News » Water & Waste Water
Squeezing water out of oil | 1 Jun 2008 15:37  | |
| New Mexico - Drilling for oil and natural gas has a byproduct that costs the energy industry billions of dollars annually in cleanups: sludge-laden wastewater. Now Altela, Inc. of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico has developed a system to turn that wastewater into clean drinking water, announced CEO Ned Godshall. | |
| |
| |
. According CNET news site The system is about the size of a residential water heater; it can treat about 4000 gallons of water per day and is powered by using methane and other "waste energy" from the drilling process to make steam. Altela charges the energy company per gallon to convert wastewater into reusable water and then recycles it in one of two ways: giving it away to local ranchers to feed cattle or irrigate their land or allowing energy companies to re-use it for fracturing, a process in which clean water is used to exert energy on subterranean rocks in order to release gas or oil. Altela eventually hopes to expand the technology to water-purification applications in other industries or the food and beverage business
Reporter : mehdi akbarsefat
َApproved by : code 28
Create date : 1 Jun 2008 15:22
Id : 4184
