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Case Study 311: Waste Management

(Tank cleaning)

This Catalan company is specialised in the treatment (through outsourcing)


of the liquid waste generated by third party industries, by means of physical,
chemical, biological and evaporative/oxidative processes.

Acting as certified waste management agent, the company also manages,


picks up, transports, analyzes and treats industrial residues with best
available technology. Services offered are best suited to the following
sectors:
Surface treatment/automotive
Paints & resins
Detergents
Flavours
Chemical/pharmaceutical
Food stuffs
Petrochemical

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.

Nominal flow 2,1 m3/h

(IN) (OUT) Removal


COD operational data 3.000 – 50.000 ppm < 100 ppm -96 - 99%

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 OHP® process


The treatment of “rebel” effluent waste streams by the OHP® (humid oxidation with peroxide) process reaches far
beyond the level of removal of conventional treatments (physical chemical, biological, as well as, other classic
oxidation processes using chlorine, ozone or oxygen, not always effective against some refractory compounds to those
oxidation treatments).
In such cases the OHP® process is specially indicated

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.

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