1st Edition

Biovalorisation of Liquid and Gaseous Effluents of Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Industry

By Samayita Chakraborty Copyright 2021
200 Pages
by CRC Press

200 Pages
by CRC Press

A bidirectional approach of detoxifying the liquid and gaseous effluents of oil refineries is elucidated in this thesis. Liquid effluents of oil refineries contain selenium oxyanions and phenol, while gaseous effluents contain CO/syngas. To remove the phenol and simultaneously reduce the selenite oxyanions, a fungal-bacterial co-culture of Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Delftia lacustris was... Read more

General introduction,  Literature review,  Aerobic fungl-bacteria co-culture to detoxify phenolic effluents and concomitant reduction of selenite ions of oil-refinry containing selenite ions,  Production of alcohols from CO by anaerobic sludge,  Effect of trace elements on CO conversion,  Recovery of alcohols by an in-house synthesized polymeric gel,  Outlook, conclusion and perspectives.

Biography

Samayita Chakraborty is born and brought up in India, Kolkata. She did her bachelor and masters (with a national scholarship) from India. Later, she received a Marie Curie scholarship to pursue her PhD in the framework of ABWET (Advanced biological waste to energy). Her field of work was to detoxify and utilise the liquid and gaseous effluents from petrochemical industry. She has published 8 papers.