PMID- 28861764
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180925
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 28
DP  - 2017 Oct
TI  - Oil refinery wastewater treatment in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: current practices, 
      challenges, and recommendations.
PG  - 22730-22740
LID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0009-z [doi]
AB  - The extensive oil exploration has led to a series of environmental issues in the 
      Niger Delta, Nigeria, over the years. Aside from oil spill, insufficient 
      wastewater treatment of oil refineries and the discharged effluents become 
      another potential source of pollution that has not received enough attention from 
      the government and the public. Through reviewing the current oil refinery 
      wastewater treatment processes and the discharge standards of wastewater 
      effluents in Nigeria, we aimed to raise the awareness of the shortcomings of the 
      current wastewater treatment technology and to discuss the consequences of 
      insufficient treatment to the environment. This article further discussed the use 
      of nanotechnology as a potential upgrade to the conventional treatment 
      technologies as it has shown its capacity of removing persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) or converting hazardous components to environmentally friendly 
      derivatives. It should also prove beneficial to the key stakeholders involved in 
      the exploration of crude oil in the region to consider optimization of oil 
      refinery wastewater treatment processes through integration of emerging 
      technologies.
FAU - Osin, Oluwatomiwa A
AU  - Osin OA
AD  - College of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of 
      Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
AD  - UN Environment-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, 
      Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
FAU - Yu, Tianyu
AU  - Yu T
AD  - College of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of 
      Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
AD  - UN Environment-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, 
      Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
FAU - Lin, Sijie
AU  - Lin S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6970-8221
AD  - College of Environmental Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of 
      Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. 
      lin.sijie@tongji.edu.cn.
AD  - UN Environment-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, 
      Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China. lin.sijie@tongji.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
GR  - 21607115/National Natural Science Foundation of China (CN)/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170831
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Petroleum)
RN  - 0 (Waste Water)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Nanotechnology/*methods
MH  - Nigeria
MH  - *Oil and Gas Industry
MH  - Petroleum/analysis
MH  - Petroleum Pollution/analysis
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Wastewater/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
MH  - Water Purification/*methods
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Effluents
OT  - Environmental pollution
OT  - Nanotechnology
OT  - Niger Delta
OT  - Oil refinery
OT  - Wastewater treatment
EDAT- 2017/09/02 06:00
MHDA- 2018/09/27 06:00
CRDT- 2017/09/02 06:00
PHST- 2017/06/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/08/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/09/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/09/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/09/02 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0009-z [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0009-z [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2017 Oct;24(28):22730-22740. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-017-0009-z. Epub 2017 Aug 31.