 Techno-economic analysis of hydraulic fracking flowback and produced water treatment in supercritical water reactorXiao Dong, Jason Trembly and David Bayless Energy, 2017, vol. 133, issue C, 777-783 Abstract: The use of hydraulic fracturing for shale oil and gas development generates large quantities of flowback and produced (F/P) water as by-products. The current high treatment cost of F/P water inhibits development and profitability of shale oil and gas. The Integrated Precipitative Supercritical (IPSC) process, developed at Ohio University, could remediate F/P water produced from hydraulic fracturing with significantly lower costs than current practices. The objective of this paper is to present results of a techno-economic analysis of the IPSC process using Aspen® process software and Microsoft Excel. The Aspen® model was used to simulate the IPSC process with its output used as input for the cost analysis. Results indicated an average cost of $6.33 per barrel of F/P water treatment with a possible range from $2.93/bbl to $16.03/bbl determined through sensitivity analyses. The results further indicate that the IPSC process is economically competitive compared to existing practices. Keywords: Techno-economic; Fracking; Flowback; Produced; Water; Supercritical (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:133:y:2017:i:c:p:777-783 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.078 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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