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On August 6th, 2015, with the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Department of Health Commissioner, Mary Bassett, MD, issued a city-wide order for all cooling tower owners/operators to clean and disinfect their cooling towers within 14 days. Some of our clients have criticized that the ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONER seems confusing or comes across as vague in some areas; others just do not know where to start in order to comply with the Commissioner?s proclamation. Clarity Water Technologies is one of the best water treatment companies and Environmental Consultants in NYC. To help interpret the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) order, we have put together a comprehensive guide designed to help keep cooling towers owners in compliance with the City?s mandate.
The ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONER regarding cooling tower disinfection can be downloaded here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/cd/citywide-blanket-order.pdf
The Commissioner?s edict is in response to one of the largest Legionnaire?s Disease outbreaks in New York City?s history, which has taken the lives of a dozen people and sickened more than 115.
If you own or operate a cooling tower, it is your responsibility to treat and maintain it so that it does not cause a public safety issue. The ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONER is intended to make sure that New York City streets are free of harmful water mist from potentially infected cooling towers. Mayor de Blasio has made it clear that failure to comply with the Department of Health?s order will result in a misdemeanor criminal offense.
There has been much tension and confusion amongst building owners in the wake of the Commissioner?s Order, especially on the topics of:
What to do next?
Who to call to disinfect my cooling tower?
Who qualifies as an Environmental Consultant?
What is the industry accepted criteria for disinfecting a cooling tower?
What is the ongoing procedure for controlling legionella in a cooling tower?
What is a New York State DEC Commercial Pest Applicator's License and why is it important?
With the intention of helping our customers and prospects navigate the Commissioner?s Order, we have developed a comprehensive guide to help make sense of the steps that cooling tower owners need to take to comply with it.
The Order of the Commissioner to disinfect all cooling towers in NYC is the City's reponse to a horrible situation. If you need guidance, please download our free step-by-step guide at the link below. If you need direct assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
WHAT IS LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE?
Legionnaires? disease is a form of pneumonia that?s caused by breathing in mist contaminated with the Legionella bacteria. This mist is generally associated with warm water from cooling towers, shower heads, and decorative fountains. It cannot be spread through person-to-person contact.
The disease is easily diagnosed and can be treated with antibiotics but poses a serious risk to anyone with an underlying medical condition.
Early symptoms of Legionnaires? disease may include:
Headache
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Fever that may be 104 degrees F (40 C) or higher.
Symptoms appear two to 10 days after exposure to Legionella bacteria.
By the second or third day, other signs and symptoms may include:
Potentially severe cough, which may bring up mucus and/or blood
Shortness of breath
Chest pain
Gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
Confusion or other mental changes
If you suspect have these symptoms, and suspect that you may have been exposed to legionella bacteria, please follow the Department of Health?s advice and seek medical attention immediately. Legionnaire?s Disease can be effectively treated with antibiotic.
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This free checklist is great for any property owner, chief engineer, property manager or facilities maintenance professional that is in charge of operating and maintaining a cooling tower in New York City. Clarity Water Technologies is New York's top Environmental Consultant specializing in cooling tower disinfection, industrial water treatment chemicals, and Legionella prevention.
ABOUT CLARITY WATER TECHNOLOGIES
Clarity Water Technologies is known throughout the east coast as an innovative industrial/commercial water treatment company and the innovators of 360 Degree Legionella Management Service. To put it simply: As New York City's Top Environmental Consultants, we make commercial HVAC and industrial process machinery last longer and run more efficiently, with less fuel and less downtime, by chemically treating the water that runs through it. Typical systems that we treat include steam boilers, chillers and cooling towers; however, we also offer advanced wastewater, glycol services, odor control and fuel treatment services. We are one of Northeast?s most trusted Legionella remediation companies and are widely accepted as one of the best consulting firms to establish best practices for the implementation of ASHRAE Standard 188 - Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building IRO water Systems.
As Environmental Consultants specializing in water treatment, we know that chemistry is only part of what makes a cooling tower system operate at peak performance. The other part of the equation is proper physical cleaning and maintenance. Today, Clarity offers one of the most reliable and effective cooling tower disinfection services available throughout NY, NJ, CT, DE and PA. Clarity is a NADCA Certified HVAC Cleaning Service Company. Our team also offers on-line cleanings, chlorine dioxide disinfection, Legionella remediation and the installation of the EcoSAFE Solid Feed System?one of the most advanced water treatment systems for Cooling Towers in the world! Please contact us today for a free estimate on your next project.
