4510 results about "Salinity" patented technology

Well treatment is disclosed that includes injecting a well treatment fluid with insoluble polyol polymer such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) dispersed therein, depositing the insoluble polymer in the wellbore or an adjacent formation, and thereafter dissolving the polymer by reducing salinity and/or increasing temperature conditions in the environment of the polymer deposit. The method is disclosed for filter cake formation, fluid loss control, drilling, hydraulic fracturing and fiber assisted transport, where removal of the polyol at the end of treatment or after treatment is desired. The method is also disclosed for providing dissolved polyol as a delayed breaker in crosslinked polymer viscosified systems and viscoelastic surfactant systems. Also disclosed are well treatment fluids containing insoluble amorphous or at least partially crystalline polyol, and a PVOH fiber composition wherein the fibers are stabilized from dissolution by salinity.

Through the combination of at least two polymer families, and the optimization of other components, a rubber compound has been developed for use in downhole applications that will swell in water-based fluids. A cellulose component, such as carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC), is used together with an acrylate copolymer (AC) that can increase the swelling capacity of an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) in water to over 1000%. The amount of swelling achieved depends on physical boundaries and limitations, the salinity of the water, and the temperature.

The invention relates to a membrane and evaporation crystallization integrated process with zero discharge of high-salinity industrial wastewater. The process is as below: carrying out ultrafiltration pretreatment on industrial wastewater and sending the wastewater to a reverse osmosis process through a high-pressure pump; reusing lateral infiltration water; conducting electrodialysis treatment on a concentrate subjected to several times of filtration; evaporating and crystallizing the materials obtained from electrodialysis concentration to obtain salt slurry and water; carry outing posttreatment on the salt slurry; and reusing condensed water. The process provided by the invention couples membrane and evaporation crystallization, not only can recover high quality purified water from industrial wastewater with high salinity but also can realize zero discharge of wastewater with high salinity, and has the characteristics of low energy consumption, low production cost and advanced process.

The present invention is directed to methods and compositions of endophytic fungi that confer stress tolerance to inoculated plants, including both monocots and dicots. In particular, Fusarium species, isolated from the dunegrass, Leymus mollis, growing in plant communities on Puget Sound beaches of Washington State. Upon inoculating a target plant or plant part with the endophytic fungi, the resulting plant shows stress tolerance, particularly drought and salinity tolerance.

A simple, effective and inexpensive water-quality measurement system comprises a housing suitable for travel on or in a body of water; one or more sensors for measuring water properties as the housing travels; a memory for storing information relating to the measured water properties; and software for processing measured properties. This invention combines into a single, inexpensive, and comprehensive system the sensors, computer hardware, signal-processing, Geographic Information System data, and Decision Support Software. This integration yields a system of novel and unparalleled utility. The water properties measured by the system may include: water temperature, water conductivity, pH level, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, water depth, salinity, total dissolved solids (TDS), ORP, chlorides, nitrates, and phosphates. A geographic information system (GIS) based on a global positioning satellite (GPS) technology is operative to determine geographic location and other factors, and an internal or external processor is operative to generate a map coordinating one or more of the listed characteristics to one or more of the water properties. A barometric pressure sensor may also be provided. In the preferred embodiment, the housing is a floating buoy.

A method and apparatus for renewable power generation utilizes the chemical potential dissimilarity between solutions of differing ionic formulations. A train is formed by a sequentially ordered set of a plurality of cells in which each successive cell is related to the preceding cell. Each cell has pumping means and hydro-power generation turbine means to form a closed hydraulic loop configured for specified volumetric and flow capacity. Adjacent cells share semipermeable membranes. Each cell is charged with a brine of specified ionizable inorganic salt quantity and type with the brine being cycled in a controlled concentration-pressure loop, with each of the cells operating at progressively increasing concentration and osmotic pressure ratio. A continuous and constant flow rate of substantially salt-free permeate flux is maintained across each cell, the flux being osmotically induced from low salt concentration water being fed at the first cell in the train and exiting at the last cell along with the discarded high concentration water brine. The salt-free permeate flux is continuously induced, in symbiotic mode, through the shared membranes, driven by the chemical influence of concentration potential field bounded by water of low to no salt concentration on one end of the train and by brine of high salt concentration on the other end of the train with sufficient concentration difference to provide driving force for said plurality of cells, while maintaining adequate concentration difference between adjacent cells to enhance osmosis function, as well as defining a concentration ratio within each cell to ensure a net positive power generation.

