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    Water footprint assessment for coal-to-gas in China

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    Authors
    Wang, Jianliang
    Liu, Xiaojie
    Geng, Xu
    Bentley, Yongmei
    Zhang, Chunhua
    Yang, Yuru
    Issue Date
    2019-01-01
    Subjects
    water footprint assessment
    
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    Abstract
    To increase its domestic gas production and achieve cleaner end-use utilization of its coal resources, China is actively promoting its coal-to-gas (CTG) industry. However, one of the major concerns for CTG development is the consequent significant water usage. To better understand this aspect, this paper presents a quantitative assessment of the water footprint (WF) for China’s CTG industry. The results show that the WF of CTG in China is typically in the region of 0.055 m3 water per cubic meter of produced gas. In addition, the analysis of the components of this WF indicates that most of the water resources are used both in the process of CTG production itself, and also in the dilute discharge of pollutants. In terms of the planned production capacity of China’s CTG projects, this paper finds that the water use in some regions of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Liaoning may account 30–40% of regional water resources, which means the large-scale development of CTG projects may present significant risks to regional water resources. Therefore, this paper suggests that the status of regional water availability should be one of the key factors considered by policy makers in order to achieve sustainable development of the country’s CTG industry.
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    Wang J, Liu X, Geng X, Bentley Y, Zhang C, Yang Y (2019) 'Water footprint assessment for coal-to-gas in China', Natural Resources Research, 28 (4), pp.1447-1459.
    Publisher
    Springer
    Journal
    Natural Resources Research
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624117
    DOI
    10.1007/s11053-018-9446-8
    Additional Links
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11053-018-9446-8
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1520-7439
    EISSN
    1573-8981
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1007/s11053-018-9446-8
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