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Jan 1928
Treatment of Waste from Oil Refineries
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The treatment of wastes from oil refineries is different from that of most industrial waste liquids. This is because oil-refining processes differ so greatly from those the wastes of which the engineer is usually called upon to treat. An outline of typical refinery practice has been presented by the writer and will not be repeated here. It is sufficient to state that in an ordinary refinery much water is used for cooling; various petroleum products are treated with chemicals and washed with water; and, at times, there are leakages from condensers and from the multitude of tanks and pipes containing the oil and oily products. All these waste liquids reach the refinery sewer, together with many results of bad or experimental processes and many operators' mistakes.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 92 • Issue 1 • January 1928
Pages: 1329 - 1331
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© 1928 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Robert Spurr Weston, M.ASCE
Cons. Engr. (Weston & Sampson), Boston, Mass.
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