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  • AH - PAM-0101
    10 MHz – 1 GHz RF Preamplifer: PAM-0101

    The PAM-0101 RF preamplifier will provide reliable, repeatable measurements. An ideal solution and a standard workhorse of any EMC test house for compliance testing.

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    Pre-Approval Inspection (PAI) Readiness

    Our team of experts are equipped to guide you through every step of any Inspection, especially Pre-Approval Inspections, due to the nature of their criticality.

  • FMS Automation Module
    Pharmaceutical Automated Sample Handling System For Headspace Testing

    This collaborative automated sample handler eliminates manual sample handling enabling testing of large sample sets and collection of statistically significant data, while freeing analyst’s time. The FMS Automation Module has a sample capacity of hundreds of vials and can complete headspace testing with a throughput as high as 300 samples per hour.

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    X-Ray Inspection System For Food And Pharmaceutical Packaging

    Precise, Complete, and Ultimate Detection.

    A premium dual energy x-ray inspection system offering outstanding detection of hard-to-find, low density contaminants, in a variety of applications. Available in standard and custom configurations

    Detect Hard-to-Find Contaminants

    Capable of detecting hard-to-find contaminants in a variety of applications. Offering clarity and precision in complex areas of product inspection.

    Enhance Product Quality

    Achieves outstanding product quality using advanced levels of foreign body detection of low-density contaminants in overlapping products.

    Increase Productivity

    Clever design combined with an intuitive user interface to create user-friendly systems that increase uptime and boost productivity.

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    Disinfection

    As the final step before treated wastewater leaves the plant, effective disinfection is extremely important to protect human health, and the maintenance of the environment. This process eliminates pathogenic organisms that cannot be removed by previous treatment steps and reduces the spread of pathogens in the natural ecosystem.

    USP’s current offerings include our unrivaled in-house CFD modeling expertise that can be used to optimize the injection, mixing and feed rates of PAA to meet the disinfection requirements of a facility. Also, launching later this year, is our OaSys iCT™ is a novel control approach that optimizes disinfection performance by calculating the optimal chemical dosage that accounts for sources of treatment variability in real time. Available for use with PAA or chlorine.

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About Nutrient Removal

Nutrient removal from wastewater consists of treating wastewater to remove nitrogen and phosphorus before it reenters natural waterways. High levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater cause eutrophication, a process where excess nutrients stimulate excessive plant growth such as algal blooms and cyanobacteria. The decomposition of the algae by bacteria uses up the oxygen in the water causing other organisms to die. This creates more organic matter for the bacteria to decompose. In addition, some algal blooms can produce toxins that contaminate drinking water supplies.

As authorized by the Clean Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program regulates point sources, such as municipal wastewater treatment plants, that discharge pollutants as effluent into the waters of the United States. In recent years, many of the States’ environmental bodies have lowered nutrient limits to arrest eutrophication. Maryland’s effort to protect the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries is perhaps the most notable example of nutrient removal in the US. Nutrient removal continues to be a growing area of focus for wastewater treatment throughout the world.   

The removal of nitrogen and phosphorus require different nutrient removal processes. To remove nitrogen, the nitrogen is oxidized from ammonia to become nitrate through a process called nitrification. This process is then followed by denitrification where the nitrate is reduced to nitrogen gas which is released to the atmosphere and removed from the wastewater.

Nitrification is a two-step aerobic process which typically takes place in aeration tanks. Denitrification requires anoxic conditions to encourage the appropriate biological conditions to form. The activated sludge process is often used to reduce nitrate to nitrogen gas in anoxic or denitrification tanks.

Phosphorus can be removed biologically using polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) which accumulate large quantities of phosphorus within their cells and separate it from treated water. Phosphorus removal can also be achieved by chemical removal. Once removed as sludge, phosphorus may be stored in a land fill. However, many municipalities and treatment facilities are looking to resell the biosolids for use in fertilizer.