Textured ceramic membranes for desilting and deoiling of produced water in the Permian Basin

Rivera-Gonzalez, Natalia; Bajpayee, Aayushi; Nielsen, Jakob; Zakira, Umme; Zaheer, Wasif; Handy, Joseph; Sill, Tiffany; Birgisson, Bjorn; Bhatia, Mukul; Banerjee, Sarbajit

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105063

Textured ceramic membranes for desilting and deoiling of produced water in the Permian Basin

Journal Article · Mon Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · iScience

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105063· OSTI ID:1903870

Rivera-Gonzalez, Natalia ^[1]; Bajpayee, Aayushi ^[2]; Nielsen, Jakob ^[2]; Zakira, Umme ^[2]; Zaheer, Wasif ^[2]; Handy, Joseph ^[2]; Sill, Tiffany ^[2]; Birgisson, Bjorn ^[2]; Bhatia, Mukul ^[2]; ^[2]

Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (United States); OSTI
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (United States)

Oil production in the Permian Basin gives rise to large volumes of produced water contaminated by silt, emulsified oil, and additives used for enhanced oil recovery. There is intense interest in the design of membrane modules as sustainable alternatives for produced water treatment to enable the reuse of produced water for agricultural applications, injection into aquifers, and redeployment in oil recovery. Here, we report a hierarchically textured cement-based membrane exhibiting orthogonal wettability, specifically, superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic characteristics. The in situ formation of ettringite needles accompanied by embedding of glass spheres imbues multiscale texturation to stainless-steel mesh membranes, enabling the separation of silt and oil from produced water at high flux rates (1600 L h^-1 ∙m^-2 , at ca. 2.7 bar). Oil concentration is reduced as low as 1 ppb with an overall separation efficiency of 99.7% in singlepass filtration. The membranes show outstanding mechanical resilience and retention of performance across multiple cycles.

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Research Organization:: Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); University Lands

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1903870

Journal Information:: iScience, Journal Name: iScience Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 25; ISSN 2589-0042

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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