Process water analysis

[VirginieV]

Hello,

Does anyone is aware of some studies made on analysis of process water effluent in a refinery?
why some process unit with certain conditions produce more water than other?

the aim of my study is to minimize the water that is produce in the process ( e g FCC..)

thank you in advance for your help!
Virginie

 

[mbeychok]

VirginieV:

You will find quite a bit of information on the composition of petroleum refinery process water effluents from this book:

"Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants", published by John Wiley and Sons, 1967.

Copies of the book are available in a great many universities worldwide.

As for your second question:

One of the primary reasons for process water effluents from various refinery units is that many of the units use live stripping steam and/or live steam to maintain catalyst fluidization in FCC units. The various units use different amounts of live steam injection and therefore they produce varying amounts of process water effluents.

Milton Beychok
(Contact me at www.air-dispersion.com)