TIGG Corporation was called upon to provide a solution for treating the contact water because of its ability to meet the company’s requirements of reasonable pricing, immediate rental equipment availability and technical expertise.

TIGG helped rescue the project, which initially employed one of its competitors, who provided inadequate engineering and a solution that was not meeting treatment objectives.

“With the goal of removing contaminants from groundwater in an area near a shopping center, we worked with the remediation contractor to help ensure the safety of the public,” said TIGG Director of Project Engineering Jeff Iman. “We delivered an idea and the apparatus to implement it in a little over three weeks.”

Initially, TIGG developed a water treatment system that combined various technologies to separate oil and coal-tar residuals from the contact water. This process included gravity separators, centrifugal pumps, bag filter units and vessels containing oil-absorbent media and activated carbon.

However, it was soon discovered that cyanide was prevalent in the water. The remediation contractor suggested that iron coprecipitation be used to treat the water and remove the substance. Prior to implementing this plan, the contractor asked TIGG to confirm the treatment process in the laboratory.

After meticulously bench-testing different treatment methods, TIGG identified an anion exchange resin as the best method for removing cyanide from the contact water.

Once the environmental remediation company saw the test results, TIGG incorporated a secondary bag filter skid into the plan and added two anion water filtration vessels. This additional equipment safely removed the cyanide from the water.

As part of its overall service agreement with the environmental remediation contractor, TIGG exchanged spent media with fresh media in the filtration vessels, while offering continuous technical support on the overall process.

“Thanks to our bench testing and ability to integrate various technologies to meet changing needs, the project was executed in a timely and effective manner,” said Iman. “The end result was clean water ready to be introduced back into the local ecosystem.”

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TIGG Corp. engineers came up with an enhanced under-drain design and recommended lining the filtration tank with a more durable epoxy. The improved epoxy provides tighter cross-linking, thereby decreasing the tank’s permeability.

“Making design recommendations to existing specifications is something our engineers do all the time,” said TIGG Corp. Vice President Anthony Mazzoni. “In this case, their expertise provided a more durable and robust system for the municipality.”

The tank, which will remove iron from the communities’ drinking water by using sand, anthracite, garnet and gravel as filtration media, is separated into three internal compartments by internal walls. The three compartments allow water flow to continue in two compartments, while the off-stream compartment is backwashing. The system lets the water treatment plant backwash one compartment using the water generated by the other two.

TIGG Corp. delivered the custom-built, 10 foot diameter, three-compartment pressure filter in July and the municipality is currently constructing a new building around it. The water treatment facility’s schedule calls for the pressure filter to come on line later this year.

“Not only does TIGG Corp. have a standard product line of equipment for treating potable water, we have the ability to customize and enhance existing designs to meet our customers’ unique requirements,” said Mazzoni.

TIGG Corporation is presenting the TIGG Methyl Bromide Recapture System, an activated carbon filtration system that treats methyl bromide emissions to the USDA-APHIS standards.

Read more about TIGG’s Methyl Bromide Recapture System and what this means for industrial fumigators: http://www.tigg.com/newsarchives.html#MethylBromideRecaptureUsingActivatedCarbon

The custom 150 psig tank has a 20,000 gallon capacity, is 12 feet in diameter and and is the largest air receiver to come out of our shop to date. This tank has put our manufacturing capabilities and facility to the test. And we are very pleased to announce that we passed with flying colors!

Don’t forget, in addition to manufacturing custom air receivers we stock and inventory four common sized receivers. We’re centrally located in Arkansas and can ship to most locations in the country within two days!

Remember- in addition to fabricating activated carbon air & water filtration equipment, we manufacture steel tanks & pressure vessels, inlcuding air receivers.

Visit our activated carbon website here: www.TIGG.com
Learn more about air recievers and pressure vessels here: www.TIGGtanks.com

During the Spring 2011 flooding in Tennessee there was concern that the drinking water plant would be flooded cutting off supply to the community, including the correctional facility. Evacuating residents is protocol in this situation, but what to do with the inmates? The prison has access to an irrigation well for water supply but the water does not meet drinking standards for iron and arsenic. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) got involved to find a system to make the irrigation water meet drinking water standards. TIGG Corporation received a call at 2:00 in the afternoon to design and deliver a system to treat the water. TIGG assembled a custom system specifically for the irrigation water which included a clarifier with metering pumps for chemical addition, two sand filters, arsenic removal media vessel, backwash tank mixers and pumps. The system shipped by noon the next day and was assembled by their emergency contractor immediately. By the third day, the system was producing drinking water that met standards.

Read more about our municiapl drinking water & activated carbon filtration systems here: http://www.tigg.com/municipal-drinking-water-treatment-application.html#MDWTN

We’re pleased to announce that we have added our stocked air receiver drawings to our website! These PDFs are available for download.

TIGG Tanks offers four out of our fourteen standard air receivers as readily available, stocked items. These are:
 
PV 660 V 165
PV 1060 V 165
PV 1550 V 165
PV 2200 V 165 

We’re centrally located in Arkansas and can ship to most locations in the country within two days!

To learn more about our Air Receivers or download the standard drawings, visit our webpage: www.TIGGtanks/AirReceivers

Mr. Kearns has over 30 years of experience in consultative project development and relationship management of customer accounts, along with sales and marketing strategy development & implementation. His experience includes a fundamental understanding of process engineering, remediation technology and water/air treatment systems.

His past experience includes project and client management and technical business development for multi discipline engineering firms with emphasis on environmental engineering and remediation.

“Our air and water purification business continues to grow along with our steel tanks manufacturing and sales.  We will be leveraging our strong working relationship with current customers on a national accounts basis.  Jim’s experience complements TIGG’s core business and growth strategies. We are pleased to welcome him back and look forward to his contributions to our long term growth initiatives,” commented Georgiana Riley, President of TIGG Corporation.

At TIGG, we strive to meet our customers needs. As part of our marketing program we are now making our articles, press releases, and white papers available via blog. If you prefer to get information from us through a different source- visit the TIGG Newsroom for other options: http://www.tigg.com/TIGGNewsroom.html.

Our past press releases & white paper will be listed to create a TIGG News archive.

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