Pulp and paper mills use a lot of water, almost 17,000 gallons per ton of paper produced. Then they have to treat the water so that it can be re-introduced into our environment. Typically this is done utilizing large volume basins or lagoons. 

Mill management doesn’t like these lagoons, they smell bad, they can foam a lot, they can cost a million dollars or more a year in energy and the real gorilla in the room…sooner or later management is going to have to deal with the accumulated deposition and short circuiting caused from 20-30 years of running 30+ year old vertical aeration technology.

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