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Louisiana Water Environment AssociationFebruary 2017 Newsletter

February Issue Contributors: Jessica Keasler, Linda McConnell, Henry Graham, John Pardue, WEF, Steve HossDesigner: Melanie Koskie Cover Photo: Aimee Killeen

Conference Announcements

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More information and registration

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Happy New Year LWEA Members:

Thank you for everyone that joined me at Tin Roof Brewery in December. I was very im-pressed by the changes and increased capacity that the brewery has undergone in the past few years, as we saw on the tour.

In early January, I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for 7th and 8th graders at a Jefferson Parish middle school. In preparation for a parish-wide poster contest on stormwater pollution preven-tion, their very competitive teacher called in a professional. Wanting her students to put their best foot forward, she asked me to help provide them some real world information about the topic. Fortunately for me, WEF had numerous resources ready to go, including a great video featuring frog puppets that went over well. I was amazed by the interest and questions the students asked and hope that many of them will continue their interest in science and engineering fields and be our future colleagues. This experience has me thinking — what other ways can LWEA make a difference with today’s young students/future generations?

One way LWEA helps make a difference is to provide scholarship opportunities for college students pursuing sci-ence and engineering degrees (See page 10). Applications are open through April 3 for all of our scholarships. Ad-ditionally, this year, the LSU Environmental Engineering Senior Design team is seeking sponsorships for the annual WERC Competition in April; see further details on page 5 and consider contributing.

Don’t forget to check out the line-up for the two conferences LWEA is supporting in March. While we are final-izing the programs, there is still opportunity to support the conference and share your information by exhibiting at one or both of the conferences. Details for each are included in this newsletter.

Be on the lookout for details about upcoming LWEA activities, and let’s have a fabulous 2017!

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEBY JESSICA KEASLER

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Click on the Announcement OR see the back of THIS issue of The Crock for more information and registration.

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The LSU Environmental Engineering Senior Design is planning to attend the annual WERC International Environmental Design Competi-tion at Las Cruces, New Mexico this April. The WERC competition was established 26 years ago and LSU has competed in 20 of those 26 years winning a multitude of awards. A few of the universities that LSU previously competed against include: Duke Uni-versity, UC-Riverside, Harvey Mudd College (California), University of Arkansas, Roger Williams University (Rhode Island), and the University of Idaho. Students compete by designing environmental solutions to real world problems working in teams. Students prepare a design paper, oral presen-tation, a poster, and a bench-scale working model. Judges from national labs and industry evaluate the student

teams, which benefits their profes-sional development.

One of the teams this year features members from LWEA student chapter. The idea for their project was sparked from The Great Flood in Baton Rouge, LA that occurred this past August. After the flood, it was difficult for many affected homeown-ers to return to their normal lives due to the disaster recovery process. The objective of the project is to create an application that would better facilitate the methods of debris collection and proper disposal of household hazard-ous waste after natural disasters. This app creation would provide a central-ized area for contractors, homeowners and the local state government to have an ideal means of communication. This centralized area will reveal the

geolocations of hazardous material and eliminate ground water contami-nation in landfills.

While LSU covers the cost of registra-tion and materials, the team is respon-sible for the remainder, which comes to $800 per person for travel expenses. The team is seeking sponsors for their travel expenses. Sponsorship checks may be made out to LSU Foundation, specifying WERC Environmental En-gineering in the memo and mailed to:

LSU Environmental Engineering WERC Competitionc/o Dr. John Pardue • 3225e Patrick F. Taylor HallCivil & Environmental Engineering, LSUBaton Rouge, LA 70803

For more information please contact Dr. John Pardue (jpardue@lsu.edu).

LSU EE SENIOR DESIGN SEEKING SPONSORSBY DR. JOHN PARDUE

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INTRODUCTION Generally, when we think of algae in water quality context, we think of how nutrients in agricultural runoff, municipal wastewater effluent, and urban stormwater provide the conditions for algae blooms in water bodies. These algal blooms lead to eutrophication and dead zones, causing water quality and negative economic effects.

The same biological processes that lead to water quality problems from nutrient pollution can be harnessed to treat, and recover, nitrogen and phosphorus through production of algae biomass for wastewater bioremediation. Algae can be cultivated and harvested to create biomass that can be transformed into biofuels and bioproducts.

