Blowdown Water Articles
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Zero liquid discharge (ZLD)
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is desirable to industry as well as the environment because it saves money, reduces liability and generates good will with customers and neighbors. ZLD facilities take strides to reduce the amount of water used in their manufacturing process, sometimes they use advanced wastewater treatment equipment to recycle a portion of their wastewater, and finally they use a ...
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Tru-Flex Stamping & Assembly, Edinburgh, IN - Case Study
Tru-Flex Stamping & Assembly is a proven industrial leader for stampings and formed metal parts. Stainless steel material is fed into large stamping presses and formed into the specified ...
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Project - Gelderland Power Station, Netherlands
Underwater Vibration Monitoring / 2020 / Brunei. Demolition, Private Sector, ...
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What Is Virtual Water?
Even goods that contain no actual water can carry a great deal of virtual water “Virtual water” is a concept in use since the 1990s that assumes all of the water required to produce a good remains embedded within the good as it moves along the value chain. With the concept of virtual water, we can say a bowl of completely dry cereal contains all the water that was needed to grow and ...
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What Does Water Mean to Us?
This question is at the heart of World Water Day, and at Fluence, the answer lies in preserving this vital resource through reuse World Water Day is about celebrating what water means to people and how we should value and protect this vital resource, which is central to livelihoods, culture, health, and the environment. At Fluence, water is everything, and in this age of water stress, ...
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How Surfactants Affect Drift Rate
Drift is composed of entrained particles of water in the exit air stream of the cooling tower. Unlike the evaporated water that is pure, the drift particles will contain whatever soluble constituents are present in the circulating water. This could include minerals, water treatment chemicals, and biological organisms. The substances in drift pose potential health hazards for people near the tower ...
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Resin Pilot Plant - Case Study
As part of a commitment to reduce airborne emissions – or the risk of such emissions – the Mt. Vernon, IN plant of GE Plastics – now Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation – installed a NOx scrubber. SABIC is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates. In 2014, it was ranked fourth in the world among chemical companies by Fortune Global ...
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Reuse of Cooling Tower Blowdown at Commercial and Municipal Buildings
Covering over 520,000 square feet, the San Jose McEnery Convention Center is the largest convention center in Silicon Valley. In keeping with the City of San Jose’s Green Vision and Climate Smart sustainability plans, the Convention Center implemented several environmental initiatives including: Composting Services First ChargePoint Ammerica electrical vehicle charging stations in San ...
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Data center process water clean up - Case Study
The Problem : Super Computer Data Processing CPU Performance Loss Today’s Big Data reality depends on real world cooling efficiency. Even a super thin biofilm and/or deposits of any kind, cause real world cooling computer efficiency issues which cost real world dollars. AMSA, Inc. has set the standard for the last 23 years for the “smart”, or designed molecule approach for ...
By AMSA, Inc.
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NOx treatment - case study
As part of a commitment to reduce airborne emissions – or the risk of such emissions – the Mt. Vernon, IN plant of GE Plastics – now Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation – installed a NOx scrubber. SABIC is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates. In 2014, it was ranked fourth in the world among chemical companies by Fortune ...
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Laboratory water supply - Netherlands, 4,0 m3/d - Case Study
Project Description: Lenntech has engineered, manufactured and assembled a water supply system including reverse osmosis make up water station for a research and development branch of a research company. The water is used to research different oils and other fluids for the fluid medium viscosity The water water supply system is equipped with top brand instrumentation and equipment. The system is ...
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Water Use and Reuse in Petroleum Refining
Refineries can be like cities, and opportunities for water reuse abound, from recycling of process water to sewage Although the water requirements of oil exploration make water reuse a hot topic for the upstream petroleum industry — the exploration and production end — there are significant opportunities for reuse downstream, which includes refining. Petroleum refineries are ...
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Water Issues in the Seafood Industry
Processing fish produces an effluent that’s difficult to treat because of its high levels of nutrients. Aquaculture and processing present challenges in terms of water footprint and pollution The seafood industry has been growing around the world, and attention to attendant water issues has been increasing as well. Seafood consumption has grown 3.6% annually since 1961, which is double ...
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Odor Control H 2 S / Sewer Gas Wet Scrubbing Explained
H2S / Sewer Gas / Rotten Egg Smell Control Hydrogen Sulfide, chemical formula H2S. also commonly referred to as 'sewer gas' is frequently a nuisance problem at waste water treatment facilities - and a source of complaints from neighbors of such facilities. Additionally, H2S not only stinks, at high concentrations it incapacitates, blinds and eventually will kill if allowed to concentrate ...
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Aerobic treatment for Reuse of Wastewater at Fish processing plant - Case study
Advanced technology treats difficult effluent for reuse and eliminates the need to buy imported water Background Tadel SA is a fish flour and fish oil processing company in Rocafuerte, Ecuador. It produces 100 tons of flour a day from fish waste, resulting in approximately 300 m3/d of wastewater. The wastewater is a combination of washing water, boiler blowdown, and cooling-tower water, as ...
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Thermoelectric Power Industry Focuses on Water Efficiency
Power generation currently accounts for large percentage of United States water withdrawals The United States generates nearly 90% of its electricity with thermoelectric plants, and it takes 161 billion gallons of water per day to do it, accounting for a whopping 38% of national water withdrawals. Significantly, 99% of withdrawals were from fresh surface water. Coal, oil, natural gas, and ...
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Evaluation of the Aqua-Stream™ Side Stream Filter with Pathex® Antimicrobial Filter Media Part 6: The Economics of Side Stream Filtration
Summary of Study: Beginning in October 2016, AS Filtration, LLC conducted a year-long study to document the effectiveness of a non-oxidizing biocide within a side stream filter on the cooling tower system of a four-story office building in Chattanooga, Tennessee. AS Filtration installed an Aqua-Stream™ side stream filter, utilizing their unique Pathex® antimicrobial filter media, on the ...
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Solar Power Plant Recycles Blowdown Water to Save Fresh Water - Case Study
PROJECT DETAILS LOCATION Ashalim, Israel CUSTOMER GE-Alstom, Israeli Government SOLUTION Cooling tower wastewater treatment system TECHNOLOGIES Containerized Systems Featuring Automatic Disc Filtration and Ultrafiltration, Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis, Gas Transfer Membranes, Continuous Electrodeionization The new Ashalim solar power plant in the Israeli Negev desert relies on local ...
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National Aeronautics Group Case Study
This installation is for a national aeronautics government group which specializes in aerospace development. This site is on a military installation located in California, whose challenges included water scarcity, bio-contamination, and scale issues. They turned to Dynamic Water for a sustainable solution to their water treatment. Dynamic Water installed a 4x4 UET reactor skid, which operates at ...
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Valve efficiency upgrades at SSE Great Island CCGT Power Station - Case Study
Sector: Power Generation Category: Control Networks, Electric Actuators, Services Products: Field Service, IQ3 Range, Preventative Maintenance, Training Overview SSE plc’s Great Island Power Station in County Wexford is a 464 MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant which was first commissioned in 2014. Acknowledged as one of Ireland’s cleanest and most efficient natural gas ...
By Rotork plc
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