Siemens to Treat PERF Refinery Wastewater

Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (PERF) has selected Siemens Water Technologies to provide a Petro membrane bioreactor (MBR) pilot unit for treating refinery wastewater.

The Petro MBR pilot unit will be tested for six to nine months at a PERF site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

PERF will test the visibility of the technology to treat wastewater, and determine the effectiveness and robustness of MBR treatment compared with conventional biological treatments.

This will be one of the first MBR processes for treating refinery wastewater in the world, according to the company.

The Petro MBR system uses an activated sludge biological treatment process with a membrane filtration system.