As winter gives way to spring, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) across Canada face a wave of seasonal challenges. Rising temperatures and snowmelt bring significant shifts in...

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the types of metals found in wastewater, their relative toxicity, impacts on human health and the environment...

On occasion, untreated wastewater will contain nitrogen compounds that need to be processed to ensure excess quantities do not accumulate in the environment. In conjunction with...

  Affected Industries, Environmental Impact and General Removal Methods This article kicks off a multipart series focusing on the removal of metals from wastewater.  Our first...

As Lavoisier so aptly put it: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. When using settling and or floatation-based processes as part of the...

The Arrhenius Law, introduced by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1889, is fundamental in understanding how temperature influence’s reaction rates in chemical reaction kinetics. This principle...

In industry, large volumes of water are often required to support their respective processes.   As a result, a large portion of that water will get contaminated...

In recent years, with the completion of major projects such as the SEMECS biomethanization center in Varennes and the CBMO (Centre de Biométhanisation de la Matière...

As a rule, a majority of the particulate debris found in untreated wastewater is negatively charged and must be neutralized before solids separation and particle agglomeration...