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Title: Wells to wheels: water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States

Abstract

Supply chains for transportation fuels were analyzed using an extensive system boundary to gain insights into the connections between transportation energy and water resource consumption.

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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1392949
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Energy & Environmental Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; life cycle analysis; transportation fuels; water consumption

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Lampert, David J., Cai, Hao, and Elgowainy, Amgad. Wells to wheels: water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1039/c5ee03254g.
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Lampert, David J., Cai, Hao, & Elgowainy, Amgad. Wells to wheels: water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee03254g
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Lampert, David J., Cai, Hao, and Elgowainy, Amgad. Tue . "Wells to wheels: water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee03254g. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1392949.
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@article{osti_1392949,
title = {Wells to wheels: water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States},
author = {Lampert, David J. and Cai, Hao and Elgowainy, Amgad},
abstractNote = {Supply chains for transportation fuels were analyzed using an extensive system boundary to gain insights into the connections between transportation energy and water resource consumption.},
doi = {10.1039/c5ee03254g},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
number = 3,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Definitions of water consumption. Upper left: Flows of water into and out of manufacturing facilities and power plants. Upper right: Flows of water and petroleum in recovery operations. Lower left: Increased evaporation from construction of hydropower facilities. Lower right: Natural and anthropogenic flows of water on an agriculturalmore » land segments.« less
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