One of the great parts about having a high recovery system is that you don't produce much waste. This is also a challenge, at least when you have deadlines for reporting milestones, because you need to operate for several days to obtain enough fluid to test the evaporation system. In any case, we were able to operate the evaporation system for several days to determine what a preliminary capacity for evaporation of our ZDD waste stream. Even with more than double the capacity from what we had in El Paso, we are so far obtaining about a third of the evaporation rate. We are operating our pilot in what could be considered a challenging time of year. It has been mostly cloudy and occasionally rainy the last few weeks. We will try some additional enhancements over the next few weeks to see if we can improve the evaporation rate even further.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
We used some of our recovered salt!
Catching up on our progress - this is the third post from tonight. It's been a hectic week!
One of the great parts about having a high recovery system is that you don't produce much waste. This is also a challenge, at least when you have deadlines for reporting milestones, because you need to operate for several days to obtain enough fluid to test the evaporation system. In any case, we were able to operate the evaporation system for several days to determine what a preliminary capacity for evaporation of our ZDD waste stream. Even with more than double the capacity from what we had in El Paso, we are so far obtaining about a third of the evaporation rate. We are operating our pilot in what could be considered a challenging time of year. It has been mostly cloudy and occasionally rainy the last few weeks. We will try some additional enhancements over the next few weeks to see if we can improve the evaporation rate even further.
One of the great parts about having a high recovery system is that you don't produce much waste. This is also a challenge, at least when you have deadlines for reporting milestones, because you need to operate for several days to obtain enough fluid to test the evaporation system. In any case, we were able to operate the evaporation system for several days to determine what a preliminary capacity for evaporation of our ZDD waste stream. Even with more than double the capacity from what we had in El Paso, we are so far obtaining about a third of the evaporation rate. We are operating our pilot in what could be considered a challenging time of year. It has been mostly cloudy and occasionally rainy the last few weeks. We will try some additional enhancements over the next few weeks to see if we can improve the evaporation rate even further.
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