MPW’s Industrial Water (IW) division is the preeminent mobile solutions provider for industrial, ultrapure water. Each day, the MPW team works around the clock with regeneration plants, service centers and staging facilities located across North America to meet the diverse industrial water needs facing today’s modern industries.
Under the guidance of the company’s founders, MPW has proudly built one of the world’s largest fleets of mobile water purification equipment for media filtration, ultrafiltration, clarification, deionization and reverse osmosis treatment—improving water quality while also reducing operating costs for customers.
We recently caught up with Tony Donnadio, senior safety and technical services engineer and 34-year veteran to the IW team, to take a deeper look at some of the most commonly serviced industries within the industrial water space.
发电
Because of environmental regulations across the country we’ve seen a large increase in the number of new natural gas plants over the years – right now, natural gas is an abundant and economically friendly fuel.
Generators for natural gas plants are powered by combustion turbines. During the pre-commissioning phase of a plant, water treatment equipment is used to generate steam for startupsteam blows。这种蒸汽将从通常连接到动力植物涡轮机的超级加热器，重型备用管和蒸汽管中去除破坏性碎屑和比例构造
这通常是我们进来的地方。大多数拥有自己的供水系统的发电厂每分钟可以运行几百加仑的水。尽管该容量适合日常生产需求，但蒸汽破坏需要更高的水量。Since it is difficult and costly to try to recapture, cool and re-purify this large volume of used steam, MPW’s pure water support services provide the required consistent, uninterrupted feed of high purity DI water to the construction firm or power plant so it stays on schedule with individual and/or combined steam blows during the project.
We often find during this steam blow process that customers take interest in our Build, Own, Operate, Maintain (繁荣) services as well – especially during new builds. Many times, plant operators know they will need similar water needs in the future and would prefer not to worry about contracting an outside provider twice, so we’ll work with them to outfit their operation with a permanent concrete pad to house their unique equipment needs. Essentially, BOOM allows plant management to focus on fundamental operations, while MPW operates the water treatment system for them.
更严格的环境限制也引起了ash pond remediationprojects – either for coal-fired power plants looking to stay in compliance with new regulations or for plants undergoing the coal-to-gas conversion process. We’re often contracted to assist with TSS removal, filtration and clarification as well as the removal of heavy metals.
Chemical
Our support in the chemical market varies depending on the company. Sometimes, chemical plants will need ultrapure water for some phase of a new or existing process, and we’ll be brought on to help remove water impurities.
此外，与电力行业类似，化学植物经常利用我们的动臂服务来长时间使用我们的设备。例如，我们最近与美国一家主要的化学厂合作，其中一些系统已有100多年的历史。对于那个客户，我们带来了集装箱设备，并放入了一个全新的纯化系统，比购买全新的单元以更具成本效益的方式更新了非常古老的化学厂。
钢
Over the last 15 years we’ve serviced several steel mills, primarily for pure water rinses in coating processes. In these cases, we’ll typically work with the customer to source river or well water in their municipality and then transform it to ultra-pure water using our mobile units.
例如，我们与一家主要的钢铁公司合作，该公司在汽车厂用于制造汽车挡泥板的专业滚动钢产品有问题。他们注意到，在钢上出现斑点后，钢没有通过质量控制测试。这些斑点实际上是冲洗过程的结果 - 该公司正在使用过滤后的河水冲洗钢，该钢仍然存在许多杂质。我们能够根据应用要求将未经过滤的水升级到超纯净的水平。
Automotive
就像在钢厂一样，汽车制造商利用我们的超纯净冲洗水进行产品处理的各个阶段。某些汽车涂料工艺，例如，在磷酸盐底漆上具有不同的化学镀金应用，并且汽车植物需要纯水与浸入浸水浴中的这些化学成分混合。然后，我们加入船上，提供纯净的水，供周期性或连续使用。
Pulp & Paper
Paper mills use large amounts of water and during the course of their processes, especially during the treatment phases. In fact, pulp and paper mills use an average of54 cubic metersof water per metric ton of finished product. We’ve been involved in various projects within the pulp and paper space, but typically customers utilize our services to treat source water.
Take for instance our experience at a majorPennsylvania paper mill。The mill needed to take one of its older clarifiers out of service for repairs and called on MPW to deliver two filter trailers at each of two critical locations. MPW’s field service technicians worked on site for three months, rotating people on a bi-weekly basis to maintain uninterrupted water supply. MPW’s trailers were used as pre-filters, two installed at their DI system and two installed at their fiber line. Each of the systems provided a flow rate of 700 gpm.
When all was said and done, MPW had treated approximately 180 million gallons, consistently providing less than 1 NTU product water at the critical areas, allowing the customer to keep operations running during the repair process.
最后的想法
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