Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction
On-site treatment and reuse is an increasingly preferred option for produced water management in unconventional oil and gas extraction. This paper analyzes and compares the energetics of several desalination technologies at the high salinities and diverse compositions commonly encountered in produce...
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| author | Tow, Emily W. Chung, Hyung Won Thiel, Gregory Parker Banchik, Leonardo David Lienhard, John H |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdul Latif Jameel World Water & Food Security Lab |
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| description | On-site treatment and reuse is an increasingly preferred option for produced water management in unconventional oil and gas extraction. This paper analyzes and compares the energetics of several desalination technologies at the high salinities and diverse compositions commonly encountered in produced water from shale formations to guide technology selection and to inform further system development. Produced water properties are modeled using Pitzer's equations, and emphasis is placed on how these properties drive differences in system thermodynamics at salinities significantly above the oceanic range. Models of mechanical vapor compression, multi-effect distillation, forward osmosis, humidification–dehumidification, membrane distillation, and a hypothetical high pressure reverse osmosis system show that for a fixed brine salinity, evaporative system energetics tend to be less sensitive to changes in feed salinity. Consequently, second law efficiencies of evaporative systems tend to be higher when treating typical produced waters to near-saturation than when treating seawater. In addition, if realized for high-salinity produced waters, reverse osmosis has the potential to achieve very high efficiencies. The results suggest a different energetic paradigm in comparing membrane and evaporative systems for high salinity wastewater treatment than has been commonly accepted for lower salinity water. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1019782023-02-17T02:05:29Z Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction Tow, Emily W. Chung, Hyung Won Thiel, Gregory Parker Banchik, Leonardo David Lienhard, John H Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdul Latif Jameel World Water & Food Security Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Lienhard, John H. Thiel, Gregory Parker Tow, Emily W. Banchik, Leonardo David Chung, Hyung Won Lienhard, John H. On-site treatment and reuse is an increasingly preferred option for produced water management in unconventional oil and gas extraction. This paper analyzes and compares the energetics of several desalination technologies at the high salinities and diverse compositions commonly encountered in produced water from shale formations to guide technology selection and to inform further system development. Produced water properties are modeled using Pitzer's equations, and emphasis is placed on how these properties drive differences in system thermodynamics at salinities significantly above the oceanic range. Models of mechanical vapor compression, multi-effect distillation, forward osmosis, humidification–dehumidification, membrane distillation, and a hypothetical high pressure reverse osmosis system show that for a fixed brine salinity, evaporative system energetics tend to be less sensitive to changes in feed salinity. Consequently, second law efficiencies of evaporative systems tend to be higher when treating typical produced waters to near-saturation than when treating seawater. In addition, if realized for high-salinity produced waters, reverse osmosis has the potential to achieve very high efficiencies. The results suggest a different energetic paradigm in comparing membrane and evaporative systems for high salinity wastewater treatment than has been commonly accepted for lower salinity water. Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM (Project R4-CW-08) Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM (Project R13-CW-10) National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant 1122374) Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cooperative Agreement 02/MI/MI/CP/11/07633/GEN/G/00) 2016-03-31T16:04:52Z 2016-03-31T16:04:52Z 2015-01 2014-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 00119164 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101978 Thiel, Gregory P., Emily W. Tow, Leonardo D. Banchik, Hyung Won Chung, and John H. Lienhard. “Energy Consumption in Desalinating Produced Water from Shale Oil and Gas Extraction.” Desalination 366 (June 2015): 94–112. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2901-0638 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0606-713X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-8185 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4583-1057 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.038 Desalination Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Lienhard via Angie Locknar |
| spellingShingle | Tow, Emily W. Chung, Hyung Won Thiel, Gregory Parker Banchik, Leonardo David Lienhard, John H Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title | Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title_full | Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title_fullStr | Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title_short | Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
| title_sort | energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction |
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