if the goal is to recover the oil waste product and reuse it then good economical process. If EC has a goal to clean the water then not economical or efficient. Oil eating microbes are still the industry standard. Low cost, easily applied, works very fast, very little needed to do very large projects. If for some reason you are not current with todays' technology  you may call or email me and I will assist you in this.  512-567-9700. biozomesales@biozome.com also on skype:

The goal of oil operation companies is to be able to reuse their produced water, as disposal costs are expensive and guidelines/laws are different in different states and countries on produced water disposal. I agree that oil eating microbes have their place when it comes to a biological process for free oil; we have used these microbes as part of a treatment system before in this application. However, oil eating microbes are not advisable in produced water treatment, as they cannot handle all of the other contaminants/pollutants that are found in a produced water source to render it useful for reuse. Different technologies have there place in an integrated produced water treatment application. However, oil eating microbes being living organisms have issues with salinity, radioactivity, heavy metals, etc. rendering them ineffective in many of these particular cases.

Published May 16, 2019 22:07 by Nick Nicholas, App Eng/Technical Director at Genesis Water Technologies, Inc.

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