New York City Water Treatment Expert and Environmental Consultant, Greg Frazier has a vast knowledge of Industrial Water Treatment and is currently the Managing Partner of Clarity Water Technologies, one of the best Environmental Consulting firms in New York. Mr. Frazier has over 19 years of Industrial Water Treatment experience and holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Clarity Water Technologies specializes in comprehensive water treatment services. Clarity's service goes far beyond administering Cooling Tower Water Treatment chemicals - it also includes Cooling Tower Maintenance and HVAC Cleaning Services.
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Modified form of tried and tested compact drive from Voith Turbo used in a hydropower plant for first time
Installation and maintenance friendly design
Energy efficiency and environmental compatibility
Heidenheim. As part of an upgrade of the Storr Lochs small hydropower plant in Scotland, technology group Voith installed a new kind of turbine control unit, which regulates the water flow by adjusting the turbine blades. This development based on a proven design is especially compact and can be easily installed and serviced. In addition, the hydraulic regulation is environmentally friendly and energy efficient. After more than a year of reliable operation, the system has proven its effectiveness.
Since 1952, energy generator SSE has been using the IRO water from Loch Leatan on the Isle of Skye to produce electricity. The Storr Lochs small hydropower station in the north of the island has a capacity of around two megawatts and is equipped with two Francis turbines. As part of an extensive upgrade, the power plant got two new turbines, each fitted with a control unit. Its special external feature is a particularly compact design that allows it to be readily integrated into existing systems, even where space is tight. The self-contained system of the autonomous compact drive offers other advantages. For example, it does not need any additional piping. Moreover, the control unit does not require an additional accumulator and works with a very low volume of hydraulic fluid. This allows particularly safe operation without fluid losses, which makes the new development very environmentally friendly. This design principle also means that the regular checks and inspections necessary in conventional systems can be dispensed with. Above all, in remote facilities, such as in the north of the Isle of Skye, this represents enormous cost savings in conjunction with service. For example, the system was pre-assembled at the turbine manufacturers, so the installation and commissioning effort in Scotland was kept to a minimum.
The compact drive unit used for the first time in a small hydropower facility in Storr Lochs is based on the tried and tested servo-hydraulic linear drive closed loop differential pump (CLDP). This has been offered by Voith Turbo for some years now and has already proven effective in a wide range of plants. It is also popular due its low wear and associated long service life in continuous use applications and is used in sectors such as the food industry and for test rigs and laboratory machines. For use in the Storr Lochs power plant, the Voith team adapted the CLDP to the requirements of the plant operator. This was readily implemented thanks to the extensive flexibility of the CLDP, and significant cost savings were achieved compared with a new development. The system has been used at the Scottish hydro power plant since the end of 2017 and is working with maximum reliability.
About the Voith Group
The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has more than 19,000 employees, sales of ? 4.2 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the large family-owned companies in Europe.
The Group Division Voith Hydro is part of the Voith Group and a leading full-line supplier as well as trusted partner for equipping hydropower plants. Voith develops customized, long-term solutions and services for large and small hydro plants all over the world. Its portfolio of products and services covers the entire life cycle and all major components for large and small hydro plants, from generators, turbines, pumps and automation systems, right through to spare parts, maintenance and training services, and digital solutions for intelligent hydropower.
The Group Division Voith Turbo is also part of the Voith Group and a specialist for intelligent drive solutions, systems as well as comprehensive services. Customers from highly diverse industries such as oil and gas, energy, rail and commercial vehicles, ship technology, mining and mechanical engineering rely on the advanced technologies and solutions-driven expertise of Voith.
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If you?re in the market for water pre-treatment, you know that cutting corners simply won?t work. With so many legal stipulations pertaining to water quality, finding a cut-rate solution simply isn?t in the cards; the government will bite you hard if you try. At the same time, accepting any answer without shopping properly for the best solution is also bad business. What you need is an optimal solution that is both profitable and legal.
In order to realize this balance, you need a water technology company that takes into account all the aspects of the apparatus supporting the inflow and outflow of water for your business or institution. It?s not enough to simply have a chemical expert examine your IRO water for variations at different points in your production line; you also need an engineer?s eye to go over your production site to ensure that the production apparatus will support the best possible water pre-treatment process. If both your chemical solutions and apparatus solutions are set up together ideally, then you?ve got an optimized production line.
