A system for disinfecting aqueous solutions for destroying harmful bacteria, viruses and pathogens in industrial processes including an influent stream containing an invasive species, a pH adjustment stage for maintaining the pH of the influent to within a specific range, a preparation stage for preparing a disinfectant for destroying the invasive species, the disinfectant comprising a quantity of calcium hypochlorite, water, and a catalyst including the metal minerals manganate and manganese oxide, a process mixing stage for receiving and mixing the pH adjusted influent and the disinfectant, a filtration and discharge stage receiving the pH adjusted and disinfected influent for removing foreign matter prior to discharging a filtered disinfected effluent, and a microprocessor control panel for monitoring a plurality of process sensors in each of the stages for controlling the disinfecting of the influent.

An embodiment provides a method for real-time management of device maintenance utilizing quality metrics defined based upon inputs of the device, the method including: receiving inputs corresponding to a particular device, wherein the particular device provides measurements of a parameter of a fluid; generating, from the inputs, quality metrics for and unique to the particular device; monitoring the particular device while the particular device is deployed, wherein the monitoring occurs in view of the quality metrics; and triggering, responsive to detecting information corresponding to the particular device is violating at least one of the quality metrics, a notification to a user to perform an action corresponding to the particular device.

Described herein is a method of identifying components in a fluid stream. Particularly, the invention relates to the identification and/or separation of one or more materials suspended in a fluid stream.

The disclosure provides automated methods and systems for optimized dosing of chemicals, such as coagulants, acids, and/or bases, in water treatment processes. The methods and systems of the disclosure can provide a coagulant dosing regimen that mitigates turbidity and organic contaminant content while maintaining effective floc precipitation, agglomeration, and settling without significant human intervention.

Given the complexity of architectural spaces and the need to calculate spherical irradiances, it is difficult to determine how much ultraviolet radiation is necessary to adequately kill airborne pathogens. An interior environment with luminaires is modeled. Spherical irradiance meters are positioned in the model and the direct and indirect spherical irradiance is calculated for each sensor. From this, an irradiance field is interpolated for a volume of interest, and using known fluence response values for killing pathogens, a reduction in the pathogens is predicted. Based on the predicted reduction, spaces are built accordingly, and ultraviolet luminaires are installed and controlled.

Systems and methods to enhance the removal of inorganic contaminants, including metals, from hydrocarbon feedstocks at a refinery. One or more embodiments of such systems and methods may be used to provide a renewable hydrocarbon feedstock having a reduced amount of metal contaminants. The reduction of metal contaminants in the renewable hydrocarbon feedstock mitigates catalyst fouling and/or deactivation during downstream refinery processing of the renewable hydrocarbon feedstock.

A processor-based method of determining a characteristic of a fluid, the method comprising: obtaining spectral emission signature (SES) data of the fluid, wherein the SES data comprises, for one or more SES channels: intensity of radiation emitted by the fluid, in one or more channel emission frequency bands, at least partially in response to excitation of molecules of the fluid by received radiation of a respective channel transmitted frequency; and utilizing a machine learning model to determine, from the obtained SES data, data indicative of one or more characteristics of the fluid, wherein the machine learning model was trained in accordance with, at least, a plurality of training examples, one or more of the training examples comprising: SES data of a fluid sample, and one or more fluid characteristics of the fluid sample.

An apparatus for inhibiting formation of calcium based crystal, in which formation of calcium based crystals is inhibited by adding an optimal amount of magnesium to raw water having a high concentration of calcium ions and a high variation in calcium ion concentration and an apparatus for water treatment using the same.

An embodiment provides a method for real-time management of device maintenance utilizing quality metrics defined based upon inputs of the device, the method including: receiving inputs corresponding to a particular device, wherein the particular device provides measurements of a parameter of a fluid; generating, from the inputs, quality metrics for and unique to the particular device; monitoring the particular device while the particular device is deployed, wherein the monitoring occurs in view of the quality metrics; and triggering, responsive to detecting information corresponding to the particular device is violating at least one of the quality metrics, a notification to a user to perform an action corresponding to the particular device.

Automated systems and methods for treating wastewater or effluent are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include: using a set of sensors to measure one or more properties of untreated wastewater or effluent; performing at least one potential chemical treatment and at least one potential mechanical treatment on a sample of the untreated wastewater or effluent, wherein the potential chemical and mechanical treatments are selected based on the properties of the untreated wastewater or effluent; using a set of sensors to measure one or more properties of the treated sample; based at least in part on the data regarding the properties of the treated sample, using an information handling system to select at least one chemical treatment and at least one mechanical treatment; and using the information handling system to control one or more components of a chemical treatment subsystem and a mechanical treatment subsystem to perform the selected chemical and mechanical treatments on the untreated wastewater or effluent to produce treated water.