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Due to its organic origination, complex nature, and toxic effects, wastewater treatment prior to discharge is obligatory. The biological treatment process is normally applied to reduce the effects of petrochemical waste.
\nStringent regulations have motivated researchers to design advanced treatment facilities to give high treatment efficiency, low maintenance, footprint, and operational costs. Biological anaerobic, anoxic, and aerobic digestion (or a combination of each other) have been implemented to treat petrochemical wastewater. Optimizing pretreatment process using physicochemical processes is also important for getting suitable pretreatment wastewater for efficient biological secondary treatment. An overview and update of the petrochemical wastewater treatment processes will contribute to the knowledge development both theoretically and practically.
\nIn this section, the petrochemical wastewater treatment by biological processes is shortly reviewed and discussed. Section 2 introduces the petrochemical wastewater sources and their components in general. Section 3 introduces the normally applied pretreatment process prior to biological treatment processes. Section 4 presents the commonly applied anaerobic, aerobic, and combined anaerobic and aerobic biological systems for petrochemical wastewater treatment. Section 5 shows two case studies on the petrochemical wastewater treatment using Biowater Technology AS’s continuous flow intermittent cleaning (CFIC) and hybrid vertical anaerobic biofilm (HyVAB) processes. Section 6 summarizes challenges and further studies in the petrochemical wastewater treatment.
\nPetrochemical wastewater is a general term of wastewater associated with oil-related industries. The sources of petrochemical wastewater are diverse and can originate from oilfield production, crude oil refinery plants, the olefin process plants, refrigeration, energy unities, and other sporadic wastewaters [1, 2]. The compositions of wastewater from different sources consist of varying chemicals and show different toxicity and degradability in terms of biological treatment. In this chapter, to better compare the treatment efficiency with varying pretreatment processes, the petrochemical wastewater has been categorized to oilfield-produced wastewater, petrochemical refinery, and oily wastewater based on the originates.
\nOilfield-produced wastewater is generated in crude oil extraction from oil wells that contain high concentrations of artificial surfactants and emulsified crude oil characterized of high COD and low biodegradability [3]. It is produced during oil extraction in oil fields and contains complex recalcitrant organic pollutants such as polymer, surfactants, radioactive substances, benzenes, phenols, humus, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and different kinds of heavy mineral oil [4, 5]. Table 1 presents the commonly found compositions of wastewater obtained from oilfield production.
\nParameter | \nValues | \nHeavy metal | \nValues (mg/L) | \n
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Density (kg/m3) | \n1014–1140 | \nCalcium | \n13–25,800 | \n
Surface Tension (dynes/cm) | \n43–78 | \nSodium | \n132–97,000 | \n
TOC (mg/L) | \n0–1500 | \nPotassium | \n24–4300 | \n
COD (mg/L) | \n1220 | \nMagnesium | \n8–6000 | \n
TSS (mg/L) | \n1.2–1000 | \nIron | \n<0.1–100 | \n
pH | \n4.3–10 | \nAluminum | \n310–410 | \n
Total oil (IR; mg/L) | \n2–565 | \nBoron | \n5–95 | \n
Volatile (BTX; mg/L) | \n0.39–35 | \nBarium | \n1.3–650 | \n
Base/neutrals (mg/L) | \n<140 | \nCadmium | \n<0.005–0.2 | \n
(Total non-volatile oil and grease by GLC/MS) base (g/L) | \n275 | \nChromium | \n0.02–1.1 | \n
Chloride (mg/L) | \n80–200,000 | \nCopper | \n<0.002–1.5 | \n
Bicarbonate (mg/L) | \n77–3990 | \nLithium | \n3–50 | \n
Sulfate (mg/L) | \n<2–1650 | \nManganese | \n<0.004–175 | \n
Ammoniacal nitrogen (mg/L) | \n10–300 | \nLead | \n0.002–8.8 | \n
Sulfite (mg/L) | \n10 | \nStrontium | \n0.02–1000 | \n
Total polar (mg/L) | \n9.7–600 | \nTitanium | \n<0.01–0.7 | \n
Higher acids (mg/L) | \n<1–63 | \nZinc | \n0.01–35 | \n
Phenols (mg/L) | \n0.009–23 | \nArsenic | \n<0.005–0.3 | \n
VFA’s (volatile fatty acids) (mg/L) | \n2–4900 | \nMercury | \n<0.001–0.002 | \n
\n | \n | Silver | \n<0.001–0.15 | \n
\n | \n | Beryllium | \n<0.001–0.004 | \n
Wastewater parameter form oilfield production [6].
