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Dec 19
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Preserving and Maintaining Assets with Thioguard

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CORROSION’S PRIMARY CAUSE:

Sulfide gas is converted to corrosive sulfuric acid on infrastructure surfaces.

The acid dissolves concrete and metal on surfaces inside sewers and wastewater treatment plants, throughout the entire treatment and delivery process. Acidic Corrosion is prevalent in virtually every stage of the process – in your Collection System, your Headworks, in Primary and Secondary Clarifiers, in your Digesters, and in the Disinfection Processes. Corrosion is a system-wide problem, requiring a system-wide solution.

SO, WHY ADD TO  THE PROBLEM, RATHER THAN ADDING THE SOLUTION?

Adding or creating ALKALINITY is the most direct and effective way to neutralize the problem of excessive acidity in our water and wastewater infrastructure. However, many common treatments either provide no acid neutralization, or actually consume alkalinity in their chemistry.

Thioguard® provides the greatest power to neutralize acid over long infrastructure distances while providing additional benefits to your WWTP plant’s biological treatment processes. The chart above compares the alkalinity per gallon, among the most commonly used treatment options

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ADDING TO THE LIFESPAN OF YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE –
PREVENTING FURTHER CORROSION:

In an acidic environment (pH=2), corrosion is rampant, tearing through 2″ of concrete in as little as 8 years. When effective surface pH=4, similar corrosion levels are pushed out to 50+ years.

THE ADDITION OF THIOGUARD® BOOSTS LIQUID & SURFACE
pH LEVELS, PREVENTING THE ACIDIC CONDITIONS THAT SPEED UP AND ENCOURAGE CORROSION

By reducing the acidity in your system, you’ll reduce corrosion dramatically, in some cases by as much as 100X, when compared to other treatments. Thioguard® is typically added through a single Feed Unit, and provides “corrosion-controlling” benefits throughout your system, from collection system source to treatment plant discharge.

The measured surface pH can then be used to correlate corrosion rate and subsequently, remaining years of useful life of a concrete structure.

The use of Thioguard® by direct addition has been demonstrated to elevate surface pH from a highly corrosive pH=0-2 up to a more desirable range of pH=5-9.

STOP ADDING TO YOUR CORROSION PROBLEMS.
START ADDING THE SOLUTION.

Thioguard® is the ONLY commonly used product that has a direct mechanism to PREVENT CORROSION. The benefits of adding Thioguard® to your treatment processes are not limited to the prevention or reduction of corrosion. You will also benefit from a reduction in the formation of sludge – significantly reducing your handling and transportation costs. The benefits are numerous and system-wide, making Thioguard® the Practical Choice for your system.

Dec 07
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THIOGUARD Takes the Cake… and Makes it Better.

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For a nearly one million gallon a day plant in Lambertville, NJ the good news just kept on coming. First, they started using Thioguard  to condition their primary sludge to reduce odors from the plant. This worked so well, they began to ask, “Where else can Thioguard be applied?”

As the winds whipped in early Spring, it was discovered that a significant amount of odor was coming from the nearly quarter million gallon sludge holding tank at their site. Since Thioguard worked to reduce the primary sludge odors, they wondered if it would work for stored sludge waiting to be pressed.

After establishing a stable pH range of 7.5-8.0 s.u., with just a couple of gallons a day, odors were reduced to satisfactory levels… and then something very interesting happened. Not only were odors in the press building reduced, but the press cake was drier. On average nearly 20-40% drier.

Why? Thioguard is technical grade magnesium hydroxide: a buffered source of alkalinity that is used to increase pH. Elevated pH promotes better polymer performance. Not only that, but due to divalent cation bridging, the press supernatant quality can be clearer as well. Any remaining alkalinity is then returned in the supernatant to the headworks of the plant.

The Lambertville results were recently verified on a much larger scale through bench testing at a treatment plant in Newark, Ohio. The chart below illustrates expected typical annual cost savings in hauling and tipping after the addition of Thioguard at a 100 MGD plant. The bottom line? For every 1% improvement in cake solids, the plant would save approximately $214K in hauling and tipping costs. In multiple tests, the use of Thioguard consistently resulted in 5% to 13% improvement in cake solids with greatly reduced water weight. Drier cake solids means less to haul, and fewer loads translates directly into operational savings.