Water Power West, LLC NORM Remediation Process
The WPW System
WPW has developed and perfected a system and method for encapsulating NORM and radiation shielding-absorption by the Mossbauer Effect. Encapsulation and chemical binding is by hydration of NORM with certain compatible and readily-available materials.
Mossbauer shielding is confirmed by grinding the finished encapsulation product to a powder and testing for extant radiation. Tests have confirmed Mossbauer shielding a 43,000 pico-Curie per gram NORM before-treatment sample to Mossbauer shielded zero pico-Curie per gram after-treatment. Zero pico-Curie per gram radiation was also measured from ground powder samples of the after-treatment.
The process is scalable from table-top to many hundreds of cubic yards per day. NORM in sludge is separated from liquid, semi-liquid matrices to extract solids for encapsulation-shielding.
WPW has filed one US patent on the technology, and will soon file more with PCT and WO patents.
Recent test results
**Please Note: All current Test Groups and License Holders are under STRICT Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements - therefore their names are not publicly available at this time.
Testing was performed by a longstanding and reputable Waste Water Company out of Texas, is a Texas-state licensed handler and processor of oil-field wastes. This company has been in business since 1975 and operate 7 waste disposal sites - receiving and processing liquid and solid oil-field wastes. The companies disposal sites includes 31 disposal wells, that receive and store NORM waste in various forms.
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, their personnel performed tests of the WPW NORM mitigation system. The tests were made at the Goliad, Texas site (API-42-175-31542.) Their employees conducted tests on three samples after demonstration of the NORM encapsulation process with a first sample.
All tests utilized a new GCA-07 series Geiger-Mueller counter-factory calibrated with US National Institute of Standards source 1867-66-1. The GCA-07 counter has a range of from 0 to 10,000 radiation events per second (equivalent from 0 to more than 250,000 pico-Curies per gram.)
A digital scale was used for weighing- the scale having a weighing range of 0 to 3,500 grams, with an accuracy to within 0.1 gram.
The table below summarizes test results for the four samples:
Other testing is underway with major oil facilities worldwide and we will report their findings once testing has completed.
The WPW System
WPW has developed and perfected a system and method for encapsulating NORM and radiation shielding-absorption by the Mossbauer Effect. Encapsulation and chemical binding is by hydration of NORM with certain compatible and readily-available materials.
Mossbauer shielding is confirmed by grinding the finished encapsulation product to a powder and testing for extant radiation. Tests have confirmed Mossbauer shielding a 43,000 pico-Curie per gram NORM before-treatment sample to Mossbauer shielded zero pico-Curie per gram after-treatment. Zero pico-Curie per gram radiation was also measured from ground powder samples of the after-treatment.
The process is scalable from table-top to many hundreds of cubic yards per day. NORM in sludge is separated from liquid, semi-liquid matrices to extract solids for encapsulation-shielding.
WPW has filed one US patent on the technology, and will soon file more with PCT and WO patents.
Recent test results
**Please Note: All current Test Groups and License Holders are under STRICT Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements - therefore their names are not publicly available at this time.
Testing was performed by a longstanding and reputable Waste Water Company out of Texas, is a Texas-state licensed handler and processor of oil-field wastes. This company has been in business since 1975 and operate 7 waste disposal sites - receiving and processing liquid and solid oil-field wastes. The companies disposal sites includes 31 disposal wells, that receive and store NORM waste in various forms.
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, their personnel performed tests of the WPW NORM mitigation system. The tests were made at the Goliad, Texas site (API-42-175-31542.) Their employees conducted tests on three samples after demonstration of the NORM encapsulation process with a first sample.
All tests utilized a new GCA-07 series Geiger-Mueller counter-factory calibrated with US National Institute of Standards source 1867-66-1. The GCA-07 counter has a range of from 0 to 10,000 radiation events per second (equivalent from 0 to more than 250,000 pico-Curies per gram.)
A digital scale was used for weighing- the scale having a weighing range of 0 to 3,500 grams, with an accuracy to within 0.1 gram.
The table below summarizes test results for the four samples:
Other testing is underway with major oil facilities worldwide and we will report their findings once testing has completed.