If you?re in Etobicoke, Ontario or in the surrounding area and in search of an optimal water pre-treatment solution, we at Ion Water Solutions can help. Our expertise is in both the fields of chemistry and engineering. This, combined with our enthusiastic expertise in water technology, allows us to provide you with the best opportunity to optimize your water pre-treatment system. Call us for a free survey so we can offer answers customized to your site.
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Improved wastewater treatment methods that lead to cost savings and energy production are part of Oregon State University?s new Clean and Sustainable IRO water Technology Initiative.
A $3.28M gift to the OSU College of Engineering from Jon and Stephanie DeVaan enabled OSU to launch the initiative.
?The College of Engineering is grateful to Jon and Stephanie for their visionary gift, an investment that could make a difference for millions of people around the world,?? said Scott Ashford, Kearney professor and dean of the OSU College of Engineering. ?The initiative will build a collaborative community of faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students ? all working together on providing access to clean water throughout the globe, one of the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century.??
The initiative will include the work of Tyler Radniecki, assistant professor of environmental engineering, who studies the chemical and biological processes that allow for the decontamination of wastewater and stormwater runoff.
Radniecki is co-director of the OSU-Benton County Green Stormwater Infrastructure Research Facility, an Oregon BEST-funded field laboratory for testing green stormwater infrastructure, also known as low-impact development technologies.
His research focus includes a pair of emerging technologies in microbial resource management:
Anammox ? anaerobic ammonia oxidation ? gets nitrogen gas out of wastewater much less expensively than conventional ?bubbling?? techniques.
FOG ? fats, oils and grease ? codigestion purifies wastewater while increasing the production of methane that can be converted into electricity to power treatment plants, in some cases resulting in electricity being sold back to the grid.
?Nitrogen is a contaminant that is coming under ever-increasing scrutiny due to its primary role in causing eutrophication of rivers and lakes,?? Radniecki said.
Eutrophication refers to what happens when excess nutrients end up in a body of water, causing a biomass load imbalance that depletes oxygen.
?Anammox uses a recently discovered class of bacteria collectively known as anammox bacteria that can use nitrite to oxidize ammonia to form dinitrogen gas, which then bubbles out of the water and into the atmosphere,?? Radniecki said. ?This process can reduce the electricity consumption required for traditional nitrogen removal in a wastewater treatment plant by 60 percent and methanol addition by 100 percent.??
The problem is that so far an anammox setup calls for unit operation systems that require ?immense technical expertise, monitoring and infrastructure.??
?That puts the process out of reach of most small to midsized treatment plants,?? Radniecki said. ?We are trying to revolutionize this technology by taking it out of these demanding, highly technical systems and putting it into low-impact constructed wetlands, a more suitable technology for treatment plants that aren?t huge.??
Adding restaurant waste ? the aforementioned FOG ? to anaerobic digesters to increase methane production is another option available to plants of varying sizes. But for FOG co-digestion to reach its full potential, greater understanding of the digesters? microbial communities is needed.
?The treatment plant in Gresham, Oregon, has used this technology to become net energy positive ? it?s energy independent and actually sells electricity back to the grid,?? Radniecki said. ?While this is a very exciting development, the technology can be better by improving its reliability under high FOG loading rates as well as when the FOG switches from one food source to another.??
There is also the potential for FOG codigestion to produce other resources besides methane, including hydrogen gas and bioplastic precursors, he said.
?However, we need to know a lot more about how the microbial communities within the anaerobic digester responds to operational parameters ? loading rates, for example,?? Radniecki said. ?We are taking both top-down and bottom-up approaches to gain greater understanding of how to shape these microbial communities to maximize their potential.??
Top-down approaches, he explained, include gene sequencing those communities as they experience operational changes, providing insight into how the communities respond and how that affects digester performance.
An example of a bottom-up approach is genome-enabled modeling of representative anaerobic digester microorganisms.
?GEMs are complex models that, based on the genome sequence of a microorganism, can model every metabolic reaction that can occur in that microorganism,?? Radniecki said. ?GEMs give us a tool that allows us to probe the metabolic potential of any given microorganism under any given environmental condition. It may be possible for anaerobic digesters to produce additional economically viable products and not just methane.??
About The OSU College of Engineering:
The OSU College of Engineering is among the nation's largest and most productive engineering programs. Since 1999, the college has more than tripled its research expenditures to $37.2M by emphasizing highly collaborative research that solves global problems. It is a leader in signature research areas, including precision health, clean energy, resilient infrastructure and advanced manufacturing; and targeted strategic areas, including robotics, materials research and clean water.