As the wastewater sector seeks to manage high energy costs while recovering resources to meet tighter nutrient limits, the algae bioproducts and biofuels industry is searching for productive feedstock. The potential is being recognized, as demonstrated by awarding of the 2016 Paul L. Busch Award to Jeremy S. Guest, assistant professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Cham-paign. This $100,000 award recognizes Guest’s work with algae treatment and resource recovery.

In October 2016, the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) and the Algae Biomass Organization (ABO; Preston, Minn.) hosted the forum Algae in Wastewa-

ALGAE: FROM RESOURCE DEPLETION TO RESOURCE RECOVERYBY BARRY LINER, PH.D., P.E. AND NOAH MUNDT

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ter Treatment at the Algae Biomass Summit. The forum brought together algae technology developers, leading design and engineering firms, municipalities, regulators, and other stakeholders to review the state of algae-based tertiary wastewater treatment systems. Forum partici-pants also discussed opportunities and challenges in deploying such systems in the context of an evolving economic, environmental and regulatory landscape.

TYPES OF ALGAEAlgae tolerate a wide range in environments with respect to temperature, salinity, and water quality. The com-munities of algae found in treatment and harvesting operations typically are mixed culture, combining both photosynthetic and heterotrophic types, as occurs in nature. Photosynthetic algae use nutrients from nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater, capture carbon as carbon dioxide, use energy from sunlight, and produce oxygen as a waste product. Heterotrophic algae use organic chemicals for carbon and energy.

Blue-green algae are photosynthetic, but actually are bacteria (cyanobacteria) that contain phycocyanin,

which give the blue-green color. Blue-green algae also produce microcystins, which are toxins that cause many of the negative effects of algae blooms in lakes. Other algae are eukaryotes, as opposed to bacteria, and are generally green, brown, and red. Common green algae strains are shown in Figure 1 (see below).

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ALGAE TREATMENT The use of algae as wastewater treatment is common, as the biological processes take place in ponds and lagoons naturally. About half of the 16,000 regulated water re-source recovery facilities (WRRFs) have ponds/lagoons. These features are prevalent especially at smaller WRRFs (Bastian 2016). The efforts now are focusing on how to use microalgae for wastewater treatment within conven-tional WRRFs.

Similar to other biological wastewater treatment techniques, algae treatment can utilize suspended- or attached-grown methods. Suspended-growth ponds use paddles to keep microalgae suspended for sunlight, coupled with a shallow depth for light penetration. The layout of these ponds gives rise to the name raceways, as shown in Figure 2 (see below).

Attached growth techniques utilize a substratum that rotates alternatively through wastewater (to provide nu-trients) and atmosphere (to provide sunlight and carbon dioxide). Two common types of attached growth algae treatment technologies are biofilm rotating algae biofilm reactor (RABR) and revolving algal biofilm (RAB).In pilot tests in Chicago, an RAB system has dem-onstrated the potential for recovering nutrients from wastewater. The RAB system is capable of producing concentrated algae biomass (10% to 25% solids), which has value and can be used to produce a variety of prod-ucts (Kumar 2016).

Several types of wastewater are applicable for algae treatment including municipal wastewater, produced water from oil and gas extraction, dairy farms and swine wastewater. During treatment, nitrates and phosphates are combined with water and carbon dioxide to grow the algae. Microalgae often is represented by the chemi-cal formula C106H263O110N16P1. It is important to note the phosphorus to nitrogen ratio of 1 to 16 when

evaluating the design, as well as looking to add carbon dioxide to balance the carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus ra-tio and achieve completed nutrient assimilation, accord-ing to Ron Sims, who gave the presentation Microalgae-based approaches to Algae-based tertiary wastewater treatment at the forum.

Most of our existing laws and regulations that deal with wastewater were designed with conventional treatment systems in mind. How does algae fit in the regulatory environment? 40 CFR Part 503 includes definitions for Class A and Class B biosolids. Algae from municipal wastewater (as part of the treatment system) are subject to Part 503. Algae solids from municipal treatment could meet Class A or Class A/EQ in a number of ways. Metals are unlikely to be problematic and consistent low metals and pathogens may provide basis for reduced monitoring, said Robert Bastian in his presentation, Algae Biotechnology for Wastewater Treatment: Regula-tory Issues, at the forum.

