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 …

Offshore oil spills and the discharge of oily effluents are not only damaging the economy but
also disturbs our aquatic and biotic environment. Since, the discovery of super-wetting …

Oily sludge is one of the most significant solid wastes generated in the petroleum industry. It
is a complex emulsion of various petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs), water, heavy metals, and …

Petroleum refining unavoidably generates large volumes of oily wastewater. The
environmentally acceptable disposal of oily wastewater is a current challenge to the …

Separation of oil in water emulsion remains as a critical issue due to the high volume of oily
wastewater discharged by industrial processes. Membrane technology has a great industrial …

Petroleum industry produces one of the popular hazardous waste known as Petroleum
Sludge. The treatment and disposal of petroleum sludge has created a major challenge in …

Heavy metal/metalloids (HMs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil have
caused serious environmental problems, compromised agriculture quality, and have …

There is increasing demand for low-carbon remediation strategies for reducing greenhouse
gas emissions and promoting sustainable development in the management of …

In this work, low-cost carbon-based materials were developed via a facile one-pot pyrolysis
of oily sludge (OS) and used as catalysts to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for removing …

The activities of the oil industry have several impacts on the environment due to the large
amounts of oily wastes that are generated. The oily sludges are a semi-solid material …