Evaporation System Tackles Frac Water Disposal

Industrial WaterWorld
March/April 2010

Intevras Technologies, was recently engaged by Novus Exploration to design a system consisting of three Evras® Units in support of Novus' drilling and frac operations in Tioga County, PA.

The Evras® system eliminates, by evaporation, approximately 1,350 barrels per day of frac and produced water. The system will use waste heat from the existing natural gas compression facilities to evaporate produced water at the well sites, minimizing trucking and disposal costs. In some instances, water will also be piped to the system, further reducing costs.

Evaporation of the water allows Novus to reduce trucking of brine as well as the quantity of wastewater that would otherwise be discharged to rivers or injected into disposal wells. In addition Novus is able to realize additional gas throughput through the cooling of interstage compression on existing facilities with no increase in break horsepower.

For more information on the evaporation system, visit the Intevras website:

http://www.intevras.com