BIOPRODUCTS AND BIOENERGYA number of bioproducts can be produced from algae biomass. Fertilizers from algae solids generally have about 8% to 10% nitrogen content and 1% to 2% phosphorus content, Bastian said. The biomass also can be used as feed for aquaculture and agriculture. Products from phycocyanin include pigments and antioxidants, Sims also reported.

The first techno-economic analysis (TEA) for algae biofuels integrated with wastewater treatment was per-formed in 1960, according to Algae Biotechnology for Wastewater Treatment: An Introduction presented by John Benneman. Using anaerobic digestion, the biomass can produce biogas, especially when mixed with food wastes and municipal wastewater biosolids to generate more methane for combined heat and power (CHP). Additional processing, such as hydrothermal liquefac-tion (“pressure cooking”) can convert algae to biocrude oil. Other processes can produce biodiesel, bioplastics, acetone, butanol, and ethanol, Sims said.

When evaluating any energy resource recovery oppor-tunity, it is important to calculate the energy return on investment (EROI): Does the system provide more usable energy than it consumes?

According to recent work in Europe, algae biofuels have an EROI of 1.9, substantially higher than corn ethanol’s and biodiesel’s value of 1.3. In addition, biomethane from algae enables greenhouse gas savings of more than

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50% compared to diesel. Furthermore, algae biofuel production per hectare is 10,000 kg CH4/ha/yr, enough to fuel 10 vehicles, double sugar bioethanol and palm oil diesel, reported Frank Rogalla in his presentation, Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery with Culti-vation of Microalgae.

CONCLUSIONSState regulators, municipalities, and other industrialized jurisdictions increasingly are moving toward tertiary wastewater treatment as a means to mitigate the envi-ronmental effects of nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, and other components of traditional wastewater treat-ment systems. But traditional systems can be an expen-sive and energy intensive proposition.

Algae-based systems, which make up just a small frac-tion of tertiary systems in use today, offer a potential solution, providing a low input-energy platform for nutrient recovery with a variety of opportunities for pro-duction of value-added coproducts.

Barry Liner is director of the Water Science & Engineer-ing Center at WEF. Noah Mundt, senior program man-ager at Siemens, was a moderator of the forum and is a member of both WEF and ABO (www.algaebiomass.org).

The information provided in this article is designed to be educational.  It is not intended to provide any type of professional advice including without limitation legal, accounting, or engineering. Your use of the information provided here is voluntary and should be based on your own evaluation and analysis of its accuracy, appropriateness for your use, and any potential risks of using the information.  The Water Environment Federation (WEF), author and the publisher of this article assume no liability of any kind with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchant-ability or fitness of use for a particular purpose. Any references included are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute endorsement of any sources.

REFERENCESBastian, R. (2016). “Algae Biotechnology for Wastewa-ter Treatment: Regulatory Issues,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.Benemann, J., Sims, R., Lundquist, T., and Rogalla, F. (2016). “Algae Biotechnology for Wastewater Treatment: An Introduction,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.Kumar, Kuldip (2016). “Utilizing Algae Based Technol-ogies for Nutrient Removal & Recovery: Opportunities & Challenges of Phycoremediation,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.Lundquist, T., Spierling, R., Parker, L., Pittner, C., Me-dina, L., Steffen, T., Alvarez, J., Adler, N., and Benem-mann, J. (2016). “The RNEW® Process: Recycled Water, Fertilizer, and Power from Wastewater,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.Rogalla, F, De Godos, I., Arbib, Z., and Lara, E. (2016). “Wastewater Treatment and Energy Recovery with Cultivation of Microalgae,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.Sims, Ron. (2016). “Microalgae-based approaches to Algae-based tertiary wastewater treatment,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.

Figure 1. Green algae typically found in wastewater pond polyculturesCredit: Lundquist, T., Spierling, R., Parker, L., Pittner, C., Medina, L., Steffen, T., Alvarez, J., Adler, N., and Benemmann, J. (2016). “The RNEW® Process: Recycled Water, Fertilizer, and Power from Wastewa-ter,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.

