Effective Environmental Control by Qualified Scientists

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Industrial fouling

Unchecked fouling of intake structures and piping networks by zebra or quagga mussels spreading from the Great Lakes into water bodies of central and eastern North America can create serious problems for industrial and municipal users of lake water. Mussel fouling can decrease or obstruct flow, interrupt key processes, reduce heat transfer and impair the response of emergency systems for fire or equipment safety.

Successful environmental solutions

Kinectrics is an acknowledged leader in the development and evaluation of innovative environmental technologies. To be successful, mussel control methods must meet several key criteria:

• Effectively prevent industrial process interruptions, equipment de-ratings and shutdowns caused by mussel fouling
• Ensure that the integrity and availability of safety-related systems is not compromised
• Have minimal impact on the environment

All of Kinectrics’ mussel control techniques have been proven successful for nuclear and fossil generating stations whose cooling and service water systems depend on raw water from the Great Lakes, where zebra and quagga mussels are most pervasive. Kinectrics’ team of biologists, chemists, physical scientists and engineers work diligently to constantly improve these innovative technologies.

Kinectrics’ control techniques include anti-fouling coatings, optimized chlorine applications, mechanical filtration, acoustical treatment, UV applications and thermal shock treatment. Prevention is our focus: if the settlement of veligers (larvae) and the reattachment of translocating juvenile mussels can be prevented, colonies of adult mussels will be unable to establish.

Complete services

Kinectrics provides a full range of environmental services for mussel control.

Contract Research or Testing and Evaluation

• Bio-monitoring of raw water systems for mussels
• Monitoring of control system performance
• Design and implementation of control techniques
• Consultation on mussel biology, optimization of chlorine treatment, mechanical filtration, acoustical applications, UV applications and anti-fouling coatings

State-of-the-art environmental research facilities

• Unique, continuous once-through flow cell system
• Abundant natural supply of veliger and adult mussels
• Control of water velocity and residency times in each flow cell, making it possible to simulate the environments of mussels that infest raw water systems
• Automated control and monitoring instrumentation (temperature, pressure, velocity, chemical concentration, veliger density)
• Custom-designed applications
• Transportable to your site

Proven client benefits

• Prevents process interruptions, equipment de-ratings and shutdowns due to mussel infestations through proactive treatments
• Ensures integrity and availability of safety-related systems are not compromised
• Minimizes environmental impact

• Zebra mussel biology
  • Larval and adult biology
  • Automated veliger counting
  • Behavioral response to treatments and fluid dynamics
  • Substrate preference
• Chemical control evaluation
  • Efficacy testing of novel molluscidides
  • Optimization of chemical use
  • Chlorine generation by electrolysis
• Physical control evaluation
  • Anti-fouling coatings
  • New filtration technologies
  • Acoustical treatment
  • UV and ionizing irradiation
  • Electric shock
  • Thermal shock

For more information, contact

Paul Patrick, 416.207.6000 x6277, paul.patrick@kinectrics.com

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