Eliminate turbidity and oil from polluted water by using the electrocoagulation process

Israa Radhi Abbas 1, Riyadh Sadiq AL-Mukhtar 2, Dhuha Jawad Mahdi 3 and Mohammed Muayad TA 1, 3, *

1 Environment Research Center, University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.
3 Studies and Planning Department, University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Scholarly Research in Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023, 02(01), 001–009.
Article DOI: 10.56781/ijsrms.2023.2.1.0042
Publication history: 
Received on 09 February 2023; revised on 25 March 2023; accepted on 28 March 2023
 
Abstract: 
The study aims to treat polluted water before it is released into the environment or used in reinjected oil wells. The test runs were done by an electrocoagulation unit that was collected and introduced in the lab. The current was utilized as a part of the unit with various densities to test the turbidity-expelling effectiveness. The exploratory outcomes revealed that the grouping of oil was diminished to (10.7, 11.2, 11.7, 12.3) mg/l when distinctive current densities of (0.00253, 0.00633, 0.01266, 0.0253) A/cm2 were utilized separately. We conclude from this research that the best current in terms of stagnation removal is 0.0126 A/cm2 and the minimum distance between the electrodes, and in terms of oil removal, the highest removal at the current is 0.0253 A/cm2.
 
Keywords: 
Produced water; Polluted Water; Electrocoagulation; Oil content; Anode; Cathode
 
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