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Water


Technical, legal, and regulatory articles on water-related topics for power plants: cooling, wastewater, intake, chemistry, purge water, and once-through systems

A Model for ZLD Treatment of Blowdown from Cooling Towers—Even the Big Ones

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

[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

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

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

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…


Water Chemistry Important to Avoid Equipment Damage

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…