Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

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Although the P2O process uses cooling water for the equipment, no wastewater is generated. The
cooling water runs in a closed loop and is never in contact with the chemicals in the process.

what about the so-called water seal????....does that not come in contact with chemicals during the process???

PS:

The final products of the P2O process are collected from the reactor towers, cooled, and sent for
storage. Prior to storage, naphtha is passed through an oil/water coalescer to knock out any additional water
still in the product.

is the water "knocked out" considered "wastewater"????

http://www.highlandtank.com/NewsData/106_File1.pdf

Fundamentally, water is a great solvent. Contrary to popular belief, oil and water do mix.
Low concentrations (1 ppb to 100 ppm) of crude oil components mix or emulsify very
well with water. In fact, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) are slightly
soluble in water and show up in laboratory analysis as components of chemical oxygen
demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH),
polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and total organic carbon (TOC).
Totally removing oily hydrocarbons from water generally requires a slow, sophisticated
system with a large footprint. Furthermore, these and other petroleum-based compounds
are the chemical components notorious for contaminating, choking and clogging
conventional filtration, secondary treatment and polishing technologies. Clay, carbon and
other traditional absorbents are susceptible to clogging, channeling and desorption when
exposed to oily compounds and solvents. Channeling causes premature breakthrough and
cripples efficiency because only a fraction of the absorbent capacity is exposed to the
contaminants.