TY - JOUR
T1 - Biological treatment of produced water
T2 - A comprehensive review and metadata analysis
AU - Abujayyab, Mohammed A.
AU - Hamouda, Mohamed
AU - Aly Hassan, Ashraf
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - A metadata analysis was conducted to analyze the impact of several operating conditions on the biological removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from produced water (PW). Operating conditions including temperature, salinity, oxygen availability, treatment technology, microorganism type, and treatment scale were investigated. No limiting maximum COD elimination capacity was reported in the literature, signaling the need to experiment with higher COD concentrations at reduced retention times to identify if such a limit exists. The maximum recorded COD elimination capacity of PW was achieved under low salinity and aerobic conditions in a membrane bioreactor using oil-degradation bacteria on a laboratory scale. Suspended growth exhibited maximum COD removal efficiency, and membrane bioreactors were the most studied technique and achieved the highest performance. Superior COD removal efficiency was realized under hypersaline conditions; however, the COD removal efficiency under freshwater conditions was higher than that under hypersaline conditions.
AB - A metadata analysis was conducted to analyze the impact of several operating conditions on the biological removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from produced water (PW). Operating conditions including temperature, salinity, oxygen availability, treatment technology, microorganism type, and treatment scale were investigated. No limiting maximum COD elimination capacity was reported in the literature, signaling the need to experiment with higher COD concentrations at reduced retention times to identify if such a limit exists. The maximum recorded COD elimination capacity of PW was achieved under low salinity and aerobic conditions in a membrane bioreactor using oil-degradation bacteria on a laboratory scale. Suspended growth exhibited maximum COD removal efficiency, and membrane bioreactors were the most studied technique and achieved the highest performance. Superior COD removal efficiency was realized under hypersaline conditions; however, the COD removal efficiency under freshwater conditions was higher than that under hypersaline conditions.
KW - COD removal
KW - Oxygen availability
KW - Salinity
KW - Treatment process
KW - Treatment scale
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U2 - 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.109914
DO - 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.109914
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120640948
SN - 0920-4105
VL - 209
JO - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
JF - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
M1 - 109914
ER -