Aquatech Awarded Water Treatment Contract For Kansas City Power & Light
CANONSBURG, PA, May 2007 - Aquatech International Corporation has recently been awarded a contract by Kansas City Power & Light (KCPL), located in Kansas City, MO, for their Iatan Generating Station Unit 2. Burns & McDonnell, of Kansas City, are the owner's engineers on the project. The contract includes supply of Mechanical Vapor Compressor-Driven Evaporators to treat Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) scrubber blowdown wastewater.
The treatment scheme consists of a 60 gpm Pretreatment Clarifier followed by 2 x 30 gpm Brine Concentrators.
On this contract, Aquatech International is responsible for complete design engineering, material sourcing, fabrication and manufacturing, testing, commissioning and start-up supervision of the wastewater treatment unit.
"This is Aquatech's second FGD wastewater project with Burns & McDonnell and seventh overall within the last two years. We are very excited to be working with the KCPL and Burns & McDonnell team on this project," said Aquatech's Terry LaPrise.
Aquatech International (www.aquatech.com), headquartered in Canonsburg, PA, specializes in industrial and infrastructure water purification. Primary product groups offered by Aquatech are Raw Water Treatment, Ion Exchange, Membrane Processes, Wastewater Recycle / Reuse, Zero Liquid Discharge, Industrial Concentration and Desalination. In the past 25 years Aquatech has executed over 450 projects, integrating several of its product groups, in over 45 countries across the globe for the power generation, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, microelectronics, and other industries. Aquatech, through its subsidiaries and offices, has global sourcing and fabrication capabilities to suit logistics of project sites throughout the world.
