Publications

The following technical papers, which were authored or co-authored by principals of MBC, have been published in Engineering periodicals and or presented at technical conferences.

Ending Pretreatment Chemical Dependency at a 10 MGD Nanofiltration Plant
AMTA Presentation, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 2023.

Optimizing Chemical Pretreatment and Membrane Element Performance at a 10 MGD Nanofiltration Plant 
AMTA Presentation, West Palm Beach, FL, July 2021.

Optimizing Chemical Pretreatment for a 10 MGD Nanofiltration Plant 
AMTA Manuscript, Phoenix, AZ, March 2020.

Plant Spotlight: The City of Pompano Beach
Recovery Zone, June 2019.

Optimizing Replacement Membranes at the 10 mgd City of Pompano Bach Nanofiltration Plant 
AMTA and SEFLUC Presentation, West Palm Beach, FL, March 2018.

Upgraded Disinfection: Providing Four-Log Virus Treatment of a Finished Water Supply for a Consecutive System
Florida Section AWWA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2016.

Optimizing Four Log Treatment with DBP Rule 
Florida Section AWWA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2011.

 Construction and Start-Up of a 3.0 MGD Low Pressure Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant for Clewiston, Florida,
AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 2008.

 Construction and Start-Up of the Clewiston Reverse Osmosis Plant,
AMTA/SEDA 2008 Joint Conference, Membrane Week, Naples, FL, July 2008.

 Clewiston Installs Reverse Osmosis to Get Off Sugar,
AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, June 2006.

Process Optimization at New Nanofiltration Plant Meets Water-Quality Goals, Saves Money for Boca Raton
(co-author), Florida Section AWWA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2005 (received Top Paper award and was published in the March issue of the Florida Water Resources Journal).

 Process Optimization During the First Year of Operation of a 40-mgd Nanofiltration Plant
(co-author), AWWA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2005.

 Start-Up of the World’s Largest Nanofiltration Plant
(co-author), American Membrane Technology Association Biennial Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2004.

  Evaluating Nanofiltration, Reverse Osmosis, and Ion Exchange to Meet Consumptive Use Constraints and Finished Water Quality Goals for Broward County (co-author), American Membrane Technology Association Biennial Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2004.

 Seawater Reverse Osmosis – The Most Cost Effective Alternative for Meeting Nassau’s Near Term Water Needs
(co-author), International Desalination Association Biennial Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, September 2003.

 SFWMD South Florida Water Management District
(co-author), Water Supply Cost Estimation Study, February 2007

Florida Water Resources Journal
(co-author), Optimizing Four-Log Virus Treatment with Chemical Disinfection Relative to the Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, April 2012.