Achieving very low mercury levels in refinery wastewater by membrane filtration

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 215-216, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-107

  Urgun Demirtas, Meltem ^a   Benda, Paul L ^a   Gillenwater, Patricia S ^a   Negri, M Cristina ^a   Xiong, Hui ^a   Snyder, Seth W ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Lakes Initiative mercury criterion; Membrane filtration; Mercury; Refinery wastewater

Indexed keywords

FOULING MECHANISMS; FOULING RATE; GREAT LAKES INITIATIVE MERCURY CRITERION; MEAN PARTICLE DIAMETER; MEMBRANE FILTRATION; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MEMBRANE PROCESS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY LEVELS; MERCURY REMOVAL; MF MEMBRANE; OIL REFINERIES; OPERATING PRESSURE; PERMEATE QUALITY; PORE BLOCKAGES; REFINERY WASTEWATER; REFINERY WASTEWATERS; SEM IMAGE; SURFACE COVERAGES; TREATED WASTEWATER;

EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFINING; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WATER FILTRATION;

MERCURY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DIAMETER; FILTRATION; FOULING; MEMBRANE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OSMOSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PRESSURE EFFECT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRESSURE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FILTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MERCURY; PETROLEUM; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84859266376     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.02.040     Document Type: Article

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