Introduction:
Billions of gallons of wastewaters containing oils and particulates are produced each year by metallurgical plants, ships, petroleum and gas operations, industrial washing operations, and other processes. Traditional technologies, such as gravity separators, air or gas flotation, chemical flocculation, plate coalesces, and hydro clones, are generally able to produce effluents containing as little as 30 ppm dispersed oil and particulates. However, these treatment technologies perform poorly on chemically stabilized suspensions and emulsions, very small particles and droplets (G-10 um in diameter), and soluble components. Moreover, effluents with less than 10 ppm impurities are desired, because of the potentially toxic effects of the contaminants and their tendency to foul reverse-osmosis membranes and downstream processing equipment.
Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:-
- Learn the different sources of oily water in refining and steam cracking including the non-oily wastewater, transportation wastewater and steam cracking condensates
- Become familiar with the environmental imperatives standards & legislation, standards for discharge and monitoring of hydrocarbons in France, Belgian & Canadian regulations and World Bank Environmental Standards
- Know the definition and layout of treatments for oily water, explain the need to separate sewer systems and illustrate the different stages in treating the general effluent
- Learn the process for pretreatment of sour condensates which includes stripping and air oxidation of sour condensates
- Learn the principles of preliminary oil separation including the construction of gravity oil separators and the physicochemical purification of effluents from preliminary oil separators which involves Separation of Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF), separation by filtration and separation by coalescence
- Apply the proper procedure for monitoring purification plants by measuring hydrocarbons & organic matter and using pH-meters & miscellaneous devices
- Become familiar with new technologies for oily water treatment, membrane biological reactors, rotating biological contractors, sludge pumping and flow meters for mass balances
- Know the different case studies related to oily water treatment technology (Mobil, ELF, SHELL, ESSO)
- Apply systematic techniques in the treatment of oily water
- Discuss the sources of oily water in oil production fields, refining and steam cracking and explain the environmental imperative standards & legislations pertaining to the discharge of oil water
- Describe the layout of treatments, stages of general effluent treatment, the pretreatment of sour condensates, principles of preliminary oil separation and the physicochemical purification of effluents from preliminary oil separators
- Monitor purification plants such as measurement of hydrocarbons and organic matter, pH meters and performance of WTP equipment
- Discuss new technology such as membrane biological reactors (MBR), rotating biological contractors (RBC), sequence batch reactor (SBR) as well as sludge pumping and flowmeters for mass balances
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for all environmental and HSE Professionals and Engineers, Oily Water Treatment Staff, Design Engineers and Sewage Operators, Municipal Planners and Engineers, plant and Maintenance Engineers, Mechanical Engineers and other Technical Staff. Further, this course is suitable for process Engineers, operation, maintenance, inspection and Production Managers, Supervisors, Foremen and anyone responsible for managing and operating wastewater treatment facilities.
Course Outlines:
Introduction and Scope of Organizational Roles and Responsibilities
- Quality Systems
- Control of Quality Documents
- Review of Requests, Tenders and Contracts
- Subcontracting of Tests
Purchasing Services and Supplies
- Service to the Client
- Complaints
- Control on Nonconforming Work
- Improvement
- Corrective Action
- Preventative Measures
Control of Records
- Audits and Management Review
- Personnel, Training and Data Integrity
- Test Methods and Method Validation
Equipment and Calibrations
- Measurement Traceability
- Sample Management
- Quality of Test Results 23 Reporting of Results
- Course Conclusion