Click here to enlarge imageECOfluid won recognition for its USBFTM, an upflow sludge blanket filtration clarifier. This single-sludge denitrification process incorporates all the processes required for biological treatment in a single reactor and circulation loop, using very little energy and no chemicals.Most of the awards were presented at Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Excellence Awards Banquet and Networking Sessions held in San Antonio in late September.WEFTEC.06 breaks recordsWEFTECTM.06, the Water Environment Federation’s 79th annual technical exhibition and conference, hosted 17,632 attendees and a record 965 companies using 245,155 net square feet of floor space Oct. 21-25 in Dallas, TX, officially designating WEFTEC as the largest annual water quality exhibition in the world.Oracle buys SPLOracle has acquired SPL WorldGroup, a leading provider of revenue and operations management software for the utilities industry and tax management software for government organizations. The move expands Oracle’s applications drive into utilities and the public sector. SPL delivers solutions for customer care & billing, mobile workforce management, outage & distribution management, and asset management that are specifically designed for electric, gas and water utilities.Survey shows permeability a critical corrosion factorAccording to an independent survey of wastewater engineers, municipal managers and contractors, a chemically resistant lining’s permeability to corrosive substances was shown to be the most important consideration during product selection. The survey was conducted in April 2006 by WaterOnline and sponsored by Sauereisen Inc., a third-generation manufacturer of industrial construction materials.CDM welcomes Clabaugh to Industrial Services GroupDon Clabaugh, P.E., has joined CDM Inc.’s Industrial Services Group as a principal engineer and client service manager. With over 22 years of experience and an expert in groundwater flow, chemical transport, and hydraulic engineering, he’ll support transportation, manufacturing, and energy clients to increase environmental accountability through remediation and risk management. He has managed or provided senior technical review for over 100 complex site investigations and cleanups.Met-Pro’s Duall Division gets biggest odor control orderThe Duall Division, in Owosso, MI, received a $3.3 million order - its largest ever - to supply 16 odor control systems to a national environmental services firm. Six of the systems, about a third of the total order, are expected to be shipped in the fourth quarter of the company’s current fiscal year ending Jan. 31. The order includes Duall F Series chemical scrubbers with Fybroc 5530 recirculation pumps and Duall model NH exhaust fans.Ciba Specialty Chemicals chooses GE Fanuc softwareCiba Specialty Chemicals chose GE Fanuc’s ProficyTM Plant Applications Batch Execution software, running on a Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX® platform, for two main pigment manufacturing processes at its Paisley, Scotland plant. The plant produces pigments used for coloring in a wide range of applications, including inks, paints, plastics and textiles. There are 10 process lines, each with its own batch server, and 15 iFIX client displays on the shop floor.FuelCell Energy to power Calif. WWTP with dairy biomassFuelCell Energy Inc. will supply an ultra-clean power plant that will run on a renewable supply of fuel from dairy-processing waste, generating electricity to run a municipal wastewater treatment plant serving California’s San Joaquin Valley region. The winning proposal for FuelCell Energy’s Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plant, submitted by distribution partner Alliance Power Inc., was selected by the city of Tulare over reciprocating engine and micro-turbines in a competitive bid process. Software helps Montenay York earn ‘Facility of the Year’ recognitionEnviance, a provider of Internet-based, on-demand systems for the management and automation of environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance activities, today announced that Montenay York Resources Energy Systems LLC, a leading North American waste-to-energy subsidiary of Veolia ES Waste-to-Energy Inc. and Veolia Environnment, has been chosen as “Facility of the Year” by Environmental Protection. Since implementing Enviance, Montenay York has processed over 1.3 million tons of municipal solid waste and has generated .65 million megawatts of electricity for 400,000 residents...Pure H2O enters transportation, power generation sectorPure H2O Inc. has signed a non-exclusive distribution and marketing agreement with HyTec Fuel Systems Inc. for its water technologies to the transportation and power generation sectors. The Reno company also announced it was in talks to acquire patent and technology rights of H2O Innovations and CMS Inc. impure water treatment systems for the agricultural, oil & gas, and mining industries. 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