Offshore produced water treatment by a biofilm reactor on the seabed: The effect of temperature and matrix characteristics.
J Environ Manage
; 365: 121391, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
In many industrial processes a large amount of water with high salinity is co-produced whose treatment poses considerable challenges to the available technologies. The produced water (PW) from offshore operations is currently being discharged to sea without treatment for dissolved pollutants due to space limitations. A biofilter on the seabed adjacent to a production platform would negate all size restrictions, thus reducing the environmental impact of oil and gas production offshore. The moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) was investigated for PW treatment from different oilfields in the North Sea at 10 °C and 40 °C, corresponding to the sea and PW temperature, respectively. The six PW samples in study were characterized by high salinity and chemical oxygen demand with ecotoxic effects on marine algae S. pseudocostatum (0.4%Palavras-chave
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Temperatura
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Biofilmes
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Reatores Biológicos
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2024
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