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Mixing at Home: What Do Gravy and Mixing Have In Common?

The Secret to Great Gravy? Thinking In Terms of “Good Mixing” Is there anything better at turning a good holiday meal into a truly great one than a lake of delicious gravy? We have all been caught us all off guard by lumpy, pasty tasting gravy at least once. Usually after we have already covered our turkey and mashed potatoes with it. Thick, rich, and flavourful gravy doesn’t come easy, but properly mixing dry powders with liquids is a simple concept that just takes a little finesse to perfect. If you think about making gravy in terms of “good mixing” you can’t go wrong. First, you only need about 1/4-1/3 cup of holiday bird or roast drippings, being careful to

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Wastewater Mixers in Water Treatment
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Selecting Wastewater Mixers for Wastewater Treatment – Part 1

Selecting Wastewater Mixers for Wastewater Treatment – Part 1 Wastewater Mixers for Optimal Chemical Preparation Chemical preparation in wastewater and water treatment directly impacts many downstream processes. Let’s take a look at several common chemicals used and some key factors that influence their preparation and the selection of wastewater mixers. Lime Slurry Preparation When preparing lime slurries for controlling pH, uniformity is critical. Why? Because lime solids must reach/stay in suspension if they are to serve their purpose in downstream processes. For this reason, it’s essential that wastewater and water treatment facilities have lime slurry mixers that can efficiently and effectively make up/maintain uniform slurries. In order to successfully suspend/re-suspend solids, a mixer needs to create a flow pattern that involves the entire

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Selecting A Waste Water Mixer for Wastewater Treatment – Part 2

Selecting A Waste Water Mixer for Wastewater Treatment – Part 2 Waste Water Mixers for Optimal Flash Mixing & Flocculation In part 1 of this series on wastewater and water treatment mixers, we discussed how to select a waste water mixer for chemical preparation. In this post, we’ll show you how to select a Waste Water Mixer for flash mixing and flocculation. Done in a Flash? Aggressive Agitation + Speed for Flash Mixing Flash mixing is used to evenly distribute coagulating chemicals in water, allowing micro-flocs to form. As the precursor to flocculation, flash mixing increases the efficiency of flocculation and reduces chemical wastage. Because the components need to be quickly and evenly dispersed, this process is all about brute

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Mixing Principles in Play

Engineers Are Awesome: Potable Water Treatment Out of Thin Air

Engineers Are Awesome: Potable Water Treatment Out of Thin Air An Alternative to Traditional Water Treatment UTEC and Mayo DraftFCB teamed up to create an amazing water treatment billboard in Lima, Peru, the second largest desert capital in the world. It rarely rains in Lima – the city sees perhaps half an inch of precipitation annually – and many of the 7.6 million residents have limited access to clean drinking water. More than 1.2 million people lack running water entirely and are forced to gather their water from unsanitary wells or pay an extortionate amount of money to unregulated private-company water delivery trucks – usually 20 times what more well-off residents pay for the luxury of residential running water. Though

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Water Treatment

The Big Thirst

Bookmarks: The Big Thirst The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wal-Mart Effect comes a fascinating journey into the secret life of water, a book that upends everything we think we know about the most vital substance in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made

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