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02 December 2016

Exploring the possibilities of MBR Modelling

Will MBR modelling help? Clearly, the gap between practitioners and academics has to be bridged first. The fine detail of interruptions in MBR process operation needs to be chronicled, crystallised and conveyed by practitioners and understood by modellers.

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06 June 2016

IFAT Munich 2016 − a report

As the largest water−wastewater−waste trade show globally, Munich’s IFAT (30 May−​3 June 2016) was certainly a sizeable affair. The Messe München venue, handily placed at the end of the U2 metro line, comprises 16 aircraft hanger-sized halls.

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25 April 2016

Algal bioreactors: how green?

What can an alga do that a regular micro-organism can’t, specifically when it comes to treating wastewater? Well, for one thing algae don’t need air; pumping air is an expensive business, such that anaerobic treatment also seems to have taken off of late.

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26 March 2016

MBR capacity – China and RoW

As at March 2016, Beijing Origin Water had 20 installations in China rated at 100 MLD or more, and 35 of more than 50 MLD. That puts the average capacity of these 35 plants at more than 110 MLD. That’s a whole lotta fibre.

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15 January 2016

MBRs − a random history

Who were the pioneers of immersed hollow fibre MBRs? Andrew Benedek of Zenon took a novel idea and made it into a fully-fledged and widely employed commercial product, and not overlooking Professor Kazuo Yamamoto and his team at Tokyo University.

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13 December 2015

MBR CAPEX costs – large versus small

A 2015 analysis courtesy of Ecologix in Taiwan deconstructed the MBR technology of a small-scale plant into its constituent parts. When the components of MBR technology were considered, it is the membrane which made up the lion’s share of the capital cost.

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03 November 2015

Innovation, irritation, indignation

There doesn't appear to be a single aspect or component of MBR technology that has not been declared innovative by someone: the membrane material, membrane module, membrane aeration, frame, overall design − you name it, somebody somewhere has innovated it.

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18 May 2015

MBR operators converge on Texas

Workshops organised by the technology and system suppliers − such as Ovivo’s 10th annual event for MBR operators in Austin Texas, in May 2015 − never fail to extend one’s knowledge, by lining up plant operators with real practical experience.

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31 March 2015

MBR global capacity

Of all the questions that crop up about MBR technology, perhaps the most frequent is, 'What is the global capacity of MBR treatment technology?' Of course, as with most questions of this nature, the honest answer is, 'I don’t know'.

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