The use of mine pool water can provide significant advantages for new or expanded steam electric power plants that need to turn to non-traditional, alternative sources of water. New water treatment technology can now produce water that meets these strict specifications at significantly less chemical cost and sludge production than conventional treatment approaches.

More and more coal prep operations are realizing the advantages of polyurethane and rubber screen media versus woven wire and steel punch plate—namely, significantly extended wear life, ease of maintenance, greatly improved safety, reduced noise, as well as increased magnetite recovery, plant yield, and product quality. The Martin County, Kentucky-based Pinnacle Processing plant, which is owned by Booth Energy, is experiencing each of these benefits after installing Polydeck modular synthetic screen media in several key processing circuits.