TY - GEN
T1 - A system dynamic model to analyze the freshwater dependence of the marcellus shale in bradford country, Pennsylvania
AU - Li, Huajiao
AU - An, Haizhong
AU - Kleit, Andrew N.
AU - Li, Li
AU - Jiang, Meng
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71173199), the China Scholarship Council (File No. 201406400004), the Humanities and Social Sciences planning funds project under the Ministry of Education of the PRC (Grant No.10YJA630001), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2-9-2014-104), the Science and Technology Innovation Fund of the China University of Geosciences (Beijing), and the Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resources and the Environment (No. CCA2015.05). The authors would like to express their gratitude to Xiaoliang Jia, Xiangyun Gao, who provided valuable suggestions while writing and revising this paper.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The hydraulic fracturing of shale gas depends heavily on adequate water resources. With the rapid development of shale gas, a significant amount of freshwater is used together with the generation of large quantities of production and flowback waters. Water issues have become increasingly important for shale gas development. To figure out the relationship between shale gas development and freshwater, here we define a freshwater dependence coefficient (FDC), which is ratio between the total freshwater usage (surface and underground freshwater) and the total water demand of shale gas development. In Pennsylvania, an increasing amount of flowback water is reused in shale gas fracturing, which can reduce freshwater dependence. In this paper, we develop a water carrying capacity model of shale gas development using system dynamics. Based on the empirical data from the Marcellus Shale in Bradford Country, Pennsylvania, we analyze the nonlinear relationships between water resources and water management, particularly the relationships between freshwater dependence, the flowback percentage, freshwater dependence and reused flowback under different developnet scenarios. This paper provides a basis for further study on the water carrying capacity for shale development.
AB - The hydraulic fracturing of shale gas depends heavily on adequate water resources. With the rapid development of shale gas, a significant amount of freshwater is used together with the generation of large quantities of production and flowback waters. Water issues have become increasingly important for shale gas development. To figure out the relationship between shale gas development and freshwater, here we define a freshwater dependence coefficient (FDC), which is ratio between the total freshwater usage (surface and underground freshwater) and the total water demand of shale gas development. In Pennsylvania, an increasing amount of flowback water is reused in shale gas fracturing, which can reduce freshwater dependence. In this paper, we develop a water carrying capacity model of shale gas development using system dynamics. Based on the empirical data from the Marcellus Shale in Bradford Country, Pennsylvania, we analyze the nonlinear relationships between water resources and water management, particularly the relationships between freshwater dependence, the flowback percentage, freshwater dependence and reused flowback under different developnet scenarios. This paper provides a basis for further study on the water carrying capacity for shale development.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - ECOS 2015 - 28th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
BT - ECOS 2015 - 28th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
PB - International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
T2 - 28th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, ECOS 2015
Y2 - 29 June 2015 through 3 July 2015
ER -