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Blowdown Recovery System for Cooling Tower Water Treatment

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1998710· OSTI ID:1998710
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  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

From 2014-2017, the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA's) average nationwide water rates increased 41%. Rapidly escalating costs, mandated water-reduction targets, and the fact that an average of 28% of commercial office building water use is associated with heating and cooling led the GSA Green Proving Ground program to select alternative water treatment technologies for in-field validation. This report summarizes the latest alternative water treatment evaluation completed in 2022 - a Blowdown Recovery System for Cooling Tower Water Treatment. This Green Proving Ground program project assessed the performance of an alternative water treatment system provided by Aqualogix for treating cooling tower blowdown at the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1998710
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP--2C00-86615; MainId:87388; UUID:65b781a7-7a16-4b0e-8872-59de6de60b2b; MainAdminID:70447
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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