Water treatment
Water treatment
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Hey Folks,
How are you all doing ? I'm looking at a water purification procedure for the water coming out of wellheads.
Teh idea is to pass them through a process, bring down the total ppm of dissolved solids.
I have a pilot set up, with some foam packings put into chambers. I trickled down water from above and pupmped air with a normal centrifugal pump from the bottom. The air scrubs through the impure water and this air goes up and condenses into the adjacent chamber. The pm seems to be comign down considerably.
Now, im looking at putting up a commercial level equipment. Any process dieas how I oculd improve this process system ? In terms of material to be used to construct the new set up ? (SS , or plastic material),, and any other processes similar to the one I mentioned >> Any ideas ?? Thanks for reading :)
How are you all doing ? I'm looking at a water purification procedure for the water coming out of wellheads.
Teh idea is to pass them through a process, bring down the total ppm of dissolved solids.
I have a pilot set up, with some foam packings put into chambers. I trickled down water from above and pupmped air with a normal centrifugal pump from the bottom. The air scrubs through the impure water and this air goes up and condenses into the adjacent chamber. The pm seems to be comign down considerably.
Now, im looking at putting up a commercial level equipment. Any process dieas how I oculd improve this process system ? In terms of material to be used to construct the new set up ? (SS , or plastic material),, and any other processes similar to the one I mentioned >> Any ideas ?? Thanks for reading :)





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That was nice information.
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In addition, when speaking of suspended solids, desanders of wellhead water based on small hydrocyclones have been in use. Google around for desanders.
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If there are emulsions (especially colloidal emulsions), you will find that centrifugation does not work as advertised by many centrifuge manufacturers.
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It would be wise to put a filter afterwards if more polishing is required.
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You are right that once the emulsion is broken you can remove down to sub micron with simple centrifugation. However, more often than not, a chemical treatment will be required (coag+floc).
The reason for this is that the apparent weight of coloidal particles is very often lower than the weight of the water carrying them.
Oh, and for the record, I could not go below 5 microns due to the limited centrifuging capacity. The emulsion had been broken and coag+floc used, but the throughput required was too much for the unit and I could not get a second one.
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