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A Typical Case Study: Solid Waste Management in Petroleum

Refineries
ArticleApril 2008 with 1,236 Reads
DOI: 10.3844/ajessp.2008.397.405 Source: DOAJ Cite this publication

1st Jadea S. Alshammari 2nd Fatma K. Gad

3rd Ahmed A.M. Elgibaly 4th Abdul Rehman Khan

Abstract
The current environmental concerns have forced developed and developing countries to reduce air, water and land pollution for sustainable growth.
Solid re nery waste is cocktail of hydrocarbons, water, heavy metal and ne solids and is substantial in quantity. The principal processes of waste
management focus mainly on waste source reduction, reusing, recycling, composting, incineration with or without energy recovery, fuel production and
land lling. Waste management models have a common approach of assignment of generating sources to land lls, transfer stations sitting, site
selection for land lls, etc. but recently new integrated models have been developed and applied. Waste management system in an industrial complexes
uses multi-objective mixed integer programming approach for the running of existing facilities in dynamic net work ow models with nonlinear costs of
management. The latest multi-objective mixed integer programming techniques are applied to resolve the potential con ict between environmental and
economic goals and to evaluate sustainable strategies for waste management. In this approach, material recycling in an economic sense exhibits huge
indirect bene ts, although the emphasis of environmental quality as a major objective in decision-making drives the optimal solution toward pro-
recycling programs. The use of grey and fuzzy system theories as uncertainty analysis tools as an enhancement of this modeling analysis proves to be
highly pro table. A multi-objective optimization model based on the goal programming approach has been developed and tested in this study for
passable management of solid waste generated by a typical petroleum re ning industry in the state of Kuwait. The analytic hierarchy process, a
decision-making approach, including qualitative and quantitative aspects of a problem, has been integrated in the model to prioritize the con icting
goals existing in the waste management problems of the petroleum industries. The optimization model is developed based on the goal programming
technique that attempts to minimize the set of deviations from pre-speci ed multiple goals, which are considered simultaneously but are weighted
according to their relative importance. A set of data from local petroleum re ning industries is obtained and is analyzed using the unique presently
developed multi-objective optimization model based on goal programming technique with all treatment options and economic constraints. The
successful application of this model has provided the most economically viable solution to be applied for the speci ed objectives to be accomplished
for the management of solid waste generated from petroleum industries.

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The generation of hazardous waste led to collection, processing, transport
and disposal of waste at proper disposal site. In order to manage
Hazardous Waste (HW) mainly solids, semisolids, solvents and other
industrial wastes not covered by the Water (Prevention and Control of
Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,
1981, and to enable the authorities to control handling, treatment, transport
and disposal of HW in an environmentally sound manner (Alshammari et
al., 2008). Different methods of waste management emit a large number of
substances, most in small quantities and at extremely low levels.

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The open dumps method is mainly practised by many countries to dispose

the hazardous waste materials. In managing and planning the hazardous
waste systems, multiple goals, such as socioeconomic and environmental
control goals have to be properly addressed (Alshammari et al.,
2008).Thus, a preliminary screening exercise based on the eld
observations and various site attributes is required to be carried to avoid
huge costs involved in detailed environmental assessment (Tchobanoglous
and Kreith, 2002).Few more aspects are also involved pertaining to the ideal
site selection for TSDF, based on its location signi cance. Therefore, proper
land ll site selection is a critical issue in the urban planning process
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2009).Alshammari et al. (2008)expressed that the current environmental
concerns have forced developed and developing countries to reduce air,

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Waste management became focus of attention of many researchers and scientists in the last half century due to its vital importance. Waste management covered
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