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Potential Emissions And Exposures Of Toxic Organics From Storage Tanks For Chemical Additions In Hydraulic Fracturing: A Modeling Approach, Huan Chen

Doctoral Dissertations

Hydraulic fracturing has promoted the exploitation of natural gas in the United States (U.S.). However, the storing and emptying of chemical additives in hydraulic fracturing wells may pose adverse effects through inhalation exposures. Based on the information about hydraulic fracturing fluids, this study investigated: 1) water volumes used to mix chemical additives for making up the hydraulic fracturing fluids; 2) chemical species, concentrations and their degradability in the hydraulic fracturing fluids; 3) emissions of organics from chemical storage tanks; and 4) the occupational inhalation exposures by toxic and organic vapors.

Results shows for 80,047 wells fractured between 2008 and 2014 …