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How often should I measure ATP in my wastewater treatment plant?
LuminUltra’s 2nd Generation ATP has many potential uses within a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), including: diagnosing acute and chronic toxicity, optimizing solids concentrations in the aeration tank, optimizing dissolved oxygen setpoints and identifying sludge bulking events. How often you should measure ATP depends on the quantity of data you’ve collected, the operational performance of… Read More
How Do Microorganisms Impact Oil & Gas Extraction?
People are often surprised to learn that water is a very important part of oil and gas extraction. Sure, there is an obvious association with water in the term ‘hydro-fracking’, where water is injected underground at high pressure to crack rocks and release huge volumes of tightly-enclosed gas bubbles or oil droplets. But did… Read More
Water Calculation Tools
There are many water use resources available on the internet. At LuminUltra, we work in the water microbiology field, but we also pay attention to what’s going on in the larger world of water. We’ve come across some neat sites over time, so today we present this list of online water calculation tools: Water… Read More
Interesting water tech innovations from around the world
There have been some interesting happenings in the water technology industry in recent weeks. As companies around the world work to solve water problems of one sort or another, some truly inventive ideas come to light. Here’s a quick rundown of some particularly interesting developments we’ve come across: In Switzerland, robotics company EPFL Biorob… Read More
Is there a correlation between ATP and other traditional microbiological methods?
Perhaps the most common question that we’re asked is how our ATP tests correlate with traditional microbiological methods. Unsurprisingly, when people are used to getting their information in a certain way, they naturally want to know how a new method will stack up against it. However, the mechanisms of culture-based techniques and ATP analyses… Read More
Las Vegas: Doubling-down on water innovation technology
When you think about Las Vegas, what comes to mind? Gambling for sure, maybe Cirque du Soleil or even the city’s new pro hockey team, the Vegas Golden Knights. Your first thought however, probably has nothing to do with water technology. But, if city leaders have their way, that might change. Being the driest… Read More
[Video] Microbiological Monitoring in Water: Past, Present & Future
The first ever Microbe Detective’s Microbiome Water Summit was held in Chicago at the Shedd Aquarium on September 29, 2017. It was held to coincide with the Water Environment Federation’s annual WEFTEC conference and exhibition (September 30-October 4, 2017). The Summit was well attended by a mix of consultants, technology providers, academics, utilities and… Read More
Top 3 Questions from WEFTEC17
WEFTEC17 proved to be one of the best ones yet for LuminUltra! Here are top three questions we were asked: 1. Can you measure ATP in anaerobic systems? Yes, ATP can be measured in aerobic, anoxic and anaerobic systems. ATP is a measure of total biomass and is not specific to any one functional… Read More
International Rivers: Cooperation and Transformation
In many parts of the world there are rivers that flow across national borders. People in several countries depend on river water for drinking, irrigation and power generation. Often the source of these rivers is high in the mountains of one nation while the mouth of the river is thousands of kilometers away in… Read More
The Energy Footprint of Drinking Water
Drinking water and wastewater systems are generally the largest energy consumers for municipal governments. However, there is little published information available on the exact energy usage for specific systems. A recent article in Journal – American Water Works Association, looked to address this knowledge gap for drinking water utilities. The authors surveyed drinking water… Read More