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Subject: Fw: Vaporization of produced water at Brentwood compressor station in Ft Worth to greatly 

reduce truck traffic to injection well sites 

 

 

Dear State and Federal Environmental Authorities, please oversee this new pilot and test the air near 

5601 East First St, 76103 to prove that this new process is not emitting toxins into our air in this high

metropolitian area, thanks. Feedback or corrections to my understanding of the process is appreciated. 

Also we need canister tests on compressor stations in general to look for high formalehyde readings as 

was reported in the Titan air study recetly at the Quicksilver compression station in Arlington TX.

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

From: Kim & Ken Feil

Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:44 PM

Subject: Fw: Vaporization of produced water at Brentwood compressor station in Ft Worth to greatly 

reduce truck traffic to injection well sites

Dear Oil and Gas Associations, FYI on this also any feedback or corrections needed to my understanding 

of the process of safely vaporizing produced water is requested.

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

From: Kim & Ken Feil

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Cc: Tony Rutigliano ; info@crzo.net ; Andy.Agosto@crzo.net ; Elizabeth

Gasca ; doug_agee@xtoenergy.com ; chris.sanders@yahoo.com

Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:24 PM

Subject: Vaporization of produced water at Brentwood compressor station in Ft Worth to greatly reduce 

truck traffic to injection well sites

vaporization of produced water at Brentwood compressor station in Ft Worth to greatly reduce truck 

traffic emissons in delivering to injection well sites

http://www.fortworthgov.org/uploadedFiles/City_Secretary/City_Council/Official_Documents/2010_Or

dinances/19234-07-2010.pdf
"WHEREAS, the City is continuing its participation in the pilot program with Chesapeake Operating 

Company, Chesapeake has now acquired all but two tracts needed for the Right-of-way for the salt 

water pipelines, and will be installing the recycling equipment in the near future. In order to provide 

staff additional time to evaluate the operations of the salt water pipelines and the recycling efforts, an 

extension to July 31, 2011, is advised; and WHEREAS, adoption of this Ordinance would extend the 

moratorium from July 31, 2010, until July 31, 2011, and maintain the status quo while the staff

continues the pilot program with Chesapeake at the Brentwood site located on East First Street next to 

the old Arc Park; and WHEREAS, at the direction of the Mayor and City Council, staff is working with the

community to identify a contractor to perform testing to accurately assess the source, area, and

ambient air quality impacts of gas operations within the City of Fort Worth. As part of this assessment, 

disposal and recycling operations will be examined. The Brentwood site is currently the only operational 

saltwater disposal and recycling site within the City of Fort Worth. By extending the moratorium, 

operations will be allowed to continue so that appropriate data can be collected to determine the 

impacts from this site and a fact based decision may be made as to whether the moratorium should be 

lifted or a complete disposal ban should be enacted within the City limits of Fort Worth;..."

The recycling of produced water will be a pilot program for Ft Worth using the EVRAS (by Intervas) 

system at the Brentwood compressor station. I heard that site will begin receiving produced water from 

30 different gas well sites for "safe" vaporization. The remaining, crystallized solid waste will then be 

trucked to an injection site.

http://www.intevras.com/downloads/Evras/technical/EVRAS_-_ADA_White_Paper.pdf

Please go to flow chart and see that the "Humid Air Outlet" does not have a filter or a vapor recovery 

system. In calling the inventor of the process, Jeff Harris (who lived in Granbury at one time, and has

experience with this system in California), explained that the Barnett shale VOC averages 30 ppm and 

has no barium. This is low in comparison to the Marcellus Shale (which is full of barium) and averages 

500ppm of VOC's. So we are at an advantage starting with low voc's. I do not know if the ppm being 

quoted includes the fracing fluid flow back chemical vapors.

In taking notes while talking to Mr Harris, the EVRAS system solidifies cold, produced water when it is 

warmed up by the introduction of an unmixable "heat transfer liquid" (HTL). The HTL is warmed by the 

wasted heat from the existing compressor station at the Brentwood site in Ft Worth. The cold, produced 

water keeps getting recycled from cold to hot to cold until it crystallizes.

The air flow directs the aromatic/pollution/condensate through a thermal reactor air stripper which 

scrubs the hydrocarbons when it passes through an air column. The extracted VOC's are then blended 

with the combustion air at a ratio of 100 parts of air to 1part of hydrocarbon condensate. This reduces 

our original 30ppm down to .03 ppm. This .03ppm is then burned off in the compressor engines that 

have more efficient catalytic converters than our cars. The crank case captures exhausts like a 

carburetor functions. The Nox and Co is burned up in the catalytic engines. The 99.9% clean is better for 

the environment than the 100lb of Nox and 32 tons of carbons per year due to onroad trucking

emissions in delivering produced fluids to an injection site.

Ideally, piping the produced water from drill sites to the EVRAS systems would further decrease onroad 

trucking emissions in bringing the fluid to the evaporation site.
I'm a little squirrelly when it comes to pipelines carrying toxic water and having any kind of ground 

water leak, but trucks carrying waste water are risky and those trucks aren't even labeled as toxic, 

hazardous material. The amount of matter going into injection sites would greatly be reduced to the 

crystallized sludge.

We could use some good news of natural gas extraction having a process improvement that others 

could follow if this is truely more environmental friendly.

I sent Mr Harris a copy of this email so that he can correct any mis interpretations of his verbal 

explanation to me over the phone...so more than likely I may have some corrections to this explanation 

of how the EVRAS is "safely" evaporating produced water for 30 pad sites here within city limits.

Please send comments or corrections to this email, thank-you.

Kim Feil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4R4cfaspw

music vid "Can't You See It's Acid Raining" dedicated to City Council and Mayor Cluck

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/New-well-linked-to-new-smell-in-Wise-County-101232229.html

Ten times the benzene level for ambient readings/Wise county. With one inspector per every 3,300 

wells in TX, how do we prevent this in Arlington?

We also need to test the air for formaldehyde-TCEQ doesn't.

http://www.crosstimbersgazette.com:80/local-news/988-drilling-fluid-spill-reported-in-flowermound.html

Drilling fluid spill reported in Flower Mound - This is the third spill for Williams in the area this year.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/101206889.html

"The well, in a relatively isolated sugar cane field north of La. 70 and northwest of Paincourtville, has 

prompted odor complaints and at least two lawsuits over air emissions and other allegations. State 

Police have also restricted access within a mile of the blowout."