Fayetteville Company, Founded by University Researchers, Earns Prestigious Honor

The Fayetteville-based company BlueInGreen will receive the prestigious Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation, an international not-for-profit technical and educational water quality organization. The award will be presented during a ceremony at the organization's 83rd annual technical exhibition and conference next month in New Orleans.

The Innovative Technology Awards, which includes the collection systems, instrumentation, process equipment and solids handling and disposal categories, are presented annually to federation associate members who have introduced new innovative products or services related to the construction, operation or maintenance of treatment facilities.

BlueInGreen is being recognized in the process equipment category for its high-efficiency dissolved-oxygen delivery technology. BlueInGreen's supersaturated dissolved oxygen system maximizes the delivery of dissolved oxygen and minimizes the footprint of the oxygen delivery system. The systems are being used in applications in which operating efficiency and space considerations are paramount. The technology for the system was developed by University of Arkansas researchers who founded and developed the company.

BlueInGreen will be honored during WEFTEC 2010, the largest water quality event in North America and the largest annual water quality exhibition in the world. Thousands of the world's leading water quality experts and 1,000 companies featuring the latest in water quality technology are expected at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center from Oct. 3-6.

About the Water Environment Federation

Formed in 1928, the Water Environment Federation is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 36,000 individual members and 75 affiliated member associations representing water quality professionals around the world. The foundation and its member associations proudly work to achieve their mission of preserving and enhancing the global water environment.