Zeta Library Collections: Case Studies
September 2007
Zeta Rod 簡報檔-英文 Formosa Plastics | Nan-Ya Jing Hsin Co-Gen Power Plant
Frigad Corporation Limited — Zeta Rod Taiwan Distributor www.zetarod.com.tw
The 10,000 RT cooling tower at Formosa Plastics Group, Nan-Ya Plastics Jing-Hsin Power Plant in Taiwan uses Zeta Rod systems for fouling prevention, water conservation, chemical reduction and enhanced worker health & safety.
Operations Manager Eric Traband: “I’m sold on this [Zeta Rod] system. What I have now is an odor-free and bacteria-controlled environment, I’m using a lot less water, and cutting my overall costs. This system is a winner.”
Within 60 days, results of the Zeta Rod installation into the Mill Valley Car Wash were impressive:
• Reduced water consumption per vehicle from 48.75 gallons per car (gpc) to 35.51 gpc; a net reduction of 27% per vehicle
• 235,000 gallons of water saved in 60 days
• 38% drop in the total per vehicle washing cost
MILL VALLEY, Calif., April 2003 – Car wash Operations Manager, Eric Traband, recently demonstrated to his boss why he had been named a national Car Wash Manager of the Year in 2000. Traband, an 11-year veteran of the industry, seized an opportunity to help trim his carwash operation’s spiraling water costs and, at the same time, deliver better, more efficient service to his growing roster of customers. Continue reading
Tucson, Ariz., April 10, 2002 — After three years of closely monitored performance at the Los Angeles Convention Center of Zeta Corporation’s Zeta Rod™ system, the convention center won a city-wide environmental award and realized a three-year accumulated savings of $150,000.
Zeta Rod System at Los Angeles Convention Center
In making the announcement, Zeta President M. Michael Pitts, Jr, Ph.D. said that the City of Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Commission, after an eight-month evaluation process, singled out 20 city departments out of 114 applicants for honors in the categories of Customer Service, Environmental, Entrepreneurship, E‑Business and Innovation and Creativity.
The Los Angeles Convention Center facilities staff won the Environmental Award for “the elimination of scale and corrosion cleaning, increased employee safety, reduced water consumption, longer equipment life and an annual savings of $50,000” in the operation of the huge building’s chillers and cooling towers. Continue reading
Zeta Library Collections: Case Studies
November 2001
BP Manufacturing Solutions reduces chemical and filtration costs, GMPT Flint, Michigan USA
Zeta Library Collections: Technical Papers
January 2001
Feasibility Study for EDR Wastewater Treatment & Recovery
“The Zeta Rod improved operability of the conventional RO treatment (relative to no pretreatment) although the mechanism responsible for the observed reduction in membrane fouling is not well understood. Feed pressures and WTC were more stable during Zeta Rod use at 50% recovery than without its use at 15% recovery.”
Click here to link to CH2M HILL Feasibility Study for EDR Wastewater Treatment and Recovery
CH2M HILL, a global leader in full service engineering, construction and operations, was tasked to find a way to treat the concentrate stream from a water treatment plant located in Sherman, Texas USA. The City wanted to be able to treat this wastewater in order to reduce sewer and wastewater plant loadings, and to recover a portion of the wastewater as high quality water than could be used to increase plant finished water capacity. Continue reading
Zeta Library Collections: Awards
March 2001
Los Angeles Convention Center Environmental Award : “The environmentally safe result of the Zeta Rod installations at the Los Angeles Convention Center has been elimination of scale and corrosion cleaning, increased employee safety, reduced water consumption, longer equipment life, and annual savings of $50,000.”
Zeta Library Collections: Case Studies
January 1999
elna International: Preventing Biofouling in Shear Spray Systems
Zeta Library Collections: Case Studies
December 1997
Improving RO Performance with Zeta Rod Systems
After three months, the membrane was removed and the vessel was seen to be completely clean. The membrane body, like the vessel surface,was completely free of bio-film.The removal of biofilm from the membrane was evidenced by a 4.98% increase in the rate of permeate recovery, from 77.26% to 81.11%.
February 1992
Solids Control in Solvent Extraction Circuits Using Electrostatic Dispersion
Morris Michael Pitts, Jr.
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc.
Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ February 1992
Elevation of surface charge density on colloidal particles in the presence of a high potential electrostatic field is demonstrated as a viable technique for preventing the accumulation of solids in solvent extraction circuits. This technique performs without introducing compounds that potentially interfere with kinetics or with phase separation.