Chemical Analysis of Wastewater from Unconventional Drilling Operations

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1568-1579

  Thacker, Jonathan B ^a   Carlton, Doug D ^a   Hildenbrand, Zacariah L ^a,b   Kadjo, Akinde F ^a   Schug, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Coscend Communications Solutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical chemistry; Chromatography; Hydraulic fracturing; Mass spectrometry; Total organic carbon; Unconventional drilling; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC CARBON; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

CHEMICAL ANALYSE; CHEMICAL CONTENT; DRILLING OPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; GAS EXTRACTIONS; OIL AND GAS; OIL EXTRACTION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNCONVENTIONAL DRILLING; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84939600784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/W7041568     Document Type: Article

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