OriginOil Technology Breakthrough Greatly Enhances

Membrane Filtration, Enabling Highly Efficient Frack Water

Recycling
LOS ANGELES & GOLETA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OriginOil Inc. (OTC/QB: OOIL), developer of
Electro Water Separation(TM) (EWS), the high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large
quantities of water, and TriSep Corporation, designer and manufacturer of water treatment
membranes, announced today that OriginOil's EWS, combined with TriSep's iSep(TM) ultrafiltration
(UF) membranes, effectively removes nearly all oil, turbidity, and bacteria, providing a full solution
for drillers to efficiently recycle water flowing back from fracking and production.
"Our iSep can tolerate moderate levels of oil, however system performance is greatly enhanced if it
is removed prior to our UF membrane, which EWS does at a removal rate exceeding 99%," said Mike
Snodgrass, iSep Market Manager at TriSep Corporation. "The iSep UF completely removed the last
remaining suspended solids, microorganisms, and bacteria that passed through EWS, producing a
crystal clear effluent."
The explosion in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has created a new set of demands, challenges and
constraints for the use, supply, treatment and disposal of water. The EPA estimates 70 to 140 billion
gallons of water were used in 2011 alone in hydraulic fracturing wells. Technology providers now
offer solutions to promote on site recycling. BCC Research reports the market for equipment to treat
wastewater from fracking operations and conventional wells is predicted to grow 9 percent by 2018.
"Since the industry as a whole is striving to reuse 95-98% of frack water, we believe treatment using
membranes will play a big role in achieving that goal," said Bill Charneski, General Manager of
OriginOil's Houston-based Petro Division. "We are proud to have engineered a system that delivers
an oil-free feed to TriSep's highly efficient iSep Ultra Filtration (UF) system."
Snodgrass continued: "Oil typically clogs polymeric membranes, limiting widespread application on
oily wastewater. If a pre-treatment technology existed that could cost-effectively remove oil from
water, then we believe the industry could take advantage of membranes and actually achieve their
water reuse goals. I think we have that with the OriginOil Electro Water Separation(TM) (EWS)
system."
CLEAN-FRACTM 1000 incorporates both OriginOil's EWS and TriSep's iSep ultra filtration
membrane for a full solution for frack water recycling. The system successfully removed oil,
suspended solids and bacteria during a month of field testing and demonstration with produced and
flowback water from the western slope of Colorado.
In the test, turbidity was reduced by 99.8 percent,
Total Suspended Solids were made undetectable,
and oil in water was reduced by 99.2 percent.
iSep UF membranes utilize an innovative vacuum
process to filter water that uses very little energy
and chemicals, dramatically driving down produced
water treatment costs. "We've taken a giant leap forward in solving produced water issues, and we
couldn't be more excited about it," added Snodgrass.
CLEAN-FRAC integrates OriginOil's EWS with a variety of "polishing" systems to deliver a wide
range of purity levels that enable different reuse applications from re-injection into frac wells to
potable drinking water. These systems include membranes, filters and resins. CLEAN-FRAC is
commercially available as an integrated system for end to end solutions and at capacities up to
10,000 barrels per day.
A company video documented the demonstration at Delta, Colorado.
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About OriginOil, Inc.
OriginOil has developed a breakthrough water cleanup technology for the oil & gas, algae and other
water-intensive industries. Unlike other technologies, the company's patent-pending Electro Water
Separation(TM) process rapidly and efficiently removes organic material from large quantities of
water without the need for chemicals. For the oil & gas industry, OriginOil is helping clean up
produced water and recycle fracking water, to reduce harm to the environment and lower costs. For
the emerging algae industry, OriginOil is making large-scale harvest possible. And in aquaculture,
OriginOil is helping improve yields and making seafood healthier by dramatically reducing the levels
of toxic ammonia and bacteria in water. For a world short on clean water, OriginOil is the lower-cost
and cleaner answer. To learn more about OriginOil, please visit our website
at www.originoil.com.
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Abstract: OriginOil technology breakthrough greatly enhances membrane filtration, enabling highly
efficient frack water recycling; under extended field testing, Electro Water Separation(TM) removed
most oil and contaminants, enabling iSep(TM) membrane system to deliver very high purity levels.
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