power plant water chemistry

Is this a statement, question, punchline for an old joke what?

I have an interest in water treatment...but not in solving crossword clues.

Maybe it's just 5 random words... here are my 5

'Air polishing at energy tree'

How about:

Vague questions get inappropriate answers?

What about it?

Del,

From your interest in water treatment, would you have any suggestions for filtering and storing water at home, I'm thinking household waste water and natural filtration in the garden?? Seems to me, well before this year at any rate, that water is too precious to watch go down the drain.

Five words? steel specification mildly good reading

I've look on the web and found the whole 'grey water' thing to be fraught with probs... (it goes rank V quick) so I've confined my own activities to 3 rain water butts and an overflow into the pond. I'd quite like to have done rain water storage for flushing the downstairs loo... but Mrs Cat vetoed this .

The rain water butts do get a bit smelly, so any indoor storage would need filtering etc.. I see the main problem as filtering/distributing the water without using a pump..'cos a pump consumes power which is a bad thing. Of course a nice tank up high will proved a decent head for distribution, but then you haven't got the head to use for filtering... if you get my drift. e.g You need head to push the water through a filter into the storage ... but you then want some more head to distribute the water.

Easy if you live in an old converted water tower...!

I wouldn't want to be messing with chemicals and sensors and all that.

So the short answer..I've thought about it but not done it!

I'm sure there's guys here who've done this stuff. It'd be a V interesting thread......

Cheers

Del

I've been considering how to save and recycle water used in the house as well as surface rainwater. My wife and I would like to consider ourselves sensitive to environmental matters but in reality we've hardly started. We are fortunate in that we have some space outside/underground, we even have the remains of a well - now sadly largely silted.

I was wondering, for one thing, whether we could create a pond where the front lawn is (terrible grass that I dislike mowing), maybe even incorporating filter beds. There would be a spin-off benefit to local wildlife. I appreciate the likelihood that input-energy might be needed in terms of circulation. Maybe this could be achieved using solar or wind energy. I'm conscious, after this apalling flooding the UK has just seen, not to get rid of a considerable area for natural absorption without considering the impact.

Has anyone any relevant experience or ideas?

Garden ponds are great...I think you'd need a big 'un with reed beds to filter grey water. They are a good way of minimising run off.

They say that in London where everyone is paving over the front garden for parking the aditional runoff is causing big problems.

I do have a circulation pump in my pond but only 'cos its a two level pond with a waterfall (honest it's not a Kitsch one with plastic Herons!)...A decent size pond doesn't need pumps and filters and all that tosh..just a good selection of plants.

A wind or solar pump could add a bit of decorative fun... Wish I had more land so I could have a BIG one.

Del,

Done (but ashamed to say not sure how to create a direct link)

I have similar probs with Mrs W, "that'll cost too much, never get our money back", "it'll smell" u.s.w

On reflection it belongs in 'Generl Interest' any idea how to move it?

Come on!

Don't you guys realize that our guest is really Jack and he wants to revive his bean stalk!

His next post: Egg Goose Metallurgy

Made me fall off my chair....Egg Goose Metallurgy ... Brilliant!

power. plant. water. chemistry.

Dear Guest,

What, actually, is your question? Do you want to know what water is used for in a power plant? If so, it is used both to produce the steam to drive the turbines for the generators and for the cooling towers.

If you want to know what the water quality should be, then it should be soft water with minimal TDS content. If you want to know what sort of treatment processes the water requires, then it should be treated to prevent scale formation (e.g. softening), microbial growth, corrosion etc, and periodic blowdowns to discharge dissolved solids build-up. In future, please be more specific, otherwise we cannot answer your question properly.

Maybe the enquirer is interested in hydroponics. What could he want to know about that for??

water chemistry in power plant

Me big Moose from Archie series. My reply "Duh" and I'm strill scratching my head.