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CA2088142A1 - Cleaning waste water contaminated with oil and grease - Google Patents

Cleaning waste water contaminated with oil and grease

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CA2088142A1
CA2088142A1 CA 2088142 CA2088142A CA2088142A1 CA 2088142 A1 CA2088142 A1 CA 2088142A1 CA 2088142 CA2088142 CA 2088142 CA 2088142 A CA2088142 A CA 2088142A CA 2088142 A1 CA2088142 A1 CA 2088142A1
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waste water
talc
grease
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cleaning waste
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French (fr)
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Norbert Wamser
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Naintsch Mineralwerke GmbH
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D17/00Separation of liquids, not provided for elsewhere, e.g. by thermal diffusion
    • B01D17/02Separation of non-miscible liquids
    • B01D17/0202Separation of non-miscible liquids by ab- or adsorption
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C02TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02FTREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F1/00Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
    • C02F1/28Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage by sorption
    • C02F1/281Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage by sorption using inorganic sorbents

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  • Water Supply & Treatment (AREA)
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  • Water Treatment By Sorption (AREA)
  • Solid-Sorbent Or Filter-Aiding Compositions (AREA)
  • Separation Of Suspended Particles By Flocculating Agents (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Fine-particle talc with a grain size of so to 3 µm is particularly well suited as an adsorption agent for purifying waste water that is contaminated with oils and greases, in particular such waste water from leather factories, meat packing plants, refineries, large lacquering plants, and the like.

Description

PVRIFICATION ~F WASTE WATER THAT CONT~INS
OIL AND GREASE

The present invention relates to the use of talc as an agent for purifying waste water that contains oil and grease.

In industrial processes, during the elimination of organic impurities, and in numerous washing processes, dispersions of organic màterials that are insoluble in water occur in an aqueous phase, in which the organic phase is present in the form of very fine particles or even in colloidal form. The separation of dispersions of this kind presents extraordinary difficulties.

In the processes that have been used up to now to effect such separation, in most cases additional chemical products are used as separation aids, and these, in their turn, are either found in the purified waste water or in the sludge that is formed, ~nd have to be disposed of in their turn.

In the domain of waste water that contalns oil, and which are mixtures of water with the most varied kinds of hydrocarbon compounds, the hydrocarbons are present in various basic forms and the purification measures used up to now are hased on the occurrence of such substances. In the case of hydrocarbons that are present in the waste water in an undissolved state, separation can be e~fected in light-density material separators with the help of gravity. However, in most instances, hydrocarbons are contained in waste water in dissolved or emulsified form and for this reason can only be eliminated by using chemical-physical processes, when mainly flocculation, precipitation and flotation processes are used.
2 Q ~ 2 As a generic term, flocculation is understood to include all of those processes in which emulsified or suspended materials are separated; in contrast to this, precipitation relates to the removal of dissolved substances. Flocculating agents are substances which, once dissolved in water, become voluminous precipitates that have a good destabilizing effect on suspensions or emulsions. However, when this is done it results in additional quantities of sludge that have to be subjected to secondary processing.

Flotation is understood to mean the ~loating of a substance in a liquid, this being brought about by the introduction of the smallest possible bubbles of gas. Once the substance has concentrated on the surface of the liquid, it can be removed from the system by using surface clearers.

A further possibility for purifying waste water that contains oil is seen in the use of specially adapted natural micro-organisms.
Because of the biological conversion of the substance that takes place, this is genuine disposal, in which the harmful substances are in fact broken down and not simply moved to another space.
The speed at which this breakdown takes place is, however, largely dependent on temperature and on the supply of nutrients, and it may require several years to take place.

Very frequently, adsorption methods are used to puri~y waste water, when the hydrocarbons are bound to activated charcoal or to adsorber resins. Adsorption on micaceous materials (DE~OS 1 167 278) or on an organophilic clay (DE-OS 37 19 929) has already been investigated~

US-PS 4 332 693 proposes a chemical agent for processing oily emulsions in industrial waste waters, this consisting of a multi-component mixture with a predominant proportion of acid activated bentonite, untreated bentonite, chalk, and aluminum sulphate, as 2~t~$~2 well as small ~uantities of adipinic acid, talcl and flocculating agent.

