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With every region in the U.S. vulnerable to water shortages, the potential impact on future power generation is daunting. A new Water Research Center being developed by Georgia Power in collaboration with EPRI and supported by a dozen electric generating companies will key on new technologies to improve water efficiency in power generating facilities.
According to the EPRI Journal, the new center will be located at Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen, near Cartersville, GA. It is expected to begin testing mid-year.
"The Water Research Center will be a first-of-its-kind, industry wide resource for conducting power company water research," said George Offen, EPRI project manager for the center. "Electric generating companies, research organizations, and vendors will have access to full-scale infrastructure, treatable water, monitoring and analysis facilities, and specialist staff to enable plant-based water research studies."
According to the Journal, monitoring infrastructure has already been installed at Plant Bowen for water monitoring and balancing research.
"Older power generation facilities, which were built when water was not an issue, typically do not have instrumentation on different flow streams," said Jay Wos, Southern Company’s manager for the Water Research Center. (Georgia Power is a subsidiary of Southern Company.) "We recently installed metering technology that gives us a more precise idea of how much water the plant is using, how the water is used, and what’s in the water. Knowledge of all flows may enable us to develop plant-specific models for water balancing and identify reuse options at different levels of cleanliness."
· Read more in the latest issue of the EPRI Journal · Visit SGN's new Smart Water channel
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