Electro-Kinetic Degradation of Diesel Originated from a Costal Crude Oil Terminal

Darabi, Babak; Tabatabaei, Tayyebeh; Amiri, Fazel; Jorfi*, SahandJorf

doi:10.5812/jjhs.116237

Electro-Kinetic Degradation of Diesel Originated from a Costal Crude Oil Terminal

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Babak Darabi ¹

Tayyebeh Tabatabaei ¹

Fazel Amiri ¹

SahandJorf Jorfi* ²

¹ Department of EnvironmentalEngineering,BushehrBranch,IslamicAzadUniversity,Bushehr,Iran

² EnvironmentalTechnologiesResearchCenter,AhvazJundishapurUniversity of MedicalSciences,Ahvaz,Iran. Invited advisor, Department of EnvironmentalEngineering, BushehrBranch,IslamicAzadUniversity,Bushehr,Iran

10.5812/jjhs.116237

Abstract

The present study evaluated the effect of the integration of electro-kinetic (EK) oxidation with sonication degradation of diesel in a hydrocarbon contaminated wastewater. The effect of operational parameters including initial pH (3 - 9), sonication (100 - 300 W), voltage (0.5 - 3 V/cm), and reaction time (60 - 150 min) were studied consecutively. The highest total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) destruction rate of 40% was achieved at pH 5. Also, increasing the sonication intensity up to 300 W improved the removal rate to 70%. The pseudo-first-order kinetic model was selected due to higher correlation coefficient. Considering the obtained integration of EK oxidation with sonication is a viable and efficient technology for treatment of diesel contaminated wastewaters.
Keywords:Oily Wastewater,Electro-Kinetics Oxidation,Sonication

Keywords

Keywords:Oily Wastewater

Electro-Kinetics Oxidation

Sonication