Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and methods for removing minerals from a brine using electrodialysis
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Application No.: US15038370Application Date: 2014-11-24
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Publication No.: US10246357B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Paul Steven Wallace
- Applicant: Enviro Water Minerals Company, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Enviro Water Minerals Company, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Enviro Water Minerals Company, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2014/067176 WO 20141124
- International Announcement: WO2015/077727 WO 20150528
- Main IPC: C02F1/46
- IPC: C02F1/46 ; B01D61/44 ; C02F1/469 ; C02F9/00 ; C01B7/07 ; C02F1/44 ; C02F5/08 ; C22B3/22 ; C22B4/02 ; C22B26/10 ; C01B7/03 ; C01B11/06 ; C01D1/04 ; C01D1/28 ; C01D3/08 ; C01D3/16 ; C01F11/24 ; C02F1/04 ; C02F1/20 ; C02F1/42 ; C02F1/66 ; C02F103/06 ; C02F103/08 ; C02F101/10 ; C01D1/38

Abstract:
A method includes treating a first brine stream including a plurality of minerals with an anti-scalant to produce a treated brine. The first brine stream is provided by a wastewater treatment system. The method also includes directing the treated brine to a first nanofiltration (NF) system disposed downstream from and fluidly coupled to the wastewater treatment system, generating a first NF permeate stream and a first NF non-permeate stream from the treated brine in the first NF system, directing the first NF non-permeate stream to a mineral removal system disposed downstream from and fluidly coupled to the first NF system, and removing the plurality of minerals from the first NF non-permeate stream to generate a first overflow stream in the mineral removal system. The first overflow stream comprises at least a portion of the plurality of minerals. The method also includes routing a first portion of the first overflow stream to a hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) production system disposed downstream from and fluidly coupled to the mineral removal system. The HCl and NaOH production system includes a second NF system that may receive the first portion of the first overflow stream and may generate a second brine stream from the first portion of the first overflow stream. The method further includes directing the second brine stream to a first electrodialysis (ED) system disposed within the HCl and NaOH production system and fluidly coupled to the second NF system. The first ED system may generate HCl and NaOH from the second brine stream.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160289099A1 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REMOVING MINERALS FROM A BRINE USING ELECTRODIALYSIS Public/Granted day:2016-10-06
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