Apparatus system and method to extract minerals and metals from water
AssigneeKatz Water Tech, LLC
InventorGary P Katz
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Abstract
A new apparatus, system and method to purified produced water and removed valuable metals and minerals is described. The apparatus comprises a device for flowing produced water wellbore from a wellbore to the produced water purification apparatus; at least one device to remove heavy metals from the produced water; at least one brine removal device to remove brine from the produced water. The method comprises steps to use the apparatus and the system comprises a control panel that operates the at least one device for removing heavy metals and at least one sensor in a coordinated manner.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a. a device for flowing produced water from a wellbore;
- b. at least one filtering device to remove solid particulates from the produced water to create a filtered water;
- c. at least one device to remove heavy metals from the filtered water;
- d. at least one brine removal device comprising a thermal distillation unit to remove brine from the filtered water, wherein the brine removal device comprises at least one sensor for determining the brine concentration and at least one device to selectively remove brine at a preset concentration;
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- e. at least one device for extracting metals and minerals from the brine.
A method to purify produced water comprising;
- a. flowing produced water into at least one water purification device;
- b. removing solid particulates with at least one water purification device;
- c. removing heavy metals with at least one water purification device
- d. separating a brine component from the water with at least one water purification device;
- e. removing the brine component from the at least one water purification device after the brine component has been;
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- f. extracting metals and minerals from the brine component.
A system comprising:
- a. device for flowing produced water from a wellbore to a produced water purification apparatus;
- b. at least one filtering device on the produced water purification apparatus to remove solid particulates from the produced water to create a filtered water;
- c. at least one device to remove heavy metals from the filtered water;
- d. at least one brine removal device to remove brine from the filtered water, wherein the brine removal device comprises at least one sensor for determining the brine concentration and at least one device to selectively remove brine at preset concentration;
- e. at least one device for removing metals and minerals from the brine and
- f. at least one control panel that operates the device for flowing produced water, the at least one brine removal device and the at least one sensor in a coordinated manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.