Petroleum refinery wastewater is generated in oil refinery processes that produce more than 2500 refined products. The wastewater can be from cooling systems, distillation, hydrotreating, and desalting. The compositions of the refinery wastewater can vary depending upon the operational units for different products at specific time and locations. Different concentrations of ammonia, sulfide, phenols, Benzo, and other hydrocarbons are normally present in such wastewater [7, 8].
\nThe oily wastewater is defined here to be any wastewater that does not clearly belong to the two categories mentioned earlier. This wastewater can be from petrochemical-related industries such as from oil transportation tank, garage oil wastewater, etc. The composition of such wastewater is diverse with high COD that can be over 15 g/L [9].
\nWastewater from petrochemical industries consists of different chemicals. The treatment processes depend and are specialized by wastewater sources, discharge requirements, and treatment efficiencies. Normally, pretreatment processes are applied in the treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater before it is sent to biological process for organic elimination [8]. A primary treatment includes the elimination of free oil and gross solids; elimination of dispersed oil and solids by flocculation, flotation, sedimentation, filtration, microelectrolysis, etc.; increasing the biodegradability of wastewater, etc. [8]. This chapter lists a few commonly applied methods for petrochemical wastewater pretreatment.
\nDepending on the wastewater characteristics, physical treatment such as adsorption by active carbon, copolymers, zeolite, etc. can be used for removing hydrocarbons in the petrochemical wastewater [6]. Evaporation is proposed to remove oil residuals in saline wastewater. Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is commonly used for wastewater containing oil/fat as well as suspended solids, which can also be applied for petrochemical wastewater.
\nMicrofiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) are also applicable for pretreatment before the wastewater passes through, for example, reverse osmosis (RO) process for reusing purposes [10].
\nEnhancing hydrolysis by adding chemicals for removing the long-chain organics, toxic material, or suspended solids can increase the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) ratio of the wastewater. Three chemical treatment processes are listed here.
\nMicro-aeration breaks down high hydrocarbon content components from wastewater, which leads to easily biodegradable organic generation. At a dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration from 0.2 to 0.3 mg/L, the hydrolysis of wastewater organics is enhanced. The BOD/COD ratio is increased and SO4− reduction in wastewater is inhibited. Low H2S generation due to SO4− reduced reduction can benefit subsequent biological treatment by lowering inhibitory effects. Benzene ring organics’, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes, treatability in the biological stage can be improved [11].
\nCoagulation-flocculation for specific petrochemical wastewater treatment, such as purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production wastewater; the wastewater contains aromatic compounds such as p-toluic acid, benzoic acid, 4-carboxybenzaldehyde, phthalic acid (PA), and terephthalic acid (TA), etc. Ferric chloride is found to be the most effective coagulant with COD removal efficiency at 75.5% at wastewater COD of 2776 mg/L and dose of pH 5.6. Adding cationic polyacrylamide improves the sludge filtration [12]. Certain streams that combine coagulation and flocculation as pretreatment followed by MF and UF achieved significant suspended solid removal [10].
\nOzonation for wastewater that contains phenol, benzoic acid, aminobenzoic acid, and petrochemical industry wastewater containing acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) at 30 min and 100–200 mg O3/h showed an increased BOD/COD ratio from 20 to 35% [13].
\nMicroelectrolysis of petrochemical wastewater has been tested with positive effects on the COD removal as well as increasing the BOD-to-COD ratio levels [14].
\nBiological treatment incorporates actions of different microbes to eliminate organics and stabilize hazardous pollutants in petrochemical wastewater. Stringent environmental standards and recycling of water for reuse have shifted focus to biological treatments because of its cost and pollutant removal efficiency. As the nature of petrochemical wastewater is very complex, biological treatment to remove pollutants still has challenges despite immense potentials. Complex structures of aromatic, polycyclic, and heterocyclic ringed chemicals are known to be restraint to biological degradation [15]. However, recent research activities have produced notable removal percentages of pollutants from petrochemical wastewater [16].
