WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 10, 2014
The Effect of Surfactants upon Spectrophotometric Monitoring of the Efficiency of Removal of Crude Petroleum Products from Waste Water by Means of Pressure-Driven Membrane Processes
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Abstract: In the presented research we have tested the application of photo ionization detector of ECOPROBE 5 analyzer to monitoring of low concentrations of petroleum products in water. Petroleum products are organic pollutants that are present in wastewater most frequently, which is caused by their broad applications and frequent incidents. Emergency leakage of petroleum and its products is predominantly caused by technical defects and operators’ mistakes during transport, handling and storage of petroleum products. We tested the application of the mobile analyzer ECOPROBE 5 (RS Dynamics, Prague), which measures concentrations of organic substances in gas phase. It is sufficiently sensitive even for determination of milligram amounts of petroleum products in one liter of water. This principle of measurement can serve, e.g., as a basis of emergency alarm during long-term operation of membrane technology.
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Pages: 60-70
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 10, 2014, Art. #6