Boron Removal from Produced Water by Chemical Precipitation

Produced water is the aqueous liquid phase that is simultaneously produced from a producing well along with the oil and/or gas phases during normal production operations. The contaminants in produced water could lead to bad consequences to environment, human health, and aquatic life. Heavy metals found as one of the contaminants in the produced water. Heavy metals are defined as compounds that represent a specific risk to human health due to their potential toxic or carcinogenic effects (Fu and Wang, 2011).