Due to the high demand of questions regarding drift using the Evaporation King Gladiator atomizers, one of Evaporation King's customers collected data at their Oil & Gas produced water disposal facility located near Douglas, Wyoming. The client, IWS Energy, recently converted their enhanced evaporation system over to Evaporation King atomizers. IWS personnel took pictures and measured the visible drift, along with providing current weather conditions at their disposal facility. Four different days were observed, and four different weather conditions on each of those days showed low winds of 6 mph, up to winds at 24 mph. Maximum observed visual drifts were from 2' up to 15'. The TDS of the produced water at this facility is ~37,500 or just above ocean water.
The first day of Drift Study
The second day of Drift Study
The third day of Drift Study
The last day of Drift Study
With the smaller micron levels of water droplets emitted from the EK Atomizer design and speeds, it corresponds with the drift study details provided by The Ohio State University. "Water droplets with 50 micron diameter and smaller are highly susceptible to drift. All droplets 50 micron diameter and smaller completely evaporated before they reached 18 inches below point of discharge for wind velocities between 2.0 and 10.0 mph and relative humidities (RH) between 20 and 80% (Table 1)."
If drift is still a concern for your project, then simply add the Weather & Droplet Control that will provide complete management over the droplets and drift. Please feel free to reach out to one of EK’s accelerated evaporation international experts to discuss how rotary atomization can effectively respond to your wastewater disposal needs and keep pure water in the hydrologic cycle.