Use of oil sludge as a combustible additive for the production of bricks

Abstract

The impact of extractive industry facilities on the environment is manifested both at the construction stage and at the stage of their exploitation, and even after the exhaustion of natural resources. The relevance of this problem is becoming much higher for the oil and gas industry, where the processing and reclamation of drilling waste are of the highest importance. This makes it necessary to study possible ways of processing and obtaining useful components for the industry. We considered the most hazardous pollutant of almost all components of the natural environment of the oil and gas industry - oil sludge. We studied the possibility of its use as a secondary material resource, namely, as a combustible additive in the production of bricks to minimize anthropogenic environmental impact.