This work was aimed at identifying microbials and determining the biokinetic parameters for bio-decontamination of oilfield produced water. An extant physical treatment unit water re-engineered retrofit with a discontinuous aerobic bioreactor (Bio-Unit) system. The Bio-Unit operated in fill-and-draw sequence rates total organic carbon (TOC) removal biomass growth were monitored. isolated microb...

gas basin. For example, recycled produced water is less than 10% of the total water used to drill and fracture in the Barnett, Fayetteville, and Haynesville shale plays. However, the fraction of water recycled is significantly higher in the Marcellus play—greater than 90% of the total water used (Mantell 2011). Although treatment methods have been developed to recycle produced water for subsequ...

The generation of an extreme water state 130 GPa, 5000 K, and 3.4 g /cm3 which is characterized as dense plasma at the axis of a converging shock wave is reported. A 4 kJ pulse generator was used to explode a 40 Cu-wire array, generating a cylindrical shock wave. The measured shock wave trajectory and energy deposited into the water flow were used in hydrodynamic simulations coupled with the eq...

This paper compares the computational performance of two numerical methods for two models of Transient Flow. One model was defined by method of the Eulerian based expressed in a method of characteristics “MOC”, finite difference form. The other model was defined by method of Regression. Each method was encoded into an existing hydraulic simulation model. Results indicated that the accuracy of t...