Back to allEvaluated site water balance to detect water losses, and minimized cooling tower blowdown
Executive Summary
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 site recovery for the entire year. Reclaim goals were achieved without adding risk to the question or the permit
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.
Location: EMEA
Project Name: Refinery Water Conservation Strategy
Project Scale: 300 GPM freshwater consumption