07/13/2022
Alberta Company Produces Solution To World’s Water Problems Amid Global Slow Down
Western Frac Vap provides green water desalination and purification systems from its headquarters in Alberta, Canada.
EDMONTON, AB, CANADA, JULY 11, 2022 - Western Frac Vap is excited to share its success in developing a system to filter water that is often considered too toxic for traditional water treatment plants. The oil industry generates water waste through the fracking process but Western Frac Vap’s filtration solutions might change the future of access to clean drinking water by eliminating this waste.
With clients like Chevron and Exxon already utilizing their unique technology, Western Frac Vap is leading the way in safely treating flow-back fluids to support the global water supply. Western Frac Vap:
Uses a desalination process that is 80% more affordable than other options on the market
Is an environmentally concerned company using an exothermic method to produce energy
Offers desalination services from 300,000 mg/L to 10 mg/L for the food and beverage industry, agricultural industry and oil and gas industry.
When asked about the inception of Western Frac Vap and its cutting-edge technology, inventor and CEO Garry Bush said, “About 10 years ago, I was asked if I could process flow back fluids for hydraulic fracking. These flow back fluids are classified as toxic fluids and can be very highly contaminated with salt and chlorides. The challenge is that no one knows what to do with them — even today, they still don’t have a proper way to get rid of flow back fluids and keep putting them into the ground through a process known as deep well injection.”
Deep well injection is when companies are hiding fluids in the ground and hoping they won’t resurface. Alberta has more than 250,000 deep well injection sites and California, in the USA, has more than a million. The sites must be maintained and serviced to keep the fluids contained.
The oil and gas industry operates over 1.7 million fracking well sites and nearly 1 million oil-producing wells across America. The problem with this fracking work is that an estimated 3.4 billion liters of wastewater are created annually by this process. This is because the water is brought to the Earth’s surface as a byproduct of the drilling and fracking process, but it's too contaminated for a traditional water treatment facility to clean. Since it’s unusable, the water is discarded in disposal wells.
However, Western Frac Vap has the technology to solve this issue and potentially address the clean drinking water crisis that is affecting people across the globe. Western Frac Vap is a water purification and desalination provider in Alberta, Canada. They are excited to share the development of an innovative filtration solution to successfully treat the wastewater produced by fracking and oil drilling.
CEO Garry Bush became interested in this field when he realized the significant problem that flow back fluid from the oil and gas industry was causing. Although MIT and other internationally recognized universities couldn’t come up with a solution to turn the groundwater into clean, drinkable water, Bush believed he could make it happen.
He took it upon himself to learn everything he could about the flow back fluids from drilling to understand how to address the toxicity of the liquid. He studies a range of technologies over the past 150 years and used a combination of these methods and his knowledge to develop a filtration system that can handle any type of fluid.
According to Bush, the biggest challenge in the development process was determining the most effective way to remove the sodium from toxic fluids without a filtration membrane. The solution he came up with was to isolate the sodium molecules in order to filter them out.
The system from Western Frac Vap keeps costs to a minimum and is highly scalable for all levels of water flow, running from 10 gallons a minute to a million gallons a day. It’s a more scalable solution than reverse osmosis and is extremely eco-friendly.
Garry Bush cites a quote from John F. Kennedy as part of his motivation for innovation. Kennedy said, “I have said that I thought that if we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from salt water, that it would be in the long-range interests of humanity which would really dwarf any other scientific accomplishment.”
More than 60 years later, the world needs safe, potable water more than ever. Western Frac Vap has made it its business to help with this crisis and is eager to share its development with the world.
