Essentials of Water and Wastewater Treatment for CPI Operations Guidebook - electronic book

• Guidance on inlet water treatment and wastewater treatment for reuse or safe discharge
• Engineering recommendations for filtration, sludge handling, and separation systems
• Biological treatment strategies, including microorganism selection and optimization
• Insights into activated sludge systems and complex treatment processes
• Tips on pumps, valves, and piping design specific to water- and wastewater-treatment systems
• Project management and cost-estimating guidance for capital projects
• Delivered as a 158-page PDF for practical reference

• Process and chemical engineers
• Water- and wastewater-treatment specialists
• Plant operations and maintenance engineers
• Design engineers responsible for system integration and process optimization
• Technical managers in chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial facilities

Articles Include

• Fact at Your Fingertips: Non-chemical Water Treatment
• Fact at Your Fingertips: Filtration Testing and Slurry Conditioning
• Modern Water-Treatment Challenges
• Challenges of Drying Sticky Wastewater Sludge
• Filtration and Separation During Chemical Process Operations: Avoid Common Errors
• Facts at Your Fingertips: Industrial Microorganisms
• Harnessing Biotechnology: A Practical Guide
• Biological Wastewater Treatment: Maintaining the Needed Microorganism Population
• Biodegradation and Testing of Scale Inhibitors
• Cooling Towers: Managing Tighter Water-Discharge Regulations
• Engineering for Plant Safety
• Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps
• Facts at Your Fingertips: Water Treatment Technologies
• CPI Water and Steam Chemistry
• Managing Small and Medium-sized Capital Projects
• Plot Plan Design: Process Requirements
• Facts at Your Fingertips: The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
• A Primer on Reverse Osmosis Technology
• Valve-Selection Best Practices
• Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
• Optimizing Pressure Relief Systems
• Modern Concepts in Makeup Water Treatment
• Facts at Your Fingertips: Design and Operating Principles for Bioprocesses
• Technology Profile: Ethylene Production via Cracking of Ethane-Propane
• An Overview of Filtration
• Wastewater: A Reliable Water Resource
• Strategies to Minimize Wastewater Discharge
• Facts at Your Fingertips: Industrial Adsorbents
• A Universal Equation for Designing Pipelines
• Calculate NPSH with Confidence
• Treating Wastewater for Industrial Reuse
• Strategies for Water Reuse
• Condition Monitoring Methods for Pumps

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