US Patent Issued to TETRA Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Integrated method and apparatus for treatment of produced water" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,237, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TETRA Technologies Inc. (Spring, Texas).

"Integrated method and apparatus for treatment of produced water" was invented by Deepak Musale (Spring, Texas), Adam Calvin (Spring, Texas), Yannick Harvey (Spring, Texas), Arthur Mack (Spring, Texas) and Stanley Gunawan (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated processes for the treatment of produced water, including for example treatment in connection with hydrocarbon production operations using bulk solid-liquid separation, organics removal, and desalination by osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) and/or vacuum membrane distilla...