\nAnaerobic digestion (AD), aerobic digestion, or an integration of both methods is commonly applied in biological processes to treat petrochemical wastewater.
\nAnaerobic digestion has the advantages of producing methane as a renewable energy, requiring less space and having lower sludge generation than aerobic process. A literature review of anaerobic digestion on the petrochemical wastewater is given in Table 2. Petrochemical wastewater treated in anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR), sequence batch, and up-flow sludge blanket reactor (UASB) was commonly applied. It shows that organics in the petrochemical wastewater could be partially anaerobic digested at a removal efficiency depending on the chemical constituents, reactor type, operational conditions (temperature, loading rate, etc.), and wastewater sources [24].
\nNO. | \nTypes of wastewater | \nTreatment system | \nOperating conditions | \nPollutants monitored | \nRemoval efficiencies (%) | \nReferences | \n
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1 | \nCrude oil extractions* | \nBatch reactors | \nThermophilic conditions (55 ± 1°C) | \nCOD | \n70.7 59.9 62.1 | \n[1] | \n
UASB | \nMesophilic | \nCOD | \n81.7 23.5 35.7 | \n[17] | \n||
2 | \nCrude oil extractions** | \nBatch reactors | \nThermophilic conditions (55 ± 1°C) | \nCOD | \n68.2–69.2 55.9–50.4 | \n[18] | \n
3 | \nCrude oil extractions*** | \nUASB | \nMesophilic 1.06 kg COD/m3.d 0.78 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD | \n93 26 | \n[19] | \n
4 | \nCrude oil extraction of light petroleum | \nUASB | \nMesophilic 4.7 kg COD/m3.d 0.78 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD | \n23.8 86.1 | \n[20] | \n
UASB | \nMesophilic 5.6 kg COD/m3.d Thermophilic 5.6 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD VSS COD VSS | \n40–80 42–73 67–84 52–67 | \n[21] | \n||
UASB | \nThermophilic 1.1 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD | \n78 | \n[22] | \n||
UASB | \n4.1 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD | \n82 | \n[23] | \n||
5 | \nHeavy oil refinery | \nUASB | \n3.4 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD Total oil | \n70 72 | \n[9] | \n
ABR | \n0.5 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD Oil | \n65 88 | \n[24] | \n
Overview of anaerobic treatment of petrochemical wastewater.
Water from light petroleum, medium petroleum and heavy petroleum, respectively.
Water from medium petroleum and heavy petroleum, respectively.
Water from light petroleum, medium petroleum, respectively.
COD removal efficiency is used here as a general parameter to assess the performance of different systems. Crude oil extraction of light, medium, and heavy petroleum wastewater treatment by different anaerobic digestion systems at mesophilic or thermophilic conditions showed that in batch test over 56–71% COD removal was achievable at thermophilic condition [1, 18] (Table 2), while UASB system can achieve over 93% COD removal at mesophilic conditions for wastewater from light petroleum extraction (Table 2). It seems light petroleum extraction wastewater was generally easily degradable (over 71–93% removal) compared to the medium and heavy oil extraction wastewater. The setup of plug flow pattern and granular sludge application in UASB might also enhance the interaction between wastewater and organisms, giving higher efficiency. The removal efficiency decreases as the loading rate increases, indicating the inhibition effects to the organisms.
\nMedium- and heavy oil-produced wastewater treatment efficiency was relatively low. Batch system gives generally a better treatment efficiency for these two wastewaters at about 50–60% removal (Table 2), while UASB shows low efficiency at around 20–30% removal efficiency. The effects of toxic chemicals in the wastewater and high content of large organic molecules can be the reason for low efficiency.
\nAerobic process has been applied widely in petrochemical wastewater treatment attributed to its features of easy operation, less sensitiveness to toxic effects, higher organisms’ growth rate, etc. than the anaerobic system. Different aerobic reactors such as traditional active sludge, contact stabilization active sludge, sequence batch reactor (SBR) that applies active sludge and biological aerated filter (BAF), membrane bioreactor (MB), moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR), aerobic submerged fixed-bed reactor (ASFBR) that applies biofilm, etc. have been tested to treat petrochemical wastewater from varying sources and presented in Table 3. Generally higher COD and chemical removal efficiencies by aerobic process are achieved than the anaerobic processes (Tables 2 and 3). The sludge retention time, hydraulic retention time, dissolved oxygen level, feed to organism ratio, and temperature are some of the important factors that determine the treatment efficiency.
