Reducing power plants' freshwater consumption with new silica filter

Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation’s freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers have developed a new silica filter for power plant cooling waters that decreases the amount of freshwater power plants consume by increasing the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171018113506.htm

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