佛罗里达州关于发电厂液体废物排放的环境标准，加上对地下水消耗性使用的限制，要求盖恩斯维尔地区公用事业公司为佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔西北部的迪尔哈文发电站处理和再利用冷却水。本文介绍了一种处理和再循环所有冷却水的方法，以实现零排放。在零污染物排放要求之前，Deerhaven冷却循环的补给水是来自Floridan含水层水井的原水。冷却回路用水循环约五次。Deerhaven进行了冷却水处理研究，测试了侧流和前端处理。经确定，前端处理，即处理所有补给水，是最有效的方法。扩建设施在运行第一年期间的实际结果表明，与安装新处理工艺之前小型工厂可能进行的五次循环相比，冷却水可循环50次。 包括表格、数字。

Florida's environmental standards on fluid waste discharge from power plants, combined with restrictions on consumptive use of groundwater, require the Gainesville Regional Utilities to treat and reuse cooling water for the Deerhaven power generating station northwest of Gainesville, Florida. This paper describes the development of a method for treating and recirculating all cooling water so that zero waste discharge is achieved. Prior to the zero pollutant discharge requirement, makeup water for the cooling cycle at Deerhaven was raw water from wells tapping the Floridan Aquifer. Water used for the cooling loop was cycled approximately five times. Cooling water treatment studies at Deerhaven were conducted testing side-stream and front-end treatments. It was determined that front-end treatment, treating all of the makeup water, was the most effective method. Actual results for an expanded facility during the first year of operation indicate that cooling water can be recycled 50 times compared with the five cycles that were possible with the smaller plant prior to installation of the new treatment process. Includes tables, figures.