Petrochemical Company
The
process-intensive petrochemical industry has demanding environmental
management challenges to protect water, soil and atmosphere of the refinery
pollution. Lenntech comes up with different kinds of technologies and
processes to the wastewater and the process water from the refinery
industries. Petroleum refineries use relatively large volumes of water,
especially for cooling systems. In fact, wastewater from the petrochemical
industry usually contains hazardous chemicals, as hydrocarbons, phenol or
ammoniacal nitrogen among others. Below we will see some petroleum refinery
waste and process water issues.
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In order to understand the scope of the issue first take a look in our
general drawing about the petroleum refining practices to enter in heart of
the subject.
Please find below a table to summarize the different kinds of wastes
generated by petroleum refineries:
(all this figures depend on the process configuration but we give here
a general guide)
Resource: Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook World Bank Group
The petrochemical companies should tackle with several issues:
Petroleum refineries do not like salts in their feedstock since these
corrode and foul process equipment. The first refining step is desalination
where a hot water wash extracts the salts. Otherwise it's common to use an
antirust or corrosion inhibitors in the fuel. If feedstock contains aromatics
with a good solubilities such as Benzene or Toluene then some will be in the
desalted effluent and this is a major source of refinery wastewater
containing Volatile Organique compounds (VOC).
A direct treatment of the wastewater with activated carbon reduces aromatics content to below
acceptable limits. In addition, the carbon also captures oil, grease and
other organics. Activated carbon
is also used to remove heavy hydrocarbons from hydrogen and light organic gas
streams in the refinery. (Refinery gas treatment). An other application of
the actived carbon is to
enhance the oil refinery activated sludge. This is completed by addition of
PAC (powered activated carbon) into the sludge.
In order to remove phenol and nitrogen the best solution is to use a
biological treatment thanks to hydrogen peroxide for
instance. Furthermore in using a catalyst combine with the H2O2 it's possible to
remove COD, BOD5 and toxicity of the waste water. Besides, phenols
are transformed into less biodegradable compounds which could be removed by
subsequent coagulation and precipitation.
A process for removing soluble and insoluble organic and inorganic
contaminants from refinery wastewater streams employing ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis is
provided. before the ultrafiltration
step, first the wastewater should passed through a softening system to remove
divalent and trivalent metal cations prior to being passed to the reverse osmosis step to
prevent fouling.
One of the main issues of the petrochemical industry is also to remove
the oil from the water after processes or in case of leaks appear in the
piping network. In order to meet the challenge you can use our membrane separation technology. In the event of
alkaline cleaning of tankers, emulsified pollution levels are extremely high.
The correction of the pH is important and it may be necessary to use a
mineral coagulant for instance.
The oil is removed by filtration
or flotation depends on its
soluble BOD5 level and phenol concentration. The water can be
biologically purified. After that a tertiary treatment can be performed to
remove SS and residual phenols.
This water has a higher saline and emulsion content and may content S2-
pollution. It brings about a preliminary catalytic oxidation before the oil
removal by flocculation-flotation
and biological purification.
Two processes are mainly used:
- physical-chemical purification
This technique combines the rapid filtration of oily rainwater and DAF,
which treats effluents from filter washing and emulsified water from
desalination and other processes.
- recycling
Separate discharge of ballast water (saline but low in BOD5)
and partial recycling, after two stages of biological purification of process
water and oily rain water (low saline content) to cooling tower.
From all kind of water such as process water different heavy metals
should be removed.
The table below shows which heavy metal are mainly
present :
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