Ber-Mac’s innovative, environmentally-friendly polymer technology solution offers customers a compact and user-friendly option to traditional hydration of large volumes of polymer. Our solution not only improves the overall quality of the polymer, but also significantly reduces operator involvement and the amount of water required for the hydration process.
 

Our polymer technology solution, based on the widely-accepted, industry-standard Comitrol processor, uses innovated equipment and engineering to hydrate high-quality polymer faster than ever before. Our compact and easy-to-use design significantly improves material handling techniques and uses better injection methods and equipment coatings.

 Environmental Benefits

Our solution requires significantly less fresh water. Our high-speed mixer hydrates each piece of polymer in the hydration process. The result is less “fish eyes”, solids, and unhydrated gel balls in the final product.

Our solution produces volumes of polymer four to five times larger than conventional technologies. In the same footprint as traditional methods, our solution yields a higher concentration of polymer, typically 15,000 ppm.

Ber-Mac worked with a local coating company develop a floral polly coating on our tanks. This enables us to make the tanks of carbon steel, rather than stainless steel, which reduces maintenance because there is less build up or crusting on the tank walls.

 Innovative, Compact Design

Ber-Mac’s proven, polymer technology is a turnkey solution that is designed on a 16' x 40' skid. Our customers supply only the water, electricity, and dry polymer — Ber-Mac takes care of the rest!

Conventional polymer hydration methods require a significantly larger footprint and offer little flexibility. For example, a conventional skid takes standard-sized polymer particles, mixes them with water, and pumps the solution into an aging tank where they are combined during the 45 to 60 minute hydration period. While one tank is aging, the other tank is supplying polymer to the injection pumps. Depending on the capacity of the source well, a surge tank may also be required. The result is three tanks: two age tanks and one surge tank.

Conventional systems are also limited in polymer hydration by size, quantity, age of tanks, water quality, and temperature. Our solution does not require high-pressure water for hydration. Rather, our process takes a continuous stream of polymer into the processor. Particles are sliced to less than 1,000th of an inch and completely covered in water. By increasing the polymer surface area, we shorten the hydration time and hydrate higher concentrations of polymer without clumping.
 

The Ber-Mac solution produces polymer concentrations as high as 15,000 ppm; conventional hydration is limited to 5000 ppm. Thus, our solution requires one third less source water and requires injection pumps that are one-third smaller than in traditional methods. In addition, our process requires only one stratification age tank and a pump mounted below it. The result: a smaller footprint and less piping rotating equipment, operator input, and cost.

Ber-Mac Electrical and Instrumentation Ltd.
#250 - 42^nd Avenue S.E.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,

T2G 1Y4
 

Phone: 403-287-6026          

Fax: 403-287-6099