Patent ID: 8425664

Claim:
A method for remediating outputs from a well providing petroleum production, the method comprising: providing an energy source providing combustion of a hydrocarbon composition from the well; discharging an exhaust from the energy source as a first stream; controlling dynamically a back pressure on the exhaust; providing a scrubber spraying a liquid thereinto derived from production brine from the well; conducting the exhaust through the scrubber removing particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, and heat from the exhaust into the liquid; evaporating into the first stream at least a portion of the liquid; separating substantially the particulates and unburned hydrocarbons from the first stream into the liquid; and condensing to liquid a portion of the first stream by exchanging heat from the first stream into a second stream comprising ambient air; and releasing at least a portion of the second stream, after heating thereof by the first stream, into the combustion.