2541results about "Scale removal and water softening" patented technology

A process and system for purifying water is disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, the process may be used to remove a divalent salt, such as calcium sulfate, from a water source in order to prevent the divalent salt from precipitating during the process. The water source, for instance, may be fed to an ion separating device, such as an electrodialysis device. In the electrodialysis device, an ion exchange takes place between the divalent salt and another salt, such as a monovalent salt to produce two concentrated salt streams that contain salts having greater solubility in water than the divalent salt. In one embodiment, the two salt streams that are produced may then be combined to precipitate the divalent salt in a controlled manner. During the process, various other components contained within the water feed stream may also be removed from the stream and converted into useful products. In one particular embodiment, the process is configured to receive a byproduct stream from a reverse osmosis process.

An Ultraviolet-C (UVC) based portable water purification system employing a novel array of baffles increases the efficiency per unit energy of irradiating UVC light in the eradication of pathogens in the water. Closed loop feedback allows monitoring the application of UVC light power to ensure high levels of pathogen eradication. This system is capable of eradicating a wide range of waterborne bacteria, viruses, protozoa, helminthes, yeast, and mold found in natural freshwater sources worldwide. By adding pre- or post-filters, the system can remove harmful organic compounds, pesticides, inorganic compounds and heavy metals from the water. The system can also be used to eradicate pathogens in fluids other than water. As a feature of this invention, a communications systems that can reach geographically dispersed populations at low cost without the need to install costly wired communications infrastructure is combined with and powered by the water purification system. In one embodiment, a packet radio system is provided to create nodes in a wireless mesh communications system to provide voice, data, video and internet communications using an array of the water purifiers to create a wireless mesh network.

A method and composition is provided for sealing a subterranean zone penetrated by a well bore to restore lost circulation. In one embodiment, the composition comprises a pellet comprising a mixture of lost circulation materials (LCMs).

New fluids are disclosed for use in servicing subterranean formations containing oil and gas. In particular, an improved chemical gelling additive for hydrocarbon based fracturing fluids is disclosed having reduce, negligible or no volatile phosphorus at temperatures below about 250° C.

The present invention relates to a method for zero-release treatment of brine waste water, comprising: (1) pretreatment; (2) reverse osmosis treatment; (3) advanced oxidation treatment; (4) biochemical treatment; (5) electrodialysis concentration; (6) circulating crystallization. Compared with the prior art, the method for zero-release treatment of brine waste water provided in the present invention realizes zero release or near zero release of waste water, improves salt recovery efficiency, can recover high-quality sodium sulfate, mirabilite and sodium chloride, and turns crystalline salts into a resource; the membrane treatment unit can operates stably in the process for a long operation period at a low cost, and the entire process has high economic efficiency.

Compositions for removing scale and/or inhibiting formation thereof include an alkaline agent, a primary scale inhibitor, a secondary scale inhibitor and a solvent. The primary scale inhibitor may include phosphonic acid, salts of phosphonic acids and combinations thereof. Suitable secondary scale inhibitor may include aminocarboxylic acids, salts of aminocarboxylic acids, carboxylic acids, salts of carboxylic acids, polycarboxylic acids, salts of polycarboxylic acids, gluconic acids, salts of gluconic acids, steroids, tetrapyrrols, ionophores, 2,2′-bipyridine, dimercaptopropanol, ortho-phenanthroline and combinations thereof. The compositions may be prepared as a stable concentrates that have pH values greater than or equal to 11. The compositions may also be prepared on site as a use solution. Methods of using the compositions to extend system operating times and to remove scale from and/or inhibit formation of scale on an article are also disclosed.

Membranes, for example immersed polymeric ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes, are cleaned by contacting them with a chemical cleaner comprising one or more of a gluconate, a hydrosulfite, a metabisulfite or an acid, for example phosphoric acid. The membranes may have been exposed to organic or inorganic foulants, some of which may have resulted from pretreatment involving adding coagulants, for example coagulants containing iron or aluminum, to water to be treated. Methods for treating a waste cleaning solution were described.

The invention belongs to the technical field of chemical industry, and relates to a cooling water corrosion inhibitor, in particular to an efficient composite corrosion and scale inhibitor which can remarkably reduce corrosion and scaling phenomena of the cooling water of a petrochemical system. The corrosion and scale inhibitor is prepared by evenly mixing organic phosphine carboxylic acid corrosion inhibitor, organic multi-element phosphine acid corrosion and scale inhibitor, polymer scale inhibitor, metal ion succimer, surface active agent, zinc salt, functionality additive and water. The corrosion and scale inhibitor prepared from the components has low phosphine content and excellent corrosion and scale inhibition performance, can prolong the service life of devices, improve the repeated utilization rate of cooling water and reduce the water resource consumption.

