Thermal desorption meets BDAT standards at Louisiana refinery

This paper reports that on June 18, 1992, GDC Engineering Inc. (GDC) demonstrated its new, innovative thermal desorption process for petroleum refinery K-wastes at a Louisiana refinery. The process proved to be capable of reducing the volume of K-wastes to as little as 10% of their original volumes and thermally treating the residue solids to meet land disposal treatment standards. The refiner will recovery almost 300 tons/year of oil for recycling from the K-wastes. This refinery waste management system (RWMS) will produce an annual savings in processing and disposal of K-wastes of 37% when compared to the fuels-blending program which will be described in this paper.