Zero Liquid Discharge Tech Efficacy Presentation
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
STW Demonstrates the Efficiency of its Recently Licensed Salttech Zero Liquid Discharge Technology at Fort Stockton's Water Reclamation Facility
STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTC QB: STWS) announced the commencement of operations of a Salttech Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Technology water reclamation system demonstration in Ft. Stockton,Texas.
The system arrived through U.S. Customs two weeks ago and last week STW and Salttech engineers installed the unit at Ft. Stockton's water reclamation facility. In the licensing agreement between the companies, Salttech has provided this Dynamic Vapor Recovery (DyVaR) unit for demonstrations throughout the United States.
Salttech engineers are on-site to train STW personnel to properly operate and maintain these systems.
Operations include a mobile demonstration capable of processing and reclaiming several variations of contaminated water chemistries ranging from 11,800 TDS effluent reject from Ft. Stockton's Reverse Osmosis plant and water from a local salt water disposal well site that has oil and gas produced and flowback water containing >134,000+ TDS.
The results from the Reverse Osmosis effluent is <20 TDS fresh water and 10# Brine. The results from the SWD water is <400 TDS fresh water and 10# Brine. This Salttech technology is agnostic to the levels of contamination of the intake water and is capable of processing highly contaminated waters with TDS of 300,000+ with the same energy required to process the low TDS water. If 10# Brine is needed, the fresh water stream will be approximately 75% and the 10# Brine stream will be approximately 25% of the total fluid processed. The 10# Brine can be used in drilling and fracking operations. If 10# Brine is not needed, the system can be adjusted to recover >95% fresh water and salt crystals.
This technology will have a major impact on desalination of seawater. Currently, the seawater reverse osmosis systems only recover approximately 45-50% of the fresh water and the other stream, which is highly concentrated saltwater, is discharged back into the ocean. With Salttech, we can recover 95+ percent of the fresh water and there will be no discharge of anything back into the ocean. This will prevent the possibility of increasing the salt concentrations disturbing the naturally balanced ecosystem of the ocean. This technology is economically sound and the water is processed with no chemical additives and no filtration, thus no consumables require disposal.
STW's business plan calls for the deployment and build-out of multiple sites for oil and gas customers and provide water reclamation services for a per barrel fee. STW has commitments for the installation of Salttech systems to provide water-processing services. Additionally, STW is working with industrial, state and municipal customers to apply this next generation technology.
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