Saturday, August 27, 2011

Frac Truck: The Natural Gas Clean Up

This article offers some information on identifying a frac truck, and ends mentioning the EPA hotline for reporting illegal, or suspected illegal, dumping. The toll-free number for reporting dumping is 1-877-919-4372, or you can use the email address set up by the EPA for easy reporting, eyesondrilling@epa.gov.

Author: CentralTruckSales

Ok so now that we know about the process of utilizing up to 65 million gallons of potentially toxic water, and how important it is to transport it safely, the next item to cover is the cleanup. Spills and overflows will inevitably create the need to clean up transport and frac areas. To best clean up and keep control over the hydraulic fracturing process, Frac Trucks are used to haul frac sand or cement for gas well casings. Whatever the name or use of these various trucks, they usually catch your attention when they are parked roadside or travelling down the highway as oversize loads.

Frac trucks for sale usually sport all kinds of weird plumbing, pipes and gauges not seen in everyday life. Some frac trucks for sale carry containers of frac fluids or other devices that you never saw anything quite like before as equipment used for installing and fracking Marcellus Shale gas wells is a generally new business and has a clear experimental side to it.

Usually the frac truck has a vacuum system that is installed in a particular frack truck for sale designed to perform the clean up work quickly and efficiently. Manufacturers intentionally place certain limits or specifications on the pump system for future monitoring so that the pump system will function at normal capacity while in operation. 
There are two types of vacuum pump systems that are commonly used in frac process: the liquid ring and the rotary vane versions. The best vacuum pump for a truck is dependent upon the business needs for which it will be used. The liquid ring versions are now more popular in the industry because they are oil-free, not noisy, and more proficient in accomplishing the necessary task. The pump system for the liquid ring is more intricate and also has a need for more area and water for proper fracturing.

It is often difficult to tell if frac trucks are pumping water out of waterways or dumping drilling wastewater, since they haul both fresh water and wastewater. Illegal dumping of wastewater may be evidenced by country roads being wet when it hasn't rained. This sort of dumping often occurs under the cover of darkness. If in doubt, call the EPA Hotline.

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  2. The liquid ring pumps compresses gas by rotating a vaned impeller located eccentrically within a cylindrical casing. Liquid (usually water) is fed into the pump and, by centrifugal acceleration, forms a moving cylindrical ring against the inside of the casing. This liquid ring creates a series of seals in the space between the impeller vanes, which form compression chambers. The eccentricity between the impeller's axis of rotation and the casing geometric axis results in a cyclic variation of the volume enclosed by the vanes and the ring.

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