Petrochemical wastewater can be very complex and requires a number of different water treatment systems. Nyex offers an effective tertiary treatment for recalcitrant and hazardous organic chemicals like BTEX and phenols. Anything with a benzene ring is particularly readily oxidised by Nyex.
Removal of hazardous organic chemicals such as phenols and BTEX. Also COD polishing to low levels from industrial wastewater.
Toxic chemicals like Phenols and BTEX destroy biological processes, but Nyex removes the hazardous organic compounds protecting your bio processes.
Nyex can be used as part of your ZLD strategy to increase water reuse. It’s a very effective tertiary water treatment for removal of hazardous chemicals and COD.
Tell us what organic compounds you need to remove from your water and our consultants will give their recommended approach which might involve:
Nyex water treatment systems are particularly good at treating phenols, PAHs and BTEX compounds, so they are well suited to the petrochem industry. Compounds with a benzene ring are particularly easy to oxidise, so if this is what you have, do get in touch.
Our systems are eco-friendly and can operate at much lower costs than the alternatives. Benefits of the Arvia Water Treatment system to the Petrochem industry include the following:
Low energy solution which is simple and easy to operate with minimal manpower and maintenance.
Nyex can remove chemicals which are fouling your RO membranes or killing your biological process.
Treatment regenerates during water treatment process meaning very high up-time. Annual 2% media top-up required which takes less than half a day.
Nyex uses no chemical dosing which is one less COSHH risk for your production facility.
Scalable treatment to meet pressures to increase capacity and easily adjusted as requirements change.
Jerome Budin
Wastewater consultant
Talk to our specialist Jerome Budin about our Petrochem Wastewater Treatments or send us an enquiry.
Arvia’s Nyex™ treatment processes are most successfully deployed as a final ‘polishing’ step in the petrochem industry for the removal of the following:
Typically, Nyex™ would be part of a treatment train to remove the final recalcitrant organic contaminants. However, Nyex™ can be used to increase the effectiveness and reduce costs of your existing water technologies.
For example, it can be deployed as an effective pre-treatment step to support other water solutions such as a biological bed or reverse osmosis system. This is because Nyex™ removes the chemical pollutants which could damage these processes or make maintenance of the water treatment plant more labour intensive if pollutants were to enter these systems and foul them.
The required treatment of produced water varies dependent on its intended purpose:
However, due to increasing environmental awareness and regulations, disposal to surface waters is becoming less commonplace and reuse is becoming more widely adopted in order to protect the environment and save money.
Not only can Nyex™ treat final effluent, it can also manage individual side-streams of problematic used-process water, making this water suitable for water recycling or enable consent to discharge as trade effluent.
Nyex is modular and scalable which means it can slot in where you need it, removing chemicals before they combine with others to become recalcitrant.
Many water treatment processes use chemical dosing and this can cause sludge to be produced. This sludge is generally collected in tankers and taken for incineration with an obvious environmental impact and financial cost. These costs are rising all the time for many reasons, not least due to environmental pressures.
There is another way though. Nyex removes recalcitrant chemicals and hazardous compounds from water without chemical dosing and producing any sludge.
Talk to us about removing some of your incineration costs.
