QS Energy Inc (QSEP)

[As I See It]

There is an updated Product Technical Brief on the company website.

http://content.stockpr.com/stwa/media/ad86295f1c7e12c8f18f6a0e5ae3c34e.pdf

This is the first time that they have mentioned an electrostatic-coalescer as a somewhat similar technology.

The technology operates under the same basic principals
as an EC3 (electrostatic-coalescer) commonly found in
upstream Exploration & Production oilfields throughout the
world for filtration of oil/water emulsions. In an EC system,
the macro-scale hydrocarbon clusters facilitate easier
filtration of the crude oil from water in the emulsion during
the field dewatering process. In the AOT system, the
nano-scale clusters reduce the total surface area for their
volume-fraction of the fluid, thereby reducing the viscosity
of the fluid, making it easier to flow

From Wikipedia:

Electrostatic coalescers use electrical fields to induce droplet coalescence in water-in-crude-oil emulsions to increasing the droplet size. The squared dependence of droplet diameter in Stokes Law, increase the settling speed and destabilizes the emulsion. The effects on the water droplet arise from the very different dielectric properties of the conductive water droplets dispersed in the insulating oil. Water droplets have a permittivity that is much higher than the surrounding oil. Furthermore, water with dissolved salt is also a very good conductor. When an uncharged droplet is subjected to an AC electric field the field will polarize the droplet creating an electric field around the droplet to counteract the external field. As the water droplet is very conductive the induced charges will reside on the surface. The droplet has no net charge but one positive and one negative side. Inside the droplet the electric field is zero. When two droplets with induced dipoles gets close to each other, they will experience a force pulling the droplets closer until they coalesce.