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 16th Annual Petroleum & BioFuels Environmental Conference 

November 5th, 2009 

Houston, TX
Overview 

► 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 

► 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 

► 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 

► 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 

► 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 

► 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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Management of Produced Water 

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