| New Approaches to Treat Produced Water and Perform Water Availability Impact Assessments for U.S. Oil Sands and Oil Shale Development | ||
| Ramesh K. Goel1, Steve Burian2, Andy Hong2, Greg Nash3 and Dudley Murphy3, (1)Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, 122 South Central Campus Drive, 104 EMRO, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (2)Civil & Environemntal Engineering, University of Utah, 122 South Central Campus Drive, 104 EMRO, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (3)EGI, University of Utah, 122 South Central Campus Drive, 104 EMRO, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 In this research, we are developing a digital geospatial database to support our water availability assessment, quantify water requirements for past, current, and future oil shale processing technologies, create water budget models for the Piceance and Uintah basins to quantify water availability, and advance current and develop new oils sands process water treatment techniques to protect water quality and reduce water needs. Advance and new technologies for bitumen extraction and produced water treatment are underway. In the conference presentation, an over view of our research approach will be given. Furthermore, we will also present some preliminary results on a conceptual framework for water budget modeling and advanced oxidation techniques for the treatment of produced water. Extended Abstract Status: Not Uploaded | ||