\nS.N | \nTypes of wastewater | \nTreatment system | \nOperating conditions | \nPollutants monitored | \nRemoval efficiencies (%) | \nReferences | \n
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1 | \nPetroleum refinery | \nContact stabilization | \nF/M 0.38 | \nCOD BOD NH3-N H2S TSS | \n97.9 95.8 87.5 97.5 98.6 | \n[25] | \n
Activated sludge | \nCOD BOD NH3-N H2S TSS | \n93.4 94.4 83.3 95 97.6 | \n||||
Activated sludge | \n\n | COD TOC TSS | \n94–95 85–87 98–99 | \n[8] | \n||
SBR | \n\n | COD TOC | \n80 84 | \n[26] | \n||
MSBR | \nSRT: 20 days HRT: 8 h | \nCOD Oil and grease TPH | \n80 82 93.4 | \n[27] | \n||
HF-UF MBR | \nHRT: 25–36 h | \nCOD TSS Turbidity | \n82 98 98 | \n[28] | \n||
CF-MBR | \nDO: 4 mg/L F/M: 0.2–1.15 | \nCOD | \n93–94 | \n[29] | \n||
BAF | \n1.9 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD Oil SS | \n84.5 94 83.4 | \n[30] | \n||
ASFBR | \n2.4 kg COD/m3.d HRT: 12 h | \nCOD TSS | \n70±7 65±16 | \n[31] | \n||
2 | \nOilfield | \nBAF with immobilized carriers | \n1.1 kg COD/ m3.d | \nTOC Oil | \n78 94 | \n[5] | \n
MBBR with Activated sludge | \n4.2 kg COD/ m3.d | \nCOD | \n74 | \n[32] | \n||
Activated sludge | \nSRT: 20 days MLSS: 730 mg/L | \nTHP | \n98–99 | \n[33] | \n||
Airlift reactor | \nHRT: 12 days | \nCOD TOC Phenols NH4 + -N | \n65 80 65 40 | \n[34] | \n||
3 | \nOily wastewater | \nActivated sludge | \nTemperature: 25–37°C | \nCOD | \n89 99 92 80 | \n[35] | \n
Ethylene dichloride | \n||||||
Vinyl chloride | \n||||||
Total hydrocarbons | \n||||||
Activated sludge and contact oxidation | \n1.1 kg COD/ m3.d | \nCOD NH4+-N | \n84.9 60 | \n[36] | \n||
\n | \n | UF Membrane bioreactor | \nTemperature–35°C | \nCOD TOC Oil | \n97 98 99.9 | \n[37] | \n
\n | \n | RBC | \nDiesel concentration: 0.6% | \nTPH COD | \n98.1 97.2 | \n[38] | \n
\n | \n | CFIC | \nTemperature–35°C | \nCOD | \n92 | \nCase study in chapter 5 | \n
Overview of aerobic treatment process of petrochemical wastewater.
Petroleum refinery wastewater COD removal was generally high from 70 to 98% in the mentioned aerobic system (Table 3), which in anaerobic system is from 70 to 93%. The contact and extended active sludge process can achieve high COD removal rate of 89–95% (Table 3) at a feed to microorganism ratio of 0.38 [25]. The applied aeration to the mixed liquor and the sludge recycle rate was found to be critical parameters in the successful optimization of the contact stabilization process. The treatment efficiency of NH4-N, H2S, and TSS were also high [25]. Traditional SBR has relatively lower treatment efficiency at 80% COD removal (Table 3).
\nThe membrane reactors such as BAF, cross-flow membrane bioreactor (CF-MBR), membrane sequencing batch reactor (MSBR), and hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor (HF-UF MBR) including ultrafiltration MBR systems treating higher OLR or food to organisms’ ratio can achieve over 80% COD removal (Table 3). MBBR system applying biofilm can achieve 74% COD removal at a high OLR of 4.2 kg COD/m3·d (Table 3). It also can be seen that NH4-N and H2S removal are above 60% that cannot be obtained in anaerobic system. The Total Organic Compounds (TOC) and oil removal are also better than the anaerobic system.
