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Siemens To Highlight Alternative Source Water Treatment Technologies At ACE10
June 14, 2010
Growing water scarcity concerns around the world have caused many municipalities to make better use of their water resources by adopting alternative source water treatment techniques, specifically water reuse and desalination. Both options are viable methods to augment dwindling water supplies--and both are becoming more accepted.
Alternative Source Water Treatment Case Studies
Memcor® Submerged Membrane System Starts Up at Orange County Water District
The Orange County Water District (OCWD) of Fountain Valley, California needed to increase its potable water supplies to meet the future water demands of this fast-growing area. In 1997, the OCWD and the Orange County Sanitation District released a joint report proposing a groundwater replenishment project (GWRS) to serve the residents of Orange County. The project would reclaim secondary treated wastewater, reducing the amount of wastewater discharged to the ocean, and providing a new local water source. It would also improve the overall water quality in the groundwater basin by reducing the mineral content as well as preventing ocean water contamination.
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Award Winning Recycled Water Plant Relies on Memcor® Low-Pressure Membrane Technology
In 2006, fast growing South-Eastern Queensland, Australia, faced severe water shortages. Drought and population increases resulted in Level 5 water restrictions for much of the region. They needed a solution to ensure an alternative sustainable source of purified recycled water (PRW) to supplement water supplies for the Swanbank Power Station for use in the cooling process, thus reducing demand on the region's drinking water supply.
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Membrane Filtration System Improves Water Sustainability at NEWater Plant in Changi, Singapore
Due to continuous growth in population and industry, wastewater management and reclamation is an important topic for Singapore to ensure a future sustainable water supply. Although water is precious for this city-state, so is space. When Siemens Water Technologies was selected by Sembcorp plant design and operations firm to supply equipment and engineering for the membrane filtration portion of the Sembcorp NEWater Plant, space requirements and power consumption were key requirements.
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Alternative Source Water Treatment Technologies:
- Forty-X Disc Filter
- Barrier Ultraviolet Systems
- MEMCOR CS Submerged Ultrafiltration Systems
- MEMCOR CP Pressurized Ultrafiltration Systems
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