The chemical industry encompasses production activities of extreme diversity; their common concerns are heavy international competition and the pursuit of cost savings.

This industry uses huge volumes of water, primarily when it comes to the energy management of its sites. It is therefore important to bring consumption under control in order to reduce the amount of water abstracted from the natural environment. Using alternative resources, reusing certain flows in the process and reducing the amount of pollution generated by effluents and sludge are of primary concern in the refineries and petrochemicals industry.

In the short term this industry must bring its production and pollution treatment practices into line with new regulations concerning emissions, clean fuels, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) control, effluents and hazardous waste.

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies can provide its expertise for the full water cycle, sludge management and some in-process solutions :

• Make-up water
• Water network maintenance
• Cooling water systems management
• Boiler feed water ( RO, Demin, etc.)
• Spent caustic treatments
• Bio & oily sludge dewatering, centrifugation, incineration
• Re-use and Zero liquid Discharge (ZLD)
• Wastewater treatment, including TiPSS, DAF/DNF, and biological processes
• VOC control
• KOH recovery in alkylation's unit (Hardtac)