FECM Efforts Push the Boundaries of What’s Possible in Wastewater Treatment It’s an exciting time to be working in water management at DOE�...

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FECM Efforts Push the Boundaries of What’s Possible in Wastewater Treatment It’s an exciting time to be working in water management at DOE�...
FECM Efforts Push the Boundaries of What’s Possible in Wastewater Treatment

It’s an exciting time to be working in water management at DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM). We recently announced the creation of the Division of Advanced Remediation Technologies’ Water Management program, which for the first time brings all FECM water management activities under one roof in order to advance the affordability, reliability, sustainability, and resilience of water in the energy sector (learn more in the Summer 2022 edition of the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Water-Energy Nexus News). NETL’s Produced Water Application for Beneficial Reuse, Environmental Impact and Treatment Optimization project is creating an award-winning product: an open-source optimization framework for the oil and gas industry to identify fit-for-purpose produced water management practices. And NETL’s Multi-functional Sorbent Technology (also an award winner) represents a game-changing, low-cost process to mitigate the devastating effects of acid mine drainage on waterways, groundwater, and fragile aquatic ecosystems. The list goes on and on!

You can contribute to advancing technology in this field too. FECM recently released a request for information seeking input on the characterization, treatment and cleaning, and management of (1) effluent water from oil and natural gas development and production, and (2) legacy wastewater associated with thermal power generation. To address the challenges of developing new treatment technologies, we need industry, universities, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders to apply their expertise, so that together we can turn wastewater into a valued resource for the American public.
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/articles/fecms-game-changing-work-turn-wastewater-valued-resource

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