WASTEWATER DISINFECTION RESOURCES

WASTEWATER DISINFECTION SOLUTIONS

  • Floor Washer System

    The patent pending Floor Washer System is the Foambuster nozzle/deflector, but with the deflector rotated from below the nozzle to above the nozzle. The inverted splashplate spreads nozzle flow out across a floor in a fairly wide path to wash settled grit, sand or debris into a sump where it can be pumped out by a dewatering chopper pump. The Floor Washer System is particularly useful for attacking deposition problems in Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) tanks, storm collection tanks, equalization tanks, lift stations, and influent channels.

  • UV Technology Offers Solution For Emerging Water Crisis

    Many are turning to UV as an effective barrier to enable the reuse of wastewater, for indirect reuse, and aquifer recharge.

  • CHEM-FEED® Plastic Triplex Skid

    CHEM-FEED® Engineered Skid Systems are now shipping! These Skid Systems are simple to operate, easy to order, and includes everything needed for precise chemical feed.

  • GWT Zeroturb Bio-Organic Liquid Flocculant

    GWT advanced ZeoTurb™ is a unique advanced bio-organic liquid flocculant.

  • TrojanUVFlex – Drinking Water Disinfection System

    The TrojanUVFlex is designed with features to make installation and operation simpler, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before. Built on the proven TrojanUV Solo Lamp Technology platform, TrojanUVFlex allows for energy-efficient high-intensity delivery of UV light in an extremely compact footprint.

WASTEWATER DISINFECTION VIDEOS

Explore ozone technology and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), with expert insights on real-world applications, water safety, and innovations shaping municipal and industrial treatment systems.

ABOUT WASTEWATER DISINFECTION

 

Wastewater disinfection takes place after primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary wastewater treatment. It is typically a final step to remove organisms from the treated water before the effluent is released back into the water system. Disinfection prevents the spread of waterborne diseases by reducing microbes and bacterial numbers to a regulated level.

A variety of physical and chemical methods are used to disinfect wastewater prior to it being released into natural waterways. Historically, the chemical agent of choice for municipal wastewater treatment has been chlorine, due to its disinfecting properties and low cost. However, the rising cost of chlorine and concerns that low chlorine concentrations can still be toxic to fish and other wildlife, has given rise to more physical methods of wastewater disinfection being adopted such as ozonation or ultraviolet (UV) light.  

The use of ozone as a disinfection agent has the added benefit of increasing the dissolved oxygen content of the treated wastewater. However, because the ozone has to be generated, ozonation can require prohibitive up-front capital expenditure compared to traditional chlorination. UV disinfection has been growing in popularity as a wastewater disinfection method, in large part because of the life-cycle economics of the equipment and the fact that, like ozone, there is no toxic residual.