Petroleum Waste Treatment and Pollution Control

Dr. Shahryar Jafarinejad is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tuskegee University (TU), United States, where he also serves as a faculty senate member since 2019. Before joining TU in 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught chemical engineering courses at TU, University of Tehran, and the College of Environment, and Technical and Vocational University (Iran), and supervised undergraduate and graduate students. He has published three books, several book chapters, and numerous peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and has served as an editorial board member and reviewer of engineering journals. His research group focuses on green technologies and sustainable materials, energy and environment, and applying nanotechnology and modeling and simulation tools to solve problems in chemical and environmental engineering. He received the Henry C. McBay Faculty Research Fellowship from UNCF and the Outstanding Faculty Performance Award for Research and Teaching/Learning at TU in 2020 and 2022, respectively.

1. Introduction to the Petroleum Industry

2. Pollutions and Wastes From the Petroleum Industry

3. Environmental Impacts of the Petroleum Industry, Protection Options, and Regulations

4. Oil-Spill Response

5. Control and Treatment of Air Emissions

6. Treatment of Oily Wastewater

7. Solid-Waste Management in the Petroleum Industry