The Facility Laminex Industries in Gympie, Queensland, Australia is a leading producer of medium density fibreboard-based panel products. Laminex Gympie is a zero wastewater discharge site. Laminex was installing a second plant at their site to expand production capacity. It became apparent that borewater quantity and quality was unpredictable, therefore Laminex decided to recycle wastewater from…
The Facility Eagle-Picher Industries has an 8-acre hazardous waste surface impoundment pond at its Electro-Optics Division plant in Quapaw, Oklahoma. Project Overview By the time Eagle-Picher contacted Aquatech, the impoundment pond had been in use for more than 20 years and contained more than 5 million gallons. Environmental regulation required the plant to install a…
The Facility Tenaska IV Texas Partners cogeneration facility in Cleburne, Texas is a producer of electricity at a combined cycle plant. Project Overview Tenaska wanted their Cleburne plant to be a Qualified Facility (QF). To achieve this, they elected to produce distilled water using the steam from the power generating equipment. A distilling plant using…
The Facility Panda Energy’s power plant located in Brandywine, Maryland is a cogeneration facility that produces electricity by using gas and steam turbines. Project Overview The objective of Panda Energy was to achieve Qualified Facilities (QF) status at their Maryland location. To achieve this, they had to produce distilled water using the steam from the…
The Facility Southern Peru Copper Company’s (SPCC) facility located in Ilo, Peru requires high purity water for boiler make-up at the smelter power plant. Process water for various smelter and mining operations and potable water for the town and Port of Ilo is also needed. SPCC’s first Aquatech long tube multistage flash (MSF) seawater desalination…
The Facility Comission Federal de Electricidad (CFE) supplies electricity to the Mexican state of Sinaloa. An expansion of their Topolobampo generating station included the addition of three new generators producing 480 MW of power. The Topolobampo station is located 250 miles north of Mazatlan, along the Pacific Ocean coast. Project Overview The increased generating capacity required…
The Facility Bechtel Power Corporation built a power plant in Northampton, Pennsylvania for U.S. Generating Company. The power plant burns culm, a lower quality coal rejected from use in previous decades. By using culm as the fuel, U.S. Generating will clean up a solid disposal site. The power plant contains the usual systems including cooling towers…
The Facility American Natural Gas (ANG) developed a coal gasification project in Beulah, North Dakota in the early 1980’s to produce pipeline gas and various other products. Basin Electric, the local utility, acquired the plant in 1988 and renamed it Dakota Gasification. Project Overview Environmental regulation prevents gasifier waste effluent from being discharged to the…
The Facility Aruba is a Caribbean Island located eighteen miles off the coast of Venezuela. The Island is extremely arid, with no natural fresh water source available. The Island is dependent on seawater desalination to meet its entire potable water requirements. An Island population of approximately 80,000 and a thriving tourist industry of over 100,000 visitors…
The Facility The Esso refinery is located in Sriracha, Thailand approximately 50 miles south of Bangkok. Due to increased refinery demands, Esso embarked on a facility expansion to more than double the refinery’s production capacity. Project Overview The expansion plan required additional high purity water to be used for boiler make-up. With the existing desalination…
