AltelaRain®

Pressure-less, Multiple-Effect Thermal Desalination

5350 South Roslyn St, Suite 210

Englewood, CO 80111

(303) 993-1951

7500 Meridian Pl NW, Suite B

Albuquerque, NM 87121

(505) 227- 8560

Matthew Bruff, CDO

Altela, Inc.

Treating Water Naturally

29-31 October 2012
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Description of Technology/ Technology Maturity

Founded in 2005 via the acquisition of Arizona State University developed IP

Invested $20MM+ in the commercialization and expansion of Altela’s native IP

Achieved precedent-setting water recycling and re-use permits; including “umbrella” permits for

CO, NM, PA, and Canada that allow for rapid approval of future sites

Awarded contracts by the US DOE to successfully demonstrate year-round PW treatment using

AltelaRain® technology in the Marcellus (completed in 2011)

Completed sales of AltelaRain® 750 modules to large-scale Marcellus produced water treatment

facility in January 2011

Consummated a joint-venture with Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CWST) to build numerous

water treatment facilities on Casella-owned landfill sites and utilize biomethane gas captured from

landfill sites; first plant under construction

Executed a joint-venture to build, own, and operate a facility with American Consumer Industries,

Inc. (“ACI”) that leverages the waste heat and fly ash generated by ACI’s 33 MW waste coal-fired

electric power plant
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Altela Thermal Desalination Water Treatment Process

AltelaRain® Process - Significant key advantages:

 Is NOT an ‘evaporator’

 Extremely high quality of treated water; 

unique desal process removes ALL salt

 Low cost (both capital and operating cost)

 Ambient pressure operation – safe 

 Near-ambient temperature operation

 High thermal efficiency

 All plastic construction

 Only desal process NOT driven by electricity

 No fouling/scaling; no membranes to replace

 Can employ low-grade waste-heat to operate, 

e.g., land-fill gas or compressors
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Resource Conservation

&

Recovery Act 1976

(RCRA)

Subtitle C Exception 

(1980)

Oil and Gas Industry 

Waste

Underground Re-Injection

(Safe Drinking Water Act)

Surface Discharge

(Clean Water Act)

Navigable Waters 

(NPDES)

Land Application

(Surface Discharge)

POTW Irrigation & 

Livestock Agricultural Dust Suppression

Frac &

Well Completion

In-Stream

Flow

Surface Impoundments & 

Landfills

(Pits, Land Farming)

Aquifer

Recharge
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Altela Precedent-Setting Permits

2005: First-ever approval in New Mexico to 

surface discharge treated, purified 

produced water for re-use

2007: First-ever US EPA-based approval 

for a centralized produced water treatment 

facility for in-stream flow and aquifer 

recharge through a publicly owned 

treatment works (POTW)

2007: First-ever Navajo Nation 

environmental permit to surface discharge 

treated, purified produced water for 

irrigation, livestock, and agricultural re-use

2008: First-ever non-tributary water right 

approval for beneficial use of treated, PW 

in Colorado within the Colorado River Basin

2008: Precedent-setting U.S. EPA-based 

approval to discharge treated, clean PW 

into the Colorado River Basin

2009: CO General Permit issued for re-use

2009 & 2012: Marcellus PA DEP Approvals: 

mobile & stationary AltelaRain® Systems 

2008: AltelaRain® Pilot Permit in Canada
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US Department of Energy’s National Technology 

Laboratory (“NETL”) Conclusion

 The operation passed PA DEP regulations (Chapter 95 discharge

standards)

 Proved it can be placed at the wellhead and operated within PA DEP

regulatory frameworks

 Water quality met or exceeded all requisite PA DEP water quality

discharge requirements

 The price per barrel of treated water was less than conventional trucking

and disposal

 Accelerated commercialization of the technology increases technology

transfer
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Value Proposition

 New low-cost technologies for frac-flowback and

produced water treatment in the Marcellus/Utica

 Desalination: the key to giving producers

reproducible certified recycled frac water that’s

the same every day

 One-stop shop facilities provide any combination

of water disposal, water storage, and certified frac

water sales to each customer’s particular TDS

specification

 Multiple small facilities reduce trucking distances;

no UIC injection

 Low-cost desalination uses only inexpensive

plastic– no membranes, expensive metals,

fouling, or corrosion

 New process driven by low-grade heat, waste

energy, or natural gas– not electricity
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Two New Marcellus TRD Water Treatment Plants

 Joint venture between Altela, Inc. and 

Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

 Located in McKean County, PA

 10,000 bbls/day capacity

CARES – www.CARESforWATER.com

CAES – www.CAESwater.com

 Joint venture between Altela, Inc. and 

ACI Energy, Inc.

 Located in Clarion County, PA

 10,000 bbls/day capacity
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What These Plants Can Do

 Offer both the (i) most flexible ‘one-stop shop’ of complete E&P services and (ii) the

lowest-cost sustainable extraction of clean distilled water from any wastewater.

 The Altela water treatment technology is economical, reliable and has proven to

meet stringent water quality requirements (including PA DEP and DOE).

 Provide separation and solidification services, interim water storage, centralized

transportation network of rail and over-the-road trucking, and storage areas for laydown yards.

 Reproducible distilled water and certified recycled frac water ensures that frac

chemistry is the same for each new frac, for each customer’s exact specification.

 Recycled frac water can be supplied with any level of customer-defined limits of

removal of TSS, iron, barium, calcium, chlorides, TDS, sulfates, friction reducers,

surfactants, biocides, radionuclides, etc.
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ALTELARAIN® MODULES

Truck 

Station 1

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Station 2

Truck 

Station 3

Truck 

Station 4

Truck 

Station 5

Truck 

Station 6

Truck 

Station 7

Truck 

Station 8

Disposal of 

Concentrate in 

Landfill

Pretreatment 

System

 Steam and Waste Heat from Landfill Gas

Recycled (Treated) Frac Flowback

= Proprietary, low-cost process

Produced 

Water

Distilled Water

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 Altela and Casella (through the CARES JV) are building treatment, recycling, and disposal

(“TRD”) facilities that leverage:

 Water storage

 Drill cuttings

 Water treatment

 Frac sand supply
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• MSW and Residual Waste LF 1,000 

tpd by truck

• Rail Siding Transfer Station 5,000 

tpd by rail

• 125,000 GPD Thermal Distillation 

Produced Water and Frac Water 

Treatment 

• 3MG of Water Storage

• Acceptance of bulked drill cuttings –

pending PADEP permit to accept 

raw drill cuttings for solidification 

on-site

• Gravel for well pad construction
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"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."

Arabian proverb
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Contact Information:

Matthew Bruff

Altela, Inc. 

(303) 993-1951

matthew.bruff@altelainc.com

5350 South Roslyn Street, Suite 210

Englewood, CO 80111