Figure 2. Raceway Algae high rate pondCredit: Lundquist, T., Spierling, R., Parker, L., Pittner, C., Medina, L., Steffen, T., Alvarez, J., Adler, N., and Benemmann, J. (2016). “The RNEW® Process: Recycled Water, Fertilizer, and Power from Wastewa-ter,” presented at Algae Biomass Summit, Oct. 23, 2016, Phoenix, Ariz.

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The Louisiana Water Environment Association has es-tablished a scholarship program to encourage and assist qualified individuals in their pursuit of a degree, which leads to a career in the environmental field. LWEA intends to award three scholarships, honoring former members of LWEA, to defray the costs of tuition, fees, books and school supplies. The three scholarships and the amount of each award are:

Frederick G. Deiler Memorial Scholarship $1,500

Kenneth L. Keffer Memorial Scholarship $1,500

Harold Norman Memorial Scholarship $1,500

LWEA reserves the right to revise, withhold or reduce the number of scholarships, depending upon the quan-tity and quality of the applications received. Scholar-ships will be forwarded to the University for the recipi-ent to use during the next (Fall) semester or quarter. In addition, the scholarship recipients will be awarded a complimentary one-year student membership in the national Water Environment Federation and in LWEA.

A complete application must be received by the LWEA Scholarship Selection Committee by April 3, 2017, at the following address:

Henry T. Graham, Jr.LWEA Scholarship Selection Committee Chairmanc/o LCAOne American Place, Suite 2040Baton Rouge, LA 70825

The scholarships will be announced at the LWEA Annual Business Meeting in June 2017.

Contact Henry Graham, Jr. at (225) 344-2609 Ext. 642 or E-mail: henry@lca.org or your LWEA Campus Coordinator for details.

Continue reading on the next page for scholarship program requirements.

LOUISIANA WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION

2017 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMBY HENRY GRAHAM

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSIn order to be considered, the applicant:

1. Must be pursuing either a baccalaureate or masters degree at a college or university within Louisiana;2. Must be a full-time student and resident of Louisiana.3. Must have at least a B average in all course work (3.0 on a 4.0 scale);4. Must be at least a Junior (undergraduate) and no higher than a Mas-ter’s level candidate during the year of award;5. Must have at least two semesters (three quarters) of course work re-maining toward a qualifying degree at the time of award; and6. Must be majoring in an environmental related curriculum in engineer-ing, physical or natural science, or public health.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTSIn order to apply for the LWEA scholarships, the applicant must submit the following:

1. General Information - A brief application containing the applicant's name, address, (mailing and permanent), telephone number, university attending and dates of attendance, degree sought and overall Grade Point Average. Briefly describe your need for this scholarship (please include the % of tuition covered by other grants or scholarships; the names and amounts of any other grants or scholarships applicable during the award period of the LWEA scholarship).

2. Resume - Pertinent information on environmentally related course work, honors and achievements, publications, presentations and extracur-ricular activities (both on-campus and off-campus organizations).

3. Narrative - A short essay (not less than 50 and no more than 200 words) which demonstrates the applicant's desire to preserve and enhance the water environment of Louisiana by setting forth the applicant's degree objectives, career goals and personal interests.

4. Official University/College Transcript(s) - A copy of your official college transcripts. For applicants continuing an undergraduate de-gree program, the transcript must show all undergraduate course work through the most recent Fall semester (quarter). For applicants entering into a post-graduate degree program, the transcript must show all un-dergraduate course work leading to a baccalaureate degree and a letter of acceptance to a graduate environmental program meeting the minimum requirements. For applicants continuing a post-graduate degree program, the transcripts must show all undergraduate course work leading to a baccalaureate degree and all post-graduate course work through the most recent Fall semester (quarter).

5. Personal Reference - Recommendation of the applicant's major professor or department head, as appropriate, attesting to the applicant's academic experience.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT • CHERREE CARLSON225-241-8773 • cherree.carlson@hoodcontainer.com

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(Jazz Room)Water/Waste Water

(Zydeco Room)LEHA

(Blues Room)

