Research foundation receives patent for nitrogen removal process

Article Abstract:

The BASF Corporation, of Florham Park, New Jersey, bequeathed its patent for the treatment process (Continuous Flow Completely Mixed Waste Water Treatment Method) to the Water Environment Research Foundation of Alexandria, Virginia that removes ammonia and nitrates by switching between aerobic and anoxic conditions. BASF donated the patent to WERF, because it believes that the foundation can further develop an important, effective, and efficient way to address a critical environmental problem.

Other Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing, CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, Patents & copyrights, Water & Waste Treatment Equip, Intellectual property, Chemical industry, Water treatment equipment, Pesticides industry, Herbicides, BASF Corp., Sulphur industry

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Taking treatment to the extremes

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This article describes the challenges and creative methods in the construction of a wastewater treatment system in Antarctica. The facility will be housed in an insulated, heated building constructed on footings, which will prevent any melting of the permafrost below from the heat generated inside the system.

Statistical Data Included, Management, Environmental aspects, Sewage, Constructed wetlands, Waste heat

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Foundation design for the elevated station

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The article describes the strategy deployed in the design and construction of the elevated structures for replacing the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antactica. The new structures are built with their feet buried in the snow but can be jacked to raise them above the foundation.

Innovations, Building, Ice and snow, Ice and snow building, Foundations (Building), Building foundations

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