Oily wastewater is generated from various sources within the petrochemical industry, including extraction, refining and processing, storage, transportation. Over years, large volumes of oily this industry have made their way into environment, negatively affecting human health, economy. The raw waters can differ significantly complex features, making them difficult to treat. Membrane bioreactors...

A biotechnological method for metalworking fluids (MWF) wastewater treatment was developed. The research, conducted in a lab-scale bioreactor, proved that the process of eliminating pollutants from MWF wastewater proceeds effectively when the following are applied: multiple reinoculating of biomass by adding active microorganisms into the bioreactor, immobilizing microorganisms on the PVC foam ...

Oily wastewater has been recognized as a threat to the environment due its hazardous nature and it can negatively affect ecosystem, threaten wildlife human health. Physical, chemical, biological technologies demonstrated mixed performance in oily treatment, and, therefore, proper treatment technology for needs be addressed. Membrane filtration using hollow fiber (HF) membrane is promising alter...

application of granular activated carbon (gac) in adsorption process has been studied for the advanced treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. because of entering poisonous compounds such as furfural, phenol and sulfides into the oily wastewater of tehran refinery, biological aeration basins of wastewater treatment unit may not have the desired performance of cod reduction. in this st...

Managing the wastewater discharged from oil and shale gas fields is a big challenge, because this kind of wastewater is normally polluted by high contents of both oils and salts. Conventional pressure-driven membranes experience little success for treating this wastewater because of either severe membrane fouling or incapability of desalination. In this study, we designed a new nanocomposite fo...

Petroleum refining industry uses large volumes of water. The water demand is up to 3 m3 of water for every ton of petroleum processed (US EPA, 1980, 1982; WB, 1998). Almost 56% of this quantity is used in cooling systems, 16% in boiling systems, 19% in production processes and the rest in auxiliary operations. The water usage in the Mexican refineries is almost 155 millions m3 per year; it is 2...

Oily wastewater discharge to water bodies can have many negative consequences, especially on the marine ecological environment. Although there are numerous techniques for treating oily wastewater, this paper aims introduce and evaluate potential of fractional freezing (FF) process as a new oil–water separation technique overcome several weaknesses found in conventional methods. FF separates two...