OriginOil Announces Breakthrough Chlorine Dioxide Pre-Treatment for its CLEAN-FRAC system
"“In our research, we showed that, by using our existing proprietary process, we can indeed generate CLO2 economically and without using chemicals.” CLO2 is used by the industry as a pretreatment step to break the oil/grease emulsions, destroy chemical additives, and to kill bacteria. CLO2 generation infrastructure is capital-intensive and results in high consumables use. Therefore, integrating CLO2 generation into the normal process of treating flowback water can result in significant efficiency and cost improvements. By using EWS, operators can produce CLO2 to process water for re-use with the added benefit of no additional CLO2 generator infrastructure requirement. Additional benefits of CLO2 production within the EWS process flow are expected to not only help remove bacteria, but help save on capital costs of replacing pipe and other infrastructure, as CLO2 is known to oxidize and destroy friction generating chemicals." "OriginOil disclosed the proprietary capability of EWS to generate chlorine dioxide in a patent application filed on July 15th, 2013, titled "Removing Ammonia from Water". This patent describes how EWS acts and induces reactions on chlorine-based elements."