Oil Separation In Wastewater Treatment

Industrial production and human life will produce wastewater containing petroleum, petroleum products, tar and its fractionates, edible animal and vegetable oil and fat, we call it oily wastewater. Oily wastewater has the characteristics of high COD and BOD, a certain odor and color, flammable, easy oxidation decomposition. It is usually lighter than water and less soluble in water. Oil in wastewater can be divided into four types: slick oil, dispersed oil, emulsified oil and dissolved oil. Oily wastewater is a kind of industrial wastewater with large quantity, wide influence and serious harm. 

The harm of oily wastewater is mainly reflected in the following aspects: deterioration and pollution of natural water body and soil, negative impact on human health, and influence on the survival and growth of animals, plants and crops. Therefore, all countries in the world have put forward more and more stringent standards and requirements for the treatment and discharge of oily wastewater. 

MstnLand's hydrophobic and lipophilic filter (oily wastewater separator) is precisely the advanced treatment equipment developed for the increasingly stringent oily wastewater treatment standards. It uses modified nano-graphene based composite material as the filtration medium, and can effectively remove oil slicks, dispersions, dissolved oils and some soluble organic solvents in water by using the hydrophobic and lipophilic properties of graphene. It has the advantages of high adsorption rate (120 times to crude oil), long service life of the material, renewable after reuse, low water content of the separated oil, no impurities, waste oil can be recycled, oil separation rate can reach more than 95%. The equipment can be used as an advanced treatment equipment for oily wastewater, oil trap and air float tank in series, and can also be used as an independent separation and filtration equipment for filtration and separation operations.

Applications of Oily Water Separators

Petroleum & Petrochemicals: Oily wastewater is produced at almost every stage, from initial oil extraction to final transportation and consumption. 

Chemical & Pharmaceutical: The main source is oily sewage of high concentration process. In the manufacturing process, a large amount of water and lubricating oil will be used in raw material reaction, product separation and raw material pretreatment, so a large amount of oily sewage will be produced in the later stage.                            

Mining & smelting: In the process of smelting metal, whether it is the material in contact with oil or the equipment in contact with oil, we need to cool, clean and lubrify it, so it will form oily sewage. 

Food processing & slaughter cold chain: food raw materials and meat cleaning, equipment cleaning and machine lubrication and other stages will produce oily sewage.

Machinery manufacturing: emulsion in turning process, cleaning and lubrication of machining equipment will also produce oily sewage. 

Light industry: such as wool washing wastewater produced by textile factories, tannery tannery waste water, etc.

Expert Advice on Oil Purifier Machine

Filtration and separation is a common physical method for advanced treatment of oily wastewater. Its principle is to use the particle medium filter bed interception and inertia collision, screening, surface adhesion, coalescence and other mechanisms to remove oil in water. It is generally used for advanced treatment of oily wastewater. Common particle media filter material quartz sand, anthracite, glass fiber, polymer and so on.                                     

MstnLand's hydrophobic and lipophilic filter is a kind of oily wastewater filter using modified nano-graphene based composite material as filter medium. The modified nano-graphene-based composite filter element can effectively remove oil slick, dispersion, dissolved oil and some soluble organic solvents in water. It has efficient oil separation performance (output oil content ≤30mg/l), long service life and can be reused after regeneration through extrusion and vacuum. It is a reliable and cost-effective solution for the advanced treatment of oily wastewater.

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