Boilers GE to supply water treatment system at coal-fired power plant GE (NYSE: GE) said it will commission a reverse osmosis (RO) mobile water filtration system at a coal-fired power plant in Alaska. Clarion Energy Content Directors 3.18.2015 Share Caption: GVEA’s 28-MW Healy Unit 1 (left) is adjacent to the 50-MW Healy Unit 2 (right) in Alaska. Courtesy: GE GE (NYSE: GE) said it will commission a reverse osmosis (RO) mobile water filtration system at a coal-fired power plant in Alaska. The system will provide the Golden Valley Electric Association’s Healy power plant Unit 2 with clean water during a planned outage to upgrade the plant’s water filtration system and emission controls. The mobile water treatment system includes a state-of-the-art trailer containing various filter vessels and a 100 gallon-per-minute RO unit. Ion exchange tanks will further purify the output from the treatment system for use as boiler feedwater at the plant. When Unit 2 is online, the two-unit plant will produce 80 MW of electricity. Related Articles AES Indiana wants to convert its remaining coal units to natural gas Utah bets on selling coal power at a premium price, but other western states may not want it Wyoming’s coal carbon capture mandate makes legislative advances A look at projected U.S. coal and gas plant retirements
