Feasibility study on petrochemical wastewater treatment and reuse using a novel submerged membrane distillation bioreactor

Production of biodiesel and its wastewater treatment technologies: A review

“…As shown by previous studies, biological treatment is suitable for treating biodiesel wastewater because it can reduce the content of methanol and glycerol since they are easily biodegradable (Srirangsan et al, 2009). Biological treatments such as the activated sludge process have been used widely in treating wastewater from the petrochemical industry (Shokrollahzadeh et al, 2008;Khaing et al, 2010;Sponza & Gök, 2010). Pramanik et al (2012) stated that BAF usage can provide a secondary treatment in industrial treatments and is proven to be more reliable than conventional biological treatment.…”

Submerged membrane distillation for inland desalination applications

“…The feasibility of directly submerging a membrane distillation module into the feed solution has been explored in several studies [16][17][18]. However, these studies have focused on a membrane distillation bioreactor system, and internal stirring in the feed tank maintained a certain degree of cross-flow on the feed side of the membrane, mimicking a DCMD configuration.…”

Treatment of petrochemical wastewater by employing membrane bioreactors: a case study of effluents discharged to a sensitive water recipient

“…Table 2 shows the characteristics of the wastewater that was fed to the MBR for the five experimental periods. The wastewater stream was characterized by low total and ammonium nitrogen, very low phosphorus concentrations and low COD; these characteristics did not favour the biological processes [3,20,21]. Ammonification was an important process for nitrogen removal, since the concentrations of organic nitrogen are much higher than those of ammonium nitrogen.…”