The Side Effect of Oil Refineries on Environment: As a mini Review

Abstract

Reviewing how much environmental pollution, such as air, soil, and water pollution, which in turn has an effect on the environment, is impacted by oil refineries’ hazardous and destructive emissions is the purpose of the current study. Petroleum refineries can be enormous, wide factories with a lot of pipe running throughout, transporting streams of fluids via distillation columns and other chemical processing machinery. One of the major issues with this is the conflict between the economic benefits and the need for refineries throughout the world on the one hand, and environmental concerns on the other. The most frequent gases released into the environment around refineries are, in general, sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Furthermore, heavy metals including cadmium, lead, copper, and zinc are also discharged into the environment along with other compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toluene, and phenol. In general, Living close a refinery has been demonstrated to have cumulative, long-term health effects due to hazardous fumes, chemical spills, and explosions, according to several studies. Some of the detrimental health effects include an increased risk of developing asthma, malignancies, birth defects, neurological and cardiovascular damage, breathing difficulties, and blood disorders.