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There are many cool aspects of my job, not the least of which is learning — and sometimes even breaking news — about the latest technologies in oil and gas. When I heard from Mike Dejak, executive VP of Eco-Tec, that the company`s new technology could "revolutionize filtration" for the produced water market, I was anxious to learn more about it. However, I was also duty-bound to you, the reader, to investigate the validity of such claims. In this Q&A, I asked Dejak about the i

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The recovery of wastewater for industrial uses presents many challenges for the design and operation of water treatment equipment. Since the term wastewater can be applied to a wide range of water sources from municipal sewage to storm runoff to industrial discharge water, the water characteristics may have great variability. As such, the equipment to treat wastewater must be robust and forgiving. When these wastewaters are used to produce ultra high purity boil

Many segments of the oil and gas production industry need improvements in water filtration over traditional methods. This is true because of the trend toward oil and gas production in tighter, less permeable reservoirs and the greater use of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques, many of which involve injecting water into the oil reservoir. To protect the integrity of such reservoirs, the amount of solids introduced into the reservoir through water injection, even solid particles down to 1 u

There is a need in many segments of the oil and gas production industry for an improvement in water filtration over traditional methods. This is especially true since the trend in oil and gas production is toward tighter, less permeable reservoirs and greater use of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques, many of which involve injecting water into oil reservoirs.

In order to protect the integrity of such reservoirs, the amount of solids introduced into the reservoi

With the demand or higher efficiencies, lower maintenance and operating costs for boilwers and turbines, high-purity water treatment systems are becoming more crucial to the operation of power plants.

Modern power plants, operating at supercritical and ultra upercritical boiler pressures and temperatures, require high-purity water that approaches quality levels at the theoretical levels. High-efficiency gas-fired combustion turbines (CTs) use high-purity water for nitrogen oxide

Having an e? ective, durable pretreatment system in advance of ion exchange produced-water softening systems is the ? rst, most critical line of defense – ensuring smooth, more troublefree performance downstream.

It’s especially true when dealing with today’s ion exchange technologies, which require TSS (total suspended solids) of 0.1-0.5
mg/L and turbidities of 0.1-1 NTU (nephelometric turbidity units).
Most suppliers of ion exchange resin would adv

The amine-treating unit is of great importance in gas processing and refinery operations for treating acid gases. It is also attracting increasing attention from the pressing needs of environmental compliance and for meeting stringent levels of H2S and CO2 removal.

Amine scrubbing solutions used for gas treatment at refineries, chemical, sulphur and gas processing plants remove hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from gas streams. Yet, one of the problems with amine

The recovery of wastewater for industrial uses presents many challenges for the design and operation of water treatment equipment. Since the term wastewater can be applied to a wide range of water sources from municipal sewage to storm runoff to industrial discharge water, the water characteristics may have great variability. As such, the equipment to treat wastewater must be robust and forgiving. When these wastewaters are used to produce ultra high purity boiler feedwater, the cha

As California entered a period of severe drought in 2008, the challenges of using thermal methods to extract heavy oil became compounded by the difficulty of securing freshwater sources from
which to generate the high-quality steam that these methods require. In an effort to manage the crisis, then-Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger proclaimed a state of emergency and enacted widespread water-conservation measures.

The drought, which officially lasted until March 2011, impacted he