The nuclear techniques in function of improving the efficiency of the station of treatment of industrial waste in PETROBRAS

The industry of the petroleum has become in the last decades, an user of the Nuclear Techniques. Due to the amplification of activities in some of the technical and economic characteristics of this industry the possibilities of application of the nuclear techniques in the oil sector are proportionally bigger and more important than in many other sectors of the economy. This work was carried out in the Station of Treatment of Industrial Wastes in PETROBRAS (Brazil). It has the objective of determinating the time of real residence of the misture of waste inside the separator by means of radioactive tracer, using the Tc-99m. This has a great economic and environmental importance, because when obtaining the time of residence experimentally in the separators, you can compare with those obtained theoretically, which allows to influence with more precision on the system, optimizing their operation, and diminishing the magnitude of its possible negative environmental impact. (author)