Treatment technologies for petroleum refinery effluents: a review

Diya'uddeen, B.H. and Daud, Wan Mohd Ashri Wan and Abdul Raman, Abdul Aziz (2011) Treatment technologies for petroleum refinery effluents: a review. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 89 (2). pp. 95-105. ISSN 09575820 (ISSN),

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Abstract

This paper presents a brief account of different technologies used for the treatment of petroleum refinery effluents (PRE). Broadly, PRE treatment is accomplished in two stages, namely, a series of pre-treatment steps, in which suspended matter, oil and grease are reduced, and an advanced stage, in which wastewater contaminants are decreased to certain acceptable discharge limits. Photocatalytic degradation techniques have been widely used in water and wastewater treatment. However, the literature regarding PRE treatment is scarce, and the technique is still not being utilised on an industrial scale in refineries. This is largely due to limited research findings discussing PRE treatments. Most researches are focused on treating singular contaminants found in PRE, e.g., phenols, sulphides, oil, grease and other organic components. This review focused on works that investigated PRE treatment by monitoring general refinery wastewater parameters, namely, chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH), oil and grease (O&G), sulphate and phenols at the advanced treatment steps. This paper presents an overview of photocatalytic degradation and discusses published works with the goal of presenting the technique as an attractive and viable process unit. If optimised, this process has great potential for replacing other separation and degradation treatment approaches employed at the advanced treatment stage for PRE. © 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers.

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Additional Information:	Cited By (since 1996): 9 Export Date: 4 November 2012 Source: Scopus Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Diya'Uddeen, B. H.; Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; email: diyauddeen@siswa.um.edu.my References: Abdelwahab, O., Amin, N.K., El-Ashtoukhy, E.-S.Z., Electrochemical removal of phenol from oil refinery wastewater (2009) J. Hazard. Mater., 163, pp. 711-716; Adams, M., Campbell, I., Robertson, P.K.J., Novel photocatalytic reactor development for removal of hydrocarbons from water (2008) Int. J. Photoenergy, p. 7; Akpan, U.G., Hameed, B.H., Parameters affecting the photocatalytic degradation of dyes using TiO 2-based photocatalysts: A review (2009) J. Hazard. 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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Environmental pollution Petroleum effluent Photocatalytic degradation Advanced treatment Biological oxygen demand Discharge limit Environmental pollutions Industrial scale Oil and grease Organic components Photo catalytic degradation Pre-Treatment Process unit Refinery wastewaters Sulphates Suspended matters Total petroleum hydrocarbons Treatment technologies Two stage Water and wastewater Biochemical oxygen demand Biological water treatment Effluents Hydrocarbons Oxygen Petroleum chemistry Petroleum refineries Phenols Photodegradation Pollution Refining Wastewater Wastewater treatment Chemicals removal (water treatment)
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Mr. Mohammed Salim Abd Rahman
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2013 01:53
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2019 08:13
URI:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/4449

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