Past Projects
2016
50,000
gallons per day
Mission Bell Winery
Mission Bell Winery in Madera, CA installed a SteamBoy system to remove the salts and brine from it's deionization system. The water was cleaned enough that it was able to be reused. The system consisted of two SteamBoy boilers and a large scale EcoPod.
2013
25,000
gallons per day
Tarac
Tarac Winery in Adelaide, Australia purchased a SteamBoy boiler to remove the salt from their deionization system. The SteamBoy was set up to use waste steam from their winery process as a heat source. The winery was then able to discharge the cleaned water from the SteamBoy system safely into the Adelaide wastewater treatment system.
2009
75,000
gallons per day
Resource Environmental Solutions Facility in Pennsylvania
RES and the State of Pennsylvania contracted with us to provide a system for cleaning frack water produced in the natural gas production process. The fracking fluid contained had over 1.5 lbs of salt per gallon, and the mobile SteamBoy system we developed was able to remove 99% of salt and contaminants from the water.
"We have been working with TRE for a little less than a year now and I have found Krystal and Duane to be excellent folks to work with. If you have any need for disposing of non-hazardous liquid waste streams this is the place to start. The profile process and sample review are very straight forward. The process focuses on resource recovery and recycling. I would highly recommend a site visit.”
Craig Joseph
General Manager at Resource Environmental Solutions
2008
60,000
gallons per day
Musco Family Olive Co.
The project at the Musco facility was designed to remove salt from the olive processing water brine. This system employed three large scale SteamBoy boilers, and a 1200 HP steam engine we built from scratch. Musco was honored with an award for leadership in "Innovation in Energy and Agriculture" because of this move toward carbon-neutral heat energy from olive pits.
“It’s not nice waking up and not knowing how to get out of a water problem. Now that we’ve installed the [SteamBoy] system, we’ve got people who were looking at us as a negative seeing us as someone who’s pioneering green technology that can be used up and down the valley.”
Felix Musco
COO of Musco Family Olive Co.
“When you look at it holistically the [SteamBoy] system works all the way around. It gets rid of wastewater streams, solid waste streams – our olive pits – it generates electricity, it reduces our use of fossil fuels. It’s truly amazing the impact it’s going to have on our business operations and how we fit in with the community and with how we fit in with the environment.”
Ben Hall
Director of Environmental Programs at Musco Family Olive Co.
2008
10,000
gallons per day
Tulare Water District
The Tulare Water District in CA contracted us to test the SteamBoy system for cleaning up it's agricultural drainage water. The SteamBoy system to date is the only process that has removed all the salt form the drainage water. We are currently designing a 2 million gallon per day SteamBoy system for the District.
2007
3,000
gallons per day
California Department of Water Resources at Red Rock Ranch
This was a test system to see if the SteamBoy could remove the salt and Selenium from agricultural draining water. After this success, the DWR asked us to design a large-scale system.
“[Tracy Renewable Energy] is using distillation to get the purest water you can get. But they’re adding value along the process by recovering a big portion of the energy through the steam engines, and then concentrating the salts in a way that can be managed.”
Jose Faria
Supervising Engineer at California Department of Water Resources
2006
10,000
gallons per day
Clint Eastwood's Tehama Golf Club & Tehama Community
This was the first scale SteamBoy facility, handling brine remaining from a reverse osmosis process. It was powered by natural gas and solar thermal energy.
