Ceramic Membranes Oily Wastewater Treatment

This article presents the review of ceramic membrane for the treatment of oily and chromium wastewater.

Ceramic membranes oily wastewater treatment.

The well thought out designed and implemented use of membranes can decrease capital. Many studies of membrane separation for oily wastewater treatment have been reported particularly in ultrafiltration uf and reverse osmosis ro with organic membranes. Accordingly the fabrication of such oxide ceramic membranes requires multiple coating sintering processes which is both energy intensive and time consuming and in turn too expensive for industrial oily wastewater treatment. Filtration behavior fouling and prevention mohammed wali hakami 1 abdullah alkhudhiri 2 sirhan al batty 1 myrto panagiota zacharof 3 jon maddy 3 and nidal hilal 4 1 chemical engineering technology department jubail industrial college jubail industrial city 31961 saudi arabia.

Discharge of untreated oily wastewaters could bring about dire consequences such as environmental catastrophes. Membranes review ceramic microfiltration membranes in wastewater treatment. In this novel study based on previous experiences on fabrication of low cost and high performance ceramic membranes for oily wastewater treatment processes cheap kaolin natural zeolite and activated carbon powder have been employed in the membrane structure to improve the pf and toc rejection. Nowadays integrated microfiltration mf membrane systems treatment is becoming widely popular due to its feasibility process reliability commercial availability modularity relative insensitivity in case of wastewater of various industrial sources as well as raw water treatment and lower operating costs.

However few studies are related to the application of inorganic ceramic membranes on oily wastewater treatment. In order to address this problem a photocatalytic membrane reactor pmr comprised of tio 2 γ al 2 o 3 modified ceramic membrane was prepared for treatment of synthetic oily wastewater under uv illumination the structure morphology and phase composition of the layer of modified. Oily wastewater treatment using a zirconia ceramic membrane a literature review 5 ceramic membranes are usually obtained by sol gel technique but also by isostatic compression reverse phase. Wastewater and water treatment methods include both physical methods such as sedimentation and filtration membranes media filtration and chemical methods such as coagulation ph adjustments addition of anti scalants and acids 4 5 regardless of its domestic municipal or industrial origin wastewater is a serious environmental constraint that dictates effective treatment for its safe.

Among various wastewater treatment processes ceramic membranes have the edge to treat oily wastewater and separate chromium from waste streams.