Writing
Technical writing
Long-form pieces on water, wastewater, energy and the contracts that deliver them. Written to be cited.
6 Jul 2026
Industrial wastewater: choosing the treatment train
Municipal works treat one wastewater; industry produces thousands. The technology list is long — the discipline is characterising the effluent before choosing from it.
Industrial · Wastewater · Water treatment
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2 min
15 Jun 2026
Spent caustic: the refinery stream nobody wants
Sulphidic, phenolic or naphthenic — spent caustic is small in volume, brutal in strength, and expensive to get wrong. The treatment routes, compared.
Industrial · Wastewater · Refining
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2 min
4 May 2026
Nuclear wastewater: treatment under a different discipline
Radioactive effluent treatment uses familiar unit operations — filtration, ion exchange, evaporation — governed by an unfamiliar rule: concentrate and contain, never dilute and disperse.
Nuclear · Wastewater · Industrial
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2 min
10 Feb 2026
Zero liquid discharge: the honest cost of the last litre
ZLD turns a discharge problem into an evaporation problem. It works — at an energy and capital price that should be paid knowingly, not discovered in operation.
Wastewater · Desalination · Industrial · ZLD
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2 min