News
CSM Partnered with CU Boulder in a New NSF Sustainable Research Network
The University of Colorado Boulder is the lead institution for a new Sustainability Research Network (SRN) funded by the National Science Foundation. The Network will engage twenty-seven researchers at nine institutions:
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Public Health (University of Colorado Denver)
Colorado State University
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
University Center for Atmospheric Research
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Michigan
The mission of this Sustainability Research Network is to provide a logical, science-based framework for evaluating the environmental, economic, and social trade-offs between development of natural gas resources and protection of water and air resources and to convey the results of these evaluations to the public in a way that improves the development of policies and regulations governing natural gas and oil development.
Professors Cath, Fleckenstein, and Eustes will lead water treatment and well development research at CSM.
CSM Received a RPSEA Award to Continue the Development of the Wastewater Treatment Decision Support Tool
Colorado School of Mines received a new RPSEA award to continue the development of this website and the westewater treatment decision support tool. In the next three years the Tool will be expended to include treatment of waste streams from other unconventional O&G sources.
New Water Treatment Research RPSEA Project at CSM
Colorado School of Mines and Hydration Technology Innovations were awarded a new RPSEA research project titled: "Novel Engineered Osmosis Technology: A comprehensive Approach to the Treatment and Reuse of Produced Water and Drilling Wastewater". In the two-year project the project team will develope novel forward osmosis and ultrafiltration technologies to enable treatment and reuse of wastewater generated during E&P of conventional and unconventional oil and gas.
Presentation at IPEC 2010
Colorado School of Mines, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, and Argonne National Laboratory presented results from their RPSEA rpoject at the 17th Annual Petroleum & Biofuels Environmental Conference (IPEC) in San Antonio, TX, on September 1st, 2010. The following are links to copies of the presentations:
- Integrated Framework for Treatment and Management of CBM Produced Water – presented by Tzahi Cath
- Coalbed Methane Produced Water Usability Through Characterization - presented by Katharine G. Dahm
- From Waste to Resource – An Excel® Application to Analyze Water Quality and Select Treatment for CBM Produced Water – presented by Katharine G. Dahm
- Feasibility and Economic Analysis of Beneficial Use of Produced Water - presented by Pei Xu
- Novel Thermally/Chemically Resistant NF Membranes for Sustainable Reclamation of CBM Produced Water – presented by Tzahi Cath
- Beneficial Use of Produced Water – Considerations for Projects Along the Colorado River System - presented by
David R. Stewart
- Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities of Treatment, Beneficial Use and Management of CBM PW - presented by John Veil
- Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities of Treatment, Beneficial Use and Management of CBM PW - Industry Perspective - presented by Stephen Schreck
Presentation at IPEC
Colorado School of Mines, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, and Argonne National Laboratory presented eight papers (full session) at the 16th Annual Petroleum & Biofuels Environmental Conference (IPEC) in Houston, TX, on November 5th, 2009.
New and past RPSEA newsletters are now available on the web at http://www.rpsea.org/newsletters/