• MUNASALA RAMKUMAR
• V.V.SRIMANNARAYANA

ABSTRACT: Petroleum Industries produces a considerable quantities of the oil sludge which is a combination of sand and mud contaminated by the crude oil in the procedures of oil extraction, storage, transportation and processing. These establishes health hazards to the personnel on the exposure and also produces environmental hazard on dumping if not appropriately treated before the disposal of this sludge. So before dumping these sludges can be used or treated for the production of the biogas which is a resource of maintainable energy useful for the power generation of the electricity and also be considered as a better substitute for the natural gas in that it comprises less content of the carbon and thereby results in less pollutant emissions. So the production of biogas from these petroleum sludge’s can be done in two ways: Anaerobic digestion of petroleum sludge in bioreactors Anaerobic co-digestion of petroleum sludge with the use of corn Stover for efficient production of the biogas Anaerobic digestion of the petroleum sludge in the bioreactors can produces the mainly of the biogas and also bio solids. The digestion of a 200 grams of sludge setup in an anaerobic container for a retention time of a 15 days produced 10,3000m3 per day and from this we can estimate that 1 gram of petroleum sludge can results in the yield of 820m3 of biogas from the retention time of biogas solids at a time of 15 days Anaerobic co-digestion of a petroleum sludge is an ideal treatment method that majority helps for the solving of the problems that are being caused by hazardous waste oil and sand from the oil exploitation procedures and also the smelting procedure. The results revealed that the single-oil sludge wasn’t appropriate for the production of gas as a digestive substrate due to the absence of organic substances and probable hazardous matters. So by the enhancing the quality of the exogenous organic matter (corn Stover) , the cumulative gas production capacity was comparative to the quantity of the corn Stover matter included.

Keywords: Biogas, Petroleum sludge , Anaerobic digestion , Anaerobic co- digestion using corn stover

"Production Of Biogas Using Aerobic And Anaerobic Digestion Of Petroleum Sludge", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.h582-h590, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206764.pdf

"Production Of Biogas Using Aerobic And Anaerobic Digestion Of Petroleum Sludge", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. pph582-h590, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206764.pdf