\nOilfield wastewater is relatively reluctant to aerobic digestion due to the complex ingredient. The removal efficiency of such water has a COD removal at around 30–74% (Table 3) by BAF, MBBR, etc. Active sludge process seems to handle well the wastewater and achieve high total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) removal.
\nThe oily wastewater COD removal is generally high by using different aerobic methods, indicating its easily degradable nature (Table 3). The case study in Section 5 presents the advanced biofilm technology named CFIC process by Biowater Technology AS. The full-scale plant data show consistently high COD removal efficiency over 90%.
\nThe treatment efficiencies of individual anaerobic and aerobic systems show good capability in treating certain petrochemical wastewater. An integrated system combining anaerobic and aerobic processes can possibly take the advantages of both and achieve even better removal efficiency for chemicals that are not easily degraded by either anaerobic or aerobic process. An integrated system that is focused in this chapter can be a hybrid reactor consisting of an anaerobic and an aerobic system in a vertical design, such as a hybrid vertical flow anaerobic aerobic biofilm reactor (HyVAB) [9], provided by Biowater Technology AS, or a combination of different treatment processes in series, for example, a system consists of traditional anaerobic reactor and an aerobic stage in series. The performance of integrated systems for petrochemical refinery, oilfield-produced wastewater, and other oily wastewaters is presented in Table 4. The integrated system could effectively remove easily degradable COD in the anaerobic stage first and convert it to biogas with the residual COD and other chemicals such as ammonium, sulfide, etc. degraded in the aerobic stage (Table 4).
\nS.N | \nTypes of wastewater | \nTreatment system | \nOperating conditions | \nPollutants monitored | \nRemoval efficiencies (%) | \nReferences | \n
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1 | \nOilfield produced | \nUASB coupled with immobilized biological aerated filters (I-BAFs) | \nHRT 12 h (Min) | \nCOD NH4+-N SS | \n74 94 98 | \n[39] | \n
UASB-two stage BAF | \nTemperature: 26–33°C | \nCOD NH4+-N Oil PAHs | \n90.2 90.8 86.5 89.4 | \n[3] | \n||
hydrolysis, MBBR, O3 and biological active carbon reactor | \n\n | COD Oil Ammonia | \n95.8 98.9 94.4 | \n[40] | \n||
2 | \nPetroleum refinery | \nMBBR with anaerobic-aerobic (A/O) | \nHRT: 72 h HRT: 36 h | \nCOD | \n<60 mg/L (effluent) | \n[41] | \n
UASB-aerobic packed bed biofilm reactor (PBBR) | \n0.5 kg COD/m3.d Temperature: 35 ± 1 °C | \nCOD PAHs | \n81.1 100 | \n[42] | \n||
3 | \nOily wastewater | \nHyVAB reactor containing anaerobic and aerobic in vertical | \nTo 23 kg COD/m3.d | \nCOD | \n86 | \n[9] | \n
Bioaugmentation anoxic-oxic (A/O) | \nHRT 17.5 h | \nCOD NH4+-N | \n91 89 | \n[5] | \n
Overview of integrated treatment process of petrochemical wastewater.
Hybrid system combining UASB and aerobic stage treating oilfield wastewater showed good effects on COD removal by enabling acidification prior to the aerobic stage where organisms are actively reacting with organic chemicals. The COD removal rates were over 70–95%. Oil and ammonia removal was also recorded over 87% (Table 4).
\nFor petrochemical refinery treatment, direct discharge of treatment effluents after combining anaerobic and aerobic MBBR system is possible. The PAH removal reached even 100% by combining the UASB and packed bed biofilm reactor (PBBL) at 0.5 kg COD/m3·d (Table 4).
\nThe pilot study of hybrid vertical flow anaerobic biofilm (HyVAB) treating oily wastewater had substantially high organic loading rate over 23 kg COD/m3·d. The COD removal efficiency was consistently good over 86% [9]. A case study based on this HyVAB concept is followed in the next section with detailed performance data presentations and discussions.
