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Estimation of efficiency removal of oil products dissolved in water by processed waste of polymer packaging in the medium of vegetable surfactants

О. Malyshevska
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Abstract

Introduction. Two environmentally hazardous problems have been resolved - water pollution by oil products and the growth of polymer packaging as a component of household waste. The goal is to assess the possibility of using sorbents made from household polymeric packaging waste. To evaluate the efficiency of application of vegetable surfactants to the surface of polymeric waste to extract oil products from water. Objectives: to study the prospects of using surfactants from plant raw materials to increase the release of oil products from water; to establish the suitability of using secondary polymer raw materials from packaging waste for the sorption of oil products; design a plant for separating oil from a mixture of water and oil. Methods and methodical: hygienic, physicochemical, flotation method of oil sorption of dissolved oil in water, photometric method for determining the amount of oil in water. Results. It has been established that recycled waste from polymer packaging can be used to purify wastewater from dissolved petroleum products. Conclusions.. The best degree of water purification from oil products was achieved for mechanically processed polymeric waste of PVC packaging, on the surface of which a vegetable surfactant from medicinal soap was applied. Flotation cleaning using sorbents from polymer packaging wastes was carried out with the addition of a vegetable surfactant to the mixture to be cleaned. The degree of purification reached 90.1 % for PVC

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water purification by sorbents, water purification from oil, polymer processing, oil sorbents, sorbents from polymers, oil recovery

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Malyshevska, О. (2021). Estimation of efficiency removal of oil products dissolved in water by processed waste of polymer packaging in the medium of vegetable surfactants. Scientific Reports of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 17(2),13-24. https://doi.org/10.31548/dopovidi2021.02.002
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