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• Disclaimer
• Presentations

Disclaimer
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Presentations

• NETL Keynote & Water Research Overview (Feeley) [PDF-925KB]
• Setting the stage, Water Projections Presentation, OSAP (Shuster) [PDF-1.7MB]
• Setting the stage, 316B regulatory impacts on energy security, OSAP (Hoffmann) [PDF-1.7MB]
• Energy-Water Nexus overview (Hightower) [PDF-4.1MB]
• Goal discussion (Murphy) [PDF-667KB]

Current/Recently Completed Projects:

Advanced Cooling Technology

• Drexel University, “Application of Pulsed Electrical Fields for Advanced Cooling and  Water Recovery” [PDF-1.7MB]
• SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc, “Use of Air2Air™ Technology to Recover Fresh-Water  From the Normal Evaporative Cooling Loss at Coal-Based Thermoelectric Power Plants” [PDF-8MB]
• Energy Concepts Company, “Water-Conserving Steam Ammonia Power Cycle” [PDF-902KB]

Water Reuse and Recovery

• Lehigh University, “Recovery of Water From Boiler Flue Gas” and “Recovery of Water  from Boiler Flue Gas Using Condensing Heat Exchangers.” [PDF-2.4MB]

Non-Traditional Waters

• Nalco Company, “A Synergistic Combination of Advanced Separation and Chemical Scale  Inhibitor Technologies for Efficient Use of Impaired Water as Cooling Water in Coal- Based Power Plants” [PDF-1.6MB]
• University of Pittsburgh, “Reuse of Treated Internal or External Wastewaters in the Cooling  Systems of Coal-Based Thermoelectric Power Plants” and Carnegie Mellon University,  “Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water:  Tertiary Treatment versus Expanded Chemical Regimen for Recirculating Water Quality  Management.” [PDF-2.5MB]
• WVU, “Development and Demonstration of a Modeling Framework for Assessing the  Efficacy of Using Mine Water for Thermoelectric Power Generation” [PDF-1MB]
• Sandia National Laboratories, “Study of the Use of Saline Aquifers for Combined  Thermoelectric Power Plant Water Needs and Carbon Sequestration at a Regional-Scale” [PDF-2.2MB]
• UNDEERC, “Optimization of Cooling Water Resources for Power Generation” [PDF-3.9MB]

New Awards/Kickoffs:

• UNDEERC, “The Northern Great Plains Water Consortium” [PDF-2.1MB]

Advanced Cooling Technology

• SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc., “Improved Performance of an Air Cooled Condenser  (ACC) Using SPX Wind Guide Technology at Coal-Fired Thermoelectric Power Plants” [PDF-2.7MB]
• SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc., “Improvement to Air2Air® Technology to Reduce Fresh- Water Evaporative Cooling Loss at Coal-Based Thermoelectric Power Plants” [PDF-3MB]
• Drexel University, “Application of Pulse Spark Discharges for Scale Prevention and  Continuous Filtration Methods in Coal-Fired Power Plant” [PDF-1.4MB]

Water Reuse and Recovery

• NETL ORD, “Development and Application of a Power Plant Water Management Tool” [PDF-1.2MB]
• Applied Ecological Services, “Wetland Water Cooling Partnership: The Use of Restored  Wetlands to Enhance Thermoelectric Power Plant Cooling and Mitigate the Demand on  Surface Water Use” [PDF-1.3MB]
• Gas Technology Institute, “Transport Membrane Condenser for Water and Energy  Recovery from Power Plant Flue Gas” [PDF-933KB]
• UNDEERC, “Water and Energy Sustainability and Technology (WEST)” [PDF-1.8MB]

Non-Traditional Waters

• GE Global Research, “Technology to Facilitate the Use of Impaired Waters in Cooling  Towers” [PDF-2MB]
• Arthur Langus Layne, “Internet-Based, GIS Catalog of Non-traditional Sources of Cooling  Water for Use at America’s Coal-Fired Power Plants” [PDF-480KB]
• University of Illinois, “Reuse of Produced Water from CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery, Coal- Bed Methane, and Mine Pool Water by Coal-Based Power Plants” [PDF-850KB]
• Sandia National Laboratories, “Thermoelectric Power Plant Water Demands Using  Alternative Water Supplies: Power Demand Options in Regions of Water Stress and Future  Carbon Management” [PDF-345KB]
• Sandia National Laboratories, “Nanofiltration Treatment Options for Thermoelectric Power  Plant Water Treatment Demands” [PDF-2MB]

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