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The study focuses on sustainable water and wastewater management strategies at Kermanshah's oil refinery to minimize fresh water consumption through treated wastewater reuse. It highlights the necessity for innovative post-treatment technologies to achieve nearly zero discharge water management. Results indicate that the proposed strategies effectively reduce overall fresh water demand.

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Kermanshah's oil refinery water and wastewater management: providing a

sustainably potential platform for water consumption minimization through


wastewater reclamation

Safoora Nazari1, Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh1, 2,* , Parviz Mohammadi3 , Sirus Zinadini1
1Environment Research Center (ERC), Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Razi University, Kermanshah,
Iran.
2Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
3Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences,

Kermanshah, Iran.

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT

Article history: In recent years, water scarcity has posed significant challenges to oil refineries.
Received 12 January 2021 The escalating water demands of developing oil refineries in pace with the
Reviewed 25 March 2021 progressively stringent environmental, economic, and technical regulatory and
Received in revised form 14 May 2021
suitability constraints necessitate seeking sustainable water and wastewater
Accepted 16 May 2021
Available online 18 May 2021 management strategies that encourage minimizing fresh water consumption
through treated wastewater reuse. Thus, the main scope of the present study is to
investigate a general procedure using innovative post treatment technologies in
Keywords: order to attain an almost zero discharge water management in real life -
Kermanshah's oil refinery Kermanshah's oil refinery case study. The results obtained are proofs enough that
Wastewater reclamation the selected post treatment scenario can effectively minimize the overall fresh
Sustainability water demand.
Minimization
Water management

Article type: Research Article

© The Author(s)
Publisher: Razi University

1. Introduction consumption minimization through maximizing water reuse and


identifying wastewater reclamation opportunities for recycling and
Given its utmost global importance in our daily lives, recreation and reusing purposes ( Wang and Smith. 1994; Bagajewicz. 2000; Mohsen
industrial activities, water has become scarce in many parts of the and Jaber. 2003). Therefore, recycle and reuse of treated wastewater
world. In most process industries, water plays a major role in operations has become a sustainably international practice containing a large
with various purposes (e.g. product formulation, high-purity water variety of applications such as industrial (Nair. 1990; Ciardelli et al.
makeup systems, cooling, waste conveyance, general plant service 2001; Baskaran et al. 2003; Mohsen and Jaber. 2003; Feng and Chu.
water, sanitary service, and fire protection) ( Rosain. 1993; Northey et 2004; Rajkumar et al. 2010; Karimi Pashaki et al. 2017), irrigation
al. 2019). However, due to being subjected to the economic and (Vazquez-Montiel et al. 1996; Lazarova and Bahri. 2004), aquaculture
increasingly stringent environmental restrictions of handling the (Alderson et al., 2015; Chatla et al., 2020), urban/recreational uses
wastewater and the growing demand for fresh water, these processes (Meneses et al. 2010; Owusu-Boateng and Adjei. 2014), and
and systems using water are now facing a powerful driving force to seek groundwater recharge ( Kanarek and Michail.1996; Asano and Cotruvo.
sustainable solutions in rationalizing the water use and improving its 2004). However, in order to comply with the sustainable development
management (Diepolder. 1992; Goldblatt et al. 1993; Alves et al. 2006). indicators mainly involving social, environmental, economic, and
The basic concept of the main strategies leading to the sustainable technological criteria, prioritizing the most promising post treatment
water and wastewater management revolves around water technologies as well as the treated wastewater reuse application
*Corresponding author Email: [email protected]

How to cite: S. Nazari, A.A. Zinatizadeh, P. Mohammadi, S. Zinadini, Kermanshah's oil refinery water and wastewater management: providing a sustainably
potential platform for water consumption minimization through wastewater reclamation, Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater, 8 (1), 2021,
28-35.

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