coagulation

The work studies the coagulation process of watered-down mineral motor oils in the presence of various coagulants. The influence of the nature and amount of coagulants on the technical and operational characteristics of purified motor oils is established. The successful removal of emulsified water from watered-down used mineral motor oils by the proposed coagulants is confirmed by experimental and IR spectroscopic analysis methods. Dehydrated used mineral motor oils can be successfully directed to combined methods of their regeneration.

The results of research on physical and chemical methods for the preliminary treatment of wastewater of a cardboard and paper factory in Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine are presented. At the cardboard and paper factory, wastewater is treated at a sewage treatment plant, which includes sand traps, primary radial sedimentation tanks, aeration tanks with activated sludge regenerators, secondary radial sedimentation tanks, and bioponds. The use of coagulation and chlorination methods before biological treatment in aeration tanks was proposed.

The main methods of regeneration of used mineral motor oils, in particular physical, chemical, physicochemical methods are considered. The functional-cost analysis of methods of regeneration of the used mineral motor oils by means of branch experts is carried out. Functional-cost analysis is a method of pairwise comparisons and involves the process of ranking the selected characteristics according to the degree of importance (weight). To do this, each characteristic is assigned a certain index.

The coagulant and disinfectant qualities of Moringa oleifera and Citrus paradisi were investigated on various water samples acquired from sachet water (packaged water), borehole water, river water and well water. The results revealed that Moringa oleifera functioned adequately at settling time beyond 2 h in highly turbid river water but was more effective when combined with Citrus paradisi. Moringa oleifera or its combination with Citrus paradisi is less effective for turbid water treatment but effective for river water (sample) purification.