Reuse of treated municipal wastewater as makeup to circulating cooling systems

Title: Reuse of treated municipal wastewater as makeup to circulating cooling systems

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Economic, energy, and environmental benefits of reusing treated municipal wastewater for industrial cooling are discussed. Makeup waters that have been successfully used in various nations fall in the range 10-30 mg/l BOD, 30-50 mg/l phosphate, 1000-1500 mg/l total dissolved solids and 30-70 mg/l ammonia. Major problems are phosphate scale and biological fouling. Usual wastewater treatments are lime clarification and chlorination. Most of the industrial users of recycled wastewater are power plants, but industries using carbon-steel heat exchangers have also used treated wastewater for industrial cooling. (3 diagrams, 2 graphs, 47 references, 5 tables)

Authors:: Goldstein, D J; Wei, I W; Hicks, R E

Research Org.:: Water Purification Assoc

OSTI Identifier:: 5473393

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Ind. Water Eng.; (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 16:4

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; WASTE WATER; RECYCLING; COOLANTS; EVALUATION; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; LIQUID WASTES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; WASTES; WATER; 320604* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Municipal Waste Management- (1980-)

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  abstractNote = {Economic, energy, and environmental benefits of reusing treated municipal wastewater for industrial cooling are discussed. Makeup waters that have been successfully used in various nations fall in the range 10-30 mg/l BOD, 30-50 mg/l phosphate, 1000-1500 mg/l total dissolved solids and 30-70 mg/l ammonia. Major problems are phosphate scale and biological fouling. Usual wastewater treatments are lime clarification and chlorination. Most of the industrial users of recycled wastewater are power plants, but industries using carbon-steel heat exchangers have also used treated wastewater for industrial cooling. (3 diagrams, 2 graphs, 47 references, 5 tables)},

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