Operating and maintaining water treatment systems that support the utility industry is becoming increasingly challenging in our current economic environment. These systems have aged,along with the power generation equipment they support, and extending their useful life has become the objective of many in the industry as they strive to maintain production at the lowest possible cost.

This is true not only of the utility industry, but in petrochemicals, pulp and paper, and in the public sector as well. Water treatment systems represent a very significant component of our infrastructure, and this equipment in many cases is approaching, or has already exceeded, its original planned useful life. Following are other factors that complicate the situation as well.

Download the complete article (Reprinted from the February 2007 issue of Energy-Tech. Copyright 2007 Magellan Publishing.)

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