Oily wastewater treatment through a separation process using bubbles without froth formation

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 994-1004

  Oliveira De Lima, L M ^a   Da Silva, J H ^a   Ribeiro Patricio, A A ^a   De Barros Neto, E L ^a   Dantas Neto, A A ^a   De Castro Dantas, T N ^a   De Alencar Moura, M C P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coconut oil; Flotation process; Oily wastewater; Produced water; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RECLAMATION; SEPARATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VEGETABLE OILS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RECYCLING;

COCONUT OIL (CNO); EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FROTH FORMATION; OIL REMOVAL; OIL/WATER RATIO; OILY WASTEWATER; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; PRODUCED WATER (PW); RECOVERY PROCESSES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 46149090873     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916460701205195     Document Type: Article

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