Industrial Water Success Stories
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An Ohio plant that manufactures part of the cells used in the solar-power industry faced lost production after its deaerator failed, causing potential rust buildup in its powerhouse boiler. A deaerator is a device that i s widely used to remove
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When a Louisiana chemical plant suffered a site-wide blackout, plant personnel learned they would have to bring each power-generation unit, and its corresponding water filtration system, back on-line individually. Facility workers quickly returned the on-site demineralization system to functional status, but
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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 producers
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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 located
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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 to
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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 (CTs)
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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 water
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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,
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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 facility
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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 per
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