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Your campus power plant is hot stuff-literally! The process of generating electricity
from steam means that water-usually a huge volume of it-needs to be cooled down
before it is released to large bodies of surface water or to publicly owned treatment
works. The water also needs to be acceptable for discharge. To that end, chemicals
are added to cooling water to control for pH and metals that sometimes enter the
water from piping.
Controls are imposed on these additives and on the temperature of the water
being discharged, to ensure that the receiving bodies are not adversely affected.
You’ll learn more about the environmental laws, regulations and best practices
associated with cooling water discharges as you proceed with this section of
the EVC tour.
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