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EWS PETRO P160
“CLEAN-FRAC”
Process and Equipment Description
Background
Tightening environmental & regulatory standards and escalating capital &
operating costs are driving demand for beneficial reuse of process water.
OriginOil’s EWS Petro™ P160 is the Electro Water Separation™ (EWS) model
that processes 160 liters (one barrel) per minute in frack flowback and
produced water cleanup applications.
Multiple P160 models can be combined in parallel, or larger EWS Petro
models can be installed. As this is a continuous process, throughput is not a
limiting factor.
EWS Petro removes organic particles and kills bacteria from large volumes of
water at considerably lower cost than disposal or competing treatment
systems.
Function
Based on OriginOil’s proprietary EWS technology, EWS Petro is a continuous
and chemical-free, low energy process to efficiently remove hydrocarbons,
suspended solids, and bacteria from produced or ‘frac flowback’ water.
Testing has shown that OriginOil’s EWS Petro system reduces organics, as
measured by Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), by as much as 98% and
reduces Total Suspended Solids (TSS) by as much as 99% in a matter of
minutes.
OriginOil’s EWS Petro system consists of three integrated modules:
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Single Step Extraction™ (SSE) tubular reactors designed to break the
oil and water emulsion, neutralize surface charges on oil droplets and
suspended solids, and agglomerate the particles in the water phase.
This module also kills bacteria throughout the process water.

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OriginOil’s proprietary gas flotation chamber is specifically designed to
lift the agglomerated oil and solids to the surface of the water where a

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