Membrane Technology

Assessment Program (MTAP)

NAIT Centre for Oil Sands

Sustainability

Objectives of the Membrane Technology Assessment Program (MTAP)

Agenda

Overview of testing units

Progress of program

Sponsors

Assist SMEs, membrane producers and oil sands industry (end users) with implementation of

membrane technology in different processes by validating the performance of membranes under

actual operational conditions.

Our objective

Technical challenges OPEX & CAPEX Fail-fast assessment

Testing units

MTAP 1.0 MTAP 1.1 MTAP 2.0

MTAP 1.0

Used as a common membrane testing apparatus in

the laboratory.

Tests membranes/filters, allowing to monitor feed,

permeate and retentate flowrates in laboratory scale.

Conducts robustness tests to determine the

performance of a membrane over a long period

of time.

Repeats operation and Clean In Place (CIP)

routines to simulate repeated field use.

MTAP 1.1

MTAP 1.1 Clean in Place test

NAIT’s Centre for Oil Sands Sustainability (COSS), Hamed Mahdavi, (Water Acting Lead & Technology Development Engineer, Ph.D., P.Eng)

Canadian Water Technologies, Dan Lagore (Senior PLC & membrane process designer), Muhammad Irfan (Senior Mechanical Engineer, PMP), Wayne Dyck (CEO & Senior manager)

B1

PU

B2

LS1 LS2 LS3

BV1 BV2 BV3

MV1 MV2

1

SV1

PT1

1

2

MV41

MV3

MV51 MV6

2

2

2

MV7 2

1

MV8

1 21

2

Sam

ple

wa

ter

Tan

k

CIP

/Fla

sh W

ater

Ta

nk

Re

cycl

e W

ater

Ta

nk

Inlet/Outlet Constant

1

2

Inlet/Outlet 1

Inlet/Outlet 2

MV9

MV10

PT2

PT3

PT4

To Sampling Station

FL1 FL2

RO1

RO2

To Waste

NV2

NV3

BFV

Co

nce

ntr

ate

Pe

rmea

te

2

1

1

2

NV1

1

2

MTAP 1.1

P&ID

Tests the membranes/technologies

under high temperature/pressure

operational conditions through

mimicking different conditions in the

SAGD process chain.

MTAP 2.0

High temp High pressure

Nitrogen Gas

Cylinder

Pump 1

Heating Tubes

Crossflow

Membrane Cell

Concentrate sampling ports

Permeate sampling ports

NAIT’s Centre for Oil Sands Sustainability (COSS)

Hamed Mahdavi, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Water/Wastewater Technology Development Engineer Produced Water 30-70 L/min

Wire For Data Transfer

Permeate 5 L/min

Concentrate 10 L/min

Back Wash 10 L/min

N2 gas tube

Heating Tubes

Sampling Tube (300 mL)

7

13

16 Cooling System

Cooling System22

1

2

3

5

6

14

15

8

17

1819

2123

24

25

27

28

29

30

911

12

10

Needle Valve

Safety valve

Temperature gauge

Pressure gauge

Forward-flow Pressure regulator

Backflow Pressure regulator

Pressure regulator (gas)

Rotometer

Electronic flowmeter

20

34

Permeate Produced

Water

DP-Cell DP-Cell

Pump 2

Backwash

Waste

532

37

31

35

36

38

4

To Ventilation

33

DP-

Ce ll

26

Pressure

Regulator

Safety

Valve

MTAP 2.0

P&ID

Unit Status

MTAP 1.0 Already built

MTAP 1.1 Under construction by Canadian Water Technology,

funded through NSERC-Innovation Enhancement Grant

and cash/in-kind contributions from Canadian Water

Technology

MTAP 2.0 Funding is pending agreement

Progress of MTAP as a program

Thanks to our sponsors