\nPetrochemical wastewater of different sources, such as from manufacturing industries, auto repair shops, and washing water of oil tanks, is collected and delivered to a full-scale aerobic treatment plant at Bamble, Norway, for resource recovery and biological stabilization. The collected wastes are stored in storage tanks before being distilled to extract oil residuals. The wastewater after oil extraction still contains high COD and is therefore further treated by biological processes. The full-scale CFIC plant was designed and delivered by Biowater Technology AS and has been running continuously for 3 years. A pilot study of the integrated system HyVAB was also carried out on site of the full-scale plant running with the same feed water and the results showed good performance and can be referred to [9]. In this chapter, the full-scale CFIC operation data and a continuous study of HyVAB applying pure oxygen as aeration media are presented.
\nThe full-scale plant applies continuous flow intermittent cleaning biofilm (CFIC) technology. The CFIC technology is an advanced biofilm system based on MBBR concept. It is compact and is operated with alternating a normal and a washing mode while continuously feeding the reactor. CFIC contains highly packed biofilm carriers (over 90% filling ratio) to a degree that oxygen is utilized efficiently by enhancing gas transfer and limiting carriers’ movement in the reactor. The biofilm grows in condition of sufficient oxygen, organic substrates, and nutrients. Excess aerobic sludge grown on the carriers’ surface is washed off during the intermittent washing that helps maintain a thin and effective biofilm.
\nThe full-scale plant layout is shown in Figure 1. Distilled wastewater is pumped to a conditioning chamber where nutrients are dosed and pH is corrected. Effluent from CFIC goes through chemical precipitation and DAF to remove solids before being discharged to the sea. Sludge is temporally stored and dewatered to be tanked away for specific treatment.
\nUp, layout of the full-scale CFIC plant with 1. Storage tank; 2. CFIC reactor; 3. DAF; 4. Sludge storage tank; 5. Dewatered sludge tanker. Down, applied BWTS® biofilm carriers.
The full-scale system is treating wastewater of fluctuating concentrations with COD concentration ranging from 7 to 35 g/L at a designed daily flow rate of 240 m3/d. The wastewater pH is around 5 and a total dissolved solid content of 4 g/L. BWTS® (Biowater Technology AS) with a surface area of 650 m2/m3 is applied as biofilm carriers in CFIC (Figure 1).
\nOperational data of the full-scale plant in 2017 is summarized here. The COD feed to the reactor and the final effluent after DAF is shown in Figure 2 together with removal efficiency. It shows that on average over 90% feed COD was removed by the system. At the early days of the year, sludge flocculation process chemical dosing was not well established; the total COD removal was fluctuating around 80–90%. When the system was stabilized even high COD feed from 100 to 200 days did not reduce treatment efficiency. The high removal efficiency indicates that CFIC is a stable and robust system.
\nFeed and effluent total COD and COD removal efficiency.
The suspended solid content of the final effluent shows that the average value was within 100 mg/L (Figure 3). The CFIC system running in normal mode generally worked as a filter bed which retains suspended solid in the reactor. When washing mode starts, raised water level in the reactor coupled with increased aeration induces a well-mixed moving bed biofilm system. The extra biofilm/sludge in carrier voids are washed off due to intensified shear force and are carried out of the system by continuous effluents. The washing washes away on average 30% of the total solids on the biofilm carriers.
\nEffluent suspended solid concentration after DAF.
The concept of the HyVAB system is illustrated in Figure 4. The system consists of a bottom anaerobic and a top aerobic biofilm stage in a vertical mode. Biogas generated from the anaerobic stage can be collected through the three-stage separator. Due to the close integration of two processes, the dissolved gases (methane, H2S, etc.) in liquid that are generated in the AD stage will not be released to the atmosphere but captured and oxidized by aerobic organisms, avoiding a commonly observed emission problem in anaerobic treatment plants [43]. Returning of the excess aerobic sludge to the AD stage by gravity where the solids undergo stabilization simplifies the sludge treatment which also contributes to methane production. The detailed longer-term pilot study with reactor layout and performance can be referred to [9], where air was applied as aeration source.
\nSketch of the HyVAB (hybrid vertical anaerobic biofilm) bioreactor with the anaerobic stage at the bottom and a CFIC stage at the top. Numbers are sampling points.
