VWS MPP SYSTEMS BV

About Us

VWS MPP Systems is the hydrocarbon removal water treatment specialist and a member of the VWS Oil & Gas division of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies

MPP Systems is specialized in developing, marketing, manufacturing and servicing water purification systems based on Macro Porous Polymers (MPP). The Macro Porous Polymer Extraction (MPPE) system is a highly effective, fully automated, remote controlled and guaranteed technology for removing hydrocarbons from water by means of extraction in a MPP bed.

MPPE systems are used for:

· Offshore and onshore produced water

· Industrial waste water

· Industrial process water

· Groundwater

MPPE removes dissolved and dispersed hydrocarbons with removal rates of 99.9999%, down to below ppb level or any desired level. Removable hydrocarbons, e.g.:

· Aliphatic

· Aromatic

· Poly aromatic

· Halogenated, e.g. chlorinated, bromated

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MPP Benefits

1. High and guaranteed separation performance

2. Separation performance is independent on inlet concentration

3. Robust against

- Corrosion and scale inhibitors, H2S scavengers, biocides, surfactants etc.

- Peak loads

4. Flow/inlet concentration flexibility while maintaining outlet demand

- 10% lower flow rate allows 50% higher inlet concentration

- Lower inlet concentration allows higher flow

5. Operational flexibility

- Capacity turn down/up ratio: 0 to 100%

- Batch wise operation

- Immediate performance at start up

6. 100% water and hydrocarbon recovery

- Separated hydrocarbons  practically 1005 pure for (re) use

7.  No chemicals used

- No waste stream

- No air emission

Route to Your Solution

1. Budget Price Within One Week

• Inlet specification

• Inlet requirements

• Flow rate

• Non/available of steam

2.  Laboratory Test

- Various types of laboratory tests for joint evaluation 

3. Field Test On Site Onshore and Offshore

• Plug and play fully contained mobile MPPE units

• One week and longer

4. Turnkey delivery of integrated units:

- Lease/rent or buy

5. Ongoing Performance Guarantee and related Services

A clear annual operating expenditure overview will be given for the MPPE  technology, including an ongoing performance guarantee and related services. This is valid for the operational life of the unit ad independent of the frequency of MPPE material exchange.

Please visit our website www.vwsmppsystems.com and fill out the questionnaire under “budget price information”.

Industrial Process and Wastewater Treatment

The MPPE technology can be applied anywhere in the water line upstream or end of pipe. The treated water may be recycled to process, discharged to surface water or to site/municipal biotreatment.

Typical challenges MPPE can meet:
• High influent concentrations
• High reduction factors
• Varying concentrations and compositions
• Varying flows
• Varying/wide pH range
• Presence of salts, surfactants, heavy metals, alcohols, monomer residues, pre-polymers etc.

MPPE benefits

• Small footprint
• Upstream integrated operation with remote control
• Scope for adding other waste- and groundwater streams, for treatment in one unit
• Reduced sludge formation in biotreatment
• Modular set up for large flows (thousands of m3/hr)

Removal of total spectrum of non-polar and polar organics prove in practice:
• MPPE removes toxic non-polar, non-biodegradable compounds
• Followed by treatment removing polar biodegradable compounds
• Optional: UF and/or activated carbon filtration and RO for reuse as process or boiler feed water

Industries
• Natural gas production/treatment
- Aromatics, polyaromatics, aliphatics (3,000 ppm and above)

• LNG terminals/gas to liquid plants
- Aromatics, polyaromatics, aliphatics

• Refineries
- Aromatics, aliphatics

• Underground gas storage
- THT (tetrahydrothiophene), aromatics

• Water, oil, gas/condensate produced water onshore
- Aromatics, polyaromatics, aliphatics

• Chemical, specialty chemical and pharmaceutical raw material producers
- Broad range of aromatics, aliphatics and halogenated (chlorinated, bromated) hydrocarbons

• Chemicals/oilstorage distribution industry
- Tank cleaning waste water and groundwater
- Aromatic, aliphatic and halogenated hydrocarbons

