Performance of an On-Site Wastewater Treatment System

SPONSOR:International Wastewater Technologies PROJECT PERIOD:11/01/06 – 06/30/07 ABSTRACT:Surface water harvesting is a conservation method used to augment groundwater supply. The method is a form of Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), which involves capturing excess water during wet periods and injecting…

Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Pilot UV Unit Testing

SPONSOR: Trojan Technologies, Inc. PROJECT PERIOD: 02/01/07 – 01/31/09 (Phase IV) ABSTRACT: The primary objectives of the UV disinfection pilot tests were to assess the feasibility of the UV disinfection and establish the appropriate design parameters for a full-scale UV…

Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Pilot UV Unit Testing

SPONSOR: Trojan Technologies, Inc. PROJECT PERIOD: 02/01/07 – 01/31/09 (Phase IV) ABSTRACT: The primary objectives of the UV disinfection pilot tests are to assess the feasibility of the UV disinfection and establish the appropriate design parameters for a full-scale UV…

Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Pilot UV Unit Testing

SPONSOR: Trojan Technologies, Inc. PROJECT PERIOD: 02/01/07 – 01/31/09 (Phase IV) ABSTRACT: The primary objectives of the UV disinfection pilot tests were to assess the feasibility of the UV disinfection and establish the appropriate design parameters for a full-scale UV…

Engineering Palm Peroxidases for Wastewater Treatment and Water Pollution Monitoring

SPONSOR: National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD: 3/1/2013 – 2/28/2014 ABSTRACT: Introduction: Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) is a widely used enzyme in water pollution monitoring and wastewater treatment. However, its poor stability has limited its…

Biomonitoring of the Marine Communities Near the City’s Ocean Sewage Outfalls off O’ahu, Hawai’i

SPONSOR:City and County of Honolulu PROJECT PERIOD:2013 ABSTRACT:A survey of the capitellids from the Hawaiian Islands has yielded 16 species in seven genera, most represent new records and two species are newly described, Notodasus dasybranchoides sp. nov. and Scyphoproctus edmondsoni sp. nov. The species Capitella…

Temporal and spatial effects of sewage outfalls on the ecosystem health of coastal waters offshore of Honolulu

SPONSOR:National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD:03/01/2014-02/29/2016 ABSTRACT: The Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant are primary treatment systems that treat effluents to be discharged a few kilometers offshore of…

Wastewater Treatment for Point Source Processing and Reuse

SPONSOR:National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD:03/01/2015-02/29/2017 ABSTRACT:Water-limited “island” communities face mounting demands on water supply such as increased consumption, lower rainfall, decreased groundwater recharge, and redirection of rainfall over natural watersheds – all of…

Demonstration Study of High-Rate Flotation/Contactor Treatment of Raw Wastewater

SPONSOR:R.M. Towill Corporation PROJECT PERIOD:03/01/2016-02/28/2017 ABSTRACT:The Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant (HWWTP) is the second largest treatment plant in Hawaii. At HWWTP, an average of 26 million gallons per day (MGD) of sewage is treated via primary clarifiers and then 13…