1:00-1:30The Use of Drones at Landfills-Raymond

CrewsFederal Regulatory Update-John King

Pay for Performance-Durwood Franklin,

LDEQ

Drinking Water Program/Rule

Updates LDHH Representative

Cancer in Louisiana-Facts & Fables-Raoult

Ratard

1:30-2:00 Waste Permits Division Updates-Estuardo Silva, LDEQ

Trust Fund Update-Jeff Baker, LDEQ

Drinking Water Quality in New Orleans-Cedric

Grant, Executive Director, Sewage & Water Board,

New Orleans

2:00-3:00 Exhibitor Visitation

3:00-3:30Certification of

Compliance Update- Mike Hahn, LDEQ

EPA Online-Interactive Mapping-

Steve Thompson

Regulatory Complicance for

USTS from A-Z-Todd Perry, PPM

DEQ NPDES Rule and 316 (b) Update

Bruce Fielding, LDEQ

Are These Crawfish Safe To Eat? A Study of Bioaccumulation-Helen Connelly

3:30-4:00

Landfill Heavy Equipment Marc Taylor, Caterpillar

EPA Enforcement Issues-Steve Gilrein

Fiberglass USTS-Gary Etter, Xerxes

Safety of Dietary Supplements-Lance Fontenot

6:00 - 9:00 pm Hospitality Event-Acadian Village

Friday, March 17, 2017

Track Titles Solid Waste (Gospel Room)

Industrial/Energy (Cajun Room)

UST (Jazz Room)

Water/Waste Water (Zydeco Room)

LEHA (St. Landry Room)

7:30-8:00 EXHIBITOR VISITATION

8:00-8:30Household Hazardous Waste Management- Don Caffery, LDEQ

LDEQ Stack Test Protocol & Report Reviews: What is

Expected and Accepted-Jason Meyers, LDEQ

UST Enforcement/ Expedited Penalty Agreement-Roselle

Foote, LDEQ

Biosolids Rule Update and Oxidation Pond

Closures Todd Franklin, LDEQ Mimic the Natural

System to Yield Higher Ecosystem

Services-Scott Courtright

8:30-9:00

Closure & Post Closure

Requirements-An Update-Martin

Perilloux, LDEQ

The Advance Program & How it

Works in the Community-Vivian

Aucoin Professional Ethics for Geosciences &

Engineers-Bill Schramm, LDEQ

Biochemical WW Treatment- Larry Shriver

9:00-9:30 Emergency Debris Sites-Karla Vidrine,

LDEQ

Emission Reduction Credits for Mobile Sources (AQ 365)-

Bryan Johnston Keep Louisiana Beautiful/Litter

Management Panel-Susan Russell

Innovative Remediation Technologies-Dave

Wandor

9:30-10:00

Groundwater Monitoring at

Landfills-Jon Fourrier, Fourrier & de 'Abreu

Engineers, LLC

SO2 Data Requirements Rule Update: Monitor

Installation & Operation-K. Calhoun,

Providence

Vapor Barriers-Keith Horn, LDEQ

Mosquito Control & Honey Bees-Minimizing

Pollinator Mortality-Randy Veath

10:00-10:30 EXHIBITOR VISITATION

10:30-11:00

Landfill Cell Design & Construction 101-Dr.

Ricardo de 'Abreu, Fourrier & de' Abreu

Engineers, LLC

Biomass-Waste to Energy (Combined

Heat & Power Resiliency)-William Matthews, CLECO

LDEQ Roundtable-Issac Ricketts &

Angelle Duplechain, LDEQ

Watershed Modeling for Sewer Prioritization and

Planning Aimee' Killeen,

Providence Engineering

Mold Mitagation

11:00-11:30

Groundwater Assessment

Monitoring, Lessons Learned-Steven Forester, LDEQ

Re-definition of Solid Waste-Update-Nora Lane & Don Caffrey

UST Regulatory Update-Sam

Broussard, LDEQ

Watershed-Flood Modeling

Creative Ways for Spent Bauxite Solid Waste Management-

Zia Tammami

11:30-12:00Odor Control/Gas Management-Katry

Martin, St Landry ParishResiliency Planning

Panel: New Orleans, N. LA

12:00-12:30 Landfill Safety-Tony Franco, Waste Management

RECAP Update-LDEQ

12:30

The LDEQ Satellite Office - LDEQ Staff will have an "Office" established in the Lobby of the Cajundome Convention Center from 1:30pm to 3:30pm on Thursday and from 8:30am to 10:30am on Friday. Stop by the "Office" and have questions answered regarding geology, engineering,

permitting, and other topics.

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