Chris Krejci - RE: Installation Locations 

 

Greetings, Brent - Ron is out of the office this week and I am responding to his e-mails. I've reviewed the emails Ron wrote to you this past September and October with regard to our IonFlo process, a novel ion 

exchange process for removing up to 10,000 ppm TDS in produced waters.

 

Our full-scale commercial IonFlo process was deployed in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, with treatment 

capability of 10,000 bbl/day, and we did successfully treat water at two sites in Wyoming. Following all the 

development work, we had an agreement with a gas company to re-deploy our Drake Process Unit (DPU) in the 

fall of 2010 at a site south of Gillette; however, when the price of natural gas fell to below $5.00/1,000 cu ft, the 

gas company reneged and told us not to come. And unfortunately, that is the status of our DPU today - it is 

sitting in our shop in Helena looking for a home! 

 

One of the unique features about PRB water is that it is a sodium bicarbonate water, only requiring removal of 

the sodium cation as the bicarbonate anion naturally attenuates as the sodium is removed. That is what our 

IonFlo process was originally designed for. However, in looking at other produced waters around the world, it is 

clear that both a cation and anion removal process is required. We have since developed a totally integrated 

process for removing both cations and anions from waters, and have done so under a contract with an 

Australian producer. I am attaching a photo of our pilot scale unit, which was designed for a 16 liter/min 

throughput. We have successfully demonstrated TDS removal and are anticipating deployment of the pilot unit 

in Australia later this year.

 

We are also in the development stage of another technology called "SolFlo". You can read more about it on our 

website http://DrakeWater.com. It is desiged for TDS removal between 50,000 and 400,000 ppm. We have two 

provisional patents pending and anticipate having a benchscale model constructed and tested this spring.

 

If I can provide any additional information, please let me know.

 

Regards, Vivian

Vivian Drake 

Chief Operations Officer 

Drake Water Technologies, Inc. 

7492 Commerce Court, Suite B 

Helena, MT 59602-9677 

Telephone: 406.449-2440 

Cell: 406.431.7210 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Ron Drake [mailto:zeus1@bresnan.net] 

Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:41 AM 

To: vivian4@qwestoffice.net 

Subject: FW: Installation Locations 

From: Brent Ruminski [mailto:Brent.Ruminski@erg.com] 

From: "Vivian Drake" <vivian4@qwestoffice.net>

To: <Brent.Ruminski@erg.com>

Date: 1/18/2012 12:03 PM

Subject: RE: Installation Locations

CC: "'Ron Drake'" <zeus1@bresnan.net>

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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:28 PM 

To: Zeus1@bresnan.net 

Subject: Installation Locations

 

Ron,

You may remember me from back in September. I am the engineer at Eastern Research Group, Inc that 

contacted you about your ion exchange technology. We are a contractor to EPA. A coworker of mine is 

working on a project and would like to know a little bit about the installation locations of your ion 

exchange technology (or past installations). We are trying to gather industry profile data for the Coalbed 

Methane Rulemaking. If you could indicate general things like is it full scale or pilot scale, is it 

treating CBM water or other water that would be great.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to call me at my office phone number below.

Thanks,

Brent Ruminski

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