Lift stations, clarifiers, chlorination, pump stations, and water/wastewater treatment monitoring. 77 terms in this topic - each defined in plain English on its own page.
Lift stations, clarifiers, chlorination, pump stations, and water/wastewater treatment monitoring.
The activated-sludge reactor where blowers feed oxygen to microbes, controlled to a dissolved-oxygen setpoint.
Read → GlossaryHow aeration stabilizes biosolids, DO and decant control, VS reduction, and SCADA monitoring including ATAD.
Read → GlossaryThe hydraulic valve that closes to stop a tank overflowing at a set level and reopens on drawdown.
Read → GlossaryA strategy where measured ammonia sets the DO target, cutting aeration energy while meeting nitrification limits.
Read → GlossaryThe SCADA-sequenced drain, air scour, upflow wash, and rinse that cleans a gravity filter.
Read → GlossaryThe chemical that kills sulfate-reducing bacteria to prevent souring and microbial corrosion in water.
Read → GlossaryDosing past the point where ammonia is destroyed so a free chlorine residual can form.
Read → GlossaryBasic sediment and water - the crude quality number that decides whether a barrel is sellable, and how it is measured.
Read → GlossaryRaising the chiller supply setpoint at low load for efficiency, bounded by low-delta-T and dehumidification limits.
Read → GlossaryThe primary disinfection step that adds chlorine and leaves a residual, controlled by residual analyzers.
Read → GlossaryThe baffled basin that provides disinfection contact time behind the CT concept.
Read → GlossaryContinuous measurement of disinfectant left in water from plant to tap, with SCADA alarms and trends.
Read → GlossaryThe gravity settling tank that separates solids from water, watched via sludge blanket level and turbidity.
Read → GlossaryThe high-point valve that releases trapped air and admits air to prevent vacuum collapse.
Read → GlossaryLowering the condenser setpoint to cut chiller lift versus extra tower-fan energy, balanced against the wet-bulb.
Read → GlossaryOnline instrument that doses DPD reagent, develops a pink color, and reads its absorbance to report chlorine residual each cycle.
Read → GlossaryContinuous per-filter and combined effluent turbidity for compliance, with SCADA alarms, interlocks, and logging.
Read → GlossaryThe flameless resistance-heated alternative to a fired line heater for sites with no fuel gas or where flames are banned.
Read → GlossaryThe tower that floats on the system to set the HGL and provide equalizing and fire-flow storage.
Read → GlossaryThe frac fluid that returns after a well is fractured, how its chemistry shifts, and how it is recovered and managed.
Read → GlossaryThe base water used to hydraulically fracture wells, how much is needed, what is blended in, and how it is sourced and staged.
Read → GlossaryFree is the strong disinfecting form; total adds combined chloramines, and the gap reveals residual strength.
Read → GlossaryThe vessel that drops out bulk free water by gravity before the treater - how it works and how it's monitored.
Read → GlossaryThe sand or dual-media bed that polishes drinking water, cleaned by a sequenced backwash cycle.
Read → GlossaryDeriving inflow with no meter from well geometry, level rise rate, and known pump output via the fill-and-draw method.
Read → GlossaryThe charge-plus-high-pressure pumping setup that pressurizes water for a disposal well.
Read → GlossaryPropeller vs mag meters, why totalized volume drives water reporting, and expected-vs-actual leak detection.
Read → GlossaryThe wet well and submersible pumps that lift sewage uphill - the flagship case for remote collection-system SCADA.
Read → GlossaryNo-moving-parts meter for full-pipe force-main sewage, needing the right liner, electrodes, coating control, and empty-pipe detection.
Read → GlossaryThe automation that lifts groundwater out of a mine through cascaded sumps with lead/lag and off-peak logic.
Read → GlossaryWhy dissolved minerals precipitate as hard scale that plugs filters, pumps, and injection wells.
Read → GlossaryA supervisory strategy that lowers header pressure until the most-open air valve is near full open, cutting waste.
Read → GlossarySensor that reads cloudiness in NTU by detecting light scattered at 90 degrees, calibrated against formazin standards.
Read → GlossaryProduced water that is never billed, split into real and apparent losses and tracked via the water balance.
Read → GlossaryDaily-max and monthly-average caps on produced-water hydrocarbon, and how analyzers and sampling prove compliance.
Read → GlossaryComparing water, oil, and synthetic mud systems on shale inhibition, lubricity, temperature, and disposal cost.
Read → GlossaryThe online instrument that measures residual oil in treated water and guards discharge limits.
Read → GlossaryThe controlled boundary between oil and water in a separator or treater - why it matters, the emulsion pad, and its control.
