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Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Carbon filtration equipment (Absorption equipment)
  • Oxygen generators (Aeration compressors)
  • Mixers or agitators (Aerators)
  • Sludge or sewage digesters (Aerobic digesters)
  • Mixers or agitators (Agitators)
  • Air samplers or collectors (Air monitoring equipment)
  • Bacterial removal equipment (Air strippers)
  • Water conditioners (Ammoniators)
  • Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Ammonium analyzers)
  • Packaged water treatment systems (Anaerobic treatment equipment)
  • Spectrophotometers (Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers)
  • Autosamplers
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Backwash filters)
  • Dissolved oxygen meters (Biochemical oxygen demand analyzers)
  • Blowers
  • Organic carbon analyzers (Carbon analyzers)
  • Centrifugal pumps
  • Chemical pumps (Chemical feed pumps)
  • Chemical pumps (Chemical feeding equipment)
  • Oxygen gas analyzers (Chemical oxygen demand testing equipment)
  • Single gas monitors (Chlorine analyzers)
  • Sludge collectors (Clarifiers)
  • Colorimeters
  • Sludge shredders (Comminutors)
  • Water samplers (Composite samplers)
  • Conductivity meters
  • Conveyor screw (Conveyor control equipment)
  • Chlorine handling equipment (Dechlorination equipment)
  • Ammonia removal equipment (Denitrification equipment)
  • Desktop computers
  • Oxygen generators (Diffusors)
  • Chlorine handling equipment (Disinfection chlorinators)
  • Air samplers or collectors (Emissions monitoring systems)
  • Sludge pelletizers (Filter belt presses)
  • Bacterial removal equipment (Fixed-film reactors)
  • Mixers or agitators (Flocculators)
  • Water purification equipment (Flotation equipment)
  • Furnaces
  • Grit chambers (Grit separators)
  • Heat exchangers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Hydrocarbon analyzers)
  • Incinerators
  • Sludge collectors (Incline plate clarifiers)
  • Screw Pumps (Incline screw pumps)
  • Microcontrollers (Ion exchangers)
  • Lift stations
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Microstrainers)
  • Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Nitrate analyzers)
  • Notebook computers
  • Odor control equipment
  • Oil content monitors analyzers (Oil-in-water monitors)
  • pH meters (pH analyzers)
  • Drain or pipe cleaning equipment (Pipe cleaning equipment)
  • Digital camcorders or video cameras (Pipe inspection video equipment)
  • Sludge pelletizers (Plate and frame presses)
  • Positive displacement pumps
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Rapid sand filters)
  • Microcontrollers (Remote terminal unit pump control equipment)
  • Water purification equipment (Rotating biological contactors)
  • Wet scrubbers (Scrubbers)
  • Sludge or sewage removal equipment (Scum ejectors)
  • Packaged water treatment systems (Sequential batch reactors)
  • Sedimentological analyzing unit (Settleometers)
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Slow sand filters)
  • Sludge or sewage digesters (Sludge digesters)
  • Sludge disposal equipment (Sludge injectors)
  • Chlorine handling equipment (Sulphonators)
  • Turbidimeters (Suspended solid measurement equipment)
  • Oil content monitors analyzers (Total oil and grease analyzers)
  • Organic carbon analyzers (Total organic carbon TOC analyzers)
  • Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Total petroleum hydrocarbon TPH analyzers)
  • Toxicology analyzers (Toxic gas analyzers)
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Trickling filter beds)
  • Turbidimeters
  • Flow sensors (Ultrasonic flowmeters)
  • Ultraviolet disinfection equipment (Ultraviolet UV disinfection systems)
  • Ultrafiltration equipment (Vacuum filters)
  • Valve actuators
  • Water samplers (Wastewater samplers)
  • Water treatment dryers (Water treatment evaporators)

Technologies Include:

  • Compliance software
  • Compliance software
  • Material safety data sheet MSDS software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Data logging software
  • Database software
  • Document management software
  • Records management software
  • Industrial control software
  • Human machine interface HMI software
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
  • Wastewater expert control systems
  • Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Time accounting software
  • Timekeeping software



The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)

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