QS Energy Inc (QSEP)

[Myrka]

We have discussed this before.

Earth1 19 Aug 2015

To respond to a number of recent posts on the energy use per barrel question

Energy use per barrel was never a concern despite the attempts at misdirection.

It's interesting to see this red herring being brought up again and again using lab data that's years old, inapplicable to pipeline scale operations and plainly superseded by more recent pipeline data.

From the most recent Tao publication, the implied treatment energy use is Kilowatt hours 0.0000346 kWh/barrel, which is just irrelevant in terms of pipeline power use.
All the information needed to determine this is in Tao's document.

The AOT itself only draws 720 watts, less than a kettle! Lets say they up the power supply by 10X, which I doubt would be necessary, then gosh it might use the equivalent of ten electric kettles. Still by any measure, inconsequential for a pipeline.

And then AS I SEE It 26 May 2017 nailed it with this post

Here is a somewhat more detailed description of the re-engineering of the Kinder Morgan AOT unit. Everyone should pay particular attention to the bold and red colored phrases.
Quote:
" In December 2015, the Kinder Morgan AOT unit was retrofitted with the value-engineered internal components at Industrial Screen and Maintenance (“ISM”), one of QS Energy’s supply chain partners. Tests performed by ISM on the re-engineered unit demonstrated improvements in system efficiency, and a significant increase in internal impedance. Tests performed on an unmodified AOT measured impedance at approximately 200 mega-ohms of resistance. Under similar conditions, the re-engineered AOT measured more than 20,000 mega-ohms; a 100 times increase in impedance. As modified, the AOT needed only 500 to 800 nano-amps to achieve a test voltage of 15,000 volts. These design modifications, specifically designed to address impedance issues experienced in the Kinder Morgan condensate pipeline tests, have the potential of improving efficacy and efficiency in crude oil pipeline operations as well. The increased efficiencies measured on the re-engineered unit has the potential to mitigate the need for a larger power supplies as experienced on operations on TransCanada’s high volume crude oil pipeline."