EP-A-O 117 586 describes a process for coagulating and separating the residues of high solid lacquers from alkaline aqueous circulating liquids from paint-mist wet separator systems. A
dispersion of talc, calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, and/or z~nc stearate is used as the circulating liquid is used in order to increase the coagulation and separation effect.

In most instances, the subsequent disposal of the contaminated materials is effected in most instances by incineration or by regeneration of the adsorption agent using a stripper.

Surprisingly, it has now been found that talc with a specific grain size is an outstanding agent for separating oils and greases from waste water that contains them. The term "talc" is taken to mean a group of naturally occurring, widely found magnesium silicates. Talcs are distinguished, amongst other things, by low hardness (1 according to Mohs), a smooth texture, hydrophobic properties, and good adsorptive capabilities with respect to organic substances. Within the framework of using finely divided talc as provided for by the present invention, the use of talc with a grain size of 90 to 3 ~m has been found to be particularly advantageous. At this grain size, on the one hand there is an optimal adsorption capability for the oils and greases that are present in the water as impurities and, on the other hand, the talc that contains these substances can be flocculated out together with the other suspended substances and disposed of with the sludge that is formed.

The use of talc as an adsorption agent as provided for by the present invention can be used to good effect in all industrial operations that produce large quantities of waste water that is 2~8~

heavily contaminated with oils and greases. The contaminated waste water from leather factories, meat packing plants, refineries, major lacquering plants and the like are particularly well suited for waste water treatment according to the present invention. Practical tests have shown that the use of talc as an adsorption agent provides good results when used in connection with animal and mineral greases; both types of grease bind well to the talc.

The quantity of the fine particle talc that is used will depend primarily on the concentration of impurities in the waste water that have to be removed. Such quantities of talc can amount to approximately 100 mg per l-litre of waste water.

As an example of the use of fine particle talc as an adsorption agent, as in the present invention, its use in leather factories will be described. In these, waste water that contains grease is generated and this has a CSB value of up to 10,000. After this waste water has been treated with talc having a grain size of 30 ~m at a rate of 30 to 100 mg per 1-litre of water, the CSB value drops to below 5,000. A further reduction of the CSB value is not desired in every case, for otherwise the biological processes in the settling basins could be disrupted. The addition of fine-particle talc not only results in a reduction of the CSB value by some 50%; it also results in sludge that settles better, which is more easily removed, and from which the water can be removed very easily by pressing. Furthermore, as a consequence of the remarkable reduction of the CSB value, it is possible to achieve considerable economies in electrical energy for the fans used in aerobic waste water treatment.

Claims (6)

PATENT CLAIMS
1. The use of talc with a grain size of 90 µm to 3 µm as an adsorption agent to separate oils and greases from waste water that contains them.
2. Use as defined in claim 1, the waste water being waste water from leather factories.
3. Use as defined in claim 1, the waste water being waste water from meat packing plants.
4. Use as defined in claim 1, the waste water being waste water from refineries.
5. Use as defined in claim 1, the waste water being waste water from lacquer factories or lacquering plants.
6. Use as defined in one of the claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the talc is used at a rate of 30 to 100 mg per 1-litre of waste water.
CA 2088142 1990-07-27 1991-07-24 Cleaning waste water contaminated with oil and grease Abandoned CA2088142A1 (en)

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AT158190A AT394030B (en) 1990-07-27 1990-07-27 PURIFICATION OF OIL AND Grease-laden Waste Water
ATA1581/90 1990-07-27

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JP (1) JPH06506390A (en)
AT (1) AT394030B (en)
AU (1) AU8099191A (en)
CA (1) CA2088142A1 (en)
HU (1) HUT67593A (en)
PL (1) PL297649A1 (en)
SK (1) SK3493A3 (en)
WO (1) WO1992002459A1 (en)

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AT401383B (en) * 1993-03-11 1996-08-26 Naintsch Mineralwerke Process for decreasing the sludge volume in biological wastewater purification and composition therefor
AT139U1 (en) * 1994-06-01 1995-03-27 Naintsch Mineralwerke METHOD FOR BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT, MEANS AND DEVICE THEREFOR

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