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Oily Wastewater Treatment by Using Fe3O4/Bentonite in Fixed-Bed Adsorption Column

Authors :
Mohammed A. Sarran
Adnan A. AbdulRazak
Mohammed F. Abid
Alaa Dhari Jawad Al-Bayati
Khalid T. Rashid
Mohammed Ahmed Shehab
Haidar Hasan Mohammed
Saad Alsarayefi
Mahmood Alhafadhi
Mohammed Alktranee
Source :
ChemEngineering, Vol 8, Iss 5, p 92 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2024.

Abstract

Oily wastewater is a major environmental issue resulting from different industrial and manufacturing activities. Contaminated water with oil represents a significant environmental hazard that can harm numerous life forms. Several methodologies have been tested for the removal of oily wastewater from aqueous solutions, and adsorption in a flow-through reactor is an effective mechanism to reduce these effluents. This study focuses on evaluating the ability of Fe3O4/Bent material to adsorb gasoline emulsion from a solution using a fixed-bed column, and it involves analyzing the resulting breakthrough curves. The FT-IR, SEM, EDX, and XRD techniques were used to characterize Fe3O4/Bent. Various ranges of variables were examined, including bed height (2–4 cm), flow rate (3–3.8 mL/min), and initial concentration (200–1000 mg/L), to determine their impacts on the mass transfer zone (MTZ) length and the adsorption capacity (qe). It was shown that a higher bed height and a lower flow rate contributed to a longer time of breakthrough and exhaustion. At the same time, it was noted that under high initial gasoline concentrations, the fixed-bed system rapidly reached breakthrough and exhaustion. Models like the Yoon–Nelson and Thomas kinetic column models were employed to predict the breakthrough curves. Thomas and Yoon–Nelson’s breakthrough models provided a good fit for the breakthrough curves with a correlation coefficient of R2 > 0.95. Furthermore, with a fixed-bed system, the Thomas and Yoon–Nelson models best describe the breakthrough curves for gasoline removal.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23057084
Volume :
8
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
ChemEngineering
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.1dc54ef2c35e40ccbad166794ed9aad3
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering8050092