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Specification Tips to Maximize Heat Transfer
Heat exchangers are widely used in various industries including chemical, oil & gas, power generation, food & beverage, HVAC & refrigeration, pulp & paper to name a few, and are expecting strong growth over the coming years driven in part by a rising focus on environmental impact and improving efficiency standards.
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Xylem’s smart condition monitoring device helps US-based global metal processing company move one step ahead of pump failures
An inspection of the pump showed that the internals had been severely damaged by overheating. The plant operators arranged for the pump to be repaired off-site at Xylem’s Morton Grove facility before being returned for recommissioning.
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Xylem’s Wedeco OptiDetect safeguards Cambridge Water systems
In order to further protect its customers’ drinking water and comply with the latest WIMES and DWI disinfection regulations, Cambridge Water needed to differentiate between the alarms for “quartz sleeve failure” and “UV lamp failure” at its Hinxton Grange facility, thereby allowing operators to take decisive and immediate action in the event of a problem.
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Effective Diffuser Liquid Cleaning Optimizes Plant’s Aeration Performance For UK Utility Company
A large UK private utility company responsible for providing public water supply and wastewater treatment to the majority of southern England recently approached Xylem to enquire about what it could offer to improve or restore the performance on their Sanitaire fine bubble diffused aeration systems.
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Power industry brings about a step change in water quality
A greater awareness of the importance of protecting the environment is leading many companies to review the sustainability of their processes.
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Energy-Saving Optimization of Biological Reactor Through Chemical Liquid Cleaning
At the start of 2021, the plant registered a decrease in air flow, accompanied by an increase in energy consumption by the blowers. Personnel suspected that the diffusers were clogged by calcium carbonate build-up from the water, causing significant head loss in the diffusers.
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Anglian Water are targeting Net Zero operational emissions by 2030
Adoption of innovational technologies that assist carbon reduction and measurement to qualify that improvement is seen as key to NetZero.
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Inspection Insights Enable Utility to Extend the Life of a Critical Raw Water Main Reducing Costs
Scottish Water has a 25-year strategic plan for renewing infrastructure to provide high-quality water services that benefit people and the planet. Aging infrastructure is one of the utility’s primary challenges, with many pipelines built over 50 years ago and some well over 100 years old.
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Field Smart Technology Leads Life-Saving Efforts in Liege
In July, 2021, two months’ worth of rain fell in a single week across Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Embodying the core values at Xylem – specifically, solving water – the Xylem team responded immediately to support disaster relief in the communities around Liege, Belgium.
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Utility identifies more than $260,000 in recoverable revenue using data-driven meter replacement program
The City of Fort Wayne, the second largest city in Indiana, has a proactive water utility that is always looking for innovative ways to optimize water management and better serve their community.
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Specification Tips to Maximize Heat Transfer: Shell and Tube
Heat exchangers are widely used in various industries including chemical, oil & gas, power generation, food & beverage, HVAC & refrigeration, pulp & paper to name a few, and are expecting strong growth over the coming years driven in part by a rising focus on environmental impact and improving efficiency standards.
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ADV Sediment Flow Research by Louisiana State
Recognizing the danger of continued wetland degradation and loss, state and federal officials are seeking ways to rebuild Louisiana’s threatened wetlands.
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Sets the Stage for Outer Space - Neemo Project-EXO-Castaway
Exploring a coral reef is a big adventure for most people
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App Note: Argonaut-XR Customer Stories
In February 2006 field tests began on the SonTek® Modbus Interface Module (MIM.) These tests were conducted by the Central Arizona Irrigation District (CAIDD) of Eloy, AZ and the USDA’s U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center from Maricopa, AZ (formerly the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix).
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App Note: Considerations for Sea Cage Aquaculture
The consumer popularity of marine finfish in recent years has led to an increase in the demand for the culture of traditional species and also experimentation with several newer species.
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App Note: Lower Colorado River Authority Data Delivers On-the-Spot Forecasts
Keith Ging, senior hydrologist in the Hydromet Operations group of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), has a Texas-sized challenge.
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App Note: Jag Ski Creates Versatile Platform for Bay Study
Webb’s work with his Jag Ski – named in honor of University of South Alabama’s Jaguars
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App Note: South San Joaquin Irrigation District Takes the Lead in 21st Century Flow Monitoring
These are not easy times to run an irrigation district in California
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App Note: Monitoring Wastewater Flow in Hawaii
Mixing and dilution of effluents discharged into the ocean is an important aspect of health of ocean users and the ecology of the denizens.
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App Note: Monitoring Coral Reefs in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) awarded YSI Integrated Systems and Services (a division of Xylem Inc.) a contract
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App Note: Flowtracker Helps Nepal River Expedition
The Bagmati is both a sacred river and a city sewer, running through Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu before heading into the mountains and over the Indian border.
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Inuit Hunters Use Castaway-CTD to Gather Data Under Hudson Bay Ice
A shot seal would usually float, buoyed by its blubber atop the dense saltwater of Canada’s Hudson Bay.
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