This chapter presents the pilot study of pure oxygen effects on HyVAB performance. Oxygen aerations were known to be less energy intensive, high in efficiency, and give good biofilm development due to its close contact with biofilm layers. Results show that the HyVAB COD removal using air and pure oxygen reached similar ratios on average 94 and 85% for the soluble and total feed COD removal, respectively. Oxygen aeration minimized the flushing effects on biofilm carriers and reduced the effluent suspended solid to 500 mg/L and effluent pH was overall 1.1 less than applying air aeration.
\nThe anaerobic stage was filled with granular sludge, with relatively equal size (∼2 mm) from an industrial wastewater treatment facility. Similar biofilm carriers (Figure 1) were used in the aerobic stage. Pure oxygen was applied as aeration oxygen source and air washing was introduced intermittently during the washing mode in the study. The pilot was running continuously for 115 days at 21 ± 2°C.
\nWith OLR increased gradually to close to 30 kg COD/m3·d at lower HRT of 15 h, the HyVAB system still performed well with over 90% soluble COD removal when the oxygen aeration was introduced after 32 days (Figure 5). The air aeration was conducted before 31 days and the results were treated as reference. With oxygen aeration, the anaerobic stage generated high methane content biogas (82%) and the soluble COD removal efficiency was comparable with air aeration (Figure 5).
\nCOD removal at different organic loading rate (OLR) and HRT.
The sludge yield with oxygen aeration was at 0.04 g VSS/g CODremoved and less variations showed comparing to the air aeration stage (Figure 6). The reasons can be that the fine bubbles of the aeration from oxygen did not give high shear force on the biofilm to scratch it off. The low mixing effects also retained the solids in the reactor. The low sludge yield at high organic loading rate indicates high efficiency of the HyVAB system in removing petrochemical organic substances. Consistently lower effluents of less than 500 mg/L were observed with oxygen aeration.
\nBiomass yield at different OLR and with/without oxygen aeration, vertical line separate air and oxygen aeration.
Some petrochemical wastewater contains high salinity and nutrients such as ammonia and phosphate, especially after anaerobic treatment. The high content of dissolved solids might precipitate on biofilm carriers when pH is high and temperature is in good range. Oxygen aeration showed good pH control effects compared with air aeration which induced high pH (over 8.5) (Figure 7) in the aerobic stage. Good biofilm development was observed in the pilot test with such petrochemical wastewater and the scaling effects on carriers were minimal with oxygen aeration.
\npH variations in different streams, vertical line separate air and oxygen aeration.
Biological treatment of petrochemical wastewater is an economic and efficient waste stabilization method. The treatment of wastewater containing organic contaminants of refractory nature can be ineffective in biological treatments [44]. The challenges are as follows: (1) activated sludge method can fail while treating strong petrochemical wastewater with high COD concentration (>10 g/L) and contain some aromatic compounds (phenol and its derivatives, etc.); [45] (2) variations in the strength of the organic load due to various sources of petrochemical refinery can cause shock to the biomass; (3) petrochemical wastewater contains large amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and can cause odor and air pollutions around the biological treatments, and aerobic treatments like activated sludge should not be considered in this case; (4) oil, fat, and grease can cause floatation of the sludge and this can cause sludge washout ultimately failing the treatment system.
\nApplication of certain organisms for specific wastewater components’ treatment after secondary biological treatment can be a topic in the future. Isolation of specific bacteria to treat recalcitrant compounds can lead to effective removal, for example, the bacterium Pseudomonas putida to degrade phenolic compounds [7]. Integrated biological system showed general better performance for treating petrochemical wastewater; the synergistic effects of organisms of different originals such as from anaerobic combining aerobic might facilitate the recalcitrant organic removal. Also, reactor modification and microorganisms’ isolation to handle complex petroleum wastewater treatment can be of great interest in coming days to reduce extra-treatment costs.
\nThe authors would like to thank for the funding provided by Skattefunn No. 265293 and University of South-eastern Norway.
\nThere is no conflict of interest.
The authors would like to thank Norsk Spesialolje for supporting this research during pilot study and by providing operational data. Also, our thank goes to University of South-eastern Norway for research cooperation and Praxair for supporting on the pilot study.
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