Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company

<p>The main objectives of this research were to study and analyses oily wastewater characteristics originating from old-processing plant of North Oil Company and to find a suitable and simple method to treat the waste so it can be disposed off safely.</p> The work consists of two stages;...

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Main Author: Dr. Faris Hammoodi Al-Ani
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Published: Tikrit University 2012-03-01
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description <p>The main objectives of this research were to study and analyses oily wastewater characteristics originating from old-processing plant of North Oil Company and to find a suitable and simple method to treat the waste so it can be disposed off safely.</p> The work consists of two stages; the first was the study of oily wastewater characteristics and its negative impacts. The results indicated that oil and grease were the most dominant pollutant with concentration range between 1069 – 3269.3 mg/l that must be removed; other pollutants were found to be within Iraqi and EPA standards. The next stage was the use of these characteristics to choose the proper technology to treat that wastewater. This stage was divided into two stages: the first stage was a jar tests to find the optimum doses of alum, lime and powdered activated carbon (PAC). The second stage was the treatment by a batch pilot plant constructed for this purpose employing the optimum doses as determined from the first stage to treat the waste using a flotation unit followed by a filtration-adsorption unit. The removal efficiencies of flotation unit for oil and grease, COD, and T.S.S found to be 0.9789, 0.974, and 0.9933, respectively, while the removal efficiency for T.D.S was very low 0.0293. From filtration – adsorption column the removal efficiencies of oil and grease, T.D.S, COD, and T.S.S were found to be 0.9486, 0.8908, 0.6870, and 0.7815, respectively. The overall removal efficiencies of pilot plant were 0.9986, 0.8939, 0.9921, and 0.9950, respectively. The results indicated that this type of treatment was the simplest and most effective method that can be used to treat produced oily wastewater before disposal
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spelling doaj.art-a73c86ce18e24468a53107355e57bdb52023-08-02T05:59:22ZengTikrit UniversityTikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences1813-162X2312-75892012-03-011913Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil CompanyDr. Faris Hammoodi Al-Ani0Building and Construction Engineering Department-University of Technology<p>The main objectives of this research were to study and analyses oily wastewater characteristics originating from old-processing plant of North Oil Company and to find a suitable and simple method to treat the waste so it can be disposed off safely.</p> The work consists of two stages; the first was the study of oily wastewater characteristics and its negative impacts. The results indicated that oil and grease were the most dominant pollutant with concentration range between 1069 – 3269.3 mg/l that must be removed; other pollutants were found to be within Iraqi and EPA standards. The next stage was the use of these characteristics to choose the proper technology to treat that wastewater. This stage was divided into two stages: the first stage was a jar tests to find the optimum doses of alum, lime and powdered activated carbon (PAC). The second stage was the treatment by a batch pilot plant constructed for this purpose employing the optimum doses as determined from the first stage to treat the waste using a flotation unit followed by a filtration-adsorption unit. The removal efficiencies of flotation unit for oil and grease, COD, and T.S.S found to be 0.9789, 0.974, and 0.9933, respectively, while the removal efficiency for T.D.S was very low 0.0293. From filtration – adsorption column the removal efficiencies of oil and grease, T.D.S, COD, and T.S.S were found to be 0.9486, 0.8908, 0.6870, and 0.7815, respectively. The overall removal efficiencies of pilot plant were 0.9986, 0.8939, 0.9921, and 0.9950, respectively. The results indicated that this type of treatment was the simplest and most effective method that can be used to treat produced oily wastewater before disposalhttp://www.tj-es.com/ojs/index.php/tjes/article/view/5wastewaterNorth Oil CompanyPilot plantFiltration-adsorption unit
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Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences
wastewater
North Oil Company
Pilot plant
Filtration-adsorption unit
title Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
title_full Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
title_fullStr Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
title_full_unstemmed Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
title_short Treatment of Oily Wastewater Produced From Old Processing Plant of North Oil Company
title_sort treatment of oily wastewater produced from old processing plant of north oil company
topic wastewater
North Oil Company
Pilot plant
Filtration-adsorption unit
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