Two Statler College faculty members, Drs. Lian-Shin (Lance) Lin and Oishi Sanyal, work on the topic of water treatment for extraction industries. Dr. Lin’s group at WVU has been developing innovative methods for managing produced water from oil and gas development and thermoelectric power generation. His ongoing research focuses on technologies that allow co-management of multiple industrial wastewaters including produced water from shale gas production and blowdown water from power plants for water reuse and recovery of useful products. Dr. Sanyal’s team develops membrane-based technologies to address produced water treatment, reclamation of complex wastewater streams and recovery of useful components from waste streams. Developing advanced membrane materials for current and emerging separation challenges, beyond traditional desalination, is the primary focus of her research group.
Affiliated Faculty
Recent Publications
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G. Khajouei, H. I. Park, H. O. Finklea, P. F. Ziemkiewicz, E. F. Peltier, and L.-S. Lin, Produced water softening using high-pH catholyte from brine electrolysis: reducing chemical transportation and environmental footprint, Journal of Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2020 (in press).
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G. Khajouei, H. I. Park, H. O. Finklea, P. F. Ziemkiewicz, E. F. Peltier, and L.-S. Lin, Produced water softening using high-pH catholyte from brine electrolysis: reducing chemical transportation and environmental footprint, Journal of Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2020 (in press).
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P. Ziemkiewicz, W. L. Bourcier, T. A. Buscheck, T. Carr, S. Chu, J. Donovan, Z. Jiao,, L.-S. Lin, M. Northam, S. Quilinan, P. Stauffer, L. Song, J. Sullivan-Graham, J. L. Wagoner, Opportunities for Increasing CO2 Storage in Deep, Saline Aquifers by Active Aquifer Management and Treatment of Produced Water: Case study at the GreenGen IGCC Facility, Tianjin, PR China, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, special issue on Nexus of Water and Carbon Capture and Storage, 54, 538-556, 2016.