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Identifying uncontrolled leakage, reducing cooling tower water consumption and stabilizing site reclaim

Evaluated condenser loop flow balance to detect water losses, and minimized cooling tower blowdown

The new strategy reduced freshwater demand to the site by 12%, reduced cooling tower blowdown by 81% and increased recovery rate from the reclaim system by 125%

Stabilizing the recovery for the entire year. Reclaim goals were achieved without adding risk to the question or the permit

Executive Summary

Challenge

Unstable availability of reclaimed water. Client needed to develop a new strategy to ensure stable reclaim while reducing incoming fresh water.

Barriers

Facilities staff understood each system but lacked insights into how each system impacted other systems. Additionally, the team had difficulty justifying new projects and estimating ROI, they did not have the tools to understand the impacts of each idea and were afraid to make the wrong decision.

Solution

FTD created a baseline water model to reveal low hanging fruit and identify risks, then developed a strategy based on the site boundaries and constraints to ensure that solutions increased reclaim, reduced freshwater withdrawal and maintained compliance. Solutions included a new method of operating the cooling towers.

Impact

The new strategy reduced freshwater demand to the site by 12%, reduced cooling tower blowdown by 81% and increased recovery rate from the reclaim system by 125% while stabilizing the recovery for the entire year.  Reclaim goals were achieved without adding risk to the operation or the permit.

USA

12 water, wastewater, and reclaim systems

Site Water Conservation and Reclaim Strategy

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Project Scale

Increased the site's internal reuse rate by 19%

Debottlenecked risks to incoming freshwater availability

Supported Strategy to Avoiding Compliance Risks

Optimized Water Management Schemes Based on Boundary Conditions and Priorities

Executive Summary

Israel

300 GPM freshwater consumption

Refinery Water Conservation Strategy

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Project Name

Project Scale

Stabilizing the recovery for the entire year. Reclaim goals were achieved without adding risk to the question or the permit

The new strategy reduced freshwater demand to the site by 12%, reduced cooling tower blowdown by 81% and increased recovery rate from the reclaim system by 125%

Executive Summary

Confidential Customer

The new strategy reduced freshwater demand to the site by 12%, reduced cooling tower blowdown by 81% and increased recovery rate from the reclaim system by 125%

Stabilizing the recovery for the entire year. Reclaim goals were achieved without adding risk to the question or the permit

Executive Summary

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