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Clean recovery and residue incineration technology of oilfield sludge and crude oil
Oil sludge is thermally cracked to recover crude oil, and the residue is incinerated. Clean and efficient, harmless treatment, zero wastewater.
Type
Engineering
Tags
Industrial waste/by-product recycling
Environmental & resource tech
Incineration of crude oil residues
Clean crude oil recovery
Solution maturity
Mass promotion / Mass production
Cooperation methods
Technology licensing
Technology shares
Applicable industry
Scientific research and technology services
Applications
Hazardous waste treatment
Key innovations
This technological innovation is to combine thermochemical conversion and residue incineration to efficiently recover sludge, crude oil and diesel oil, and use its own heat energy to achieve harmlessness, no wastewater, and clean emissions (particulate matter <1.5nm), and residual oil content <0.1%.
Potential economic benefits
Recovering high-quality diesel and combustible gas brings benefits. Self-energy supply and no waste water reduce costs, reduce hazardous waste treatment costs, and have significant economic benefits.
Potential climate benefits
By recovering crude oil and diesel oil from sludge, the technology effectively reduces the demand for primary fossil fuel extraction and reduces carbon emissions associated with its production. Pyrolysis gas as a clean fuel to replace other high-carbon energy, further reducing emissions.
Solution supplier
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Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University is a top research university in China, cultivating high-level talents in engineering, science, medicine, etc. to serve national strategies and scientific and technological progress.
China
Solution details

1 Project introduction:

 Oilfield sludge and poly-containing sludge are hazardous wastes with huge yields and will cause serious pollution to the environment and ecology after leaking. This technology develops thermochemical conversion crude oil recovery and harmless treatment technologies for oilfield sludge and poly-containing sludge. This process uses clean thermal cracking technology coupled with residue incineration process to recover crude oil components in sludge. Thermal cracking produces a high thermal value combustible pyrolysis gas that can be used as a fuel gas reserve. The solid residue produced after thermal cracking is sent to the incinerator and is supplemented by pyrogas for incineration treatment, so as to achieve the purpose of efficient combustion to remove residual pollutants. The thermal cracking process and residue incineration process all adopt high-temperature dust removal technology, which can fully realize Gasification tail gas is discharged cleanly, and the particle size of smoke particles is 1.5 nm. The thermal cracking process can recover high-quality diesel products, and the oil content in the residue is 0.1%. No wastewater is generated in the entire process.


2 Key technical advantages or innovation

This technical solution mainly has the following technical advantages and innovations: 

(1)Efficient thermal cracked crude oil recovery technology. Fully realize deep and rapid oil recovery of oily sludge.

(2)The incineration technology of cracking residue realizes the use of the heat of the sludge itself to achieve energy supply for the thermal cracking process.

(3)High-temperature dust removal technology can realize the thermal purification of combustible gases and flue gas during pyrolysis and incineration, greatly reducing subsequent treatment costs.


3 Applicable areas

Oilfield sludge treatment, tank bottom sludge treatment, offshore sludge treatment.


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09:38:43, Nov 05, 2025
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