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Case History of a Water Treatment System in Puerto Rico
This paper will review the lessons learned in designing, commissioning and operating a water treatment system consisting of depth filters, antiscalant feed, and cartridge filters as pretreatment, followed by a single pass reverse osmosis system and polished with a single pass electrodeionization system for a 300 MW, combined cycle co-generation power plant in Puerto Rico. This paper shall provide background on equipment selection, unit operation, water quality issues, system rework, operational problems, system profiling and validation protocol..