Episode 64 · The Facility
The Facility, Part 13: Sea Water Treatment
A dissolved-oxygen trace jumps overnight. Follow raw seawater through filtration, vacuum deaeration, electrochlorination, scavenger chemistry and biocide treatment. Sulphate-removal membranes, injection and cooling specifications, seasonal conditions and monitoring explain how ocean water becomes fit for a reservoir. Part 13 of 16 in The Facility. Corran Point, its characters, companies and story figures are fictional and illustrative.
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Inside this episode
- Cold open: the oxygen meter that read thirty
- Recap: where the water fits
- What is actually in a litre of seawater
- Filtration: taking out the dust
- Deaeration: persuading a gas to leave
- Chemistry: chlorine, scavengers and biocides
- Sulfate removal: the field that turned to stone
- Quality targets: injection water versus cooling water
- The sea is not a constant
- Watching the water: analysers, coupons and the injection pumps
- Nadia's investigation
- Takeaways for a digital architect, and what comes next
Production credits & AI disclosure
Scripts generated with Claude Opus. Synthetic narration generated with Edge TTS. Reviewed, listened to, and approved by Sankalp Thakur.