External Funding Opportunities – February 2015
Request for Proposals: Operational, Monitoring, and Response Data from Unit Processes in Full-Scale Water Treatment, IPR, and DPR (WRRF-14-16) The WateReuse Foundation Deadline: March 19, 2015 Value: $200,000 (25% matching requirement; cash/in-kind) WateReuse Foundation The WateReuse Research Foundation conducts and promotes applied research on water recycling and desalination. Under the Foundation’s Solicited Research Program, research contractors are selected through a competitive process. There is current research underway to characterize operational failures and response and to develop operation, maintenance, and response [...]
An Ontario Consortium Will Help Test and Prove New Treatment Technologies
This article was originally published in Treatment Plant Operator by Ted J. Rulseh. Manufacturers constantly develop new and improved wastewater treatment technologies. A key question is how and where to test and prove them before going to market. Traditionally, the process includes bench scale and pilot testing, the latter phase often requiring cooperation from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Now, the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) and partners have developed a more effective and streamlined avenue for technology testing and [...]
Eramosa Engineering Uses SOWC Watershed Data to Enhance Water Treatment Data
Eramosa Engineering, supported by SOWC's data integration platform, has created a unique water and wastewater industry data visualization web-based reporting tool that incorporates historical watershed data with existing plant and remote systems data from around a local municipality's water and wastewater system. The Guelph-based company is a leader in developing customized Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for water and wastewater treatment plants in Ontario. SCADA systems are designed to automate and monitor treatment and distribution or collection facilities. [...]