| dc.contributor.author | Yin, Qingqing | |
| dc.description.abstract | North Dakota’s oil boom is aided by a new technology, fracking. But this technology implies large amounts of wastewater. The methods of dealing with this wastewater are now an issue. Currently, North Dakota locks it into deep injection wells in the Bakken formation. With the development of membrane technologies to treat wastewater, it may be feasible to treat the wastewater and reuse it.
This study uses a mathematical programming model to minimize the total cost of dealing with wastewater using three methods - deep well injection, on-site treatment, and off-site treatment. The model results show it is cost-effective to use on-site and large capacity off-site treatment to treat the 20% of the wastewater that flows back within the first 30-60 days after a well is drilled. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Transporting and Disposing of Wastewater from North Dakota Oil Producers | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-07T22:30:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-07T22:30:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26541 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hydraulic fracturing. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sewage -- Purification. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Deep-well disposal. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Agribusiness and Applied Economics | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Agribusiness and Applied Economics | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Hearne, Robert | |
