Plant to make new water near Bakersfield

BAKERSFIELD

September 1, 2015 10:52am

•  Will use low-temperature distillation technology

•  Company says it will make 20,000 barrels a day of clean water out of oil field waste water

Thermal Purifications Technologies Limited North America and California Clearwater Resources say their first joint low temperature distillation plant to treat oil field waste water is now in the final design stages. Located near Bakersfield, the demonstration plant will produce 20,000 barrels per day of clean water from what’s called “produced water” coming from oil production.

In a second phase, the reject stream will be treated with a low temperature dryer thus avoiding the need to inject the reject in deep wells, says San Diego-based Thermal Purifications. TPTec says its technology can be used for such tasks as cleaning seawater, brine and polluted water including separation of water and solids, applying advanced thermodynamics to use existing waste or low value streams to purify feeds with a minimum of residual effluents.

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