At least one aspect of the technology provides a self-contained processing facility configured to convert organic, high water-content waste, such as fecal sludge and garbage, into electricity while also generating and collecting potable water.

An apparatus, system, and method to desalinate water. The apparatus comprises an outer housing with at least one inlet and two outlets, wherein contaminated water flows into the at least one inlet and purified vapor exits from a first outlet and the contaminated water with a portion removed as vapor exits from a second outlet; at least one finned tube heat exchanger inside the outer housing; a heat energy source connected to the finned tube heat exchanger causing a portion of the contaminated water in the finned tube heat exchanger to form the vapor; and an inner tube with a plurality of holes inside the finned tube heat exchanger, wherein the inner tube is connected to the first outlet, and the vapor flows through the inner tube to the first outlet and exits the thermal desalination apparatus.

The present invention describes an automated, transportable and energy-efficient with a hybrid power capacity wastewater treatment facility that allows for the disinfection of contaminated sanitation wastewater in order to preserve the environment and provide a greater availability of this resource and its reuse. The facility described in the present invention allows to carry out a process for water treatment in five stages based in equalization, oxidation sedimentation, disinfection and filtration. Moreover, it has a photovoltaic feeding system and a night lighting system that allows the operation of the facility in a hybrid way during the day and the night, as well as a structure that allows its easy transportation. Finally, the facility has an automated system comprised by a control panel that allows to manage and monitor every operational condition of it, that integrates and sends all processed programmable information to a programmable logic controller.

A waste treatment system includes: at least one reformer for hydrolyzing waste with steam; a microbial reactor for microbially degrading a reformed material containing at least a solid of the waste hydrolyzed by the at least one reformer; and at least one steam generation device for generating the steam by using only combustion energy of a gas produced in the microbial reactor.

Disclosed are a fluidized bed separation method and device for methanol-to-olefins quenched water. The method may subject quenched water to liquid-solid separation via a micro-cyclone separator. The method may also subject clear liquid from the micro-cyclone separator to a secondary separation via a fluidized bed separator, then sending the same to an olefin separation device, then recovering some waste heat of the quenched water, and then returning the same to a quenching tower after performing heat exchange. The method may also regenerate a separation medium by reversely feeding stripping tower purified water or quenched water, so as to release catalyst particles absorbed by the separation medium. The method may also send a catalyst slurry concentrated by the micro-cyclone separator and the fluidized bed separator to a filter-press unit for filter-press dehydration, so as to recover a catalyst.

The present disclosure refers to systems and methods for remediating a produced water from an oil or gas well. A representative process may comprise optionally purifying and then electrolyzing the produced water to produce at least hydrogen and oxygen; storing, selling, releasing, or converting oxygen to a useful oxygen product; and storing, selling, releasing, or converting hydrogen to a useful hydrogen product and to produce fresh water for beneficial reuse. Alternatively or additionally, the optionally purified produced water may be subjected to steam reformation with methane to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen which can be used as desired.

A portable filtration system is described. The system may comprise: a mixing portion, comprising: a pump adaptor and a contaminant regulator. The pump adaptor may comprise: an upper plate, a lower plate, and a screen. The screen may axially extend between the upper and lower plates, wherein the upper plate, the lower plate, and the screen define a channel of a mixing chamber. The contaminant regulator may comprise a through-passage coupled to the upper plate, wherein the through-passage is in fluid communication with the mixing chamber.

A process performed by a plant for oxidation of a waste stream with oxidizable material is described. In a start-up phase, supercritical water is fed to a supercritical water oxidation reactor, heating the process up to supercritical conditions. In a treatment phase, the waste stream is fed to the reactor for supercritical water oxidation treatment, in which sufficient mass of water under supercritical conditions is present in the reactor to retain supercritical conditions with the newly introduced waste stream. Oxygen is used as oxidant and a stoichiometric quantum is added to the reactor. The energy released from the oxidation reaction substitutes the energy provided by the addition of supercritical water up to a point where the reactor achieves near autothermal conditions with supercritical water providing trim heat requirement. The reactor outlet is quench cooled, neutralised and energy is recovered from it. A gas liquid separator ensures that the effluent stream is degassed.

A method of generating electrical power or hydrogen from thermal energy is disclosed. The method includes separating, by a selectively permeable membrane, a first saline solution from a second saline solution, receiving, by the first saline solution and/or the second saline solution, thermal energy from a heat source, and mixing the first saline solution and the second saline solution in a controlled manner, capturing at least some salinity-gradient energy as electrical power as the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution decreases. The method further includes transferring, by a heat pump, thermal energy from the first saline solution to the second saline solution, causing the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution to increase.

A method for remediating wastewater formed by water and per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using a wastewater treatment system that includes a collecting unit, a dewatering unit, a drying unit, and a baking unit. Wastewater provided to the collecting unit is dosed by adding a compound to the wastewater in an amount that is sufficient to cause the PFAS to separate from the water and to form a sludge. The sludge is dewatered with the dewatering from a first dryness level a second dryness level. The dewatered sludge is then dried in the drying unit from the first dryness level to a third dryness level. The dried sludge is then baked at a sufficiently high enough temperature that chemical bonds of at least a portion of the PFAS is destroyed.