Industrial wastewater reuse in petroleum refinery using the WSD for regeneration systems

  • Reinaldo Coelho Mirre Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Lídia Yokoyama Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Fernando Luiz Pellegrini Pessoa Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Keywords: wastewater treatment plant, regeneration and reuse, distributed wastewater treatment, mass exchange networks synthesis, oil refinery

Abstract

Wastewater reuse practices in the industry require an adequate understanding of the characteristics of the manufacture processes, to minimize the water consumption and the generation of effluent. The objective of this work was to apply the WSD method, used to defining the target of minimum process water consumption in a case study of oil refinery, by means of the reuse and recycling operations, including regeneration processes. The importance and influence of the wastewater treatment plant in the regeneration quality, including intermediate process streams, for the reuse and the recycling operations, were evaluated. Furthermore, centralized and distributed treatment flowsheet configurations were tested. Thus, this work presented the solution of a case study with three contaminants in water streams processes, different interconnections approaches, used to illustrate the application of this procedure showing the reduction of water flow rate and total costs compared to the original flowsheet. The scenarios revealed to be greatly promising, and flowsheet configurations were reached with higher than 4 % and 20 % of reduction in the water flow rate consumption and the total costs, respectively. Regarding the ecoefficiency processes, the results demonstrate that the applied technique is successful when the minimum water consumption is the main goal in the industry.

Author Biographies

Reinaldo Coelho Mirre, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Engenheiro Químico, M.Sc., doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia de Processos Químicos e Bioquímicos (Escola de Química, UFRJ). Atua nas áreas de Minimização e Reúso de Efluentes Industriais e Modelos de Gestão Industrial Sustentável.
Lídia Yokoyama, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Professora Adjunta, D.Sc. Escola de Química Departamento de Processos Inorgânicos
Fernando Luiz Pellegrini Pessoa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Professor Associado Escola de Química Departamento de Engenharia Química
Published
21/12/2011
Section
Papers