Water Reuse Applications and Beneficial Use
Water Reuse Applications and Beneficial Use
Focus: Applying treated PW in agriculture, industry, environment, etc.
Economic feasibility of developing alternative water supplies for agricultural irrigation.
Edirisooriya, E.M.N.T., Wang, H., Banerjee, S., Longley, K., Wright, W., Mizuno, W., Xu, P.
“This study evaluates the economic feasibility of developing nontraditional water for agriculture and identifies strategies to address the challenges by increasing affordability. In the Southwest United States, such as California, reuse of filtered disinfected municipal wastewater offers the most cost-effective option followed by desalinated brackish water, treated produced water, and seawater. High costs, energy demand, concentrate disposal, and soil salinity management are the primary challenges in using alternative water for irrigation.”
Edirisooriya, E.M.N.T., Wang, H., Banerjee, S., Longley, K., Wright, W., Mizuno, W., Xu, P. (2024). Economic feasibility of developing alternative water supplies for agricultural irrigation. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 43, 100987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100987
Irrigation of Atriplex species with highly saline produced water for rangelands improvement in southeastern New Mexico.
Ali, A.B., Armijo, M. and Shukla, M.
“This study evaluates the effects of diluted produced water from the Permian Basin (34-70 dS/m or 23,800 – 49,000 ppm) on A. lentiformis and A. canescens performance and growth in greenhouse experiments. Both species are good candidates for reusing alternate water sources, such as saline produced water (without heavy metal or radon), especially in the degraded rangelands in southeastern New Mexico, where produced water is also generated.”
Ali, A.B., Armijo, M. and Shukla, M. 2024. Irrigation of Atriplex species with highly saline produced water for rangelands improvement in southeastern New Mexico. Rangelands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2024.04.001
Irrigation with desalinated and raw produced waters: Effects on soil properties, and germination and growth of five forages.
Ben Ali, A.R., Shukla, M.K., Marsalis, M. and Khan, N.
“The study examined the effects of irrigation with produced waters from the San Juan Basin on five perennials cool season forage, species western wheatgrass, alfalfa, meadow bromegrass, Russian wildrye, and tall fescue. The forages were grown in a greenhouse, in loamy soil, and irrigated with desalinated reverse osmosis RO (231 mg/l), diluted RAW (1400 mg/l), RAW produced (8610 mg/l), and tap (427 mg/l) water. Utilizing desalinated and diluted produced waters as a valuable source of water for irrigation after treatment could alleviate water demand in arid oil producing regions.”
Ben Ali, A.R., Shukla, M.K., Marsalis, M. and Khan, N. 2022. Irrigation with desalinated and raw produced waters: Effects on soil properties, and germination and growth of five forages. Agricultural Water Management 274, 107966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107966
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Produced Water Demand for Fit-For-Purpose Reuse—A Permian Basin, New Mexico Case Study.
Sabie, R.P., Pillsbury, L., and Xu, P.
“In this study, a generalized framework was developed for estimating produced water (PW) supply and potential demand for treated PW reuse in agriculture, dust suppression, power generation, and river flow augmentation using Eddy and Lea counties, New Mexico as a case study.”
Sabie, R.P., Pillsbury, L., and Xu, P. (2022). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Produced Water Demand for Fit-For-Purpose Reuse—A Permian Basin, New Mexico Case Study. Water 14 (11), 1735. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/11/1735
Datasets associated with investigating the potential for beneficial reuse of produced water from oil and gas extraction outside of the energy sector.
Scanlon, B.R., Reedy, R.C., Xu, P., Engle, M., Nicot, J.P., Yang, Q., and Ikonnikova, S.
“This article presents data related to volumes of water co-produced with oil and gas production, county-level estimates of annual water use volumes by various sectors, including hydraulic fracturing water use, and the quality of produced water.”
Scanlon, B.R., Reedy, R.C., Xu, P., Engle, M., Nicot, J.P., Yang, Q., and Ikonnikova, S. (2020). Datasets associated with investigating the potential for beneficial reuse of produced water from oil and gas extraction outside of the energy sector. Data in Brief, 105406. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920303000
Can we Beneficially Reuse Produced Water from Oil and Gas Extraction in the U.S.?
Scanlon, B.R., Reedy, R.C., Xu, P., Engle, M., Nicot, J.P., Yang, Q., and Ikonnikova, S.
“This study investigated the quantity and the quality of produced water volumes in major U.S. shale oil and gas plays relative to treatment and potential reuse options in irrigation, municipal use, industrial use, surface water and groundwater recharge, and hydraulic fracturing.”
Scanlon, B.R., Reedy, R.C., Xu, P., Engle, M., Nicot, J.P., Yang, Q., and Ikonnikova, S. (2020). Can we Beneficially Reuse Produced Water from Oil and Gas Extraction in the U.S.? Science of the Total Environment, 717, 137085. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720305957
Simultaneous Recovery of Ammonium, Potassium and Magnesium from Produced Water by Struvite Precipitation.
Hu, L., Yu, J., Luo, H., Wang, H., Xu, P., Zhang, Y.
“This study demonstrated the feasibility of recovering struvite fertilizer from produced water after calcium pretreatment. Recovered struvite was in sufficient quality with no accumulation of heavy metals and organic contaminants.”
Hu, L., Yu, J., Luo, H., Wang, H., Xu, P., Zhang, Y. (2020). Simultaneous Recovery of Ammonium, Potassium and Magnesium from Produced Water by Struvite Precipitation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 382, 123001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.123001