Shale gas wastewater management under uncertainty.

This work presents an optimization framework for evaluating different wastewater treatment/disposal options for water management during hydraulic fracturing (HF) operations. This framework takes into account both cost-effectiveness and system uncertainty. HF has enabled rapid development of shale ga...

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Publicado en:Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 165; pp. 188 - 199
Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaodong, Sun, Alexander Y., Duncan, Ian J.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. Jan2016
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          Zhang, Xiaodong
          Sun, Alexander Y.
          Duncan, Ian J.
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          EES-16, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
          Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78713, USA
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        Cost effectiveness
        Shale gas
        Wastewater treatment
        Hydraulic fracturing
        Sewage disposal plants
        Decision support systems
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          Cost effectiveness
          Sewage Treatment Facilities
          Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction
          Waste treatment and disposal
          Solid Waste Landfill
          Shale gas
          Wastewater treatment
          Hydraulic fracturing
          Sewage disposal plants
          Decision support systems
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        Uncertainty
        Wastewater management
        Uncertainty
        Wastewater management
      ab: This work presents an optimization framework for evaluating different wastewater treatment/disposal options for water management during hydraulic fracturing (HF) operations. This framework takes into account both cost-effectiveness and system uncertainty. HF has enabled rapid development of shale gas resources. However, wastewater management has been one of the most contentious and widely publicized issues in shale gas production. The flowback and produced water (known as FP water) generated by HF may pose a serious risk to the surrounding environment and public health because this wastewater usually contains many toxic chemicals and high levels of total dissolved solids (TDS). Various treatment/disposal options are available for FP water management, such as underground injection, hazardous wastewater treatment plants, and/or reuse. In order to cost-effectively plan FP water management practices, including allocating FP water to different options and planning treatment facility capacity expansion, an optimization model named UO-FPW is developed in this study. The UO-FPW model can handle the uncertain information expressed in the form of fuzzy membership functions and probability density functions in the modeling parameters. The UO-FPW model is applied to a representative hypothetical case study to demonstrate its applicability in practice. The modeling results reflect the tradeoffs between economic objective (i.e., minimizing total-system cost) and system reliability (i.e., risk of violating fuzzy and/or random constraints, and meeting FP water treatment/disposal requirements). Using the developed optimization model, decision makers can make and adjust appropriate FP water management strategies through refining the values of feasibility degrees for fuzzy constraints and the probability levels for random constraints if the solutions are not satisfactory. The optimization model can be easily integrated into decision support systems for shale oil/gas lifecycle management.
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