Effluent disposal

The use of excess reactants, diluents, or heat carriers in the reactor design has a significant effect on the flowsheet recycle structure. Sometimes the recycling of unwanted byproduct to the reactor can inhibit its formation at the source. If this can be achieved, it improves the overall use of raw materials and eliminates effluent disposal problems. Of course, the recycling does in itself reuse some of the other costs. The general tradeoffs are discussed in Chap. 8. 

Detonation arresters are typically used in conjunction with other measures to decrease the risk of flame propagation. For example, in vapor control systems, the vapor is often enriched, diluted, or inerted, with appropriate instrumentation and control (see Effluent Disposal Systems, 1993). In cases where ignition sources are present or pre-dic table (such as most vapor destruct systems), the detonation arrester is used as a last-resort method anticipating possible failure of vapor composition control. Where vent collec tion systems have several vapor/oxidant sources, stream compositions can be highly variable and... 

Failure of the utilities and ancillary systems occurs when one or more of tlie following is lost electric power, cooling water or otlier heal removal systems, steam or other heat supply systems, fuel, air, inert gas, or effluent disposal facilities. 

If equipment malfunctions during the treatment process, adequate precautions should be taken to prevent the discharge of untreated effluent. Such precautions should be the provision of emergency collection tasks or the use of approved, licensed effluent-disposal traders. 

Cesspools should only be utilized in extremely remote areas and after consideration of all other forms of effluent disposal has been undertaken. 

The significance of these industrial effluent disposal options on the location of an industrial plant is essentially cost. As previously stated, the EPA does not, as yet, impose a cost on effluents complying with the Consent standards discharged to surface waters or to land. However, the cost of installing and operating treatment... 

The cost of industrial effluent disposal to the municipal sewers is based on a polluter pays policy, which takes account of the quantity and pollution loads in the discharge. All the water companies calculate their trade waste charges in accordance with ... 

Consultants are equipped to monitor the quality of freshwater, estuarine and marine environments and can make field measurements of a variety of water-quality parameters in response to pollution incidents. For example, reasons for the mortality of marine shellfish and farmed freshwater fish have been determined using portable water-analysis equipment. Various items of field equipment are, of course, also employed in baseline studies and monitoring, respectively, before and after the introduction of new effluent-disposal schemes. 

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Many industrial processes begin with a leaching step, yielding a slurry that must be clarified before solvent extraction. The solid-liquid separation is a costly step. The solvent extraction of unclarified liquids ( solvent-in-pulp ) has been proposed to eliminate solid-liquid separation. The increased revenue and reduced energy cost make this an attractive process, but many problems remain to be solved loss of metals and extractants to the solid phase, optimization of equipment design, effluent disposal, etc. 

The economics of PRO systems using brines and fresh water sources and current membranes are more favorable, with estimated power outputs as high as 200 watt/m. However, surface brines exist in deserts where there is limited fresh water, and brines that might be produced from salt domes pose a difficult effluent disposal problem. If PRO systems can be produced at an installed cost of 100/m2 of membrane, the projected economics are competitive with other power-generating techniques. This appears to be the only salinity gradient resource worthy of further study. 

Cheng, K.M. An improvement in effluent disposal with emphasis on cotton pretreatment processes. 

The estimated total cost to treat 125,000 m of soil from the Sviluppo Linate in Milan, Italy, at a rate of 25 tons per hour was 22 million. This estimate excludes excavation, debris removal, treatment and disposal of residual solids and effluents, site restoration, utilities, and the cost of bench- and pilot-scale testing (D158898, p. 333, 342). The vendor estimated that it would cost 150 to 200 per ton to treat 500,000 tons of soil using the B.E.8.T. Model 615 unit at a rate of 200 to 300 tpd. This estimate includes mobilization and demobilization costs but excludes the costs of site excavation, civil work, taxes, prescreening needs, site management, and effluent disposal (D199319, p. 6). 

Effluent disposal costs assume that water will be discharged to a POTW and soil will be backfilled and compacted back to the site (D10061O, pp. 19-20). 

A UV/ozone Ultrox system was used to treat wastewater contaminated with phenol and polychlorophenol (PCP) at a wood processing facility in Denver, Colorado. The capital cost for the Ultrox system was 200,000. Operation and maintenance costs for the entire remediation system were 10.92 per 1000 gal of treated wastewater. This cost estimate excludes the expenses associated with site preparation, permitting and regulatory compliance, startup, analysis, effluent disposal, and demobilization (D205505, p. C-1). 

The effluent disposal scheme adopted is a short term measure only and long term disposal mode is being studied In detail. 

Disposal-water ireaunenl is a must for oil fields with stringent environmental requirements on effluent disposals Moreover, as the oil fields age, produced water cut increases sharply with a larger carry-over of oil. The large amount of oil carried away wnh the effluent is an indirect loss of revenue to crude oil producers... 

The electrolyte in these baths is robust and the throwing power of the bath is excellent however, current efficiency falls with increasing current density as hydrogen evolution increases. The bath also presents significant effluent disposal problems since cyanide must be destroyed by chlorine or hypochlorite oxidation, thus adding to the capital costs of the plant. 

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