The invention discloses a zero-emission integrated process for treatment and reuse of high-salinity wastewater. The invention relates to a softening desalination treatment technology of water and particularly relates to a reuse treatment system for reverse osmosis concentrated water containing low-concentration organic matters which can achieve the requirement of 'zero emission'. The integrated process comprises the following steps: (1) firstly softening and pre-treating the high-salinity wastewater; (2) acquiring pre-treated water by virtue of activated carbon adsorption and an ultrafiltration device; (3) acquiring nanofiltration softened water and nanofiltration concentrated water by virtue of a nanofiltration device; (4) acquiring reverse osmosis softened water and reverse osmosis concentrated water by virtue of a reverse osmosis device; (5) acquiring electrodialysis softened water and electrodialysis concentrated water by virtue of an electrodialysis device; and (6) carrying out evaporation crystallization treatment on the electrodialysis concentrated water by virtue of an evaporation-crystallization device, regularly outwards transporting salts generated by the evaporation crystallization, feeding generated salt into a water-producing tank to enter a reuse system and finally completing the treatment and reuse of high-salinity wastewater. The integrated process is mainly used for the integrated treatment of the high-salinity wastewater.

The system may include a multi-function probe, a recommendation engine, a transaction engine, a user interface, a third-party interface, and a social network portal. The multi-function probe may be configured to connect to a smartphone through a wired or wireless (e.g. BLUETOOTH) connection for sensing one or more of air temperature, snow temperature, humidity, salinity, and the like. Further, the recommendation engine may receive input about snow and weather conditions and may provide a recommendation for a ski wax, and the like. The recommendation engine may also (i) receive input including user input, (ii) examine a database of ski wax offerings, and (iii) make a ski wax recommendation based at least in part on the input and other information that may be accessible in a ski wax offering database.

The invention relates to a water quality remote dynamic monitoring system used for aquiculture; the invention adopts the water quality remote dynamic monitoring system to realize real-time dynamic remote wireless monitoring of multiple water quality parameters which takes the water temperature, the pH value, the electrical conductivity, the dissolved oxygen, the oxidation-reduction potential, the salinity, the turbidity and the illuminance as priority, can extend to monitoring more water quality parameters simultaneously, and establishes a large-scale and distributed water quality remote dynamic monitoring network in different regions. Compared with other water quality online monitoring systems, the water quality remote dynamic monitoring system has easy expansion of monitoring parameters, higher measurement precision and good compatibility, and the cost thereof is reduced by more than a half compared with the similar product imported from abroad.

A method and system of monitoring the movement of at least one front in an inter-well region is comprised of: providing a first well representing the origination of at least one front (such as a saturation front or a salinity front); providing one or more monitoring locations, each equipped with at least one sensor; and monitoring the arrival of at least one front at one or more monitoring locations. The origination well may be any type of permanent or temporary well, but is preferably an injector well. Likewise, the monitoring location(s) may be any type of permanent or temporary well such as an observation well, a production well, an exploratory well, and an appraisal well. Information regarding front arrival times may be used to characterize or appraise the formation. Front arrivals may be monitored as a function of time to develop their respective time evolution and shape.

