1. TYRONE ENVIRONMENTAL GRP.
Making Crystal Slurry and Dry Crystals:
cleaning fracture water for Oil and Gas drilling

2. WHO WE ARE:
Tyrone Environmental is involved in recycling water, plastics and rubber.
We have teamed up with equipment suppliers of patented and proprietary systems to efficiently clean and recycle fracture water and salts in gas drilling.

3. BRINE WATER: CHOICES
You can choose whether you wish to remove and recycle as much water as possible, but before salt crystals form, which is called making saturated brine; or
You can choose to remove even more water such that the you make a slurry with salt crystals;
You can choose to remove and recycle the maximum amount of water and dry the salt crystals

4. Level of De-Watering
Recap: The amount of water you remove depends on what you wish to do with the water and contaminates in the water.
Do you wish to create a…
Saturated Brine or
Crystal Slurry
Dry Crystal

5. EQUIPMENT CONFIGURATION
Different equipment is required in the making of either a saturated brine, or a crystal slurry, or a dry crystal output
Our focus here is on crystal slurry, or a dry crystal output

6. Crystal Slurry: Important
Recovering brine crystals require the solution to be processed in a Forced Circulation Crystallizer. (see slide #8)
The Vapor Compression Cycle is integrated making an Ultra-Efficient Process. (see PowerPoint: “Making Saturated Brine” for details)

7. CRYSTAL SLURRY: Forced circulation
Vessel is designed for collecting and growing crystals. The solution containing both saturated brine and crystals is “force-circulated” downward through a “stand-pipe” where crystals have resident time to grow.
The co-mingled solution is force-circulated through a centrifugal separator where brine and crystals are separated

8. FLOW DIAGRAM:

9. FLOW DIAGRAM: EXPLANATION

10. Forced Separation
The Co-Mingled solution has two components having different mass:
Brine Liquid…lighter component circulates back to the vessel and
Brine Crystals…heavier component discharges the system as a Wet Slurry.
As Slurry cools, more crystals form and separate from the remaining saturated liquid. This liquid can be sent back to the Distillation & Recovery system for more dewatering, if practical.

11. Dry Crystals
Depending on desired dryness, Slurry can be post-processed by conventional means and equipment.

12. WHAT WE OFFER: Making Crystals
Portable and Modular System
Automatic operation
Minimal labor and minimal maintenance
Cost effective operating System
Buy or Lease Options

13. Enviro Voraxial Technology
SYSTEM PARTNERS
Lewis
Environmental
pre-treatment
Tyrone
Dewatering and contaminate separation
Enviro Voraxial Technology
crystal separation

14. HOW WE DO IT: OVER VIEW FIRST STAGE
UPGRADED CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT W/ ESP REAGENTS
ESP
PROCESS
EFFLUENT POLISH
IMPURITY REMOVAL
REMOVES BARIUM and STRONTIUM
DISTILLATION
HIGH PURITY DISTILLATE
SALEABLE BRINE SOLIDS
FINAL DISCHARGE
FINAL EFFLUENT SOLD TO DRILLERS
BRINE SOLIDS SOLD TO 3dr PARTY USERS

15. HOW WE DO IT: FLOW CHART

16. HOW WE DO IT: Pre-treatment
Pre-treatment PROCESS
Removes oil /grease, organics and iron
Removes trace organics and non-desired inorganic constituents
RESULTS:
Effluent is clear and organic free
High purity brine stream

17. TECHNOLOGY: Pre-Treatment
Proprietary treated granular activated carbon

18. TECHNOLOGY: DISTILLATION
Features and Advantages:  
1/2 penny a gallon or less in operating costs
Ultra efficient energy consumption
Closed loop system - water can be reused
Closed loop system - no air emissions
No membranes or no chemicals required
Concentrate often has a commercial value
Minimizes or eliminates sewer discharge
Output surpasses EPA / Municipal requirements
Fully automated, user friendly control panel
Production materials can be recovered / reused
For more Details on this Technology see PowerPoint: “Making Saturated Brine”

19. TECHNOLOGY: CRYSTALS SEPARATION
a revolutionary and proprietary technology that efficiently separates large volumes of solids and liquids with different specific gravities
The Voraxial® Separator acts as an in-line, continuous flow separator that can conduct a two-way or three-way separation
Used to separate the salts from the slurry
Voraxial 2000

20. RESULTS: FRACTURE WATER Clean water and salt

21. RESULTS:

22. BENEFITS OF OUR SYSTEM:
It is mobile and can be operated in the field
You choose how much water you wish to remove, recycle, or dispose
It eliminates the need to dispose of large volume of brine contaminated waste
It provides resource recovery of brine combined with water recycling

23. BENEFITS OF OUR SYSTEM:
Ecological Benefits
Recycling Clean Water and Brine prevents contaminating the ground, ground water, or local POTW.
Recovers valuable commodities that are otherwise contaminants.

24. “D&R = DISTILLATION & RECOVERY
RESULTS: VOLUME
Example #1
“D&R = DISTILLATION & RECOVERY

25. RESULTS: ENERGY CONSUMPTION & COSTS
Only 3¢ to make sellable salt
Tyrone D&R System is engineered to be more efficient than most Evaporation Systems

26. MASS FLOW Example: 15% Brine in Feedstock 100,000 GPD (833,000 PPD)

27. MASS FLOW Example: 15% Brine in Feedstock 100,000 GPD (833,000 PPD)

28. MASS FLOW Example: 15% Brine in Feedstock 100,000 GPD (833,000 PPD)
COMMENTS:
At each stage, (saturated brine, crystal slurry, and dry crystals) successive amounts of water is removed.
99% of the water is removed in the 15% Brine example (slide #26)
If there is a market for clear brine, the more clear brine you can sell, the more revenue you generate and perhaps you will choose to stop at making clear saturated brine
If there is no market for clear brine, you may wish to reduce your disposal costs by de-water to the maximum

29. EQUIPMENT SPEC: 2500 bbl / day

31. EQUIPMENT PRICING: BUDGET
CRYSTAL SLURRY
LEASING
$0.07 / GALLON
PURCHASE
$6.0 MILLION
SALT CRYSTAL
LEASING
$0.08 / GALLON
PURCHASE
$6.8 MILLION

32. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Conclusion:
With Crystal Slurry sales, the operator has new
revenue of $3 - $4 Million.
Under either scenario, there is either no, to
minimum, deep well disposal.

33. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

34. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Crystal Slurry, with sale value, ROI: ± 1 year
Crystal Slurry, without sale value, Extends deep well life by a factor of 4
$2 Million well cost plus $4 Million System cost = $6 Million
500 bls vs daily disposal translates into
Extended well life by a factor of 4
Dry Crystals, no deep well required, ROI: ± 27 years

35. CONTACT US: Tyrone Environmental Grp.
304 Spring Dr. Winston Salem, N.C., 27107
Telephone: