Basin Creek Water Treatment and Ancillary Facilities
Butte-Silver Bow, Mont.
Best Project
Owner:Butte-Silver Bow
Lead Design Firm/Structural/MEP Engineer:HDR
General Contractor:Swank Enterprises General Contractors
Civil Engineer:Robert Peccia & Associates (RPA)
Geotechnical Engineering:Portage
Subcontractors:Elkhorn Electric Inc.；4G管道和加热公司
The Basin Creek water treatment plant in Butte, Mont., is the first in the country to install a ceramic membrane filtration system. Ceramic membranes are stronger, more resistant to chemicals and have a longer life expectancy than conventional membranes. And instead of cleaning them with chemicals every month, they require cleaning just twice a year.
在比尤特（Butte）艰难的冬季期间必须建造的前景刺激了项目团队提前采购地下管道，因此在授予合同时可以使用。这样开始急于通过埋葬600英尺长的48英寸Dia管道来击败寒冷的天气。设计师试图通过尽可能多地依靠重力来最大程度地减少能源利用。结果，过滤原水不需要抽水。从过滤过程中的下游，很少需要抽水。液压学允许完全重力流过植物并进入分配系统。该流程受植物液压和分配系统中水需求之间的相互作用控制。如果需求减少，则植物的压力会增加，并且过滤率下降。当需求较重时，植物的储层与分配系统之间的较大差异压力会增加通过工厂的流动。
Butte is a mining town with complex water needs. Its new plant provides state-of-the water treatment and proves that the ceramic-filter technology will work in a U.S. treatment facility.
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