Desalination plant

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I'm in the thick of a research project on the effluent from the desal plant outside of Tampa.

I took a break after research to assemble my references to this point and I have over 50. This fucker is huge.

And, yes, i have read them all...

(edit - the only link that will work is the one for Wired, since the others are only accessible through USF's proxy)

Check it, you quivering labium:

References


____, Applause, at last, for desalination plant. (2007, Dec 22). The Tampa Tribune, p. NATION/WORLD16.

____, (1999).Pass the salt. Economist. 352(8133), 23.

____, (2001).Tampa Bay Water places $110M in bonds for desal. Design-Build. 4(6), 9.

____, (2003).Contractor files for chapter 11 on Tampa desalination project. ENR: Engineering News Record. 251(19), 9.

____, (2004).Pilot plants seek solution to Tampa Bay's problems. ENR: Engineering News Record. 252(18), 7.

____, (2004).Tampa Bay moves forward on fixing troubled plant. ENR: Engineering News Record. 253(20), 7.

____, (2004).Tampa Bay settles dispute over troubled desal plant. ENR: Engineering News Record. 252(7), 7.

____, (2007, Nov 9). Troubled desal plant completes critical test. The Tampa Tribune, p. LOCAL/REG3.

____, (2008, Feb 11). Drought-proof water supply delivering drinking water. PR Newswire, Retrieved Apr 13, 2008

____, (2008). Specifications - Tampa Bay seawater desalination plant, Florida, USA. Retrieved April 13, 2008, from Water technology Web site: http://www/water-technology.net/projects/tampa/specs.html

____, (2008). Tampa Bay eawater desalination plant, Florida, USA. Retrieved April 13, 2008, from Water technology Web site: http://www/water-technology.net/project_printable.asp?ProjectID=2172

____, (2008).Video: Nation's first, large scale deslaination plant delivers drought-proof water supply. PR Newswire, Retrieved Feb 12, 2008

Alameddine, Author's first name initialI, & El-Fadel, M (2005). Brine discharge from desalination plants: a modeling approach to an optimized outfall design. Desalination. 214, 241-260.

Al-Barwani, H.H., & Purnama, A. (2006). Re-assessing teh impact of desalination plants brine discharges on eroding beaches. Desalination. 204, 94-101.

Al-Barwani, H.H., & Purnama, A (2007). Simulating brine plumes discharged into the seawaters. Desalination. 221, 608-613.

Arrandale, T (2007, Jun).The salty solution. Governing. 20(9), 88.

Ayres, E. (2003).Desalination getting serious. World Watch. 16(5), 7.

Beebe, A (2000).Largest U.S. seawater desalination plant coming to Tampa Bay. Water Enigineering & Management. 147(1), 8.

Bhattacharjee, Y (2007, Jun 29). Turning ocean water into rain. Science, 316, 1837-1838.

Brown, J.L. (2001).Exploring all options. Civil Engineering. 71(8), 42.

Cooley, H, Gleick, P.H., & Wolff, G (2006). Desalination, with a grain of salt: A California perspective. Oakland, CA: Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.

Ehrenman, G (2005).Tampa Bay desal: Turning things around. Mechanical Enigneering. 127(8), 10.

Graber, C (2006).Desalination in Spain. Technology Review. 109(1), S1-S8.

Green, S.M. (2008, Feb 2). Is 2nd time the charm?. The Tampa Tribune, p. SOUTH SHORE10.

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Green, S.M. (2008, Feb 27). Watchdogs look over desal plant. The Tampa Tribune, p. SOUTH SHORE3.

Hafez, A, Khedr, M, & Gadallah, H (2007). Wastewater treatment and water reuse of food processing industries. Part II: Techno-economic study of a membrane separation technique. Desalination. 214, 261-272.

Hamdan, L.K., Zarei, M., Chianelli, R.R., & Gardner, E. (2008). Sustainable water and energy in Gaza Strip. Renewable Energy, 33(6), 1137-1146.

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Jennings, L (2005).Turning waste heat into fresh water: Double-duty power plants could ease water crisis. The Futurist. 39(4), 12.

Jirka, G.H. (2008).Improved discharge configurations for brine effluents from desalination plants. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 131(1), 116-120.

Johnson, N (2006 Nov 26). Desal plant's acid test. The Tampa Tribune, p. METRO1.

Landers, J (2004, Jan). Tampa Bay desalination dispute goes to court. Civil Engineering News, 74(1), 26-27.

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dude, for research like this, use a program called Biblioscape. It databases all of your references (along with a brief synopsis that you type up) and you can use a "shoot" feature that will snap citations right into a word document while you are typing it up. It can use all major and some obscure citation standards. Also, it generates you a very nice bibliography page that also can conform to many different standards.

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Awesome, thanks. I'll check it out and share it with my cronies.

Does it smell bad? Most water treatment plants of any type always seem to smell bad.

You're thinking of secondary treatment facilities. Those are for sewage. They basically sprinkle water over layers of rocks, clay and sand so most of the matter leaches to the filters. They use the water from those for sprinkling yards.

This is a complete reverse osmosis plant. It produces 25 million gallons per day, 10% of the Tampa Bay area's consumption. I assume Georgia and Alabama will be taking note of our recent successes given the state of water up there. You guys could easily put one in Savannah.
 
desal water tastes like crap, but it's not terrible to shower in or wash dishes and laundry with.
 
desal water tastes like crap, but it's not terrible to shower in or wash dishes and laundry with.

There are issues with the water being too clean. People are accustomed to various minerals in water. It's not optimal for farming either. There are cases in the Middle East where farmers added substances to their watering to account for what the desal water was lacking.

btw, where did you taste desal water?
 
There are issues with the water being too clean. People are accustomed to various minerals in water. It's not optimal for farming either. There are cases in the Middle East where farmers added substances to their watering to account for what the desal water was lacking.

btw, where did you taste desal water?
UAE. i've tasted distilled water before, which also tastes weird, but desal water was different. It may have been the distribution system rather than the process causing the problem.
 
You know what would be a great application for a desalination plant? Natural gas drilling in shale. To fracture the rock and allow the gas to flow massive amount of water is pumped into wells under pressure until the rock cracks. Then the water has to be disposed of. It comes up salty and contaminated with drilling mud and lots of other crap. If you could turn that back into fresh water it would be pretty damn sweet.
 
You know what would be a great application for a desalination plant? Natural gas drilling in shale. To fracture the rock and allow the gas to flow massive amount of water is pumped into wells under pressure until the rock cracks. Then the water has to be disposed of. It comes up salty and contaminated with drilling mud and lots of other crap. If you could turn that back into fresh water it would be pretty damn sweet.

Now that was a novel and odd thought...