Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 78, Issue 7, Pages 1481-1488Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2018.422
Keywords
electroflotation; emulsified oils; metal sponge electrodes; three-dimensional electrodes
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In this study, emulsified oil removals have been studied electrochemically by using stainless steel sponge electrode beds. A first-order electroflotation model was developed and the model estimation were consistent with the experimental results. It was found out that the mean electroflotation rate constant was mainly a function of the voltage applied to the electrode beds. In addition, the properties of intermediate materials (electrical conductivity) placed between the anode and cathode electrode beds strongly affected removal yields. For the initial concentration of 57,150 mg/L, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal was obtained as 85% under the conditions of voltage gradient 15 V. The experiments were also performed by varying the electrode bed lengths. Even though higher oil yields were obtained at 27 cm bed length, similar oil yields were also obtained at 18 cm bed length, especially after 60 min, with less energy consumption. Therefore, the optimum electrode bed length was concluded to be 18 cm.
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