Industrial Water Success Stories
The wastewater treatment systems at many of the nation’s electric power-generation plants are struggling to meet discharge requirements because they are still using technologies installed during the industry’s building boom of the 1970s and early 80s.
As a result, a number of power
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An Ohio automotive manufacturer suffered a system crash of its ion-exchange equipment that resulted i n an inability to produce high-quality water. The aging equipment caused additional problems including the daily transfer of hazardous chemicals. The nearest service tech was
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Facing the failure of its reverse osmosis systems, an Indiana gas-and-coal energy facility sought the company with the best emergency response and customer service in the industry — MPW Industrial Services.
To meet the customer’s standards for this project, MPW would have
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Nearly 15 million gallons of high purity deionized water were required to support a series of steam blows at a 2,800 MW Southeastern U.S. power generation station. These steam blows were associated with the startup testing of four combustion turbines
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At a start-up commissioning situation at a power plant in Wyoming, the water balance was out of sync with the assets available to handle it. Therefore, the water level was threatening to breach the pond at this zero liquid discharge site. The
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When a Virginia power station had an issue with its Reverse Osmosis (RO) process, it called on MPW to supplement its water needs during an excessively cold winter.
The plant, which lost RO functionality at one of its four power-production units, would have
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A pulp mill in Eastern Canada faced quality issues due to inadequate filtration capacity in its gravity/sand filters. In the spring, snowmelt run-off causes the inlet water quality to drastically decline at the plant’s system intake.
Given the increased contaminant loading, the
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When a paper-production facility in Pennsylvania needed to take one of its clarifiers out of service for repairs, they called on MPW’s Industrial Water Division to deliver two filter trailers at each of two critical locations.
Normally, the plant pumps 8,000 gallons
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When a production plant for a large automotive manufacturer in Michigan suddenly lost its ability to produce ultra-pure water, MPW quickly provided the solution.
One of two pumps in the plant’s permanent Reverse Osmosis (RO) system failed. Without ultrapure water,
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MPW routinely meets the refining industry’s demands of high flow rates, strict safety adherence and stringent environmental compliance. Through its industrial redundant systems, MPW minimizes plant turnarounds at petrochemical plants and refineries and provides 24/7 emergency response.
So when an
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