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Oil refinery wastewater is one of the most polluted types of wastewater with a large variety of organic and mineral pollutants, which need treatment before discharge to the receiving environment. The coagulation–flocculation process was used to treat oil refinery wastewater with ferric chloride (FeCl3-40%) as a coagulant and cactus juice was used as a flocculant to reduce turbidity and chemical oxygen demand (COD).
A response surface methodology (RSM) design was applied to optimize the process the three factors coagulant, bio-flocculant doses, and pH. Obtained optimal dosages were: 1.12 g/l of coagulant and 11.6 ml/l of bio-flocculant and 9.38 of pH. Removal efficiencies under optimal conditions reached: 97.92 ± 0.66% and 62.41 ± 8.12% for turbidity and COD, respectively. The experiment results showed the capability of ferric chloride as coagulant and cactus as bio-flocculant for reducing the pollutants from oil refinery wastewater.
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Dkhissi, O. et al. (2020). Optimization of Opuntia Dose as Bio-flocculant for Oil Refinery Wastewater Using Response Surface Methodology. In: Ezziyyani, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2019). AI2SD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36671-1_44
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