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2019年, 第13卷 第4期
The shale oil and gas exploitation consumes substantial amounts of freshwater and generates large quantities of hazardous wastewater. Despite their success in shale oil and gas wastewater treatment at the laboratory scale, membrane technologies have not been implemented at full scale in the oil and gas fields. This article analyzes the growing demands of wastewater treatment in shale oil and gas production, and critically reviews the current stage of membrane technologies applied to shale oil and gas wastewater treatment. The authors focus on the unique niche of those technologies due to their advantages and limitations, and highlight the importance of pretreatment as a key component of integrated treatment trains. They emphasize the lack of sufficient efforts to scale up existing membrane technologies, and suggest that a stronger collaboration between academia and industry is of paramount importance to translate membrane technologies to the practical applications in the shale oil and gas industry. Cover story (see: Tiezheng Tong, Kenneth H. Carlson, Cristian A. Robbins, Zuoyou Zhang & Xuewei Du, 2019, 13(4): 63)[展开] ...
ISSN 2095-2201N (Print)
ISSN 2095-221X (Online)
CN 10-1013/X
Postal Subscription Code 80-973
原刊名 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China 2018 Impact Factor: 3.883