Petroleum Waste Generation: Current and Future Trends in Management and Treatment
A special issue of Resources (ISSN 2079-9276).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 934
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Interests: advanced oxidation processes; kinetic growth; biomass growth, industrial and urban wastewater, contaminant removal; wastewater treatment; clean technologies; sustainability and regeneration of wastewater; circular economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite global warming, humanity continues to use natural resources to produce most of the energy it consumes. The petroleum industry, which includes oil, gas, and petrochemical units, is one of the largest industries in the world. This industry is built on various activities such as the exploration, drilling, and mining of crude oil, the refining, transportation, and storage of crude oil, and the refining of crude oil into various end products. These industrial activities can emit significant quantities and concentrations of effluents into the environment, which contain dust particles, inorganic acidic trace gases, and several types of trace metals. The dust particles released from oil, gas, and petrochemical units are linked to environmental degradation. Oil production and refining require a lot of water and emit hydrocarbons and streams related to mineral oil wastewater. Significant amounts of wastewater are produced through the production, storage, distribution, and processing of petroleum. Overconsumption of natural resources has led to environmental problems such as climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, groundwater contamination, etc.
This Special Issue aims to present the current state-of-the-art in terms of the innovative technologies used for the regeneration and recycling of waste produced by the petroleum industries. The primary audience for this Special Issue will be the conference participants of the “3rd International Conference on Petroleum: Waste Management in Oil and Gas Industry, Koya University, Iraq, 28–30 April 2024”. The presenting authors from the conference will be invited to publish their manuscripts in this Special Issue. However, this Special Issue is open to all authors working in this field, not just conference participants.
Prof. Dr. Gassan Hodaifa
Prof. Dr. Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan
Prof. Dr. Joseph D. Smith
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 emissions
- SO2 emissions
- natural gas
- petroleum refinery effluents
- sustainability and circularity
- treatment technologies
- drilling fluid waste
- oil and gas waste management
- environmental persistent waste
- waste regulations
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