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Recovery of surfactants from oil in water emulsions by electroflotation
, Article 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering: Incorporating the 59th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference and the 24th Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering, 23 August 2009 through 27 August 2009, Montreal, QC ; 2009 ; Mansouri, M ; Maghsoudi, E ; Roostaazad, R ; Dadafarin, H ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
An electroflotation technique was utilized to reclaim the surfactant molecules from oil-in-water emulsions. A two-staged separation mechanism was suggested to describe the process. The surfactant recovery efficiencies were higher than 70% after 30 min treatment. The method could be an effective process in recycling surfactants from the emulsions existing in industrial wastes. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (Montreal, Quebec, Canada 8/23-27/2009)