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Fossil Fuels The water cycle with Ambient Power 400 (ambientwater.com)

Published on October 9th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert

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Ambient Water To Install “Ambient Water 400″ at Applied Cryo

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October 9th, 2014 by  

As a field test for future applications in the oil and gas industry, Ambient Water (formerly AWG International) announced today that it will install an Ambient Water 400 atmospheric water generator at Applied Cryo Technologies’ Houston facility.

The water cycle with Ambient Power 400 (ambientwater.com)Scalable and modular, the patented Ambient Water system cost-effectively extracts water from humidity in the air. Applied Cryo offers a variety of cryogenic storage, regasification, and transportation equipment to store and distribute liquid natural gas, liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, and liquid argon.

An industry pioneer, Ambient Water will use the system installed at Applied Cryo to monitor both the amount of water generated under prevailing atmospheric conditions and the power consumed by the system itself. An independent engineering firm will validate the results.

Production stats from the Ambient Water 400 (http://ambientwater.com)

As we all know, the oil and gas industry is extremely water-intensive. Ambient Water will develop a customized large-scale system that can produce clean water direct from the air for use in fracking operations. The Ambient Water 20K will reduce the petroleum industry’s draw on municipal water supplies and enable more cost-effective and sustainable energy production. Vertical farming is another application.

Says Keith White, founder and CEO of Ambient Water:

“We’re thrilled to have this agreement in place with Applied Cryo Technologies…. [The] installation is a field validation of our technology in real environment conditions, and we’re excited to see the data match and exceed our expectations.”

To learn more about Ambient Water, visit its website. And for a full downloadable list of features and specifications of the Ambient Water 400, link here.

 

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  • Will E

    as fossil industry will fade out due to fossil free transition this can be used for other
    appliances. Good invention.

  • Marion Meads

    Bad news for California, this technology is not applicable. We regularly hit 20% RH at the time when our plants needed the most water. In fact, desert areas are the wrong place to advertise such technology. they should try Florida and Hawaii.

    • nakedChimp

      Dont worry, with those around the countryside there will be 0% RH then and you can buy water from them for your plants – if they have left some over from fracking ;-)

  • Joseph Dubeau

    Very interesting, but I didn’t see that it can produce enough water for a single well.
    Where is the water stored?

  • Kevin McKinney

    Yes, sign me up as a ‘skeptic’ WRT this technology, too.

  • Adrian

    Ugh. At what CO2/gallon cost? Dehumidifiers aren’t known for their fantastic efficiency.

    • Adrian

      So based on their specs, between 1 and 2 kWh per gallon of water. Seems like it might be less damaging to oxidize natural gas into water and CO2 for reinjection at the wellsite and skip sending it to the power plant.

      • http://www.michaeljberndtson.com/ Michael Berndtson

        Outstanding! Brillant! That could not be more true. Getting water out of air at cold or really really cold temperatures is as old as… well it’s old. It comes down to power source having to run the thing. I can only assume power has to be really cheap to make this affordable. Or there are water use restrictions. That would be drought stricken California who also is pushing for more natural gas generation and of course fracking its own fields. In the middle of a drought, if that wasn’t clear.

        I haven’t spec’d any chillers (cold or really cold) in a while and assuming the laws of thermodynamics still apply, this is more green marketing for fracking than prudent well field O&M. You’re right, it’s probably as or more feasible to combust flared or field gas and recover water over simply chilling, like real chill. The mass of water in combustion gas is pretty high on volume basis. Way more than air. Therefore less chilling is needed. It’s a mass transport phenomena problem. But fracking uses millions of gallons of water per well. So this seems weird.

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