Current technologies and future directions for

treating petroleum refineries and petrochemical

plants (PRPP) wastewaters
Shahryar Jafarinejada & Sunny C. Jianga

Presented by: Ahmed Salahuddin

Rolling No. 193171004
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, DESE, MTech
Introduction
• Population growth need for more energy

• PRPP are water consumers

• Scarcity of water resources and concerns of pollution

• Effective wastewater treatment R³

 Additional source of water through water recycling
 Improving oil recovery
 Reducing environmental impacts

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 Objective

• Analysis of wastewater effluent from PRPP

• Show PRPP wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) technologies

• Future perspectives for this plants

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PRPP wastewaters
• Water quality parameters:
 Total hydrocarbon content (THC)
 Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
 Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
 Total dissolved solids (TDS)

• Physical parameters:
PH, hardness, heat, taste

• World Bank Group (WBG) effluent discharge guidelines

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PRPP WWTP technologies
1-Primary treatment
 Primary oil/water separation
When oil concentration is more than 500 mg/L

Figure 1: API separator

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 Secondary oil/water separation
Removal of contaminates by flotation

Figure 2: Diagram of a DAF unit ( Komline-Sanderson, 2015)

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 2-Secondary treatment

• Biological reactor to consume/degrade remaining

dissolved oil and other organic pollutants

Figure 3: Activated sludge process ( Suezwater handbook )

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3-Tertiary treatment

• Sand filtration

• Activated carbon filtration

• Chemical oxidation

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 Future trends

• Shift from wastewater discharge to recycle and reuse

• To include:
 On-line monitoring
 Smart feedback loop

• Forward osmosis (FO) for oily wastewater treatment

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Conclusion
• Technology enhancement is the best approach to improve
upon environmental considerations and reduce costs

• New technologies are needed to improve the PRPP WWTP

• The selection of PRPP wastewater treatment technology

should balance the economic, environmental and technical
suitability and regulatory constraints

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Thank you !!