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Offline hopfenundmalz

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A Water Solution for a Commercial Brewery.
« on: December 13, 2015, 10:19:31 am »
The water in Michigan is plentiful. This brewery is in the town of Dexter, and the drinking water treatment plant and waste treatment plant have capacity limits. Here is what they will be doing.

http://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/Annual-2015/Northern-United-Brewing-First-in-State-to-Use-New-Device-to-Convert-Wastewater-to-Reusable-Water/
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Re: A Water Solution for a Commercial Brewery.
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2015, 11:09:55 am »
Nice write up, great solution!
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Re: A Water Solution for a Commercial Brewery.
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2015, 01:25:28 pm »
Very interesting, thanks for sharing Jeff. I wonder, looks like it may simply be stacked filter media. It's certainly a huge issue for urban and rural treatment system capacities.
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