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.

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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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Alex Rood is an expert in quality used commercial trucks.  If you are interested in learning more, please contact us by visiting our main site:  http://www.centraltrucksales.net.

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Introducing the Frac Truck

While this frac article is not Ohio-centric, these are the trucks used to bring contaminated brine to Ohio. Ohioans should be aware that this article describes the quantity of contaminated fracking brine water drillers are bringing to Ohio to dump into abandoned oil wells in agricultural communities. (The quantities are highlighted in yellow below if you are searching for raw data.)

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Demand for frac tanks is growing and we believe that a major reason for the increase is the service that comes along with a boom in the demand and desire for exploring the natural gas reserves in the Marcellus Shale. In order to crack the Marcellus Shale, over one mile beneath Pennsylvania and other parts of our Appalachian region, that is so abundant in gas and natural gas liquids, drilling companies use a method called hydraulic fracturing.

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", are terms used to describe the process used to "frac" Marcellus Shale gas wells. To release methane from the shale, high pressure is used to crack the shale formation. While there are alternatives to water for fracking gas wells, such as nitrogen, production companies prefer to use water, since significantly higher hydraulic pressures can be created and it is a generally less expensive process. Some reports indicate these pressures can reach as high as 10,000 to 15,000 pounds per square inch.

Each Marcellus well frack job calls for 3 to 8 million gallons of water or recycled wastewater. With that much waste water, the frac trucks for sale chosen to move that wastewater becomes a very intricate decision process. But get this, since many of the latest well pads have 8 wells, that brings the total requirement up to 24 to 64 million gallons for one well pad. Imagine how many frac trucks and vacuum trucks are needed to move 64 million gallons of water. Wow.

These huge volumes of water are one of the reasons that vacuum trucks and temporary pipelines have become common sights around the Marcellus Shale regions over the past several years. These frac trucks for sale carry approximately 4,000 gallons each and are often marked with "Residual Waste" for the drilling wastewater they haul that comes back out of a Marcellus well following fracking. This wastewater can easily be 5-times saltier than ocean water, while also containing toxic volatile organic compounds and fracking chemicals. These frac trucks must be large, powerful, and most importantly, safe so that the transported hazardous material is properly removed and disposed of in its entirety.

Environmental Protection Departments in the region will require that drilling companies obtain approved Water Management Plans. 29 Marcellus Shale drilling companies in the 10-county area making up the SW Region of Pennsylvania, have approved water management plans for withdrawals totaling 48.5 million gallons of water through mid-2014. While drillers are exempt from many environmental laws, they must comply with the Clean Streams Law. These laws and the regulations that drillers will be given for the clean up process will drive the growth and need for frac trucks for years to come, if natural gas becomes this country's next great hope for energy.

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Alex Rood is an expert in quality used commercial trucks. If you are interested in learning more, please contact us by visiting our main site: http://www.centraltrucksales.net.