Read → GlossaryThe chemical that removes dissolved oxygen to stop rapid oxygen corrosion in water and injection systems.
Read → GlossaryA part of the network held within a target pressure band, set by tank elevation or the HGL.
Read → GlossaryThe brine that comes up with oil and gas, its chemistry, volumes, and how it is separated, recycled, or disposed of.
Read → GlossaryTracking per-well water via water cut and tests, reconciling it against disposal meters, and reporting it.
Read → GlossaryThe accounting of where every barrel of produced water went, closed by tank levels, meters, and digitized hauling tickets.
Read → GlossaryThe pressure surge when a pump trips or a check valve slams, how column separation damages a station, and how VFD soft-stops and SCADA sequencing help.
Read → GlossaryThe return and waste sludge flows that set sludge age and MLSS in activated sludge treatment.
Read → GlossaryRAS flow control strategies and how VFD return pumps are paced in SCADA to hold the clarifier blanket and MLSS.
Read → GlossaryThe final clarifier that settles biomass after aeration, its loading limits, blanket behavior, and RAS/WAS links.
Read → GlossaryAutomatic cleaner that clears a probe's optical window of fouling by wiper, air blast, or ultrasonic cleaning on a timed cycle.
Read → GlossaryThe wastewater station that pumps sewage from a low wet well up to a gravity main or plant.
Read → GlossaryThe first gravity vessel in a water plant, floating residual oil off produced water before disposal.
Read → GlossaryThe low-viscosity, friction-reduced water system that dominates shale fracs, pumped at high rate to place proppant.
Read → GlossaryUltrasonic or optical sensing of clarifier settled-solids depth, feeding SCADA to trim RAS and WAS and stop washout.
Read → GlossaryInline meter reading sludge solids concentration by ultrasonic or gamma method to drive waste rate and polymer dosing.
Read → GlossaryThe step that concentrates dilute sludge before digestion, by gravity settling or air flotation.
Read → GlossarySettled sludge volume per gram of MLSS, a settleability metric that flags bulking and guides RAS and wasting.
Read → GlossaryHow valve closures and pump trips spike pressure, the Joukowsky relation, and surge relief.
Read → GlossaryA permitted injection well that disposes of produced water underground, monitored for injection pressure, rate, and cumulative volume.
Read → GlossaryThe stormwater plan and permit, their inspection and benchmark-monitoring duties, and how to keep records audit-ready.
Read → GlossaryThe daily exchange of stored water, and why poor turnover raises water age and residual loss.
Read → GlossaryThe free water and sediment layer below the oil in a tank, how it is gauged, and what a rising bottom signals.
Read → GlossaryThe porous-cup instrument that measures soil water tension in centibars and drives trigger-point irrigation.
Read → GlossaryThe nephelometric measurement of suspended solids that verifies filtration and water clarity.
Read → GlossaryChemical-free disinfection by ultraviolet light, verified by monitoring dose, intensity, flow, and lamp status.
Read → GlossaryWasting strategies (timed, flow-paced, SRT-driven) and how SCADA totalizers and mass balance control sludge age.
Read → GlossaryThe mass-basis water spec pipelines contract on; it does not equal a fixed dew point because the conversion is pressure-dependent.
Read → GlossaryThe water fraction of a well's liquid stream - how it is measured, why it climbs over field life, and its SCADA role.
Read → GlossaryThe inline capacitance, microwave, or density-based instrument that measures the percent water in a stream.
Read → GlossaryThe vessel that strips gas out of produced water so it will not lock the injection pumps.
Read → GlossaryThe low-point drain and interface control that pulls free water off a tank bottom to protect custody quality.
Read → GlossaryThe step-by-step field execution of a water draw: fill, stabilize, draw into test measures, repeat, and correct.
Read → GlossaryHow an active aquifer maintains pressure for high recovery, with rising water cut as the front advances.
Read → GlossaryTreating and reusing produced and flowback water for fracturing, the drivers, treatment steps, and the limits of oilfield reuse.
Read → GlossaryWater dew point guards against corrosion and hydrates; hydrocarbon dew point guards against liquid dropout, tracked as two separate margins.
Read → GlossaryColor-changing paste on a gauging tape that marks the exact oil-water interface so bottom water can be deducted.
Read → GlossaryMeasuring dissolved, emulsified, and free water in a lubricant to catch corrosion early.
Read → GlossaryMaking chilled water without the chiller using cooling-tower water and a plate heat exchanger when the wet-bulb is low.
Read → GlossaryThe whole-chain efficiency from electrical input to delivered water, and how SCADA trends it to cut pumping energy.
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