With regulatory pressure to shutdown coal-powered energy production plants growing, there are several coal-powered plants retiring or converting to natural gas in the next two years. A power plant located in the southern United States needed to replace its traveling water screens as the plant was retiring two of its three coal-powered units and converting the last to natural gas.

When the largest corn processor in Canada decided to improve the predictive monitoring of the pumps used in its operation, they turned to Xylem for PROsmart™, the latest technology for maintaining uptime on rotating equipment. The processing and refining of corn into its various mass-market products such as starch, high fructose corn syrup and glucose requires a large investment in plant and equipment.

The City of Kamloops is located in the interior of British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. Situated along the scenic Thompson River, the city’s wastewater treatment facility currently serves a population of over 80,000 people and treats a daily flow of 40,000 m³ (10 mgd), a number which would soon increase to 60,000 m³ (16 mgd).

During an inspection, it became clear that one major culvert – 140 feet long, 15 feet tall and running under heavily traveled Route 30 – had outlived its expected life. The 10-guage corrugated steel structure was deteriorated and needed to be repaired – with as little disruption to Route 30 traffic patterns as possible.

See how custom Smith-Blair 935/936 adapters repaired deteriorated concrete pipe at a Canadian sawmill without service interruption. Read the full case study.

This plant treats water from the Ruhr River to provide drinking water for several million people.

This system allows Bayernoil to meet the allowed discharge limit set by the Bavarian authorities into the Danube river.

New production lines at plant resulted in increase in wastewater flow and load, which exceeded capacity at the municipal plant. Therefore, pet food manufacturing plant needed an on-site wastewater treatment system.

In the U.S., mines operate under strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations; as such, pipelines must be carefully monitored and maintained.