Technical, legal, and regulatory articles on water-related topics for power plants: cooling, wastewater, intake, chemistry, purge water, and once-through systems
Epasa Breakthrough Transforms Heavy Fuel Oil Sludge into Resource Stream
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Sonal Patel
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July 1, 2024
Brazilian independent power generator Epasa faced significant environmental and operational challenges with heavy fuel oil sludge. Through innovative engineering and problem-solving, the company developed a state-of-the-art two-stage de-watering and de-oiling…
Preparing Steam and Water Analysis Equipment for Summer Heat
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Contributed Content
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March 1, 2024
While the effects of extreme summer weather are one thing, even regular summer weather can wreak havoc on steam and water analysis systems (SWAS) without adequate preparation. Summer sunshine and…
ACES Delta’s Hydrogen Electrolyzers Arrive in Big Boost for Hub’s Progress
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Sonal Patel
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October 26, 2023
The much-watched Advanced Clean Energy Storage Hub (ACES Delta)—a project shaping up to be the largest renewable hydrogen energy hub in the U.S.—has received its first shipment of large-scale hydrogen…
A Model for ZLD Treatment of Blowdown from Cooling Towers—Even the Big Ones
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Eric Dole, PE
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August 1, 2023
Pilot testing under the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Pitch-to-Pilot desalination research funding proved an electro-coagulation, clarification, micro-filtration, reverse osmosis with vacuum-assisted electro-distillation concentrate treatment process train can recover the saline…
Dominion Energy’s Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Recovery System Wins POWER’s Water Award
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Aaron Larson
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July 5, 2023
[caption id="attachment_195814" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Courtesy: Dominion Virginia Power[/caption] Sustainability and corporate responsibility are hugely important to power companies and their stakeholders today. When employees take these initiatives to heart and…
OTEC, a Long-Stalled Baseload Ocean Power Technology, Is Seeing a Swell
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Sonal Patel
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June 1, 2023
A project to deploy a 1.5-MW commercial-scale ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform in the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe by 2025 has gained a key design…
Floating PV System Provides Smart Energy and Savings for Wastewater Plant
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Contributed Content
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May 1, 2023
Installing floating photovoltaic solar panels on a water reservoir provides Kelseyville Wastewater Treatment Plant with low-cost, clean energy, reduces algae growth, minimizes bank erosion, and lessens evaporation. The Environmental Protection…
India Commissions First Supercritical Coal Plant Equipped with Air-Cooled Condenser
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Sonal Patel
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April 3, 2023
NTPC, India’s largest energy conglomerate and its largest coal generator, in March commissioned the country’s first supercritical coal-fired plant equipped with an air-cooled condenser (ACC). The effort responds to concerted…
DuPont Consolidates Ultrafiltration Technologies Under New IntegraTec™ Brand
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Press Release
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February 14, 2023
Delivering the Best-Fit Ultrafiltration Technologies for Customers' Diverse Water and Sustainability Challenges WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- To better serve municipal and industrial customers, DuPont is consolidating and…
Water Chemistry Important to Avoid Equipment Damage
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POWER
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January 3, 2023
Technology advances for heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) at power plants continue to provide higher efficiency, with major gains recognized in natural gas–fired and cogeneration systems in recent years. A…