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Disposal of refinery slops / sludge
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Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

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Apart from the obvious ways of disposing of refinery slops / sludge, can anyone advsie other ways of disposal.

Typical disposal.

Pump off and tanker away to landfill site.
Lagoon and evaporation. follwed by uplift and tanker away to landfil site.
Incineration (need info on this or websites).

Drain off all "waters" and try to recycle back thru burners or heater system.

Looking for 21st centuary ideas, not 19th Centuary.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Many cement kiln operations will handle these types of waste streams by blending them in with their combustion fuel.  It depends on what their air permit from the EPA allows.  A side benefit is that rather than paying for disposal, you can sell the material to them, although probably for only a few cents per pound.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

I know the EPA has had some success in using bacteria to dispose of sludge from Oil spills.  I don't really know anything about the process or what the byproducts are.  I did a quick search on the net for "oil eating bacteria"  and came up with quite a few articles that might be of interest.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Please suggest some websites for more information on fuel oil sludge treatment and its properties.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Refinery slops would be different from sludge. Refinery slops would normally be reprocessed in the Crude unit at a controlled rate.

Sludge disposal is a different issue.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Is very common to process Refinery sludge and slope in the Coker Unit.  for instance the relation for sludge is 0.25 Bbls of sludge/ton coke.

Your first step is to determine the amount of sludge/slop produce by your refinery by a material balance.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Refinery slops recycled into the crude oil stream may bring a lot of problems to the refiner, including unexpected corrosion downstream. Barquisimetano's suggestion seems to be advantageous, if you have a coker.

RE: Disposal of refinery slops / sludge

Some cement kiln operator, knowing how advantageous this is to the refinery will instead charge the refiner for every tons of they send in!

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