精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Treatment of geothermal waters for production ofindustrial, agricultural or drinking waterDarrell L. Gallup Chevron Corporation, Energy Technology Company, 3901 Briarpark Dr., Houston, Texas 77042, USAReceived 14 March 2007; accepted 16 July 2007Available online 12 September 2007AbstractA conceptual study has been carried out to convert geothermal water and condensate into a valuable industrial, agricultural or drinking water resource. Laboratory and field pilot test studies were used for the conceptual designs and preliminary cost estimates, referred to treatment facilities handling 750 kg/s of geothermal water and 350 kg/s of steam condensate. The experiments demonstrated that industrial, agricultural and drinking water standards could probably be met by adopting certain operating conditions. Six different treatments were examined. Unit processes for geothermal water/condensate treatment include desilication of the waters to produce marketable minerals, removal of dissolved solids by reverse osmosis or evaporation, removal of arsenic by oxidation/precipitation, and removal of boron by various methods including ion exchange. The total project cost estimates, with an accuracy of approximately 25%, ranged from US$ 10 to 78 million in capital cost, with an operation and maintenance (or product) cost ranging from US$ 0.15 to 2.73m3 of treated water. 2007 CNR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Keywords: Geothermal water treatment; Water resources; Desilication; Arsenic; Boron1. IntroductionWith the world entering an age of water shortages and arid farming land, it is increasingly important that we find ways of recycling wastewater. The oil, gas and geothermal industries, for example, extract massive amounts of brine and water from the subsurface, most of which are injected back into underground formations. Holistic approaches to water management are being adopted ever more frequently, and produced water is now being considered as a potential resource. In the oil and gas arena, attempts have been made to convert produced water for drinking supply or other reuses (Doran et al., 1998). Turning oilfield-produced water into a valuable resource entails an understanding of the environmental and economic implications, and of the techniques required to remove dissolved organic and inorganic components from the waters. Treatments of geothermal water and condensate for beneficial use, on the other hand, involve the removal of inorganic components only.We have explored the technical and economic feasibility of reusing waters and steam condensates from existing and future geothermal power plants. Produced geothermal fluids, especially in arid climates, should be viewed as valuable resources for industry and agriculture, as well as for drinking water supplies. This paper presents the results of laboratory and field pilot studies designed to convert geothermal-produced fluids into beneficially usable water. The preliminary economics of several water treatment strategies are also provided.2. Design layoutThe layout for the treatment strategies (units of operation) have been designed specifically for a nominal 50Mwe geothermal power plant located in an arid climate of the western hemisphere, hereafter referred to as the test plant. The average concentration of constituents in the produced water is shown in Table 1. The amount of spent water from the test flash plant is 750 kg/s. The potential amount of steam condensate that could be produced at the plant is 350 kg/s. Table 1 includes the composition of the steam condensate derived from well tests. The six treatment cases considered in the study are given in Table 2, together with product flows and unit operations of treatment. Fig. 1 provides simplified schematic layouts of the unit operations for each case.3. Evaluation of treatment optionsIn this section the various operations considered for each case are described.3.1. Arsenic removalThe techniques considered viable for removing traces of arsenic (As) from condensate or from water are ozone oxidation followed by iron co-precipitation or catalyzed photo-oxidation processes (Khoe et al., 1997). Other processes for extracting As from geothermal waters (e.g. Rothbaum and Anderton, 1975; Umeno and Iwanaga, 1998; Pascua et al., 2007) have not been considered in the present study. In the case of the test plant, ozone (O3) would be generated on-site using parasitic power, air and corona-discharge ultra-violet (UV) lamps, and iron in the form of ferric sulfate Fe2(SO4)3 or ferric chloride (FeCl3) that would be delivered to the geothermal plant. The photo-oxidation processes consist of treating the condensate or water with Fe2+ in the form of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4) or ferrous chloride (FeCl2), or with SO2 photo absorbers. The latter is generated from the oxidation of H2S in turbine vent gas (Kitz and Gallup, 1997).The photo-oxidation process consists of spa