VSEP Solutions for Produced S l ti f P d d Water, Desalters & SSW

A NEW STANDARD IN RAPID SEPARATION

VSep Produced Water

BreitBurn Energy Inc. operates a crude oil production facility in Santa Maria, California. They have implemented steam flooding in their process and are using steam generators in their operations to enhance oil production. Re-injection of produced water into the source formations has been the method of disposal. disposal After evaluation of the VSEP technology, BreitBurn has implemented a treatment scenario where the produced water will be treated with the VSEP membrane process to make water that is clean enough to be fed to steam boilers used for steam flooding of the oil bearing formation.

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VSep Produced Water

The produced water is high in alkalinity, silica, sodium, carbonate, and Total Organic Carbon. The TOC appears to be mostly made up of paraffins, waxes, and asphaltenes that are colloidal materials that do not readily separate using conventional methods. Asphaltenes tend to adsorb at water in crude oil interfaced to form water-in-crude a rigid film surrounding the interface

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VSep Pilot Testing

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VSep Produced Water

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VSep: Membrane Filtration

VSEP V SEP - Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process
Shear enhanced filtration provides clear access to the membrane surface for the motor oil and keeps solids hovering above the membrane surface and out of the way!

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Current VSEP Oil Installations

Used Crankcase Oil Machining Coolant Oily Wastewater Grinding Coolant Drilling Mud Produced Water Portland, Portland Oregon Shanghai, China Louisville, Kentucky

Humbolt, Tennessee H b lt T Bergen, Norwa Santa Maria, California

Other Oil or Oil/Water Applications:

Desalter Blowdown / Stripped Sour Water pp Barge Bilge Water Tank Bottoms Truck & Bus Wash Tall Oil
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Lab Analysis of VSEP Oil Filtrate

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Current VSEP Sizes Available

Series LP VSEP 15 Series I VSEP 36 Series I VSEP S i V SEP 84 Series I VSEP 16 SF (1.5 m2) 190 SF (17.6 m2) 530 SF (49.3 m2) 1300 SF (120.8 m2)

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System Components
Microfilter Membrane Module VSEP Drive System & Frame Automated Allen Bradley PLC Controls Feed Pump & CIP Tank 304 SS Schedule 40 Welded Piping Pnuematic Valves Foxboro Instrumentation Footprint: 160 x 50 (80 SF or 7.4 m2)

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Breit Burn Installation

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Breit Burn Produced Water

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Breit Burn
The feed to the VSEP contains 25,900ppm of Total Dissolved Solids and 870ppm of hardness. The final permeate after two stages of filtration has a non-detectable amount of hardness and water quality that is suitable for boiler feed water. VSEP nanofiltration is used to remove all of the bad actors that would not be suitable for feed to a conventional RO spiral system.

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Breit Burn
The filtration scenario achieved an overall recovery of 70% of the wastewater as clean boiler feed water. Using membranes, separation is very precise with molecular weight cut off and in this case a permeate with case, better quality than drinking water was produced. The concentrate was reduced to about one third the original volume

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2nd Stage - Polishing - VSEP

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VSep Produced Water

CBM Produced Water Offshore Produced Water Produced Water Produced Water Produced Water Offshore Produced Water Utah Santa Maria Santa Maria Bakersfield Kuwait Peru 500 gpm 600 gpm 150 gpm 8500 gpm 1000 gpm 35 gpm

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VSep Produced Water

Project Application Membrane Flux Rat e Recover y

BP Venuzuela So Cal Offshore Petro Tech

Offshore Produced Water Offshore Produced Water Offshore Produced Water

DS 5 NF 270 LFC

43.0 81.5 20.7 48.4

84.0% 95.0% 78.7% 85.9%

Suncor Deer Creek Energy Chevron

Tar Sands Produced Water Tar Sands Produced Water Oil Field Produced Water

LFC LFC ESPA

44.0 23.7 23.3 30.3

82.0% 85.0% 93.2% 86.7%

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Produce Water Website Established The website address for PWMIS is http://web.evs.anl.gov/pwmis. htt // b l / i PWMIS was developed by Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with the National Energy Technology Laboratory

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Desalter Current PERF Testing

FEED: O&G: 923 mg/L . TSS: 620 mg/L PERM: O&G: PERM O&G 91 mg/L . /L TSS: 30 mg/L CONC: O&G CONC O&G: 5270 mg/L . /L TSS: 6200 mg/L The numbers even show a slight rejection of TDS as well

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More Desalter examples

Feed # 1: 1,223 ppm TDS, pH 8.6, 350 TSS, 3,500 ppm O&G, COD 2,900 Permeate # 1: 1 218 ppm TDS pH 1,218 TDS, 8.5, < 5 TSS, 0 ppm O&G, COD 1,100 Feed # 2: 1,090 ppm TDS, pH 8.8, 610 TSS, TSS 600 O&G COD 6,000 O&G, 6 000 Permeate # 2: 1,000 ppm TDS, pH 8.4, < 5 TSS, 2 ppm O&G, COD 1,200 , pp , , Feed # 3: 2,100 ppm TDS, pH 8.4, 1,300 TSS, 680 ppm O&G Permeate # 3: 2 000 ppm TDS pH 8 5 P t 3 2,000 TDS, H 8.5, < 5 TSS, 4 ppm O&G
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VSEP Solutions for Produced Water

Many Thanks Mark Galimberti Tel 814 861 1506 mgalimberti@vsep.com

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