Evaluation the use of Treated Petroleum Refinery Wastewaterfor Agriculture

Abstract

Petroleum refining uses relatively large quantities of water. The quantity of wastewater generated and their characteristics depend on the process configuration. The aim of this work is to study the use treated refinery wastewater in land irrigation. The study deals with characterization of treated wastewater of Cairo Oil Refinery Co and its impact on certain physico-chemical characteristics of soil and on growth, and quality of different locally grown ornamental plants. A detailed evaluation for the use of treated petroleum refinery wastewater in irrigation of different plants, vegetative growth, production, and chemical compounds were determined. The experiment was conducted for two successive seasons of 2014 and 2015 at the Floriculture Nursery under full sunlight conditions at Horticulture Research Institute, Ornamental Plants, and Landscape Gardening Research Department, Egypt using clay loam soil and 30 cm pots. The whole experiments showed that there were no significant differences on vegetative growth or the chemical composition and concentration of major and minor elements in all the used plants between different water sources.