Archive for the ‘Channel Monster’ Category


Video: New Monsters Unveiled at WEFTEC

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Take a peek at a few of the new Monsters JWCE unveiled this year in New Orleans during WEFTEC 2010!

  • The massive Channel Monster 9020-XD which grinds up to 60 MGD - shredding debris into small particles, protecting pumps and systems
  • Muffin Monster Manhole. Complete with a Muffin Monster sewage grinder, this pre-fab fiberglass manhole easily ties into sewer line as unit for easy installation. 
  • And the awe-inspiring 16′ Bandscreen and Finescreen Monsters for screening small solids from the wastewater stream.

Video brought to you by Processing magazine.

Muffin Monsters Help Protect Pumps from Ragging and Clogging

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Muffin Monster grinders are a powerful way to protect sewage pumps from clogging and ragging. Dual-shafted Muffin Monsters and our larger Channel Monster grinders are installed in sewage pump stations to shred rags, wipes and debris into small particles so they flow easily through pumps and pipelines.

A new threat to sewage pumps are “flushable” wipes and disposable cleaning rags used in the home. These materials can build up inside a pump and slowly reduce its efficiency or worse, seize the pump completely. This leads to costly (and incredibly messy) maintenance and can even lead to a sewer spill.

Be kind…These items don’t belong in the sewerage system – trash them, don’t flush them.

The Muffin Monster loves to devour “flushables”, check out our newest video grind test…

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JWC Awarded Large Channel Monster Order for Oman

Friday, March 5th, 2010

On February 25th JWC Environmental received an order from Oman Wastewater Services for eight massive Channel Monster® sewage grinders. The Middle Eastern country is undertaking a major expansion of sewage service in the Muscat Governate portion of the country.

The order for the A’Seeb project includes six Channel Monsters model CDD5016 and two model CDD6016.  Each Channel Monster can process around 20-million gallons of sewage per day (3030 m3/h) and protects pumps by shredding all rags and debris into small particles. (more…)

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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JWC’s Toughest Monster Yet!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The latest version of JWC Environmental’s Channel Monster has arrived. The Channel Monster XD 3.0 has advanced into an ideal grinder and screening system for wastewater pump stations. JWC offers a variety of Channel Monster sizes, including 2.0, 2.5, and now the NEW XD 3.0. This is one big Monster!

The XD 3.0 is the world’s largest, most powerful sewage grinder at 13′ (4m) tall, weighing 9300 lbs (4220 kg) and producing 7 tons of cutting force at peak loads. The Channel Monster combines rotating screening drums and a Muffin Monster® grinder to shred solids while processing up to 59 million gallons per day (9306 m3/h). This combination is ideal for pump stations since the grinder shreds rags, plastics, wood, and trash so particles flow easily through pumps and pipelines.

The new Channel Monster XD 3.0 has multiple motors – a 15 hp (11 kW) grinder and 1 hp (0.75 kW) for the drums. The grinder has larger 3″ (76mm) hex drive shafts and stainless steel coil drums with 1/2″ (12mm) diameter rod. This new design features larger cutters, shafts and housings so the grinder can process heavy debris and first flush storm loading.

“We designed thicker cutters for a longer service life,” said Rob Sabol, JWC’s Director of Engineering. “Bigger cutters also help the process – solids are ground up so they pass through pumps but are still large enough for headworks screens to capture and remove them.”

The Channel Monster is offered with several options such as perforated or coil screening drums; JWC’s exclusive immersible motors; overflow bar screens; custom wet well frames and high tech controllers.

“Pumping station designers can now replace bar screens with the Channel Monster so operators never have to deal with solids removal and disposal – eliminating vector and odor problems in the neighborhood,” said Sabol.

Muffin Monster® Equipment is GREEN in More Ways Than One!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Congress and the Administration are anxious to put Americans back to work with the economic stimulus package and will allocate $4 billion to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund over two years.

Half of the funding will be spent within 180 days and most States are already approving priority projects; in addition, the second year of stimulus funding is a wide open opportunity to apply for loans or grants to purchase new equipment and/or make upgrades.

