Oily wastewater chemical treatment

In addition to these three treatment options, several alternative technologies are applicable to the treatment of oily wastewater. These include coalescing, flotation, centrifugation, integrated adsorption, resin adsorption, ozonation, chemical oxidation, aerobic decomposition, and thermal emulsion breaking.18-20... 

Abcor (now a division of Koch Industries) installed the first industrial ultrafiltration plant to recover electrocoat paint from automobile paint shop rinse water in 1969. Shortly afterwards, systems were installed in the food industry for protein separation from milk whey and for apple juice clarification. The separation of oil emulsions from effluent wastewaters has also become a significant application. The current ultrafiltration market is approximately US 200 million/ year, but because the market is very fragmented no individual end-use segment is more than US 10-30 million/year. In the chemical and refining industries, the principal application of ultrafiltration is the treatment of oily wastewater. 

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