Industrial Water Treatment: Refining, Petrochemicals, and Gas Processing Techniques

This book is an introduction to waste water and cooling water treatments for student and graduate engineers in the oil industry. It is based on industrial implementation of these treatments and describes the experience gained by a number of plant managers in operating their own facilities. The challenge for both effluent purification and cooling water conditioning is the search for minimum makeup water consumption and consequently optimum effluent recovery in order to ensure better environmental protection.Contents: 1. Chemistry of natural water and industrial waste water. 2. Refinery effluents and primary treatment. 3. Aerobic biological purification and tertiary treatments for refinery and petrochemical plant effluents. 4. Treatment of spent caustic. 5. Treatment of petrochemical plant effluents. 6. Treatment case studies. Purification monitoring and sludge disposal. 7. Conditioning of cooling system water. Bibliography. Index.