I'm supporting a groundwater treatment system that has problematic fouling. It's about a 10 gpm system from a french drain that pumps shallow groundwater through bag filters and then two 500-lb activated carbon filters to remove BTEX (~1 ppm total). It's to prevent contamination to a small river...
I've been working for several years in environmental consulting, mostly site characterization and remediation. I have a BS in ChE and MS in EnvE and I enjoy the work but I feel the engineering is marginal and am uncertain of the outlook (fewer contaminated sites). I want to switch to...