Produced water: Rare-earth element recovery and clean water production
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2020-04-30Author
Shaw, Madelyn
Biby, Michelle
Pekrul, Jacob
Raymer, Jesse
Santana, Flavia
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The team is to research, evaluate, and design an energy efficient treatment system to produce clean water while optimizing the collection of rare earth elements from produced water recovered from oil and gas operations. From the produced water, your process should achieve high recovery of the rare earth elements (minimum 70%) and deliver clean water that meets drinking water standards (500 mg/L) concentration of total dissolved solids). The goals of the designed system are to develop a treatment system that is practical, cost effective, and able to accommodate flow rates of 2000 gallons per day in the full-scale model.