Water
Greenleaf has 5 active evaporation ponds with a total of 470,953 barrels of space and a completed injection well with 5000 barrels of daily injection capacity. Treated water is being discharged and stored in evaporation ponds or directly injected. Because of treatment Greenleaf has an efficient evaporation rate of 285,000 barrels each year creating significant space for additional wastewater disposal. Greenleaf’s state of the art water treatment system restores water to a useable standard.
- Removes 95%-99% of organics and solids.
- Removes 99% of heavy metals
- Removes 25% monovalent cations (NA) and anions (Cl)
- Removes 99% bacteria
Wet Solids
Wet solids such as tank bottoms, drilling mud, wet cuttings, and water treatment sludges and slopes are processed by first dosing all solids with de-mulsification agents to remove and recover oil. Wet solids are then pumped to a mixing tank and agitated and then allowed retention time for oil, water, and solid separation. The water and oil are pumped to the tank farm for recovery and treatment. The remaining solids are pressed, dried, and then disposed of in solids impoundments for additional treatment.
Dry Solids
Once solids are disposed of in certified section 3 impoundments chemical and biological treatments deployed. First proprietary a chemical with electrokinetic, hyper wetting, and sequestering properties are used. The chemical replaces 95% of the difficult and slow natural biodegration process and moves quickly through water to scavenge and collect oil molecules acting as a demulsifier. At higher doses, the chemical destroys even the most recalcitrant petroleum waste molecules by fracturing carbon bonds through the 'Columbia Effect’ and creating harmless short chain fatty acids. Chemical processing has significant advantages immediately upon application including suppression VOC emissions and odor reduction as well as enhanced biological treatment. Second, Biological treatment is deployed that includes a unique combination of natural petroleum feeding bacteria with depolymerization capability and polymer coated biontruient. The bionutrient adsorbs oil and the bacteria then consumes both the polymerized bionutrient and the fatty acid created by chemical treatment. There is no indigenous microbial competition. In this manner waste is converted by aerobic means to carbon dioxide and water. The combined treatment system provides for treatment of a wider range of recalcitrant organics in concentrations as high as 30% oil with no detrimental effect on the environment. Treatment occurs in days as compared to years as required in conventional land farming.