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Viability of waste heat capture, storage, and transportation for decentralized flowback and produced water treatment

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  • Grauberger, Brandi M.
  • Cole, Garrett M.
  • Robbins, Cristian A.
  • Quinn, Jason C.
  • Tong, Tiezheng
  • Bandhauer, Todd M.

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The use of waste heat has been proposed to reduce the energy footprint of membrane distillation for flowback and produced water (FPW) treatment. However, its feasibility has not been fully understood for FPW treatment. Accordingly, this study performs systematic assessments through thermodynamic modelling of waste heat capture, storage, and transportation for decentralized FPW treatment at well pads located in the Denver-Julesburg Basin. A wide range of sensible, phase-change, and thermo-chemical storage materials were assessed for their effectiveness at the utilization of waste heat from on-site hydraulic fracturing engines and natural gas compressor stations, in order to overcome the temporal or spatial mismatch between waste heat availability and FPW generation. Our results show that the type of storage material being used can have a high impact on the efficiency of waste heat utilization and the treatment capacity of membrane distillation. Sensible storage materials only utilize sensible heat capacities, while phase-change materials have improved performance because they are able to additionally store latent heat. However, sensible and phase-change storage materials lose 11–83% of heat due to conversion inefficiencies caused by their changing temperatures. Thermo-chemical materials, on the other hand, have the highest potential for use because they collect and release heat at constant temperatures. We identified three thermo-chemical storage materials (magnesium sulfate, magnesium chloride, and calcium sulfate) with the best efficiencies due to their elevated discharge temperatures which reduce the energy consumption of membrane distillation. In addition, these materials have high volumetric energy storage density, which enables capture and transportation of waste heat from remote locations such as natural gas compressor stations to the well sites, yielding up to 70% reduction in transportation costs relative to moving FPW to centralized treatment facilities at natural gas compressor stations. Our study, for the first time, demonstrates the importance of selecting appropriate energy storage material for leveraging low-grade thermal energy such as waste heat to power membrane distillation for decentralized wastewater treatment.

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  • Grauberger, Brandi M. & Cole, Garrett M. & Robbins, Cristian A. & Quinn, Jason C. & Tong, Tiezheng & Bandhauer, Todd M., 2023. "Viability of waste heat capture, storage, and transportation for decentralized flowback and produced water treatment," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 330(PA).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:330:y:2023:i:pa:s0306261922015999
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120342
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