This document discusses water reuse technologies for industrial and municipal applications. It provides an overview of increasing water stress globally and decreasing available freshwater resources. Various industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, mining, and municipalities are major water users. The document then summarizes different water reuse processes used in food industry, oil and gas, municipalities, and agriculture to treat and reclaim wastewater for reuse. These include reverse osmosis, membrane bioreactors, and thermal distillation. The key is adopting a lifecycle water management approach to optimize reuse of flowback water in fracking operations and minimize costs and environmental impacts.
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Water Reuse: Technologies for Industrial and Municipal Applications
1. Water Reuse: Technologies for Industrial & Municipal Applications
Daniel Christodoss, Ph.D., P.E.
(Principal Municipal Engineer)
John Kovski, P.E.
(Department Manager - Engineering)
URS Corporation, Houston, TX
(713) 914-6699 |
daniel.christodoss@urs.com | john.kovski@urs.com
2013 9th Annual
Practical “WATER Issues & Technologies” Short Course
Sponsored by:
Food Protein R&D Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
2. Outline
World Water Stress
Water Use by Industry Sector
Water Demand 2010 to 2060
Case for Reclamation (reuse)
Water Reuse Process (Food Industry)
Water Reuse Process (Oil & Gas)
Water Reuse Process (Municipal)
Water Reuse Process (Agricultural)
3. Diminishing Water Resources
Critical worldwide concern
Previously developing nation’s issues
Now Global Crisis
Quantity and Quality Issues
From Surplus to Limited
14. “I am convinced that, under
present conditions and with the
way water is being managed, we
will run out of water long before
we run out of fuel.” – former CEO
of Nestle, Peter BrabeckLetmathe in The Economist
(2008)
Source: AiChE 2011 Eastman Kodak Co.
25. Example Resource Recovery Center
Sewage
Primary Clarifier
or Filter
Low Energy Membrane for
BOD and TSS Removal
Food waste,
misc. organics
Electricity
Methane
Nutrient
Removal and
Recovery
Anaerobic
Digester
Primary Revenue
Ultrapure water for
industry makeup
and aquifer
recharge
Peak electricity
sales to grid
Electricity
Generation
CO2
Algae Conversion
to Biodiesel
Final
Filter
Secondary Revenue
Irrigation water
Fuel savings
Inorganic fertilizer
AICHE 2011 Eastman Kodak Co
26. Wetlands Cell
Rainwater is
collected
from the
roof top,
stored in UG
Cisterns and
used to flush
toilets
Rainwater UG
Cistern
Drip Irrigation
Settling Equalization
tank
Tank
Trickling
Filter
EPA, 2012
Water Purification Eco-Center
27. North American Shale Plays
Water management is a key element in
all of the shale plays
KEY ELEMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT
is: The Water Lifecycle Development
Approach to Flowback and Produced
Water Treatment and Management
Data Collection
Concept/Feasibility Studies
Bench-/Pilot-scale Testing
Technology Screening and Identification
Lifecycle Cost Evaluation
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28. North American Experience
Variations within and between
shale plays
Flowback %
Salinity /TDS Values
Formation-Derived Inputs
(e.g., Scale Formers, NORM)
Locational differences but
common treatment and disposal
scenarios
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MULTIPLE SHALE PLAYS
29. Play Characteristics
Play
Barnett
Flowback %
Medium to
high (3070%)
Black Warrior
Eagle Ford
Haynesville
Salinity/
TDS Values
50,000 to 140,000
500 to 140,000
2,000 to 10,000
Low (5%)
90,000 to 200,000
Marcellus
Niobara
40,000 to 240,000
1,000 to 10,000
Permian
30,000
Piceance
Utica
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Medium to
high
Other
Issues*
1,000 to 15,000
>100,000
BTEX, Boron, Ammonia
NORM, BTEX, Scale formers, Boron,
Ammonia
NORM, BTEX, Ammonia
NORM, BTEX, Scale formers, Boron,
Ammonia
30. COMPONENTS OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS
LIFECYCLE WATER MANAGMENT
Water
Sources
Groundwater
Withdrawals
Stream
Withdrawals
Conveyance
Conveyance
Storage
Tank Truck Delivery
Portable Storage
Tanks at Well Sites
Fracture
Stimulation
Holding Ponds at
Well Sites
Well Drilling/
Construction
Pipe Delivery
Uses
Flowback/Produced
Flow Back/
Water
Brines & Brines
Potential Treatment
Skid or Facility
Well Completion
and Appurtenances
Treated Effluent
from WWTP
Public Water
Supply
Reuse
Reuse for
Development
Hydrostatic/
Geophysical/ Other
Testing
Discharge to
Receiving
Waters
Dust Control
Waste
Injection
Incorporated into
Products/
By- roducts/Waste
P
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Solid Waste
Wastes
31. Current Flowback Water Management
Approaches
•
Evaporation in pits/ponds
•
Trucked off-site for:
−
Reinjection into Class II disposal wells
−
Treatment at a commercial wastewater treatment plant or a
POTW if disposal wells are not available.
