Petroleum refinery wastewater treatment

Petroleum refinery wastewater treatment sludges (F037 and F038)... 

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Treatment of Petroleum R nery Wastewater. Ozone treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater has been used mainly to remove organic contaminants, especially phenols. The combination of ozonation followed... 

Wastewater is treated in on-site wastewater treatment facilities and then discharged to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) or discharged to surface waters under National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. Petroleum refineries typically utilize primary and secondary wastewater treatment. 

Three categories of regulatory limitations apply to wastewater discharge from industrial facilities such as oilfields and petroleum refineries [20]. The first category includes effluent limitations, which are designed to control those industry-specific wastewater constituents deemed significant from the standpoints of water quality impact and treatability in conventional treatment systems. In the United States, these limitations are the EPA Effluent Guidelines, issued under Public Law 92-500. 

The petroleum industry uses them mostly as roughing devices to reduce the loading on activated sludge systems. In some cases, trickling filters are used to pretreat steam-stripped sour water before mixing it with other refinery wastewater streams for secondary treatment [48]. 

Heimbigner, B. Water and wastewater treatment in petroleum refineries. Presented at the Plock Refinery, Poland, June, 1999. 

Petroleum Refinery. Since 1994, BIO-INTEGRAHON technology has been used to treat a mixed-liquor wastewater at a Gulf Coast petroleum refinery. The cost of the treatment system is estimated to cost 200 to 300 per week, as compared to previous disposal costs of 3300 per week (D17796C, p. 6). 

According to the vendor, the Thermatek thermal desorption system is no longer being used for soil remediation. The Thermatek thermal desorption system is commercially available for use in recovering oil product from wastewater treatment sludges in petroleum refineries. 

Groundwater contamination was significantly less than that dociunented at other refineries. In part, this finding can be explained by a combination of the original refinery construction methods (atypical of most older refineries), lack of petroleum spills, and the passive action of the refinery s underground sewer system, in which groundwater collects and flows to the wastewater treatment plant. 

Supercritical propane has been applied to the treatment of sludge from wastewater treatment facilities in petroleum refineries with a treatment capacity of 300 barrels per day [84],... 

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