Identifying well contamination through the use of 3-D fluorescence spectroscopy to classify coalbed methane produced water

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 649-656

  Dahm, Katharine G ^a,b   Van Straaten, Colette M ^a   Munakata Marr, Junko ^a   Drewes, Jörg E ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PRODUCTION; COAL BED METHANE; COALBED METHANES; FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION EMISSION MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS RESOURCE; GAS WELL; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; ORGANIC SIGNATURE; PRODUCED WATER; WELL PRODUCTION;

BYPRODUCTS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; ENERGY RESOURCES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; METHANATION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS;

FIREDAMP;

ACETIC ACID; ALUMINUM; BARIUM; CALCIUM; COPPER; GROUND WATER; HUMIC ACID; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METHANE; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; NATURAL GAS; NICKEL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTEIN; STRONTIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER POLLUTION; COAL SEAM; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GAS PRODUCTION; GAS WELL; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; METHANE; SAMPLING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHANE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84871774065     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303866k     Document Type: Article

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