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(Tank cleaning)
Solids, oil & grease and salts are eliminated by physical/chemical means (clarification, emulsion splitting / flotation,
evaporation, etc.) Yet, with so many different customers, and subsequently so many different waste products to be
treated, one can easily imagine, the type and nature of the liquid waste streams (effluents) generated by our customer’s
activity. Furthermore, on any day, neither composition nor quantity of the waste stream is ever equal to the previous
day.
In 2003 DEISA designed, installed, and started up a double reactor OHP® plant, to provide a flexible (1+1 reactor
configuration able to operate both in series or in parallel) “end-of-pipe” solution to such a complicated waste stream.
The OHP® plant has since operated to absolute customer satisfaction.
TOC operational data 1.000 – 15.000 ppm < 300 ppm -70 - 98%
Case Study 311: Waste Management
(Tank cleaning)
The problem in this case, called for organic matter removal of the most varied origin, irrespectively of waste stream
composition, and concentration. The nature of the discontinuous and varied waste origins to be treated by the
customer, as well as, the presence of many toxic or refractory compounds which could inhibit biological growth in the
existing biological treatment plant, were both strong arguments for the choice of treatment by chemical oxidation.
The performance of the OHP® treatment plant (see table on opposing page) shows the extraordinary removal rates
which can be achieved by the OHP® process. These operational data reinforce the argument (used by the customer to
make his final decision) that the OHP® process represents a “total solution” supposing a “total barrier” eliminating risks
of non-compliance, which operates with great safety and flexibility.
The OHP® process has been specially developed by DEISA, with the technological support, as original suppliers of the
technology, of the company FMC foret.
The process consists in an improved potentiated alternative of the Fenton reaction, which develops under controlled
temperature (110 – 120 ºC) and pressure (1 – 2 bar) conditions, while using a catalyst (OHP® reagent) developed by
FMC foret for this purpose. In the process intervene Free Radicals (oxhydril and peroxhydril radicals), formed by the
controlled and catalyzed cleavage of hydrogen peroxide.
The breakthrough of the OHP® (humid oxidation with peroxide) process lies precisely in the development and
optimization of the control technology of this reaction, in such a way that the removal efficiency by the free radicals,
intervening in the process can be adjusted at will, ensuring always the desired removal at an adequate cost.
The OHP® (humid oxidation with peroxide) process plant is designed according to the most stringent engineering
and safety standards in the Chemical Industry. The OHP® (humid oxidation with peroxide) process takes place at
temperature and pressure conditions, very much lower to those of other advanced oxidation systems. This results in
a process with much higher overall intrinsic safety, at much lower investment costs.