Getting the most out of your water storage tank
September 23, 2024
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Properly sizing, maintaining, and operating your storage tanks helps provide optimum water quality to the community. In this webinar, learn how computational fluid dynamics modeling is used for analyzing and optimizing your tank.
Join water treatment specialist Elise DuBois to better understand the terminology, the inner workings of your tanks, when to model, and what data is essential to collect to get your tanks working for you and your system.
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Working with clients’ water storage tank needs, Elise understands the challenges operators and owners face. She’s a certified distribution and treatment operator with deep experience in water storage tanks design, rehabilitation, and construction.
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