Produced Water Evaporation Ponds

Evaporation ponds evaporation ponds use solar energy to evaporate produced water.

Produced water evaporation ponds.

Produced water is considered an industrial waste. However this has become an increasingly unacceptable disposal method from both environmental and social perspectives. After a large portion of the original water volume evaporates the remaining concentrated salt sludge is either left in place or removed and hauled offsite for disposal. Some salt evaporation ponds are only slightly modified from their natural version such as the ponds on great inagua in the bahamas or the ponds in jasiira a few.

Historically produced water was disposed of in large evaporation ponds. A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines natural salt pans are geological formations that are also created by water evaporating and leaving behind salts. Smi s mechanical evaporation equipment offers our customers a better alternative because it is a cost effective produced water removal system that meets many government regulations. Six 6 atomizer pond pump system with no clogging pond pump atomizers can atomize over 900 barrels of water per day.

Smaller droplets hang in the air longer increasing evaporation rate. Higher surface area means higher evaporation rate. Our evaporation machines can rapidly increase the evaporation process with up to 14 times more. There are many benefits to using mechanical evaporation.