Progress in treatment of oilfield produced water using membrane distillation and potentials for beneficial re-use

El-badawy, Tijjani; Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan; Matsuura, Takeshi; Bilad, Muhammad Roil; Adam, Mohd Ridhwan; Tai, Zhong Sheng; Ravi, Jeganes; Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi; Usman, Jamilu; Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono

doi:10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119494

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“…1 Widespread application of MD for PW desalination is limited because of the poor performance of commercially available membrane materials used for MD. 2,9 The primary challenges for MD membranes are the interrelated processes of fouling and wetting. Fouling by precipitated salts, colloids, hydrocarbons, and organic contaminants blocks membrane pores, reduces distillate flux, and facilitates membrane wetting.…”

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“…Widespread application of MD for PW desalination is limited because of the poor performance of commercially available membrane materials used for MD. , The primary challenges for MD membranes are the interrelated processes of fouling and wetting. Fouling by precipitated salts, colloids, hydrocarbons, and organic contaminants blocks membrane pores, reduces distillate flux, and facilitates membrane wetting. − Commercial hydrophobic membranes also fail due to pore wetting by surfactants and low surface tension liquids. , Standard cleaning protocols for MD membranes are lacking, in sharp contrast to the well-developed cleaning technologies that are routinely employed to maintain the performance of reverse osmosis membrane systems.…”

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Membrane Distillation of Hypersaline Produced Water: Performance, Cleaning, and Membrane Reusability

Shevate,

Flores,

Taheri

et al. 2023

ACS EST Water

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Treatment and reuse of produced water (PW) from oil and gas operations could reduce water withdrawal in oil-and gas-producing regions, but its reuse remains limited because of the lack of price parity and complexity of the thermally driven and solvent-based separation processes required for treating hypersaline PW. More economical desalination of hypersaline PW can potentially be achieved with membrane distillation (MD) if the challenges of fouling and wetting of hydrophobic membrane materials can be overcome, and the membranes can be effectively cleaned and reused. In this work, we identified polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) as the best-performing membrane material among the three commercial membrane materials tested for MD of hypersaline PW from the Permian Basin, USA. PTFE membranes resisted pore wetting under operationally relevant test conditions. We also assessed the efficacy of a chemical cleaning protocol, which effectively removed the accumulated foulants from the PTFE surface but also likely altered PTFE properties, as the rate of subsequent membrane fouling increased. The results improve the understanding of the failure mechanisms of commercial hydrophobic membranes used for MD, and they inform the development of new membrane materials and cleaning protocols for MD of hypersaline PW. The results advance the prospects of MD desalination of hypersaline PW for reuse with its associated benefits like reducing disposal volumes and augmenting water supplies.

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