaerated...
Keys to Success Before, During, and After an Outage
Scheduled vs Unplanned Outages There are two types of outages, scheduled and unplanned. Scheduled outages are annual affairs at roughly the same time each year and are used to conduct maintenance or other work that cannot be performed while the plant/mill is in full...
Storm Preparedness and Recovery Plan
High winds and rain from hurricanes have the potential to damage wastewater treatment facilities leading to long, unplanned outages. As we are in the midst of another hurricane season, it is essential for wastewater management teams to take appropriate measures to...