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Optimized, effective waste management is integral to petroleum refinery operations. It helps minimize risk to both people and the environment, enhances resource utilization, and reduces costs.
Providing an overview of good practices and strategies, this practical document explores a range of key mercury management issues encompassing environmental controls, worker health and safety, process safety, product safety, waste management, and product stewardship.
This document describes 'good practices' and strategies that can be used in petroleum refineries to manage emissions of air pollutants, and includes a special section on how to identify odour sources. Many of the techniques may also be applicable to those chemical plants and petroleum distribution facilities having similar equipment and operations.
Title Type Theme Published Download 
Petroleum refinery waste management and minimization. Good practice guidance Climate 23 Sep 2014 
Mercury management in petroleum refining Good practice guidance Nature 24 May 2014 
Refinery air emissions management Good practice guidance Climate 27 Jun 2012