Case Studies

Rapid Response for Environmental Treatment Challenges

USP Technologies is uniquely positioned to rapidly respond to your environmental treatment challenges. USP combines experienced applications and equipment field support with a large inventory of storage systems and pumping modules to respond quickly to time sensitive water and wastewater treatment situations.

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US Peroxide’s 27% Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment Program offered the refinery several benefits:

• US Peroxide’s turnkey supply scope provided a safe and cost effective solution for supply of supplemental dissolved oxygen to this large refinery during the maintenance outage.
• The biological treatment system’s performance during the outage  convinced the refinery...
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In North America, approximately 1 billion gallons of used oil are collected annually from generators such as quick lubes, truck fleets, and manufacturers.  Several companies have begun the process of re-refining this hydrocarbon-rich waste product.  Re-refining allows the lubricating oil to be repeatedly re-used as a higher value product.

Re-refining...
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A refinery in the Northeast was looking at options to dispose of 10,000 bbls of a high strength, high pH caustic wastewater that had been stored in one of its tanks.  The wastewater had very high phenol levels (14,000 mg/L), which did not allow for processing through the activated sludge...
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A sugar processing facility was experiencing hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) odor issues in their process water stabilization ponds due to anaerobic conditions. The facility’s four identical ponds are 2,500 feet long, 400 feet wide and up to 12 feet deep, with a finger dike down the middle making each...
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A power plant on the West coast was experiencing problems with its large, open-circuit cooling tower system. Excessive bacterial growth in the tower was leading to solids accumulation within the tower’s fill and an increasing frequency of TSS excursions in their blow down discharges to the local municipal...
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On a late Friday afternoon in June, a call came in to USP Technologies: a major poultry processing plant in the Southeast was in danger of violating their wastewater discharge permit.  They needed a solution fast or face fines, a temporary shutdown of operations and significant lost revenue.

The poultry...
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Two nitrate products producers were looking for a solution to their visual NOx emission plumes during frequent plant start-ups that would satisfy both public and regulatory expectations.

USP Technologies was brought in to design a proprietary technology solution which introduces dilute H2O2 into the NOx absorber during start-ups to reduce...
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A steel mill was having issues with their sodium hypochlorite and tote hydrogen peroxide system. USP Technologies (USP) was brought in to design a bulk full service, turnkey system to support the contact loop biodispersant and oil removal applications (filter backwash and cleaning application).

USP designed and provided 50% hydrogen...
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This specialty chemical manufacturer was experiencing discharge violations (phenols, bio-toxicity) resulting from ineffective treatment with their existing processes and needed to pre-treat a wastewater stream to reduce phenols by 90% prior to mixing with higher flow waste streams.

USP Technologies was tasked to design and provide a Fenton’s Reagent treatment program whereby...
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