Sentences with phrase «salty produced water»

About 100,000 litres of oil and 190,000 litres of salty produced water is estimated to have affected an area about 200 by 200 metres square, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator.

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JET STREAM Tens of thousands of brine shrimp swimming upward in a laboratory tank produce a large jet of water the size of the whole group, mixing shallow water with deeper, saltier water.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

But such a device is relatively inefficient, says Bruce Logan at Pennsylvania State University in University Park: as the organic content in the waste water falls, the voltage produced by the bacteria drops and pulls fewer ions out of the saline water, leaving it with a salty tang.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

They also designed a model that included simulations of the process by which salty water known as «sea spray» is enriched with organic matter produced by phytoplankton (essentially, phytoplankton poop).

Industry takes seriously earthquake incidents that may be associated with the disposal of produced water from energy development — salty brines and other fluids that come to the surface during oil and natural gas production.

Atlantic Deep Water formation — Cold, salty, deep water is produced in the North Atlantic, partly driving the global ocean circulaWater formation — Cold, salty, deep water is produced in the North Atlantic, partly driving the global ocean circulawater is produced in the North Atlantic, partly driving the global ocean circulation.

An input of freshwater makes the ocean less salty and less dense, reducing the amount of deep water produced and slowing down the ocean circulation.