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Life in the Desert Leads to Improvements at El Paso Water's Kay Bailey Hutchison Inland Desalination Plant
Author(s) -
Campos Isaac,
Guemez Sarah,
Arevalo Jorge,
Brown Doug,
Trejo Gilbert
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/opfl.1472
Subject(s) - boiler feedwater , desalination , desert (philosophy) , environmental science , engineering , environmental engineering , booster (rocketry) , waste management , membrane , chemistry , boiler (water heating) , biochemistry , philosophy , epistemology , aerospace engineering
After more than 10 years of operation, a Texas desalination plant could no longer produce blended finished water at its design capacity. New membranes were selected after a comprehensive evaluation process, and the facility was retrofitted with interstage booster pumps to operate under a variety of potential feedwater conditions.