The invention discloses an optimal energy-saving method for controlling the surface pollutant discharge of a steam boiler. The method comprises the steps of firstly controlling the flow of pollutant discharge according to the steam flow proportionally, and continuously diluting water in the steam boiler as required; on this basis, configuring a conductivity close loop control circuit to prevent the influences, such as water supply salinity fluctuation, flow rate measurement error, boiler bottom periodic pollutant discharge and the like, and coupling the both by an addition logic unit so as to form a feedforward-feedback complex control system. The invention can prevent various interferences, stably keep the salinity of the water in the steam boiler above the desired level, and realize the optimal energy-saving and emission-reducing effects by the least pollutant discharge amount.

A self-sufficient material property profile regulation method and system, for adjusting fluid property profiles such as in an ocean of multiple property layers, is described. Using this Fluid Property Regulator, the property profiles of a non-enclosed material, including property profiles related to material density, chemical characteristics and space-time position, are affected due to motion of the material relative to a body in the flow stream. The state of other matter with which the initial material then makes direct or indirect contact is also affected. For example, in the case of a liquid such as an ocean current, the temperature, salinity, nutrient content and other properties may be destratified (i.e. layers being combined) as the system lifts large quantities of deep water and combines this material with surface water in the downstream far-field region of the system. The resulting regulation of such ocean water property profiles may then also indirectly affect the properties of the atmosphere above the ocean so that the system can be said to affect planetary properties both oceanic and atmospheric. Rather than merely discharging a pumped material, such as cold water that might quickly re-submerge, the system regulates lasting property profiles. The new Fluid Property Regulator system described in this invention regulates material properties to produce desired outcomes such as increased food and energy production as well as to prevent undesirable outcomes such as hurricanes, elevated planetary temperatures, decreased planetary ice sheet size, raised sea level and glacial freshwater incursions that can halt important major currents.

A method to stimulate the biogenic production of a metabolite with enhanced hydrogen content that includes forming an opening in a geologic formation to provide access to a consortium of microorganisms, and injecting water into the opening to disperse at least a portion of the consortium over a larger region of a hydrocarbon deposit. The method may also include measuring a change in the rate of production of the metabolite in the formation. Also, an method to stimulate biogenic production of a metabolite that includes measuring a salinity level of formation water in a geologic formation, and injecting water into the opening to reduce the salinity level of the formation water in the formation. The method may also include measuring a change in the rate of production of the metabolite in the formation.

The invention relates to a sulphonated heat resistant and salt tolerant copolymer for an oil field and a preparation method thereof, which are mainly used for solving the problems that polyacrylamide has poor heat resistance and salt tolerance under the conditions of high temperature and high salinity, more monomers are introduced by copolymers and the content of the copolymers is high in the prior art. The problems are better solved through the technical scheme in which the sulphonated heat resistant and salt tolerant copolymer for the oil field and the preparation method thereof are provided, wherein the sulphonated heat resistant and salt tolerant copolymer for the oil field is obtained through the steps of introducing monomers with sulfonic groups on larger lateral groups to copolymerize with polyacrylamide, and then hydrolyzing. The sulphonated heat resistant and salt tolerant copolymer for the oil field, provided by the invention, can be used as an oil displacement agent for oilextraction in the oil field and can also be used in the oil field application field such as fracturing fluid thickening agent, water plugging/profile modifying agent, drilling fluid additive and the like. The preparation method provided by the invention is simple in process and easy for industrial production.

The invention relates to a method of the technical field of environment protection and in particular to a high salinity wastewater treatment corrosion-resistant anti-fouling membrane as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: by taking a mixture of clay minerals and oceanic nodule minerals as inorganic nano particles, modifying the inorganic nano particles with dopamine, and combining a PVDF (Polyvinylidene Fluoride) polymer with the nano particles, thereby obtaining the high salinity wastewater treatment corrosion-resistant anti-fouling membrane. The invention aims to improve the water flux, the corrosion resistance and the pollution resistance of the membrane, the mixture of the clay minerals and the oceanic nodule minerals is adopted as the inorganic nano particles, the inorganic nano particles are subjected to surface modification with dopamine, combination of the nano particles and the PVDF is promoted, the obtained membrane is capable of efficiently treating high salinity wastewater and meanwhile has properties of corrosion and fouling resistance; in addition, the dopamine has a great amount of hydrophilic groups of amino, particle aggregation is prevented, the hydrophilcity of the membrane is improved, and the difficulties that materials are not uniformly dispersed and are easily dropped off in the use process are solved.

