Tzahi Y. Cath Colorado School of Mines J. Veil, R. Sullivan Argonne National Laboratory 

# Overview of Project Website: Produced Water Treatment and Beneficial Use Information Center

The 16 th Annual Petroleum & BioFuels Environmental Conference November 5 th , 2009 Houston, TX

## Overview
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### Purpose of website ► 

### Architecture ► 

### Examples of site pages
● Homepage
● Pages that are part of one chain ► 

### QA/QC efforts on content ► 

### Next steps

# Purpose of Website
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### The RPSEA project produces a large amount of data, information, and tools ► 

### Although detailed written reports will be prepared, the project team wanted to have information readily available to interested stakeholders ► 

### A project website allows easy access to these information sources

● Different types of information are written for technical or non-technical audiences

# How Did We Get to This Point?

► Included the concept of a basic informational project website in the original proposal ► Held one-day meeting at Argonne in March 2009 to discuss the path forward ► Held two-day team workshop at CSM in May 2009 to identify ● Target audience ● Components ● How they fit together ► Following the workshop, responsibilities were assigned to team members to create content for the different web pages ► In July – August 2009, Argonne developed the graphical interface (appearance of the web pages), and since August many pages has been created

# Overview of Site Architecture

# Basic Functions
Secondary Menu Items
Bottom-of-Page Menu Items

# Main Menu Items – 1 of 3

# Main Menu Items – 2 of 3

# Main Menu Items – 3 of 3

# Home Page

# Module (Tool) Section

# Water Quality Module (Tool)

## Description of Water Quality Module (Tool)

# QA/QC of Content
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### Content is written by at least 5 different team members

● All have different writing styles ► 

### Some sections of the website are technical, while others are written for a general audience ► 

### We established a reviewing/editing system to provide a more consistent level of writing style and to ensure adequate grammar, punctuation, etc. ► 

### IAC and SAC members will review beta version of the website

# Next Steps
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### We continue to develop more content documents and process them through the QA/QC system ► 

### Beta version of the website will be completed by February 2010 ► 

### Internal review (including input from IAC and SAC members) will be completed by March 2010 ► 

### The website will be uploaded and available to the public by May 2010

# Conclusions and Final Remarks
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### The website will provide easy public access to a great deal of information and several tools developed through the project ► 

### The website process started with a significant amount of thought and planning

# Acknowledgments
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### DOE / Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) for funding this research ► 

### Industrial partners that provided funding for the research ► 

### US Bureau of Reclamation ► 

### Eltron Research, Inc. ► 

### Members of the Industry Advisory Council ► 

### Members of the Stakeholder Advisory Council

# Contacts Tzahi Cath, Colorado School of Mines tcath@mines.edu (303) 273-3402 Jörg Drewes, Colorado School of Mines jdrewes@mines.edu (303) 273-3401 John Veil, Argonne National Laboratory jveil@anl.gov (202) 488-2450 

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