Ceramic Membranes Oily Wastewater Treatment

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Ceramic membranes oily wastewater treatment.

The goal of this article was to review the literature which discusses the problem of oily wastewater purifi cation by membrane fi ltration. To the best of the author s knowledge this is the first reported use of ceramic alumina membranes for process water and wastewater treatment in a u s. Ceramic alumina microfiltration membranes were evaluated for treatment of 3 aqueous streams containing heavy metals oils and solids at petrochemical manufacturing facilities. The authors focused on membranes containing zirconium compounds mainly zro 2.

1884 6440 print issn. Experimental and modeling studies chinese journal of chemical engineering 10 1016 s1004 9541 13 60617 5 21 11 1251 1259 2013. Most organic membranes offer several benefits such as low cost and high removal efficiency. However they cannot withstand the high temperature pressure and fouling that limit the membrane regeneration 27.

This article presents the review of ceramic membrane for the treatment of oily and chromium wastewater. Mohsen abbasi aboozar taheri effect of coagulant agents on oily wastewater treatment performance using mullite ceramic mf membranes. Among various wastewater treatment processes ceramic membranes have the edge to treat oily wastewater and separate chromium from waste streams. Ceramic membrane is extensively used in water and wastewater treatment which include oil field injection water paper industry waste water landfill leachate palm oil wastewater textil and printing industry wastewater oily wastewater titanium dioxide wastewater fermentation chemical industry wastewater desalination seawater treatment and degreasing liquid treatment and other aspects.

The goal of this article was to review the literature which discusses the problem of oily wastewater purifi cation by membrane fi ltration. Polymeric and ceramic membranes have been employed in oily wastewater treatment 25 26. The effi ciency of the oil removal processes for various membranes ceramic and composite usually above 95 for the oil contaminated. For ceramic membranes microfiltration process targeting wastewater treatment is promising.