Brockway Company Has Answer toMarcellus Shale Water Problem

"First, you have to understand what the problem is with Marcellus water. For discharge, it has high dissolved solids and it's got one constituent which is very toxic, which is barium," chief chemist and co-owner Timothy Keister said. "Those are the two things that stop you from just being able to dump it into the creek."

ProChemTech's process removes the toxic barium from the flowback water, and also removes most of the scale forming minerals, allowing the water to be reused in the hydrofracturing process.

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