Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages 117-123Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.12.041
Keywords
Petroleum refinery wastewater; Coagulation-flocculation; Flotation; Chemical oxygen demand (COD); Total organic carbon (TOC); Turbidity
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- FEDER through COMPETE
- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/15342/2005, SFRH/BPD/62889/2009]
- [PEst-C/EQB/LA0020/2011]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/62889/2009, SFRH/BD/15342/2005] Funding Source: FCT
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Petroleum refineries generate significant amounts of wastewater which have to be treated and processed before their discharge into water streams. The refinery wastewater treatment plants (WWTPPs) employ physico-chemical processes to achieve effluents of satisfactory oil content to be further treated by biological processes. In the present study, coagulation-flocculation and flotation processes are optimised to reduce the concentrations of organic matter, oil and grease and other contaminants in order to obtain an effluent with suitable characteristics ready to be treated by an aerobic biological process. PAX-18 (17% Al2O3), aluminium sulphate (Al-2(SO4)(3)) and ferric sulphate (Fe-2(SO4)(3)) are chosen for affecting coagulation-flocculation as a primary treatment. NALCO 71408 is employed as flocculant. Treatment efficiency is evaluated in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon (TOC) and turbidity measurements. The experiments are conducted both in discontinuous and continuous mode to assess the feasibility of the process. Flotation is investigated as a post-treatment process for the removal of emulsified hydrocarbons and satisfactory results are obtained. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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