I am a professional environmental engineer that just started specializing in a cooling tower water conservation technology. Similar to the discussion previously this technology softens the water without the addition of chemicals and prevents corrosion and scaling allowing the cycles of concentration to increase.
The technology can get up to 3 LEED credits. It was established a few years ago and will hopefully gain momentum once the news spreads. Cooling tower water is such a significant fresh water user and this technology can make a large impact. Please feel free to contact me if you would like further information.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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September 23, 2010 - 7:03 pm
Ashley, thanks for joining the forum. However, we're generally not wild about people posting here promoting their own services without at least adding some value in terms of tips on earning the credit, lessons learned, probing questions, or sample documentation. We're also not big fans of general statements about how many credits a technology can get that aren't backed up with specifics. Many such claims are very overblown (no pun intended... you know cooling towers... :).Care to add some real value here in terms of any of the above?
Ashley Miele
PresidentJ&A Associates Engineers and Managers
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September 28, 2010 - 8:50 am
Thanks Tristan, I appreciate your feedback. I am new to the LEEDuser and noticed someone else was interested in this technology from a previous discussion.
I wasn't looking to promote as much as try to get some feedback on this technology and others like it for sustainable solutions to water conservation.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
September 28, 2010 - 8:54 am
Cool, it's good to have you here.Any hot tips on using this technology to earn WEc4?
Michael Miller
Project Architect236 thumbs up
July 25, 2011 - 6:51 pm
I would be interested to hear whether this technology has been submitted for EBOM WEc4. It sounds like the same system we are submitting for an ID point under NC 2.2, referencing the CIR/Interpretation originally submitted for a different non-chemical treatment system.
The system we are using is a proprietary technology which one case-study article called 'zero liquid discharge'. It eliminates chemical corrosion, scale and biocide treatments, and eliminates regular blow-down. It's an intriguing system, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it performs on our project.
From what I've learned about the system so far, using it for WEc4.1 shouldn't be problematic, though it would require a 'special circumstances' narrative, since this system eliminates the need for some of the requirements of the credit.
However, I don't see how the technology, in and of itself, would have any bearing on WEc4.2 (per the other thread), since the elimination of water used for blow-down is still only a minor portion of the total water used by an evaporative cooling tower, whereas WEc4.2 requires at least 50% of makeup water to be from nonpotable sources.