A method and an amide composition used therein for inhibiting, retarding, mitigating, reducing, controlling and/or delaying formation of hydrocarbon hydrates or agglomerates of hydrates. The method may be applied to prevent or reduce or mitigate plugging of conduits, pipes, transfer lines, valves, and other places or equipment where hydrocarbon hydrate solids may form under the conditions. At least one amide compound is added into the process stream, where the compound may be mixed with another compound selected from amino alcohols, esters, quaternary ammonium, phosphonium or sulphonium salts, betaines, amine oxides, other amides, simple amine salts, and combinations thereof.

A humidifier for treating humidified air with germicidal light is provided. The humidifier includes a water reservoir, an atomizer to atomize a supply of water, and an ultraviolet light source to expose the atomized water to germicidal light. The ultraviolet light source extends vertically within a cylindrical channel to irradiate the atomized water dissipating upwardly from the atomizer. The water reservoir can include a carbon filter and a hardness-removing module for removing containments and metal oxides from the water supply. A control panel indicates the remaining useful life of the ultraviolet light source, the carbon filter and the hardness-removing module based on historical humidifier usage and water quality levels.

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Materials and a process are provided whereby polymers with the pendant group or end group containing --Si(OR")₃ (where R" is H, an alkyl group, Na, K, or NH₄) are used to control aluminosilicate scaling in a Bayer process. When materials of the present invention are added to the Bayer liquor before the heat exchangers, they reduce and even completely prevent formation of aluminosilicate scale on heat exchanger walls. The present materials are effective at treatment concentrations that make them economically practical.

A threshold agent composition and methods of using the same to produce hypochlorite and other effluent streams from an electrochemical cell without the detrimental effects of hard water scaling are disclosed. The invention further discloses use of chemistries to prevent hard water scale formation in various electrochemical cells to enhance cell longevity without decreasing chlorine, hypochlorite or other effluent production.

Methods of servicing a wellbore include generating gas in a plugging composition in situ within a permeable zone in the wellbore, thereby improving the ability of the plugging composition to seal the permeable zone. The gas may be generated via a chemical reaction by, for example, introducing first and second reactants to the plugging composition that can react at ambient temperatures in the wellbore. In an embodiment, the first and second reactants are concurrently pumped into the wellbore via separate flow paths within two concentric conduits to the permeable zone where they are allowed to contact each other in the presence of the plugging composition. In another embodiment, the first reactant, the second reactant, and a retarder for slowing the reaction between the two reactants are concurrently pumped to the permeable zone. In yet another embodiment, one of the reactants is encapsulated to delay a reaction between the two reactants.

Anti-microbial compositions and devices comprising anti-microbial compositions are disclosed. Methods of making and using anti-microbial compositions and devices are also disclosed.

A method includes providing an article including an oxygen scavenger; forming the article into a container; placing an oxygen sensitive product into the container; and exposing the container to actinic radiation at a dosage effective to sterilize the container, and trigger the oxygen scavenger in the article. Alternative methods are also disclosed. A package includes a container, the container including an activated oxygen scavenger; wherein the container is sterilized; and wherein an oxygen sensitive product is disposed in the container.

Compositions include (1) aggregating compositions capable of forming deformable partial or complete coatings on formation surfaces, formation particle surfaces, downhole fluid solid surfaces, and/or proppant surfaces, where the coatings increase aggregation and/or agglomeration propensities of the particles and surfaces to form particles clusters or pillars having deformable coatings, and (2) aggregation stabilizing and/or strengthening compositions capable of altering properties of the coated clusters or pillars to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars. Methods for stabilizing aggregated particle clusters or pillars include (1) treating the particles with an aggregating composition to form aggregated clusters or pillars and (2) treating the aggregated particle clusters or pillars with a stabilizing or strengthening composition to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars.

The invention discloses a medicament for treating composite water in a hot water boiler. The medicament comprises the following components by mass percent: 0.1-3% of inorganic phosphate, 0.1-2% of organic phosphoric acid and/or organic phosphate, 0.1-4% of component A, 0.1-3% of component B, 0.6-1.0% of organic amine deoxidizer, 0.1-2% of tannin and/or chitosan and the balance of water, wherein the mass percent of the components is 100%, the component A is one or more of an organic antisludging agent, an organic dispersant and an organic dispersible antisludging agent, and the component B is one or more of an organic carboxylic acid corrosion inhibitor, an organic carboxylate corrosion inhibitor and sodium methylene dinaphthalenesulfonate. The invention further discloses a preparation method and a use method of the medicament, the preparation process is clean, and the medicament is low in toxicity for body health and environment in the using process. The medicament is excellent in corrosion resistance and scale inhibition effects and simple and convenient to store and transport, and the corrosion and scale inhibition effects cannot be reduced after the medicament is stored and transported for a long term.

