Nov 23, 2009

High quality effluent helps Chinese city to restore water quality in Taihu Lake - Siemens commissions MBR system at Wuxi Xincheng waste water treatment plant

Siemens Water Technologies has commissioned a wastewater treatment system for the Wuxi Xincheng Plant in China´s Jiangsu Province. An upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment plant, the system includes a Siemens advanced Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) system. It is producing of 30,000 cubic meters per day of high quality effluent that meets or exceeds the national discharge standard of Class I-A, allowing the treated water to be safely discharged to Taihu Lake.    more

Oct 30, 2009

Siemens to equip Jeddah sewage treatment plant with one of largest odor control systems in Saudi Arabia

Siemens Water Technologies will supply a nine-piece odor control system at the 250,000 m3/d North Jeddah Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As the STP is located next to the King Abdullah Aziz Airport in Jeddah, the Ministry of Water and Electricity requested that odor control equipment be installed. Valued at more than US$2 million, the system will consist of three different technologies located at five areas throughout the plant. Once completed by year’s end, this will be one of the largest odor control installations in all of Saudi Arabia.    more

Oct 20, 2009

Sinopec selects Siemens wet air oxidation technology for wastewater treatment at two new ethylene facilities

Siemens Water Technologies will provide Zimpro wet air oxidation technology to treat wastewater at Sinopec’s Zhenhai and Tianjin ethylene plant projects in the Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and in Tianjin, China. The systems will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the production of ethylene. The energy-efficient wet air oxidation systems will destroy odorous sulfide pollutants and generate a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional biological wastewater treatment. The Zhenhai system will treat approximately 18.2 m3/hr of wastewater; the Tianjin system will treat 14.5 m3/hr.    more

Oct 12, 2009

Siemens offers waste water treatment plants proven energy and operational cost-saving solutions with ESCO performance contracts

Siemens announces ESCO (energy service company) performance contracts are now available to municipal wastewater treatment customers in North America. An ESCO performance-based contract allows for an alternative funding method for a capital improvement in the wastewater plant that reduces energy use, operation costs, and labor. This is paid for from the guaranteed savings generated from implementing process improvements for the facility.    more

Oct 12, 2009

Brent Hillier to become new head of the U.S. Siemens Water Technologies business

Effective October 1, 2009, Brent Hillier was named the new head of the U.S. arm of Siemens Water Technologies. By creating a business exclusively for the American market under Siemens Industry Inc., Siemens Water Technologies can better address its strongest market. “We want to concentrate more intensely than before on our customers in North America and support them with solutions that will help them master the coming challenges of environmentally compatible water management,” says Chuck Gordon, CEO of Siemens Water Technologies.    more

Oct 12, 2009

Reduce waste, reduce energy: Technology advancements highlight the benefits of biosolids management

Costs associated with treatment and disposal of biosolids can be half of a communities’ operations budget. As cash-strapped cities are looking for ways to reduce costs, water technology providers such as Siemens are providing answers to reduce the cost of biosolids management, while providing a sometimes unexpected boost to the bottom line. Moreover, communities are finding that in addition to reduced operations costs, they have less waste and use less energy—a big benefit for the environment.    more

Oct 12, 2009

Siemens develops a comprehensive odor control solution for wastewater collection and treatment plants

Siemens Water Technologies announces the Full Service Odor Control Program approach to helping wastewater collection and treatment facilities control odors at the lowest lifecycle cost. With a wide range of odor control technologies for the liquid and the vapor phase, Siemens can provide a single product or combination of equipment and treatment methods as well as customized service contracts that ensure long equipment life. Rather than take a “one size fits all” approach, Siemens treats every customer site and application as unique, making treatment recommendations based on data collected at the site. The final treatment solution may include one or more odor control products to achieve the best results in the most cost effective way.    more

Oct 12, 2009

Siemens to provide waste-to-energy wastewater treatment system for Pearl Valley Cheese

Siemens has been awarded the contract to provide process equipment, design and start-up services for a wastewater treatment system at the Pearl Valley Cheese, Inc. production facility in Fresno, Ohio. The system will be designed to convert waste material generated during cheese production into a reusable biogas generated in the wastewater treatment process. This renewable energy approach allows Pearl Valley Cheese to receive a state funding grant, and reduces the amount of natural gas required to operate the facility’s boilers, which are used for providing steam for the cooking, cleaning and pasteurizing processes. The 50,000-gallon-per-day (GPD) (189,000 LPD) system, which will be able to handle a variety of waste streams and still meet effluent requirements, is scheduled for start up in the summer of 2010.    more

Sep 25, 2009

Siemens to provide a BNR system for improving effluent quality at one of the largest municipal wastewater treatment plants in China

Siemens Water Technologies & Engineering (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (SWTE) signed a 42 million Renminbi (approx. 4.2 million Euro) contract with Tianjin Capital Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd. in China (TCEPC) to provide a Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) system for upgrading and retrofitting the facilities of Tianjin Xianyang Road Wastewater Treatment Plant (Xianyang Road WWTP) in Tianjin, China. The BNR system will be designed to treat 450,000 m3 per day and to significantly improve the effluent discharge standard of Xianyang Road WWTP from the national standard of Class II to Class I. The project is scheduled for start up in April 2010.    more

Sep 01, 2009

Siemens extends oil removal product and service offering in Saudi Arabia

Siemens Water Technologies and MyCelx Technologies Corporation (Gainesville, Georgia, USA) have reached an exclusive distributorship and service agreement to promote oil removal technology in Saudi Arabia. Siemens will use its sales and service organization in Saudi Arabia to distribute and support the MyCelx product line, which includes proprietary advanced coalescer and oil removal technology, as well as proprietary filtration media.    more