Environmental and Economic Water Management in Shale Gas Extraction
| Autor: | José A. Caballero, Alba Carrero-Parreño, Natalia Quirante, Juan A. Labarta, Ignacio E. Grossmann |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Ingeniería de los Procesos Químicos, Computer Optimization of Chemical Engineering Processes and Technologies (CONCEPT) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources life cycle assessment (LCA) shale gas membrane distillation life cycle assessment (lca) Membrane distillation 02 engineering and technology Wastewater treatment 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Desalination Shale gas 020401 chemical engineering thermal-based technology Environmental impact assessment Extraction (military) 0204 chemical engineering Vapor-compression evaporation Process engineering Life-cycle assessment lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 Thermal-based technology Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Profit maximization shale gas Ingeniería Química wastewater treatment lcsh:TD194-195 Environmental science Sewage treatment Metric (unit) Life cycle assessment (LCA) business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 4 RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 1686 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12041686 |
| Popis: | This paper introduces a comprehensive study of the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of water management in shale gas exploitation. First, we present a comprehensive study of wastewater treatment in the shale gas extraction, including the most common technologies for the pretreatment and three different desalination technologies of recent interest: Single and Multiple-Effect Evaporation with Mechanical Vapor Recompression and Membrane Distillation. The analysis has been carried out through a generic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the ReCiPe metric (at midpoint and endpoint levels), considering a wide range of environmental impacts. The results show that among these technologies Multiple-Effect Evaporation with Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MEE-MVR) is the most suitable technology for the wastewater treatment in shale gas extraction, taking into account its reduced environmental impact, the high water recovery compared to other alternatives as well as the lower cost of this technology. We also use a comprehensive water management model that includes previous results that takes the form of a new Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) bi-criterion optimization model to address the profit maximization and the minimization Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), based on its results we discuss the main tradeoffs between optimal operation from the economic and environmental points of view. This project has received funding from the Spanish «Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad» under the projects CTQ2016-77968-C3-1-P and CTQ2016-77968-C3-2-P (FEDER, UE). |
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