I am in the fortunate position of being in work and having another job offer on the table. I've been weighing up the pros and cons of each job and they are pretty well matched (one has slightly longer hours but the work times are more flexible, one has a profit related bonus scheme and the other...
The thread on explaining why you're resigning has set me thinking - I have a job interview next week and I don't know what to say if they ask why I'm thinking of leaving my current job. I'm looking around for two reasons:
1) I was put forward for promotion but then a couple of colleagues were...
I am currently designing an iron/manganese removal filter plant and I plan to settle my dirty backwash water, dispose of the supernatant and remove backwash sludge via road tanker. I have 2 washwater settlement tanks and in order to ensure that a flow path is always open, I would like to use a...
We have an instruction from our client that the rate of change of flow through their rapid gravity filters should be limited to 5% per minute. I am trying to write the control system for a new RGF plant at the moment and I need to know if this is 5% of the flow setpoint we are aiming for, or 5%...
We have been asked by our client (a local water authority) to assess their risk regarding a new development proposed for construction over the next 30 to 40 years. Needless to say, the developers plans are a little vague at the moment and so we are struggling to build a picture of the likely...
We are making some modifications to the control of the high lift pumps at a water treatment works to fix some problems with the supply to the reservoir. There are 3 pumps operating on a duty / assist / standby basis and a part of the solution was to fit variable speed drives to all three pumps...
I'm in the process of sizing a cascade aerator to assist in the removal of iron from borehole water. I've based my calculation on a calculation for a similar aerator on a previous project and adapted it to suit my project. There is a point in the calculation that states the minimum residence...
