Extremely high removals of total suspended solids and oil and grease were obtained when olive mill wastewaters were filtered using new silicon carbide tubular membranes. These new membranes were used at constant permeate flux to treat real olive mill wastewaters at pilot scale. The filtration conditions were evaluated and optimized in terms of the selection of the permeate flux and flux mainten...

The purpose of this research study is to provide evidence for the further study and possible inclusion of lubricant data and analysis to common condition based maintenance (CBM) practices as a means of increasing the effectiveness of the AH-64D fleet. Presented in the paper are four different AH-64D aircraft wetted-component case studies, which aim to improve performance through the examining t...

there are many potential sources of stormwater pollutants in urban areas; one of these sources is gas stations, which are numerous and spread city-wide. a study was conducted to evaluate the water quality of runoff from gas stations in the city of tijuana, mexico. pollutant loads in runoff from gas stations in the study area were higher than in other published studies. the estimated loads from ...

Oil and gas field wastewater or produced water is a significant waste stream in the oil and gas industries. In this study, the performance of a membrane sequencing batch reactor (MSBR) and membrane sequencing batch reactor/reverse osmosis (MSBR/RO) process treating produced wastewater were investigated and compared. The MSBR was operated in different hydraulic residence time (HRT) of 8, 20 and ...

Esterification and transesterification of high free fatty acid (FFA) oils to fatty acid alkyl ester (FAAE) by sol-gel entrapped lipase B from Candida antarctica (CalB) and lipase from Burkholderia cepacia were investigated. The optimal conditions for the esterification catalyzed by the immobilized CalB were determined to be 50 °C, 1.7:1 molar ratio of methanol to fatty acid, and 0.36 g of water...

The metalworking industry is responsible for one of the most complex and difficult to handle oily effluents. These effluents consist of cutting fluids, which provide refrigeration and purification of metallic pieces in the machining system. When these effluents are biologically treated, is important to do this with autochthonous microorganisms; the use of these microorganisms (bioaugmentation) ...

The measurement of total oil and grease (TOG) and total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) in water and soil samples by means of infrared (IR) absorption is a widely used analytical procedure. It is relatively easy to use, requires little ancillary equipment and is sensitive enough to provide data on TOG and TPH content in the range of permissible concentration levels. Furthermore, IR instrumentation ...

This work aimed to produce hydrogen (H₂) simultaneously with pollutant removal from biodiesel wastewater by photocatalytic oxidation using a thermally-treated commercial titanium dioxide (TiO₂) photocatalyst at room temperature (~30 °C) and ambient pressure. The effects of the operating conditions, including the catalyst loading level (1-6 g/L), UV light intensity (3.52-6.64 mW/cm²), initial pH...

In this study, the preparations of biodiesel from three different feedstocks, including rapeseed oil, high acidified Chinese wood oil and trap grease, were carried out in a pilot scale of 200 t yr-1 biodiesel production system. The optimum operating conditions for transesterification of rapeseed oil in plug flow reactor were found to be as follows: the catalyst dosage is 1.2 wt%; the retention ...