This book provides a roadmap for sustainable development and growth of petroleum industry with respect to water usage and discharge. Water and energy are intricately tied with each other. As a major source of conventional energy, petroleum industries--upstream, midstream, and downstream--are collectively large consumers of water. Increasing water stress in major parts of the world has made the industry aware of the impact of usable water on different sectors of petroleum industry, e.g., exploration and production, refining and fuel processing, and petrochemicals. Treatment of wastewater effluents to maximize reuse is becoming a primary objective of the industry. This coupled with the need to minimize discharge of contaminants in the effluents that affect human and aquatic life, and the environment at large at reasonable cost is emerging as an important consideration facing the petroleum industry for its sustainable development and growth in the future decades.
This book discusses in detail:
- Sources of water consumed by petroleum production and processing, and wastewater produced
- Health and environmental effects of chemical contained in effluent streams
- Effluent treatment processes--current and new innovations, and technologies for reuse
About the Author: Somnath Basu, PhD, PE, BCEE
Somnath Basu is an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the US Department of Energy (DOE), Washington, DC. He is affiliated with the Water Power and Technologies Office of DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) program. His immediate past affiliation was Headworks International, Houston, TX where he served as the Chief Technology Officer for the development of biological processes for water and wastewater treatment. His other past affiliations include the Water & Utility division of Shell Oil Company where he was a member of the Shell Global Solutions team, Siemens Water Technologies, and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
Somnath is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the current chair of the Editorial and Publications subcommittee of the Industrial Water Committee (IWC) for the Water Environment Federation (WEF). He has over 35 years of experience in water and wastewater treatment, and technologies for generation of energy from renewable resources.
Andrew Shaw PhD, PE, BCEE, ENV SP
Andrew is a Global Practice & Technology Leader in Wastewater and Sustainability for Black & Veatch, based in their Houston office.
Andrew is the current chair of the Technical Practice Committee for the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and he serves on the board of trustees for the American Association for Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES). He is a past board member for the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision review board.
He has 30 years of wastewater treatment experience from 4 continents including operations, design, and research.
Mudumbai Venkatesh
Mr. Venkatesh is an engineering consultant with more than 45 years of experience in the oil and chemical industry. This includes oil refineries, chemical and petrochemical plants both in the United States and around the world.
His experience includes plant design of oil refineries and petrochemical plants as well as extensive experience in the design of environmental systems including wastewater treatment plants at these facilities. He has managed multidisciplinary teams in the execution of projects in order to achieve the goals and objectives of projects. He is also experienced in equipment design, operations support and research and development in the oil and petrochemical industries. He has co-authored the preparation of plant design standards for a major US oil company and also authored a manual addressing Best Practices for water use in oil refineries for a major trade organization in the United Kingdom.
He has a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering and previously worked as the Vice President and Practice leader of Environmental Process Engineering for ENSR and AECOM (ENSR was acquired by AECOM) and as the Manager for Environmental Process Engineering at Badger Engineers Ltd prior to his affiliation with AECOM.
