industrial water-use Articles
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The essential role of water in industry: challenges and solutions
Today, finding an industry that does not operate with water is difficult. This resource is used, to a greater or lesser extent, in all industries, regardless of their purpose. All industrial activity requires water to produce its end products or to support production activities. Whether for the construction of cars, waste management, or food production. However, water consumption ...
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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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Industry, Municipalities Embracing Water Reuse
In industry, recycled water can be used as manufacturing process water, in energy generation, for oil and gas exploration, and in a host of other purple-pipe applications, including landscape irrigation and toilet flushing. When cities produce recycled water and sell it to industries at a good price, it’s a win-win situation In the United States, industry accounts for 87% of withdrawals ...
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Industry, Municipalities Embracing Water Reuse
When cities produce recycled water and sell it to industries at a good price, it’s a win-win situation In the United States, industry accounts for 87% of withdrawals of fresh water. Considering this staggering statistic, along with increasingly unpredictable water supplies, it’s no surprise that industries’ investment in water reuse is trending. Companies are both building ...
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Clean production in stone cutting industries
The stone cutting industry uses high volume of water for cooling purposes and produces large volume of sludge. The disposal of both the wastewater and the sludge to a solid waste disposal site is costly and environmentally unacceptable. Wastewater and sludge from stone cutting industries in Jordan has been characterised and reused in various processes. Stone cutting industries can be modified to ...
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Revolutionary Filtration Put To The Test
There are many cool aspects of my job, not the least of which is learning — and sometimes even breaking news — about the latest technologies in oil and gas. When I heard from Mike Dejak, executive VP of Eco-Tec, that the company's new technology could "revolutionize filtration" for the produced water market, I was anxious to learn more about it. However, I was also duty-bound to you, ...
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Water Reuse Terminology
All water on Earth is used and reused, over and over, in an elegant water cycle. Water reuse occurs in various ways on a daily basis. It happens when a community’s treated wastewater is discharged into rivers or other water bodies. If you live in a community downstream of another, chances are you are reusing water from an upstream town. Scientifically proven advances in water technology ...
By WateReuse
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4 Produced Water Treatment Technologies to Meet Regulations
In the U.S. alone, oil and gas production is skyrocketing. In the first two months of 2023, oil and gas production increased to 5,985 billion cubic feet, a record number that surpasses the 5,600 billion cubic feet the industry saw in the same period in 2022. The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that crude oil production will continue to increase and hit new records in 2023 and ...
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How GWT AOP Advanced Oxidation Systems Helped Companies to Achieve Better Water Treatment Results
AOP Advanced Oxidation Systems, How GWT Has Helped Companies To Treat Emerging Pollutants If you’ve read our article on the benefits of a Genesis Water Technologies, Inc. AOP advanced oxidation system, you are probably curious to know about some examples of how our systems have helped some of our clients. We will look at a couple of case studies from the oil and gas ...
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Reverse Osmosis vs Distilled Water, What Is The Difference?
When looking for ways to purify water, clients often ask us about the difference between Reverse Osmosis Water and Distilled Water. In general, these two terms refer to water purification methods that provide contaminant-free water, but through different treatment systems. For home use, the difference between reverse osmosis and distilled water is minimal, but for industrial applications ...
By YASA ET
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Can the value of water be measured?
What is water worth? Can its value be measured? Who or what determines it? These simple questions take work to answer. Yet, in our daily lives, we often overlook the role of water; we are unaware of the priceless value of “blue gold” in everything around us. Since water is fundamental to life, society, and economies, it has multiple values and benefits. Still, unlike most other ...
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We are running out of water - now what?
Last weekend, Jessica Yu’s new water documentary “Last Call at the Oasis” took us on tour of the impacts water scarcity is creating around the globe, from the parched pastures of Australia’s farmlands to the sewage-polluted banks of the Jordan River. This film shines a much-needed light on the various water challenges we all now face at a critical time. The numbers alone ...
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U.S. desalination industry grows since 2000; seen as essential to meeting supply needs
With supplies of clean water becoming more scarce in certain areas and demand increasing, desalination is on the rise in the United States, water professionals told BNA. Half again as many municipal desalination plants were built between 2000 and 2010 as were built in the preceding three decades, according to research by water sector consultant Mike Mickley that was published in 2012 in the IDA ...
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