Limescale in effluent water pipe of a refinery User: Q8, Rotterdam Netherlands The Q8 refinery is located in Europoort the port of Rotterdam, which is the biggest port in the world. Q8 is the brand name of Kuwait Oil International doing world wide operations outside Kuwait. The crude oil used for refining is comes from Kuwait, the refinery produces mainly fuel and lubricants, as well as raw material for the petrochemical industries. Effluent water in refineries In refineries water is used for a lot of processes. Mainly the water is used for heating or cooling the crude oil or hydro carbons. As usual in the effluent water there are many different foreign substances, such as blow down from the steam boilers and cooling towers, rinse water and traces of hydro carbons. To meet the high environ

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