Each year, metallurgical plants, ships, petroleum and gas operations, industrial washing operations, and other processes generate vast quantities of wastewaters that contain oils and particulates. Conventional methods like gravity separators, air or gas flotation, chemical flocculation, plate coalesces, and hydro clones are generally effective in producing effluents with oil and particulate levels as low as 30 parts per million (ppm). However, these treatment technologies struggle when dealing with chemically stabilized suspensions and emulsions, very small particles and droplets (with a diameter of around 10 micrometers or less), and soluble components. Additionally, it is desirable to have effluents containing less than 10 ppm of impurities due to the potential toxic effects of 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

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