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The PARETO training workshop is a two-hour, interactive experience intended to teach participants how to: install PARETO software, input data into PARETO; run PARETO optimization; model a variety of complex network scenarios; and analyze, interpret, and compare optimization results.
The Texas Produced Water Consortium invited Project PARETO to contribute a write-up about the project to an update report they are preparing for the Texas legislature. The article we have prepared presents a high-level overview of the PARETO produced water management framework, and includes sections dedicated to going into more detail about PARETO’s strategic model and water sharing portals (AquaShare and AquaTrade).
The poster presents updated PARETO capabilities. Focusing on demonstration example for PARETO capabilities handling water quality, produced water treatment, and optimal selection of technologies.
Managing oil and gas produced water, characterized by hypersalinity and large volumes, presents significant challenges. This paper introduces an advanced optimization framework, PARETO, which offers a novel approach to strategic water management, emphasizing produced water (PW) treatment, quality tracking, quantification of emissions, and environmental justice. This work pre-sents a case study showcasing different produced water management challenges. The PARETO framework demonstrated its effectiveness in optimizing water management strategies in line with environmental sustainability and regulatory compliance.
The presentation at the NETL Resource Sustainability Project Review Meeting will provide an overview of Project PARETO tool capabilities, features, and extensions.
The presentation at the 34th Annual Conference of the Produced Water Society centers on the PARETO project, offering an overview tailored for new attendees. It emphasizes the latest advancements in the project's capabilities, particularly in the areas of treatment and beneficial reuse of produced water.
This is a standalone release of PARETO UI using the previously released PARETO version 0.9.0 for the backend.. New features in this version of PARETO UI are: - Added functionality to upload GIS map network visualizations and auto generate input templates - Added map visualizations based on GIS data
PARETO 0.9.0 Release. Highlights: New Features - Initial beneficial reuse implementation - Post-optimization timing for infrastructure buildout Bug Fixes - Address Pyomo solver bug for UI Gurobi solve - Update Toy Case Study to feasible data for hydraulics post_process - Update Jupyter notebook for fall release UI Updates - Added functionality to optimize with hydraulics options - Added new plots to KPI dashboard for water quality and hydraulics timelines
PARETO 0.8.0 Release. Highlights: Model Updates - Applied unified sets for pipeline and trucking arcs in strategic model - Apply unified sets for pipeline and trucking arcs in operational model - Added new config argument for removal efficiency calculation method - Standardized bidirectional capacity constraint - Added dependencies removed in IDAES 2.1 - Created bounding functions & utilities - Added Hydraulics module to the strategic model - Add additional arc types to strategic model Documentation and Tutorial Updates - Improved PARETO treatment document - Introduced general tutorial and treatment module Jupyter notebooks for Strategic Model - Update docs with correct support email list address - Consolidate and deduplicate Getting Started and resources for developers - Enable Black formatting for Jupyter notebooks - Add Binder configuration files and README Bug Fixes - Fix strategic model documentation typos - Removed duplicated units from output file header UI Updates - Added view for comparing different scenarios - Added functionality for manually overriding PARETO decisions