WSP07376

• File Number: 8278.100
• Description: Title I - Yuma Desalting Plant
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 8/1/1988
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Operation and Maintenance Funding for the Yuma Desalting Plant, Draft Special Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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l\dvantages:

o Reduces power costs, assuming a sufficiently lower rate could be

negotiated.

Disadvantages :
o M3.y not be :iJrplaTeIltable depending upon attitude of power

Sl.W1iers.

Status: No action on this altez:native unless =rent power market

conditions change.

A6. Tnm-"ll Solar Pond Power Generation to Benefic;"llv Use the

Re;ect stream
This plan makes beneficial use of the reject stream and provides power for

the 101'. Solar ponds require very high salinity water which is often

initially generated using a distillation process to furtller concentrate the

salinity of the reject stream.

The reject stream would be a source of saline water for maintaining the

solar gradient panda that provide heat to operate the generators.

Generated power could be used as either a base load source for the "IDI? or

as a peaking source to reduce 101' demand charges. Power not needed to nm

the IDP could be sold on the open market.

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