Treatment Process

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-028667",
  "term": "Treatment Process",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Intended to prepare hydrocarbon streams for additional processing and to prepare finished products. Treatment may include the removal or separation of aromatics and naphthenes as well as impurities and undesirable contaminants. Treatment may involve chemical or physical separation such as dissolving, absorption, or precipitation using a variety and combination of processes including desalting, drying, hydrodesulfurizing, solvent refining, sweetening, solvent extraction, and solvent dewaxing.\n\n2. Specific technique that removes or destroys the organics in a wastewater or residual stream such as a steam stripping unit, thin-film evaporation unit, waste incinerator, biological treatment unit, or any other process applied to wastewater streams or residuals to comply with § 63.138. Most treatment processes are conducted in tanks. Treatment processes are a subset of waste management units.",
  "references": [
    "DOL Occupational Safety and Health Administration Petroleum Refining Process at https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iv/otm_iv_2.html#3",
    "40 CFR 63.101 (CFR 2024)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/treatment-process/"
}