- Dec 28, 2023
- 4 min
Lab Test Interferences
I tend to go back and forth in my view of just how different industrial wastewater treatment is from municipal treatment. I used to be...
- Apr 12, 2021
- 4 min
Chemical Oxygen Demand Testing
For me, always traveling, always working at different sites, having to ship lab equipment and set up under less than ideal conditions, I...
- May 25, 2020
- 7 min
Increase DO in a Bioreactor with Hydrogen Peroxide & GPS-X Simulation
Introduction Hydrogen peroxide can be used to increase the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in an aerobic bioreactor, often referred...
- May 10, 2020
- 5 min
BOD, COD, and TOC
The organic strength of wastewater is measured in three ways: 1) as 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), 2) chemical oxygen demand...
- May 10, 2020
- 7 min
Rules of Thumb—Wastewater Treatment
Some Simple Guides This post provides tips and insights I've come across focused on wastewater treatment topics. A search on Google for...
- Feb 11, 2019
- 1 min
Estimating Organic Content
The following is quoted from W. Wesley Eckenfelder, Jr. in his excellent textbook “Industrial Water Pollution Control”, Third Edition,...
- May 1, 2017
- 6 min
Testing Equipment
Testing Equipment for Water, Reverse Osmosis, and Wastewater There are several "sets" of laboratory equipment that are critical for...
