Advancements in oil recovery and waste treatment at Shaybah utilizing hydraulic shock and cavitation technology.
This paper reports a single-site, pilot-scale field deployment of an integrated hydraulic shock, hydrodynamic cavitation, and attrition treatment system for hydrocarbon-contaminated sludge and sand at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah Gas Oil Separation Plant (GOSP). The study design was a continuous-flow field trial conducted ov...