D. B. Ponomarenko

Bromine and Iodine as Contracted Co-Products of Produced-Water Treatment: Ambient-Temperature Vacuum Separation in the Permian Basin

World bromine supply is concentrated in two lines on a balance sheet: 200,000t from Israel and 110,000t from Jordan, both drawn from a single evaporating body of water, the Dead Sea, whose level falls by 1.0–1.2m every year. Together with China (90,000t) and Japan (20,000t), thes...