Assessing REE Concentrations in Geothermal and Oil and Gas Produced Waters: A Potential Domestic Source of Strategic Mineral Commodities
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - view all
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OverviewREEaqueouschemistrycommodityconcentrationcoproducedenergygeochemistrygeothermalmineraloil and gasproduced fluidproduced waterrare earth elementsrecoveryresourcesamplingspatialspatially-dependenttracevariable
The project team collected and analyzed 224 water samples and 101 matching rock samples. INL's improved method of measuring aqueous REEs allows study of samples previously thought too volume limited to measure. The study found that aqueous REEs occur at trace levels in all analyzed samples, and sometimes exceed ocean REE concentrations by a factor of 1,000. No significant predictive relationship to lithology, reservoir temperature, nor salinity was discovered, but aqueous REE concentration appears spatially controlled. Future work is needed to find the spatially-dependent variable that controls aqueous REE concentration.
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Dcat Issued2019-03-08T07:00:00Z
Dcat Modified2019-10-15T02:43:51Z
Dcat Publisher NameUniversity of Wyoming
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