Replacing worn out equipment with JWC technologies is simple, quick and affordable – plus our innovative solutions provide long lasting benefits. In addition, Congress requests 20% of the funding go toward “green” energy and water efficiency projects at wastewater treatment plants.

We’ve highlighted the green benefits associated with each of our technologies –

Short-Term / Immediate Projects
Muffin Monster®
Small Pump Station Grinder

• We do the design work
• Easily bolts onto the wall
• Fits almost any pump station – in-channel or wall mounted
• Effectively grinds rags, trash, wood and debris to protect pumps
• Helps prevent sewage spills

Green benefit: Eliminates trash truck trips to your pump station.

Channel Monster®
High Flow Pump Station Grinder

• Simple design work
• Little to no civil work
• Fits almost any pump station – in channel or wall mounted.
• Incredibly powerful – grinds rags, trash, plastics, wood and debris to protect pumps
• The large XD 2.5 model is designed to handle first flush storm loading
• Exclusive immersible motor

Green benefit: Helps prevent sewage spills.
Green benefit: Replaces pump station bar screens so trash truck trips can be eliminated. Inorganic solids are removed at the treatment plant headworks

Mid-Term / Efficiency Projects
Auger Monster®
Affordable headworks screen for small and rural facilities

• Install a brand new headworks
• Customized to fit your channel and site
• Little civil work needed
• Clean and compact
• All flow passes through a perforated screen with 1/10”, 1/8” or 1/4” (2, 3 or 6mm) openings
• Excellent washing
• Optional built-in compactor
• Optional built-in bagger
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Auger Monster.

Green benefit: The all-in-one system eliminates separate washer-compactor so it is more energy efficient
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill

Screenings Washer Monster
®
The industry’s cleanest screenings

• Retrofits to most existing screens
• Dewaters screenings up to 50% or more
• Reduces volume of screenings up to 80% or more
• Many treatment plants have cut their disposal costs in half or more
• Grinder and wash system help remove more soft organics
• Greatly reduces odors

Green benefit: Helps cut down on trash truck trips to the landfill.
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill.

Honey Monster®
Septage receiving station

• A Honey Monster septage receiving area is a simple and quick project which helps the treatment plant run more efficiently and brings in needed revenue.
• Complete engineered system
• Grinds, screens and compacts unwanted material typically found in septage, such as rags, clothing, trash and plastics
• MonsterTrack controller records the driver, discharge amount, pH and other details to make billing and invoicing easier

Green benefit: Ensures compliance with local septage discharge regulations

Longer-Term / Efficiency Projects
Finescreen Monster®
Monster Separation System®

• Install brand new fine screens
• In most cases retrofits into your existing channel and building
• Low profile and easy to install
• Perforated panels with 1/8” or 1/4” (3 or 6mm) circular openings capture far more trash and small debris than bar screens.
• StapleGuard™ UHMW panels are long lasting and easy to change
• Monster Blind Diagnostic System monitors and controls the system providing detailed flow data and performance information
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Finescreen Monster.

Green benefit: Integrated Screenings Washer Monster® helps clean and compact discharged screenings – at some MSS sites the system captures more trash yet needs fewer trips to the landfill thanks to the SWM.
Green benefit: Fine screens remove most of the trash, plastics and debris ensuring unsightly trash does not end up in the biosolids applied on farm land.

Muffin Monster®
Grease receiving station

• Simple receiving system allows grease to be unloaded into the digesters in order to improve biogas production
• Grinders shred the rags, towels, cuttlery and other trash typically found in restaurant grease
• Heavy objects trap removes rocks and large steel items
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Muffin Monster.

Green benefit: Reuse of a once unwanted product (grease) and increased bio-energy production.

Fish Cleaning Station

Clean, cost effective and reliable

• Turns fish waste into small particles that are easily flushed away.
• Self-contained unit uses a Muffin Monster dual shafted grinder to shred solids, such as fish parts, cans, plates, utensils and fishing lures, preventing clogs and protects downstream equipment.

