Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 264, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128531
Keywords
Crude oils; Electric desalting wastewaters; Coagulation; Wastewater characterization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21776307]
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The study demonstrates that coagulation pretreatment significantly improves the characteristics of EDWs from Chinese crude oils, reducing organic pollutant levels and enhancing biodegradability, thus ensuring the efficiency of refinery wastewater treatment plants.
Highly polluted crude oil electric desalting wastewaters (EDWs) severely affect the efficiency of refinery wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Coagulation is an efficient pretreatment to reduce the impacts of EDWs. In the present study, the influences of coagulation pretreatment on the characteristics of EDWs of three typical Chinese crude oils, Liaohe heavy oil (LHO), Karamay heavy oil (KHO) and Daqing light oil (DLO), were investigated. The stability of three raw EDWs was broken and the contents of organic pollutants were significantly reduced by aluminum sulfate coagulation. More soluble COD and polar oils were removed from LHO-EDW (1241 and 98 mg L-1) and KHO-EDW (779 and 57 mg L-1) compared to DLO-EDW (417 and 11 mg L-1). Coagulation significantly changed the compositions of the organic pol-lutants of two heavy oil EDWs; however, slightly influenced DLO-EDW, particularly the polar organic pollutants. Most types of aromatic compounds, aliphatic acids and O-x polar compounds were removed from two heavy oil EDWs, but mainly alkanes were removed from DLO-EDW. As such, the differences in the types of dominant polar compounds became insignificant among treated heavy oil and light oil EDWs. Coagulation notably decreased the acute biotoxicity and improved the biodegradability of all treated EDWs. The residual organic nitrogen compounds in treated KHO-EDW contributed to a higher residual biotoxicity compared to treated LHO-EDW. The results demonstrate that coagulation can effectively improve the qualities of heavy oil EDWs by lowering the contents of organic pollutants and removing recalcitrant compounds, thus guaranteeing the efficiency of refinery WWTPs. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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