Clean Water Act Impacts Concrete
The Clean Water Act impact on concrete producers: An Explanation and Solution When the Clean Water Act was enacted, one of the intentions of this legislation was to reduce the untreated industrial wastewater burden on Publicly Owned Wastewater Treatment (POTW) plants in the same manner that industrial wastewater would only load the treatment plant to the same extent as ordinary household...
Read MoreDredging Marine Sludge and Slurries
PRESS RELEASE MAY 2012 New Technology for Solidification of Dredging Sludge and Slurries© Marine dredging operations produce sludge and slurries from normal operations. Some of the dredged materials contain hazardous or noxious products that must be solidified in order for the products to pass a standard EPA paint filter liquids test for landfill disposal. In some cases the material only...
Read MoreSolidify Cementitious Heavy Slurry
2011 – 2012 CASE STUDY Sludge Set™ Used To Solidify a Cementitious Heavy Slurry at a Concrete Paving Operation Fortrans Inc. became involved in a concrete paving project by providing a pH control system to treat high pH gray water. The pH system lowered the pH of the process water to 7.5 and lowered Total Suspended Solids to <30 mg/L to ensure the water met all EPA requirements for safe...
Read MoreDiF-JET™ Gas Infusion System
DiF-JET™ Gas Infusion Systems (Patent Pending) Broad Spectrum Device© Fortrans Inc. announces new patent pending technology to mix gases into water and other media. The Dif-JET™ System is non-fouling and does not depend on bubble technology to mix gases into water. DiF-JET™ single and combination Gas Infusion Systems are highly efficient at mixing beneficial gases such as oxygen, carbon...
Read MoreSludge Set™
SLUDGE SET™ Super Absorbent Drying Agent Sludge Set™ isused to rapidly dry cement fines based sludge produced at ready mix and precast concrete manufacturing operations to enable easy waste disposal. Sludge Set™ is a non-hazardous material that is easy to use and extremely cost effective compared to other absorbents, filter presses and rotary vacuum systems that utilize filter media. Sludge...
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