Green benefit: Small 3HP motor is quick and energy efficient.

California Pumping Station Flowing Smoothly Now That It’s Protected by a Channel Monster

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The Channel Monster grinds rags and trash to protect the pumps from ragging.

The Dana Point wastewater pumping station in Southern California was suffering terribly from rags and trash wrapping around pump impellers. Pumps were ragging up once or twice every week – and these were the fanciest “non-clog” pumps available.

What’s the point of a non-clog pump if it constantly clogs? (more…)

Muffin Monster Busts Scum in World-Class MBR Plant

Monday, January 18th, 2010

This Muffin Monster model 30004-1206 grinds trash in the scum line to keep the pumps running smoothly. (credit: Eric Dickson, Watermark Environmental)

The January issue of TPO (Treatment Plant Operator Magazine) names the Broad Run Wastewater Reclamation Facility in Ashburn, Va. their Top Performing Plant of the month.

The article details the extensive work Loudoun County went through from start to finish to get this very effective membrane bioreactor plant off to a solid start. Not only is it one of the world’s largest MBR plants, Broad Run has also put a Monster to work there as well.

The Muffin Monster grinder is near the primary clarifiers protecting the scum pumps from clogging on trash and debris. This is a crucial part of Broad Run’s treatment process due to the stringent standards and specific state regulations the 21-acre facility is faced with.

Located in a nearby pump station two Channel Monster model CDD4016 grinders were installed in 2006. These Mega-monsters are also chewing up solids in order to keep the sewage lines clear and protecting the pumps from ragging.

Read the rest of TPO’s story here - www.tpomag.com/editorial/view/2239/Lessons-Learned

JWCE Wins Large Order — Large Monster Grinders Headed to Indiana

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Today JWC Environmental received a large order for three Channel Monster 9020-XDM3.0 grinders for a project in Goshen Indiana. These massive dual shafted sewage grinders, standing over 16′ (4.8m) tall, are scheduled for installation as part of a new combined sewer overflow (CSO) treatment facility project.

JWC representative Bill Cantwell with Henry P. Thompson and Bowen Engineering worked for months with Donohue-Associates to design the project and integrated the Channel Monster as part of upgrades in Goshen. Some of the funding came from the Federal stimulus known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Channel Monster 9020-XDM3.0 shreds solids while processing up to 59 million gallons per day (9306 m3/h).  These massive Monsters are designed with larger cutters, shafts and housings so the grinders can process heavy debris and first flush storm loading. Bigger cutters also help the process – giant solids are ground up so they pass through pumps but are still large enough for headworks screens to capture and remove them.

The City of Goshen, the ‘Maple City’, boasts an estimated population of 31,500 people. The city is the center of Indiana’s Amish country and is annually ranked as one of the top ten most affordable housing markets in the country.

Goshen is also a CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) community and currently has 39 lift stations that convey the sewage to the Wastewater Treatment Plant through 90 miles of sewers. The WWTP is designed to treat an annual average flow of 5 million gallons per day (789 m3/h) and a peak wet weather flow of 12.5 million gallons per day (1972 m3/h).

JWC has received several dozen orders funded by the Stimulus Act and our factories in California, Georgia and Virginia are proud to help rebuild America’s wastewater treatment plants.

New, Larger Channel Monster XD3.0s Go Into Service at Two Pump Stations

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

These are the largest wastewater grinders in the world. Several Channel Monster XD3.0s are going into operation at pump stations around the world and we have proof these massive Monsters really do exist!  These mammoth Monsters can swallow up to 59 million gallons per day (9300 m3/h) thanks to two rotating screening drums and love to dine on a wide range of trash, rags, debris and other solid objects before they have a chance to clog a pump.

The new XD3.0 delivers massive force with two rows of sharp steel cutters to slice through rags and plastics and cut them down to a size pumps and pipelines can easily handle. The submersible 15 hp (11 kW) motor delivers over 11,000 lbs. of force (50 kN) at peak loads to power through the toughest slugs of trash and debris. No more ragging pumps with a Channel Monster on duty!