Hybrid copolymers for use as anti-scalant and dispersant. The polymers are useful in compositions used in aqueous systems. The polymers include at least one synthetic monomeric constituent that is chain terminated by a naturally occurring hydroxyl containing moiety. A process for preparing these hybrid copolymers is also provided.

A system for treating wastewater containing organic compounds is provided, comprising an anaerobic bioreactor, an aerobic bioreactor disposed rearwardly of the anaerobic bioreactor, and a membrane separation reactor disposed rearwardly of the aerobic bioreactor. The system is capable of removing organic pollutants in wastewater through biological treatment process and separating solid from the liquid ones by using a membrane. By employing the system for treating wastewater containing organic pollutants, organic pollutants can be effectively eliminated and the problem of scaling and fouling on the surface of the membrane prevented, thus achieving the objectives of lowering cost and improving efficiency.

A water supply system, particularly for an aircraft such as a passenger aircraft, includes a disinfecting unit with an electrolysis cell connected in series with a water storage tank including a water distribution pipe system and a circulating pump. A bypass pipe with a valve permits connecting the electrolysis cell to the distribution system or bypassing the electrolysis cell. The electrolysis cell disinfects the water by anodic oxidation. A salt solution container may be connected to the electrolysis cell to enhance the anodic oxidation. The pump circulates the disinfected water through the tank and/or through the entire system, whereby the water supply is disinfected and the disinfected water in turn disinfects the entire system.

A method of controlling the pressure of a casing annulus in a subterranean well that includes injecting into the casing annulus a composition including a base fluid and a polymer coated colloidal solid material. The polymer coated colloidal solid material includes: a solid particle having an weight average particle diameter (d₅₀) of less than two microns, and a polymeric dispersing agent coated onto the surface of the solid particle during the cominution (i.e. grinding) process utilized to make the colloidal particles. The polymeric dispersing agent may be a water soluble polymer having a molecular weight of at least 2000 Daltons. The solid particulate material may be selected from materials having of specific gravity of at least 2.68 and preferably the solid particulate material may be selected from barium sulfate (barite), calcium carbonate, dolomite, ilmenite, hematite, olivine, siderite, strontium sulfate, combinations and mixtures of these and other similar solids that should be apparent to one of skill in the art.

To provide an amino group-containing water-soluble copolymer having a high chelating performance and clay dispersancy and a method of producing the amino-group containing water-soluble copolymer efficiently and with high productivity. A water-soluble polymer containing an amino group-containing monomer unit, wherein the water-soluble polymer has a molecular weight distribution of 12 or less, and a method of producing the water-soluble polymer according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the method comprises a step of polymerizing an amino group-containing allyl monomer using an initiator containing a heavy metal ion and sulfurous acid (sulfite), hydrogensulfite or hydrogen peroxide.

Water-circulating systems are treated with an aqueous, alkaline composition comprisingI) an organo-phosphorus chelating agent,II) an acrylate homopolymer,III) a salt of an acrylic copolymer, a portion of the repeating units of which contain sulfonate groups,IV) a molybdate salt, andV) a salt of a fused-ring aromatic triazole.This composition (which is formulated in accordance with a specific order of addition of the ingredients) is effective against white rust (corrosion of galvanized metal parts). When the water-circulating system is also fouled with a biofilm, it is preferred to introduce a biofilm remover having biocidal, surfactant, and chelating properties into the system, but the biofilm remover is introduced separately from the above-described composition. The preferred biofilm removers are compounds of the formula R-S-A-NR1R2whereR is an aliphatic group having at least 8 carbon atoms,A is an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms,R1 and R2 are the same or different and are hydrogen or an aliphatic group, or R1 and R2, together with the nitrogen of formula I, form a heterocyclic aliphatic group.

The present invention relates to a phosphorus-free composite antiincrustation corrosion inhibitor. It includes polyaspartic acid and/or polyepoxysuccinic acid and at least one kind of scale inhibition and dispersion agent, in which the scale inbibition and dispersion agent is polymer containing carboxylic acid group, or it includes polyaspartic acid and/or polyepoxysuccinic acid, zinc salt, molybdate or tungstate and polymer containing carboxylic acid group. Said invention is applicable to treatment of circulating cooling water.

