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Title: Water reuse and recycle in the US steam-electric-generating industry - an assessment of current practice and potential for future applications

Abstract

The study assesses the current and future potential for wastewater reuse and recycle by the steam-electric-generating industry in the United States. Fifty-three power plants employing one or more of the following reuse/recycle measures were identified by a literature search and interviews with reuse/recycle experts--cascading higher-quality wastewaters to lower-quality uses, recirculating ash sluice water, using cooling tower makeup or sidestream softening, treating and reclaiming wastewaters, using dry-cooling systems, and using municipal effluents as plant-intake water. Detailed case studies were performed on eight of the 53 plants surveyed.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Dames and Moore, Washington, DC (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5709105
Report Number(s):
PB-86-167657/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; WASTE WATER; COOLING SYSTEMS; WATER TREATMENT; AERATION; COOLING TOWERS; DEMINERALIZERS; EVAPORATORS; OSMOSIS; RECYCLING; WIND TUNNELS; DIFFUSION; ENERGY SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; LIQUID WASTES; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POWER PLANTS; TOWERS; TUNNELS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; WASTES; WATER; 200201* - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Waste Management- Thermal Effluents

Citation Formats

Breitstein, L, and Tucker, R C. Water reuse and recycle in the US steam-electric-generating industry - an assessment of current practice and potential for future applications. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Breitstein, L, & Tucker, R C. Water reuse and recycle in the US steam-electric-generating industry - an assessment of current practice and potential for future applications. United States.
Breitstein, L, and Tucker, R C. 1986. "Water reuse and recycle in the US steam-electric-generating industry - an assessment of current practice and potential for future applications". United States.
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abstractNote = {The study assesses the current and future potential for wastewater reuse and recycle by the steam-electric-generating industry in the United States. Fifty-three power plants employing one or more of the following reuse/recycle measures were identified by a literature search and interviews with reuse/recycle experts--cascading higher-quality wastewaters to lower-quality uses, recirculating ash sluice water, using cooling tower makeup or sidestream softening, treating and reclaiming wastewaters, using dry-cooling systems, and using municipal effluents as plant-intake water. Detailed case studies were performed on eight of the 53 plants surveyed.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
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