PROJECT SELECTIONS FOR DE-FOA-0002796: WATER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR OIL AND GAS PRODUCED WATER AND COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS WASTEWATER ASSOCIATED WITH COAL POWER PLANTS (ROUND 1)
Desalinated Produced Water as Irrigation Source for Non-Consumptive Agriculture and Adjacencies for Ammonia Mining and Carbon Sequestration Field Trials — Aris Water Solutions (Houston, Texas) plans to advance the beneficial reuse of produced water for non-consumptive agriculture and industrial application. The team intends to develop (1) a counter-flow reverse osmosis (CFRO) water treatment optimization for irrigation agriculture; (2) CFRO and other post-treatments to remove and recover saleable compounds; (3) a detailed characterization of raw and treated produced water, techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment; (4) fertigation with treated produced water for long-term crop irrigation; (5) use of recovered ammonia-saturated zeolite from treatment for the development and validation of slow-release fertilizer and demonstration of recovery of high-grade ammonium nitrate fertilizer; and (6) a quantification of the economic vitality of the produced water-irrigated crops and ecosystem benefits.
DOE Funding: $3,178,086
Non-DOE Funding: $3,526,000
Total Value: $6,704,086
Treatment of Produced Water for Beneficial Use with Concurrent Resource Recovery Utilizing Coal- and Waste Coal-derived Material. — Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) intends to develop an economically feasible process to render treatment of oil- and gas-produced water for beneficial use outside of the oil and gas industries. The overall process consists of characterizing produced water, treated water, and concentrated brine resulting from produced water treatment throughout the treatment/resource recovery train, a multi-step produced water treatment process, and a multi-step resource recovery process.
DOE Funding: $1,500,000
Non-DOE Funding: $375,000
Total Value: $1,875,000
Produced Water Consortium for Ultralightweight Composite Manufacturing by Accelerated Carbon Mineralization — PVT Clean Energy (Poughkeepsie, New York) plans to form the Produced Water Consortium for Ultralightweight Composite Manufacturing to manage, treat, and/or beneficially reuse produced water from onshore oil & gas operations. The project team intends to develop a hypersaline desalination approach to separate fresh water from concentrate-produced water and use the concentrated-produced water to manufacture ultralightweight composite by accelerated carbon mineralization.
DOE Funding: $3,275,000
Non-DOE Funding: $822,716
Total Value: $4,097,716
Advanced Characterization of Wastewaters with a Focus on the Environment & Economics — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Illinois) plans to advance the characterization of CCR effluents and illustrate the use of such characterization to determine environmental impact and resource recovery. Specifically, the team intends to (1) develop a one-shot analysis of the major cations, anions, trace metals and rare earth elements in CCR effluents, (2) develop a fluorimetry technique for rare earth elements prospecting in CCR effluents, (3) develop a fluorescence sensor array for detecting and discriminating toxic metals in CCR effluents, and (4) evaluate total x-ray fluorescence for multielement detection in CCR effluents. The team also plans to determine the environmental impact of characterized CCR effluents on ground and surface water through modeling and examine design options for effluent treatment and resource recovery.
DOE Funding: $1,984,173
Non-DOE Funding: $499,850
Total Value: $2,484,023