The invention relates to a temperature and salt resistant copolymer KWKY-PAD for oil field and a preparation method thereof, and mainly solves the problem that polyacrylamide is easy to hydrolyze at high temperature and high salinity in the prior art. The temperature and salt resistant copolymer KWKY-PAD as shown in formula (I) is obtained by the copolymerization of acrylamide and a N-alkyl substituted acrylamide derivative. The technical scheme provided by the invention greatly solves the problem. By the adoption of the preparation method, the hydrolytic stability of the copolymer is raised,and the copolymer has good viscosifying ability and hydrolytic stability at high temperature and high salinity as well as good temperature and salt resistance. The copolymer provided by the inventioncan be used in an oil displacement agent for oil extraction in oil field, and also can be used in oil field application fields of a thickening agent of fracturing fluids, a water plugging profile modification agent, a drilling fluid processing agent and the like. In addition, the preparation method requires less monomer, is simple and is suitable for industrialization.

The invention discloses a process for deeply treating and recycling high-salinity industrial waste water, which belongs to the technical field of environmental protection and comprehsnive resource utilization. Combined equipment is adopted, and comprises ultrafiltration equipment, ion exchange softening equipment, volume-type reverse osmosis equipment, medium-pressure flat plate reverse osmosis equipment, high-pressure flat plate reverse osmosis equipment, ultrahigh-pressure flat plate reverse osmosis equipment, high-pressure flat plate filtration equipment, secondary reverse osmosis equipment and the like. After being treated with a combined process, industrial waste water can be concentrated by 36-180 times; in combination with evaporative crystallization equipment, zero discharge of industrial waste water can be realized, and salts in industrial waste water can be recovered; and after secondary reverse osmosis treatment, produced water can be recycled by 100 percent. The process has the advantages of flexible combined process, small floor area, saving in investment, high efficiency, low running cost, stable and reliable effect, and the like.

The invention relates to a recycling treatment process for coal coking high-salinity wastewater. The process comprises the following steps: (1) fluorine removing; (2) silicon removing; (3) softening;(4) treatment with a multi-medium filter; (5) ultrafiltration; (6) resin softening; (7) FDG; (8) nanofiltration and salt separation; (9) reverse osmosis concentration; (10) advanced oxidation; (11) resin adsorption; and (12) evaporative crystallization. The process has the advantages that the process of pretreatment, nanofiltration salt separation, reverse osmosis concentration, advanced oxidationand evaporative crystallization is adopted, so that zero emission and quality-divided resource utilization of the coal coking high-salinity wastewater are realized.

The invention relates to a foam composition and a preparation method of the same, mainly solving the current problems of foam agent subsiding when meeting with divalent ions and less capacity of foam sealing ,with oil production of nitrogen high salinity reservoir of steam flooding. The foam composition and the preparation method of the same based on the molecule of the compounds, comprising 1 potion of long-chain polyether compounds with nitrogen and 0.1-50 potions of the surfactant of long-chain diaryl-toluenesulfonate salt, wherein the long-chain polyether compounds with nitrogen has the general molecular formula as (I) and the the long-chain diaryl-toluenesulfonate salt has the general molecular formula as (II). The R1 refers to fatty group C10-C26; R4,R5 alkyl C1-C5 or anyone of alkyl; R6,R7 alkylidene C1-C5 or anyone of alkylidene; and Y selected from the technical scheme of the general molecular formula (I) where molecule in anionic groups is with electric neutrality. And the foam composition and the preparation method of the same solve the problems better and can also be applied to the nitrogen high salinity reservoir of steam flooding.

