A novel produced water treatment technology recovers freshwater for reuse using natural gas that is typically flared and, thereby wasted, in oil and gas operations. This new approach tackles the growing problem of produced water treatment and disposal. Ricardo Bernal of Heartland Water Technology explains.
Heartland Water Technology Hires Applications Engineer Michael Grossman
Hudson, MA – December 2nd, 2019 –Heartland Water Technology, Inc., a global technology company that develops products to solve some of the world’s most challenging waste water problems, has hired water industry veteran Michael Grossman. Michael assumes the role of Director, Applications Engineering.
Mr. Grossman joins Heartland from Scinor Water America where he focused on selling that company’s ultrafiltration membrane solutions . Prior to Scinor, Michael worked as an Applications Engineer at Clean Membranes. Michael also has extensive experience in the O&G space, having held various engineering roles at ProSep, a technology solution provider offering products to assist operators manage and treat their produced water streams. Michael has a Bachelors in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NYC.
About Heartland Water Technology, Inc
Heartland Water Technology develops innovative solutions for treating the world’s most challenging waste waters. Its platform technology, the Heartland Concentrator™, has a proven ten-year track record of successfully treating difficult to treat industrial wastewaters including Landfill leachate, Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) scrubber water, Digester Concentrates, Brine and Ash Ponds and O&G Produced Water and Frac water. Moreover, Heartland’s CoVAP solution uses waste heat to deliver zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in a single unit operation, with unparalleled reliability, little to no pre-treatment, and at a lower life-cycle cost than traditional evaporation technologies.
MSW Management Magazine: 'Who you gonna call?'
Check out ‘Who you gonna call?’ the recent article by Heartland’s John Weigold and Hull & Associates’ Travis Smith in this month’s MSW Management Magazine. John and Travis describe the growing trend by local POTWs to reject landfill leachate and the benefits of using on-site evaporation to address the risk.
Heartland Water Technology opens Heartland China office and hires Zheng “Quincy” Wang as Vice President, Heartland China
Hudson, MA – April 16, 2018 – Heartland Water Technology, Inc., a global technology company that develops products to solve some of the world’s most challenging waste water problems, today announced the opening of its Heartland China office in Shanghai and the hiring of Quincy Wang to lead Heartland China’s expansion. “The Chinese government is focused on improving environmental conditions across the country” said Earl Jones, CEO of Heartland Water. “We are excited to bring our technology and domain experience to the China Market where we will work and help contribute to this mission.”
Heartland Water Technology Hires Water Industry Veteran Ricardo Bernal
Hudson, MA – April 16, 2019 – Heartland Water Technology, Inc., a global technology company that develops products to solve some of the world’s most challenging waste water problems, has hired water industry veteran Ricardo Bernal. Ricardo assumes the role of Senior Vice President Strategy and GM Latin America.
World Water Magazine: Onsite evaporation using waste energy solves disposal challenges
Water resource recovery facilities are increasingly refusing to accept landfill leachate due to rising treatment costs and environmental considerations. John Weigold of Heartland Water Technology explains how landfill managers can avoid these risks by treating leachate onsite using evaporation in a cogeneration configuration.
Natural Gas & Electricity Magazine: Cogeneration for Industrial Wastewater Evaporation Has Rapid Payback
Cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power (CHP), refers to the use of both power (electrical or mechanical) and thermal energy from a single source, such as a turbine or engine. Today, there are over 4,400 cogeneration systems in the United States in a variety of applications.
Today, an innovative wastewater treatment technology is enabling an entirely new category of cogeneration application, called “CoVAP”, which stands for Cogeneration for Industrial Wastewater Evaporation. CoVAP uses the waste heat from turbines and engines to evaporate challenging wastewaters. In many cases, the evaporation results in only solids remaining (this is called Zero Liquid Discharge.) CoVAP allows companies to realize significant savings associated with managing challenging industrial waste waters.
Power Magazine: Upheaval and Innovation in Wastewater Management
Novel evaporator. A flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater treatment/concentration pilot project at a 952-MW coal-fired power plant showed that Heartland Water Technology’s LM-HT Concentrator was able to use flue gas heat as an energy source to drive its evaporative process. The test concluded that the concentrator could treat and concentrate FGD wastewater, resulting in a net water volume reduction of 90% to 95% with total dissolved solid levels of more than 400,000 mg/L in the circulating fluid, and yielding a slurry containing 70% to 80% total solids. Fly ash within the flue gas provided a net benefit to the system by aiding in the management and stabilization of precipitated salts from the concentrated brine. Courtesy: Heartland Water
Cogeneration technology helps landfills reduce wastewater management costs
More than 60% of landfills dispose of their leachate by transporting it to municipal wastewater treatment plants. Trucking costs, as well as municipal operators’ growing reluctance to accept leachate due to the challenges leachate brings to their treatment processes, are driving up costs of leachate disposal and the costs of managing a landfill.Many landfills over the past two decades have developed valuable waste-to-energy projects, generating renewable energy from the biogas created through the decomposition of organic materials within the landfill. The vast majority of these biogas-to-energy projects are ‘simple cycle’ power generation configurations – meaning the ample energy available in the hot exhaust produced by the power generation equipment is vented to atmosphere and not used beneficially. A landfill in the eastern US is using this hot exhaust energy from its biogas-to-energy plant to evaporate leachate on site using a novel solution by Heartland Water Technology. By using this freely available energy and treating leachate onsite, the landfill is taking positive control over its leachate management, generating even more value out of its renewable biogas, lowering its total cost-to-treat and significantly reducing its dependency on municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Heartland Water Technology Signs Contract with Mississippi’s Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority
Hudson, MA – December 19, 2017 – Heartland Water Technology, Inc. today announced that it has signed a contract with the Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority to install a Heartland Concentrator™ at the Three Rivers Regional Landfill near Pontotoc, MS to treat landfill leachate. Heartland develops innovative technology to solve some of the world's most challenging waste water problems.