Produced water characteristics, treatment and reuse: A review

MA Al-Ghouti, MA Al-Kaabi, MY Ashfaq… - Journal of Water Process …, 2019 - Elsevier
In oil and gas industry, produced water is considered as the largest waste stream, which
contains relatively higher concentration of hydrocarbons, heavy metals and other pollutants …

[HTML][HTML] Review of oilfield produced water treatment technologies

KT Amakiri, AR Canon, M Molinari, A Angelis-Dimakis - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Produced water is the wastewater formed when water is brought from subsurface reservoirs
during oil or gas extraction. Currently, produced water is mainly treated using conventional …

State of the art of produced water treatment

SM Jiménez, MM Micó, M Arnaldos, F Medina… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Produced water (PW) is the wastewater generated when water from underground reservoirs
is brought to the surface during oil or gas extraction. PW is generated in large amounts and …

Membrane technology enhancement in oil–water separation. A review

M Padaki, RS Murali, MS Abdullah, N Misdan… - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane separation processes have become an emerging technology for the treatment of
oily wastewater due to high oil removal efficiency and relatively facile operational process …

Current advances in membrane technologies for produced water desalination

NA Ahmad, PS Goh, LT Yogarathinam, AK Zulhairun… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The limited clean water resource has urged the need to extract fresh water from non-
conventional sources. Produced water (PW) is a potential source of fresh water, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] A review of waste management approaches to maximise sustainable value of waste from the oil and gas industry and potential for the State of Qatar

M Shahbaz, N Rashid, J Saleem, H Mackey, G McKay… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally, the oil and gas industry produces a large volume of waste in the form of produced
water, oil sludge, and flue gases that can pose a negative impact on environment. As such …

[HTML][HTML] Materials and membrane technologies for water and energy sustainability

NL Le, SP Nunes - Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2016 - Elsevier
Water and energy have always been crucial for the world's social and economic growth.
Their supply and use must be sustainable. This review discusses opportunities for …

Membrane distillation crystallization technology for zero liquid discharge and resource recovery: Opportunities, challenges and futuristic perspectives

A Yadav, PK Labhasetwar, VK Shahi - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Water resources are getting limited, which emphasises the need for the reuse of wastewater.
The conventional waste (water) treatment methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) and multi …

Specially wettable membranes for oil–water separation

Y Wei, H Qi, X Gong, S Zhao - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The oil–water separation has attracted heightened attention because of the ever‐increasing
amounts of oily water produced from the daily activities of humans and industrial processes …

A review of oily wastewater treatment using ultrafiltration membrane: A parametric study to enhance the membrane performance

T Ahmad, C Guria, A Mandal - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The industries like petroleum refining, petrochemicals, metallurgical, oil & gas, etc., generate
a substantial volume of oily wastewater, and it is recognized as a potential threat to the …