A method, apparatus and production well system that utilize stimulus-responsive materials for “conformance control” and profile control along the fluid flow path in a well as part of a gravel pack or a coating on a well tool. The stimulus-responsive materials are also known as intelligent or smart polymers and are typically polymeric materials that reversibly or irreversibly swell or collapse in the presence of stimulus such as changes in concentration of a fluid media in contact with the stimulus-responsive material, pH or polarity of the media the stimulus-responsive material is in contact with, salinity, current; or temperature. The stimulus-responsive materials may swell upon contact with a rust stimulus and shrink or collapse upon contact with a second stimulus or vice-versa The changes between production and injection profiles may be automatic with the application of the stimulus-responsive materials and may occur without user intervention.

The invention discloses an integrated up-flow reactor and an advanced treatment method of fermentation industrial effluent, belonging to effluent treatment field. The upper part of the reactor is an aerobic fluidized bed system, the lower part is an anaerobic filter system, the intermediate transition zone is designed to be a connecting part which has a tri-phase separation function and organically combines the upper part and the lower part together. In the reactor, the concentration of biological solid is high and the retention time of biological solid is long, therefore the reactor is suitable for treating secondary biochemical treatment effluent of fermentation industrial effluent which has high salinity and is difficult to be biodegraded; sludge output of each system is low, and the residual sludge generated in the aerobic zone enters to the transition zone and the anaerobic zone to be further treated, the overall sludge output of the reactor is low, and simultaneously, the reactor contains rich biological species which act on organics difficult to be degraded jointly and promote the degradation thereof. The integrated reactor has low energy consumption, less land occupation, convenient operation, load impact resistance and high treatment efficiency, thereby being applicable to the advanced treatment of fermentation industrial effluent.

The invention provides a method for preparing salt-resistant stain-resistant bentonite with adsorption function. The method comprises the following steps: performing sodium treatment, namely milling natural calcium bentonite to pass through a sieve with the granularity of 50-150 meshes, adding the bentonite into an aqueous solution of a sodium treatment agent, stirring, performing sodium treatment and reacting at the temperature of 50-90 DEG C for 1-4 hours, and drying to obtain sodium-based bentonite; and modifying, namely milling the sodium-based bentonite to pass through a sieve with the granularity of 150-250 meshes, drying and mixing with a modifier at normal temperature, and obtaining the product. The bentonite prepared by the method is high in expansibility, has high salt resistance, high stain resistance and good adsorption performance, can be used for underground seepage prevention of high salinity complex water bodies and also can be used for treating heavy metal ions and organic pollutants in contaminated water.

The present invention provides a freeze-thawing circulation detection apparatus for nature saline soil, wherein the apparatus is used for detecting the formation process of saline soil under nature environment conditions and detecting the frost heaving and melt sinking change law of the saline soil during multiple freeze-thawing circulation processes. According to the present invention, the upper portion of a sample tube of the apparatus is connected with a low temperature constant temperature box for detecting the temperature change under a nature state, temperature setting is decided according to the air temperature of a region, the bottom of the sample tube is fixed with a temperature control head, the detected temperature between the soil under the nature conditions is set as +5 DEG C, and the temperature control head on the bottom is connected with a water replenishment device for detecting groundwater and salinity replenishment under the nature conditions; and with the freeze-thawing circulation detection apparatus for nature saline soil, the freeze-thawing circulation mechanism of the saline soil can be well reflected so as to provide reference for engineering construction in the saline oil area.

A high efficient processing technique for hypersaline waste water generates aerobic granular sludge in a sequencing batch reactor and adopts certain startup method and sluge domestication method, in condition of without halophilic bacteria, sludge in the reactor realize aggregating growth and form composite microecology, so hypersaline waste water can be processed effectively and resistance to salinity shock of the system can be improved.