Waste management in the chemical and petroleum industries / Alireza Bahadori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahadori, Alireza.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Waste disposal.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Chemical industry--Waste disposal.

Chemical industry.

Petroleum refineries--Waste disposal.

Petroleum refineries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014.

Summary:

The global chemical and petroleum industries have always had the challenge of disposing of chemical wastes, by-products, and residuals, but with traditional techniques such as deep well injection and incineration proving flawed, the need for disposal by legal, safe and economically effective means has never been greater. Increasingly, the need to produce without pollution is the preferred model for industry, and the strategy of waste minimization is seen as the best way forward. This is particularly relevant in the petrochemical and chemical industries, where large quantities of hazardous a

Contents:

Waste-water treatment

Physical unit operations

Chemical treatment

Biological treatment

Wastewater treatment in unconventional oil and gas industries

Wastewater sewer systems

Sewage treatment

Solid waste treatment and disposal

Definitions, terminology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-73173-5

1-118-73174-3

1-118-73172-7

OCLC:

861080372