Bioremediation Treatment of Oily Sludge using Composting Method

• Main Author: Nor Asmat B Adnan, Nor Asmat
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2009
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/588/1/Nor_Aasmat_bt_adnan.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/588/

oil extraction and processing operations in Malaysia have resulted in the production of large volumes of our sludge, which constitute it severe pollution problem for this industry.The our sludge contains crude oil (10-60%), water (30-90%) and petroleum solid particles (5-40%) in various proportions depending on its origin.The accumulation of oily residues in petroleum refineries poses a serious environmental problem, and it was the oily sludge generated from several activities in the oil industry that motivated this work, which has the overall aim of studying the bio treatment of oily sludge from PETRONAS Penapisan (Melaka) tide. Ithd. Previous investigations have found several factors limiting land farming which is large space requirements, the conditions advantageous for biological degradation of contaminants are largely uncontrolled, which increase the length of time to complete remediation, particularly for recalcitrant compounds and inorganic contaminants are not biodegraded.This paper presents the hiorcnncdiation treatment of'oily sludge using composting method as the disposal process. the method that is use in this research is composting by introducing domestic waste to cultivate and enhance microbial degradation of this hazardous compound.