cooling tower
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Water
How Thermal Power Plants Can Save 80% of Their Water
An adiabatic cooling tower system can save great amounts of water at power plants compared to typical wet-type cooling towers. While there are challenges to implementation, understanding how these systems work
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Connected Plant
Ecolab Completes Its First Major Equipment Installation Enabled by Mixed Reality at U.S. Energy Plant
With COVID-19 causing restricted access to facilities, Ecolab used mixed reality to safely install a PURATE™ chlorine dioxide generator at a leading midstream company’s facility. Mixed reality enabled Ecolab engineers to remotely “see” inside the plant and guide a single on-site field representative through installation, testing and implementation. With PURATE, this midstream company safely reduced […]
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Water
B&W SPIG Completes Cooling Tower Restoration Project for Customer in Tasmania
(PARUZZARO, Italy – October 24, 2019) –SPIG S.p.A. (SPIG), a subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., has completed a cooling tower upgrade project at Bell Bay, Tasmania, a production facility owned by Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (TEMCO). SPIG fully rehabilitated the plant’s existing cooling tower, providing a complete fiberglass-reinforced plastic cooling tower refurbishment, to […]
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Coal
Water-Capturing Cooling Tower Technology Makes Headway at MIT
A cooling tower water recovery system designed by engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could capture water from power plant fogs and plumes, potentially rendering them into a source
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Legal & Regulatory
Arrests Made After Scaffold Collapse Kills 74 Workers at Chinese Power Plant
Nine people, including the chairman and chief engineer of the Fengcheng power plant, have been arrested following a scaffold collapse that killed 74 construction workers on November 24. The scaffold platform had been erected to facilitate work on a cooling tower that was being constructed at the plant located in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. According […]
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Press Releases
Last of “Big 6” modules placed for Vogtle Unit 3
Vertical construction of Unit 4 cooling tower completed ATLANTA, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Georgia Power today announced the safe placement of the last of the “Big 6” modules in the nuclear island for Unit 3 – CA02 and CA03. The modules, weighing 52 tons and 237 tons respectively, are critical components and part of […]
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Gas
Cooling Tower Fire Takes Down UK Power Plant
A fire broke out in one of Didcot B power station’s cooling tower modules on the evening of Oct. 19, resulting in the shutdown of one of the plant’s two units. RWE Generation said that no RWE personnel or emergency services responders were injured during the incident, and that all employees have been accounted for. […]
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