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NC-2009 WEc3:Water Use Reduction

reused water for cooling towers and process saving

Renaud Gay

Shanghai Pacific Energy Center

LEEDuser Basic Member

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August 29, 2014

Hello We work on an pharma project and we want to resuse MAU condensate, on-site treated waste water and rain water to supply toilets, irrigation and Cooling towers. Regulated water consumption is around 10cubm/d, cooling towers will consume 200cubm/d of reused water. The requirement for the process water saving is to have a saving bigger than 10% of the regulated water usage. I feel a little strange about this calculation.

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