Radium and barium removal through blending hydraulic fracturing fluids with acid mine drainage

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1334-1342

  Kondash, Andrew J ^a   Warner, Nathaniel R ^a,c   Lahav, Ori ^b   Vengosh, Avner ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCES; BENEFICIAL UTILIZATIONS; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL;

BLENDING; EFFLUENTS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIUM; SHALE; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BARIUM;

BARIUM; BARIUM SULFATE; BICARBONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; RADIUM; STRONTIUM; ACID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BARITE; BARIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; HEALTH RISK; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIUM; RECYCLING; SHALE; SULFATE; WASTEWATER;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; EFFLUENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; MINING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; SEWAGE; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

UNITED STATES;

ACIDS; BARIUM; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MINING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PENNSYLVANIA; RADIUM; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84892733844     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403852h     Document Type: Article

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