Refinery waste treatment

Preliminary Investigational Requirements-Petrochemical and Refinery Waste Treatment Facilities, 12020 EID 03/71, Mar. 1971. 

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Corrective Action Application Fluidized bed incineration has been used to incinerate municipal wastewater treatment plant sludge, oil refinery waste, some pharmaceutical wastes, and some chemical wastes including phenolic waste, and methyl methacrylate. Heat recovery is piossible. 

Phenol has been detected in the effluent discharges of a variety of industries. It was found in petroleum refinery waste water at concentrations of 33.5 ppm (Pfeffer 1979) and 100 ppb (Paterson et al. 1996), in the treated and untreated effluent from a coal conversion plant at 4 and 4,780 ppm, respectively (Parkhurst et al. 1979), and in shale oil waste water at a maximum of 4.5 ppm (Hawthorne and Sievers 1984). It has also been detected in the effluent from a chemical specialties manufacturing plant at 0.01-0.30 ppm (Jungclaus et al. 1978), in effluent from paper mills at 5-8 ppb (Keith 1976 Paterson et al. 1996), and at 0.3 ppm in a 24-hour composite sample from a plant on the Delaware River, 2 and 4 miles downriver from a sewage treatment plant (Sheldon and Hites 1979). 

Auxiliary processes. Refineries also have other processes and units that are vital to operations by providing power, waste treatment, and other utility services, such as boilers, wastewater treatment, and cooling towers. Products from these facilities are usually recycled and used in other processes within the refinery and are also important with regard to minimizing water and air pollution. 

REFINERY WASTES AND TREATMENT Waste elimination is common sense and provides several obvious benefits ... 

Yet waste elimination continues to elude many companies in every sector, including the refinery section and activity from refinery waste (which is a function of their production system design). It may not matter how a refiner categorizes the waste or how the refiner chooses to pursue waste elimination. One thing remains constant that once identified, waste can be eliminated. There are models and structures that allow a refiner to identify and eliminate waste to increase productivity, and hence cost structures, that have a direct impact on refinery operations and, more than all else, profitability. Waste elimination through identification (by judicious analysis) and treatment subscribe to the smooth operation of a refinery. 

Several options have been identified that refineries can undertake to reduce pollution pollution prevention options, recycling options, and waste treatment options. Furthermore, pollution prevention options are often presented in four... 

IN-PLANT CONTROL AND TREATMENT TECHNIQUES FOR REFINERY WASTES... 

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