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A review of treating oily wastewater

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In this paper, the development status of treatment methods was summarized from six aspects, which contains flotation, coagulation, biological treatment, membrane separation technology, combined technology and advanced oxidation process.
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This article is published in Arabian Journal of Chemistry.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 522 citations till now.

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Overview of flotation as a wastewater treatment technique

TL;DR: The use of flotation is showing a great potential due to the high throughput of modern equipment, low sludge generation and the high efficiency of the separation schemes already available as mentioned in this paper.
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An assessment of supercritical water oxidation (SCWO). Existing problems, possible solutions and new reactor concepts

TL;DR: In this paper, the existing problems of supercritical water oxidation as an end-of-pipe technology are described and possible solutions are discussed, different reactor concepts are elucidated, and a suggestion for future research and technical procedure in the SCWO field is given.
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Coagulation of residue oil and suspended solid in palm oil mill effluent by chitosan, alum and PAC

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of chitosan compared to alum and polyaluminum chloride (PAC) was compared using a flocculator, and the results showed that chitusan was comparatively more efficient and economical than alum and PAC.
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Ceramic membrane performance in microfiltration of oily wastewater

TL;DR: In this paper, a tubular ceramic microfiltration (α-Al 2 O 3 ) system was employed for treatment of a typical oily wastewater comes from API effluent of Tehran refinery.
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Treatment of oily wastewater produced from refinery processes using flocculation and ceramic membrane filtration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used flocculation and micro-filtration with zirconia membrane to treat oily wastewater produced from a post-treatment unit of refinery processes.
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