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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.

A Deluge of Sewage

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Many sewer systems are still frequently overwhelmed. Stock photo source.

In part five of their ongoing series ”Toxic Waters – A series about the worsening pollution in American waters and regulators’ response” the NY Times looked at New York City’s wastewater collection and treatment system and found it’s frequently overwhelmed when it rains – leading to combined sewer overflows (CSO).

The article, titled Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways, sums up the dire situation:  ”Despite (billions in) upgrades, many sewer systems are still frequently overwhelmed, according to a New York Times analysis of environmental data. As a result, sewage is spilling into waterways.”

The article looks closely at the Owls Head WPCP in Brooklyn and the obstacles operators face in treating storm flows…

“The public has no clue how important these sewage plants are,” said Bob Connaughton, the Plant Engineer. “Waterborne disease was the scourge of mankind for centuries. These plants stopped that. We’re doing everything we can to clean as much sewage as possible, but sometimes, that isn’t enough.”

Read the article here.

In a related article, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, said the agency was stepping up its efforts on Clean Water Act enforcement, as WaterTech Online® reported here.  There’s also the PBS-Frontline special Poisoned Waters about stormwater pollution and the AP’s on-going series about prescription drugs flushed down the drain (a huge no-no of course!) and their impact on ecosystems. The Atlantic magazine hosted a water conference last month in DC about dwindling supplies of clean water. And so on…

Perhaps the years of public outreach by CWEA, WEF, WIN, NACWA and WWEMA (Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association) are finally paying off with more public coverage of America’s crumbling water/wastewater infrastructure.

JWC Receives Big Order For Illinois Stimulus Project Upgrade

Friday, November 6th, 2009

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.

Several Monster Separation Systems are scheduled for installation in two Illinois wastewater treatment plants as part of stimulus money project early next year.

St. Charles, Illinois has two different pump stations with three existing ‘competitor’ screens. The screens are almost twenty years old, broken down and beyond repair. With the growth in their communities and broken screens, they were also challenged with wide ranges in flow rates and their associated velocities – so upgrading to screens that can handle the the peak flow was extremely critical in this redesign project.

Operators at both facilities saw JWC’s Finescreen Monster and Screenings Washer Monster (SWM) at a convention in Chicago and later toured a local facility to view these Monsters in action.

Dean Wiebenga with Peterson and Matz worked with the plant staff who contracted with the engineering firm Trotter and Associates to design the upgrade to include the JWC screening systems. Trotter and Associates applied for stimulus money in mid-Spring and received the go ahead in mid-Summer. Meccon Industries is the contractor.

See the First Site Pictures of an Auger Monster XE

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

It's a beautiful thing - one of the first pictures of an installed next generation Auger Monster XE wastewater screening system.

The high-tech and affordable Auger Monster XE is the next generation of wastewater screen for small and medium flows. The upgraded XE design was unveiled at WEFTEC.06 and continues to demonstrate JWC’s leadership in the design of  perforated auger screening systems. Today we’ve gotten our first site pictures of an installed unit and it looks beautiful!

You can see several cool XE features:

  • Pivot stand and the customer installed hand winch makes it easier to inspect the perforated screen
  • Even higher capture efficiency with the wider 480mm diameter auger
  • The lower installation angle

The Auger Monster XE makes screening up to 11-million gallons per day (1735 m3/h) of wastewater simple, affordable and clean. The optional integrated compactor and auto-bagger mean you get an all-in-one system to grind, screen, convey, compact and even bag the trash for you!

More pictures after the jump!

The Auger XE's perforated screening trough with 1/4" (6mm) circular openings captures far more unwanted solids and trash than bar screens - including small pieces trash such as plastics, rags, latex and cigarette butts. The dual wash water systems clean captured solids as they are conveyed out of the wastewater channel.

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