a pilot anaerobic filter was used to remove cod from babolsar fiberboard production wastewater. the anaerobic filter was packed with ceramic packings and operated at different organic loading rates of 2.4 and 8 kg cod/m3 /day, in 20, 10 and 5 days hydraulic retention time (hrti), respectively. the reactor achieved cod removal of 80.3%, 81% and 79% for hrt 20, 10 and 5 days, respectively. in add...

The petroleum industry plays a vital role in the economies of developing countries. Refinery wastewater pollution has increased recent years due to increase industrial and urban use products. present work demonstrates how textile waste can be modified into material that effectively remove sulfur pollutants from refinery wastewater. An economic activated carbon (AC) was developed by using cotton...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are genotoxic chemicals commonly found in effluents from oil refineries. Bioassays using plants and cells cultures can be employed for assessing environmental safety and potential genotoxicity. In this study, the genotoxic potential of an oil refinery effluent was analyzed by means of micronucleus (MN) testing of Alium cepa, which revealed no effect after...

Ozonation (O3) is a widely used advanced oxidation process (AOP) for the treatment of wastewater, while its drawbacks include high energy consumption and poor solubility must be reduced or eliminated. Hence, combined catalytic ozonation with H2O2 S2O82- was employed to degrade mono ethylene glycol (MEG) eliminate ecological risks during gas refinery wastewater. In this study, reduction chemical...

activated sludge or extended aeration treatment involves a continous system where aerobic biological growths are mixed with waste water and then separated in a gravity clarifier. therefore, waste treatment system such as the activated sludge system depend on the activities of communities of living organism. in this study, an attempt was made on the indentification of the bacterial population in...

The mineralisation kinetics of petroleum refinery effluent (PRE) by Fenton oxidation were evaluated. Within the ambit of the experimental data generated, first-order kinetic model (FKM), generalised lumped kinetic model (GLKM), and generalized kinetic model (GKM) were tested. The obtained apparent kinetic rate constants for the initial oxidation step (k'2), their final oxidation step (k'1), and...