Oil and grease removal from wastewaters: sorption treatment as an alternative to state-of-the-art technologies. A critical review

AMA Pintor, VJP Vilar, CMS Botelho… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oil and grease (O&G) is a class of pollutants with very low affinity to water. Their removal
from wastewaters is often challenging and involves the combination of different treatment …

Oil removal from aqueous state by natural fibrous sorbent: An overview

R Wahi, LA Chuah, TSY Choong, Z Ngaini… - Separation and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The threat of oil pollution increases with the expansion of oil exploration and production
activities, as well as the industrial growth around the world. The study on the treatment of oily …

Development of advanced oil/water separation technologies to enhance the effectiveness of mechanical oil recovery operations at sea: Potential and challenges

B Liu, B Chen, J Ling, EJ Matchinski, G Dong… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mechanical oil recovery (ie, booming and skimming) is the most common tool for oil spill
response. The recovered fluid generated from skimming processes may contain a …

Drop coalescence in technical liquid/liquid applications: A review on experimental techniques and modeling approaches

J Kamp, J Villwock, M Kraume - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2017 - degruyter.com
The coalescence phenomenon of drops in liquid/liquid systems is reviewed with particular
focus on its technical relevance and application. Due to the complexity of coalescence, a …

Physical pretreatment of petroleum refinery wastewater instead of chemicals addition for collaborative removal of oil and suspended solids

Y Sun, Y Liu, J Chen, Y Huang, H Lu, W Yuan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The conventional petroleum refinery wastewater pretreatment process, usually consisting of
an American Petroleum Institute (API) separator and air flotation tank, mainly achieves …

The liquid/liquid sedimentation process: from droplet coalescence to technologically enhanced water/oil emulsion gravity separators: a review

T Frising, C Noïk, C Dalmazzone - Journal of dispersion science …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Crude oil is nearly always produced along with water in the form of water/crude oil
emulsions. Gravity settlers are the most common technology to separate these dispersions …

Determination of Kozeny constant based on porosity and pore to throat size ratio in porous medium with rectangular rods

T Ozgumus, M Mobedi, U Ozkol - Engineering Applications of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Kozeny-Carman permeability equation is an important relation for the determination of
permeability in porous media. In this study, the permeabilities of porous media that contains …

Treatment and reclamation of hydrocarbon-bearing oily wastewater as a hazardous pollutant by different processes and technologies: a state-of-the-art review

P Kundu, IM Mishra - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2018 - degruyter.com
Hydrocarbon-containing oily wastewater generated by various industries creates a major
environmental problem all over the world since petroleum products are commonly used as …

On the variability of permeability induced by reinforcement distortions and dual scale flow in liquid composite moulding: A review

M Bodaghi, SV Lomov, P Simacek, NC Correia… - Composites Part A …, 2019 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of experimental and analytical studies since 1990 on the variability
of permeability induced by fibrous media (reinforcement) distortions across the composite …

Improved photoelectric performance via fabricated heterojunction g-C3N4/TiO2/HNTs loaded photocatalysts for photodegradation of ciprofloxacin

D Wu, J Li, J Guan, C Liu, X Zhao, Z Zhu, C Ma… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract An Intercalated heterostructural gC 3 N 4/TiO 2/HNTs supported photocatalyst was
successfully prepared via sol–gel and calcination methods. The introduction of HNTs and …