• Resin production
- Solvents/aromatics removal from waste streams containing monomers residues

• Electronics Industry
- Solvents removal (toluene) e.g. flat screen factories

• Rayon/viscose industry
- Carbon disulphide (CS2), aromatics, aliphatics

• More than 15 years of operational experience (Philips, Gaz de France, TOTAL, Synthexim, AkzoNobel, Albemarle, Dow Chemical, LBC, Woodside, Western Refining)

Offshore Produced Water

MPPE for Zero Harmful Discharge

Risk based management of offshore produced water is gaining worldwide interest of Oil & Gas companies and governments . Specific water treatment focused on removing toxic hydrocarbons leads to Zero Harmful Discharge (ZHD).

MPPE removes dissolved and dispersed toxic hydrocarbons:

• Aliphatics (dispersed oil)
• Aromatics (BTEX)
• Polyaromatics (PAHs)
• NPD (Naphtalenes, Phenanthrenes, Dibenzothiophenes)
• Hydrophobic parts of field chemicals (e.g. inhibitors)

MPPE for Zero Harmful Discharge
• Environmental Impact Factor (EIF) reduction with 95-99%

100% water and hydrocarbon recovery
• Separated hydrocarbons practically pure for (re) use
• No waste stream/ sludge formation

Robust and can withstand:
• Salt, methanol, glycols
• Corrosion inhibitors
• Scale inhibitors
• H2S scavengers
• Demulsifiers
• Defoamers etc.
• Dissolved (heavy) metals

Evidence of success:
• MPPE selected as best option among 55 technologies (Government and Oil & Gas Industry Study)
• MPPE listed by OSPAR as Best Available Technology (BAT)
• Experience published with customers at conferences 
- TOTAL;SPE
- Shell/Exxon L2 offshore; OTC
- Statoil Kollsnes; TÜV/NEL;SPE
- Statoil/Shell Ormen Lange; TÜV/NEL, TEKNA
- Woodside Pluto; APPEA

• More than 15 years of operational experience TOTAL, NAM (Shell/Exxon), StatoilHydro/Shell Ormen Lange, Woodside Pluto, Statoil Kollsnes, Shell Prelude, InpexIchthys, BP West Nile

Groundwater

Aromatic, Polyaromatic and halogenated hydrocarbons in groundwater can be found in lower concentrations dissolved in water diffused over the area or concentrated as DNAPLS (dense non-aqueous-phase liquids) or LNAPLS (light non-aqueous-phase liquids) creating an enduring source of contaminant supply to the water phase

MPPE benefits:

• Ideal for handling a broad range of compositions
• Able to cope with unexpected higher inlet compositions at no additional costs
• No iron removal necessary (anaerobic process)
• Robust, can withstand e.g. salts, humic acids, surfactants, heavy metals, dissolved/suspended solids, high/low pH etc.
• No sludge formation (as with iron removal and biotreatment)
• Scope for combination with other ground- and also waste water streams in one unit
• More than 15 years operational experience with Organon/Schering Plough/Merck Sharp & Dome, Akzo Nobel, Stadtwerke Flensburg, Solvay, LMBV SchwarzePumpe and LMBV Lauchhammer

DNAPL and LNAPL removal by solvent or Surfactant Enhanced Remediation (SEAR)

• Surfactant or alcohol injection enhances the dissolution of chlorinated hydrocarbons, PAHs, DNAPLS  and LNAPLS in water  from a few ppm to 10,000 – 50,000 ppm
• Organics recovered in two weeks equaled eight years of normal pump and treat
• The highly concentrated organics/surfactant/alcohol water mixtures are pumped to the surface
• MPPE is ideal to separate these extremely high concentrated hydrocarbons from the surfactant/alcohol water mixtures
• Surfactant/solvent consumption savings as MPPE enables recirculation and recovery
• MPPE applied in the USA Jacksonville (FL), TAMPA (FL) (both alcohol injection), Alameda (CA) and in Germany Schkopau, Leipzig, CastropRauxel (all surfactant injection).