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Direct reuse for fracing by diluting it with makeup
water-considered best practice
Treatment for reuse or surface discharge
32. Available Treatment Technologies
Contaminant
Process
Comments
Free oil, TSS, Bacteria
DGF/Filtration/ UV Biocides
Low cost technologies $2/bbl
Scale formers(Ba,Ca,Fe,Mg,Mn)
Clarifier water softening ,electrocoagulation,
ceramic membranes
Attractive for reuse in fraccing,
waste stream created, $2-8/bbl
Dissolved solids
Membranes/RO/Evaporators/Crystallisers
See table
Volatile organics
Stripping and incineration, AC, Ozone oxidation
air discharge and energy usage
Create waste AC, ozone energy
intensive
up to $4/bbl
Dissolved organics
Biological oxidation
general
Chemical treatments
Susceptible to toxic shocks,
operating knowledge, not short
term
Wide range offered
33. Summary of Characteristics of Major Flowback Water
Treatment Technologies-discharge and or reuse
Ion Exchange
Reverse Osmosis
EDR
Thermal
Distillation
Energy Cost
Low
Moderate
High
High
Energy Usage vs TDS
Low
Increase
High Increase
Independent
Applicable to
All Water types
Moderate TDS
High TDS
High TDS
Plant/Unit size
Small/Modular
Modular
Modular
Large
Possible
Possible
Low
N/A
Complexity of Technology
Easy
Moderate/High
Maintenance
Regular
Maintenance
Complex
Scaling Potential
Low
High
Low
Low
Theoretical TDS Feed Limit
N/A
32,000
40,000
100,000+
Filtration
Extensive
Filtration
Minimal
200-500 ppm
200-500 ppm
200-1000 ppm
< 10 mg/L
N/A
Low (30-50%)
Medium (60-80%)
High (75-85%)
Characteristics
Microbiological Fouling
Pretreatment Requirement
Final Water TDS
Recovery Rate
(Feed TDS >20,000mg/L)
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34. Play Characteristics and Treatment
Flowback %
Salinity/
TDS Values
Medium to high
50,000 to
140,000
Play
Barnett
Black Warrior
500 to 140,000
Eagle Ford
Haynesville
Marcellus
Niobara
Permian
Piceance
Powder River
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Other
Issues*
Low
BTEX, Boron,
2,000 to 10,000 Ammonia
NORM, BTEX,
90,000 to Scale formers,
200,000
Boron, Ammonia
40,000 to NORM, BTEX,
240,000
Ammonia
1,000 to 10,000
NORM, BTEX,
Scale formers,
30,000
Boron, Ammonia
Typical Treatment System Components
Residual Water Disposal
solids removal, chem precip, thermal
evaporation
solids removal, chem precip, RO or
evaporation
surface discharge or
injection well
Solids removal, chem precip, RO
Injection well
Organics / solids removal, evaporator
Injection well
Organics and solids removal, evaporation
Solids removal, chem precip, RO
Injection wells in Ohio
Injection well
Organics and solids removal, chem precip,
RO or evaporation
Injection well
solids removal, chem precip, RO or
surface discharge or
Medium to high 1,000 to 15,000
evaporation
injection well
Ba, Iron, Na, TDS Greensands, Ion exchange , RO
37. Frac Fluid Lifecycle
Modular
Movable
Treatment
Gas
Fraccing
Fluid
Hydrocarbon
Flowback
~25 – 70%
Flowback/
Produced
Water
Hydrocarbon/
Water
Residues
Storage Pond
Excess water
requiring disposal
or beneficial use
Chemical
Precipitation
(RO)
Fraccing
Fluid
Flowback
Makeup
Water
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Solids/
Organics
Removal
Filtration
Frac
Chemicals
Last
Well
Treated Water
First
Well
TYPICAL
TREATMENT
SYSTEM
COMPONENTS
Intermediate
Storage
38. Lifecycle Water Management Approach
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Optimize Water Re-use in Fracing
Minimize Lifecycle Costs while Meeting Production Needs
Minimize environmental footprints
By
Reuse of frac water
modular mobile unit for frac water reuse
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