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The title is a little hard to parse; this paragraph cleared it up for me: > Handling that water is a major challenge in the oil refinery industry, particularly
by jMyles 8y ago
The title is a little hard to parse; this paragraph cleared it up for me:
> Handling that water is a major challenge in the oil refinery industry, particularly because it is deemed unusable for household and commercial use by the Environmental Protection Agency because of remaining contaminants. Several commercial treatments are available, but they are expensive, do not remove all traces of contaminants from water and can be energy-intensive.
- howard941 8y agoThanks, I fixed up the title
- baxtr 8y agoI still don’t get it... EDIT: the first paragraph in the linked article was very insightful Purdue University researchers have developed a process to remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
- howard941 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produced_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produced_water may help?
- allknowingfrog 8y agoIt may be helpful to quote "produced water" as it is a confusing and unfamiliar term for those outside of the industry.
- jMyles 8y agoI think it's fair to say that it's outright misleading - the water is not produced in any reasonable sense of the word.
- nrgy 8y agoI get how it may be misleading, and given that produced water should be in quotes to mark it as an industry term, it is still the only useful term for said water. Within the industry it is very well defined and easily understood. If you use another term like "obtained water" it would be up to interpretation by each individual including industry individuals. It's like contract law, they figured out a while ago that when dealing with technical issues, technical words should be used and taken to have their normal industry meaning, otherwise it breeds more confusion.