The invention discloses a composition used in a scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor, a scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor, and an application thereof. The composition used in the scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor comprises cyclodextrin and/or a cyclodextrin derivative, a carboxylic-acid-group-containing homopolymer, a sulfonic-acid-group-containing copolymer, and selectively hydroxycarboxylic acid with a weight ratio of 1:0.2-20:0.04-15:0.2-30:0-20. The scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor provided by the invention is environment-friendly. According to the invention, the application of phosphorus-containing compound or non-renewable molybdate or tungstate is prevented, such that the scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor is phosphorus-free and nitrogen-free. The scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor has high tolerance to calcium and alkali, resistance to corrosion of high-concentration chloride ion and sulfate ion, and wide applicability to water quality. Therefore, technical condition is provided for operation of circulation water under high concentration multiple and for reducing sewage discharge. The scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor provided by the invention has excellent scale inhibition and corrosion inhibition performances in circulation water system application. With the scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor, a dose is low, scale-inhibition treatment process is simple and substantial effect is provided. The scale-inhibition corrosion inhibitor is suitable for popularization.

The methods of the present invention include processing waste water containing 0.15% by weight of the salts of Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Cl, SO₄, and CO₃ and mixtures thereof to produce products useful for enhancing oil or gas well production, and particularly for oil drilling applications including as additives for drilling muds and cement well casings, as well as for injection into an oil well oil or gas well formation.

An optimal two stage NF₂ membrane pretreatment unit is synergistically combined with a following two stage SWRO₂ desalination unit, where each of the two stage NF₂ and SWRO₂ has an energy recovery device (ERD) turbocharger (TC) in between the stages to form a dual hybrid of NF₂-SWRO₂ (FIG. 1 ); alternatively the two stage NF₂ unit is synergistically combined with one stage ERD equipped SWRO, unit operated at up to 85 bar (FIG. 2 a, b); or the two stage NF₂ unit combined with one stage ERD equipped SWRO₁ unit, with part of its reject recycled constituting part of the feed to the NF units (FIG. 3 a,b). The process of this invention raises significantly the product water recovery ratio, producing SWRO hybrids that exceed all prior arts in efficiency, including water yield, product recovery ratio, dramatically reduces both the energy consumption and water production unit cost.

The present invention provides improved drilling fluids that comprise improved shale inhibiting components, and methods for using these drilling fluids in connection with drilling in a subterranean formation. The drilling fluids comprise water and an improved shale inhibiting component. Optionally, other additives may be added to the drilling fluids of the present invention, including, inter alia, antifoams, biocides, bridging agents, corrosion control agents, dispersants, flocculants, fluid loss additives, foamers, H₂S scavengers, lubricants, oxygen scavengers, salts, scale inhibitors, viscosifiers, and weighting agents.

The invention relates to a composite corrosion and scale inhibitor and application thereof. The composite corrosion and scale inhibitor comprises a) two different salts selected from the group consisting of water-soluble borate, water-soluble gluconate and water-soluble silicate, b) at least one organic phosphonic acid and c) at least one scale inhibition and dispersion agent, wherein the scale inhibition and dispersion agent is a polymer containing carboxylic groups. The composite corrosion and scale inhibitor provided in the invention has good comprehensive performance, an excellent effect on inhibiting CaCO3 scale, strong capability in stabilizing Zn<2> in water and good corrosion inhibition, is applicable to treatment of circulating cooling water and uses a small amount of organic phosphonic acid, thereby reducing harm to environment caused by discharge of phosphorus.

A compound inhibition antisludging agent is used for treating high-concentration circulation water, comprising a liquid part and a solid part. Based on that the total weight of the liquid part is deemed to be 100 percent, percentages of each component by weight are: organic phosphonic acid 5-40 percent, organic carboxylic acid 5-40 percent and water 20-90 percent; and based on that the total weight of the solid part is deemed to be 100 percent, percentages of each component by weight are: polymer with antisludging effect 5-35 percent, alkaline agent 45-80 percent, azoles 1-10 percent and zinc salt 1-10 percent. The concentrations of the liquid part and the solid part in the circulating water are that: the solid part: the dosage of the agent added into make-up water is 20-200mg/L; the liquid part: total phosphine kept in the circulating water system is 10-15mg/L. The invention has effects of inhibition, antisludging, sterilization and algae removal upon meeting the requirements of the state, can promote the concentration multiple of the circulating water system up to 7.5 or more and can be operated at normal temperature with good effect and without pre-membrane treatment.