Here are the amazing specs of the Channel Monster XD3.0:

  • Up to 59-MGD (9300 m3/h)
  • 13′ (4m) tall
  • Weighing in at 12,000 lbs (5400 kg)
  • 15 hp (11 kW) grinder motor – screening drums are independent 1 hp (0.75 kW) motors
  • 3″ (76mm) hex drive shafts
  • High-flow screening drums with  1/2″ (12mm) diameter stainless steel rod

Check out a real, live Channel Monster XD3.0 at WEFTEC.09 booth 1831!

WEFTEC.09 Booth 1831: JWC Unveils Ultimate Champions of Screening and Grinding

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

JWC Environmental
Booth #1831
Orlando, Florida

We’re rolling out the biggest Monster ever at this year’s WEFTEC trade show in Orlando. The Channel Monster XD 3.0 is nearly 16′ tall, can chew up 59 million gallons per day (9306 m3/h) and has the power to slice through big balls of rags and debris. This is the Heavyweight Champion of the wastewater grinding world.

For your chance to Win a Wii at WEFTEC - download our Guess the Weight entry form and bring it with you to JWC booth 1831. We’ll pick a winner and notify them at the end of WEFTEC.

The internally fed Drumscreen Monster will be on display - this Monster screens out hair, rags and other small debris to protect MBRs and other high-tech treatment processes.

JWC equipment on display at WEFTEC:

Plus stop by to talk with us about the newly redesigned Honey Monster SRS-XE! This Honey does even more for septage and grease receiving.

Our experts will be on-hand to discuss the full range of high-flow Monster Separation System fine screens and super-tough Muffin Monster grinders.

Come see this amazing line-up of JWC’s Ultimate Wastewater Champions!

JWCE is Awarded Big $1.2M Project in New England Area

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

JWC's Channel Monster XD 2.5

JWC Environmental received a $1.2 million dollar order this week for several of our large Channel Monster® XD2.5 grinders. These massive systems were ordered to replace old climber bar screens located in pump stations throughout the New England area.  The old screens were causing several problems, including falling apart, increased maintenance, rising costs and odor concerns.

The new, powerful Channel Monsters can handle nearly 60 million gallons per day of wastewater and use two rows of sharp steel cutter teeth to shred trash, rags, rocks, branches and debris into small particles that flow easily through pumps and pipes.

Screenings can then pass through the pump station and be screened out when they reach the headworks of the wastewater treatment plant. This eliminates noise, cost, odor and access problems associated with screening debris inside pump stations. JWC’s exclusive immersible motors also allow reliable grinding  very deep pump stations, like these New York City Dept of Environmental Protection (NYC-DEP) facilities, where periodic flooding can occur.

Consulting engineers, Dvirka and Bartilucci, specified the patented Channel Monsters and is managing the design work. JWC representative G.P. Jager & Associates is overseeing the integration of these Monsters as part of the NYC-DEP pumping station upgrade projects. Channel Monsters are made in the USA at JWC’s two factories in Santa Ana, California and Buford, Georgia.

JWC Lands Major Order for Johnsonburg WWTP Upgrades

Monday, August 17th, 2009
360-unit-2

The Grit Monster vortex removal system is both compact and reliable, removing sand, gravel, shells and coffee grounds as wastewater passes through the headworks.

JWC has received an order for several Monster systems to be installed in the Johnsonburg wastewater treatment plant in Eastern Pennsylvania. The order includes several Channel Monsters, Grit Monsters, Screenings Washer Monsters andBandscreen Monsters. The facility is undergoing an extensive upgrade. Mike Perone/DAS is the contractor and Uni-Tech is the Consulting Engineer.

Removing grit at the headworks benefits downstream systems and increases the service life of pumps and process equipment. JWC’s Grit Monster, when integrated with JWC’s Bandscreen Monster become the Monster Separation System: A Complete Headworks – increasing operating life of downstream pumps and systems.

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