Pollution Control Technology for Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Operations (Advances in Filtration and Separation Technology)

In this study, national economic plant models are developed for ammonia, chlor-alkali, and ethylene plants to evaluate the economic and technical effects of limiting or not limiting the discharge of any major water, air, or solid waste pollutant. These model plant developments each involve an identification of the technical substitution possibilities, measurement of the inputs into each process and the outputs, including wastes, from each process, specification of the physical laws and effluent standards restricting the substitution of one production process for another, and organization of the data into a standardized mathematical format for computer evaluation.