Oily compounds removal in wastewater treatment system of pars oil refinery to improve its efficiency in a lab scale pilot

The aim of this research is inspecting the efficiency of physical-chemical and biological processes with the active sludge method in the wastewater of the Pars Oil Refinery Company. This research was done from 26th, January 2007 and continued up to 27th, May 2007. The main operation in Pars oil refinery is to produce lubricants. This research tries to examine and evaluate the performance of treatment system at the refinery to decrease microorganism in the industrial wastewater in a laboratory scale pilot. The pilot has two sections; physical-chemical section, including Dissolved Air Flotation system, and biological section, including active sludge reactor and clarifier. This investigation carried on a 10 liter Dissolved Air Flotation reactor and an active sludge reactor in a laboratory scale. The volume of the aerireactor (aeration reactor) was 10 liters, and the volume of the secondary sediment was 3.5 liters. The waste water of the refinery was used as inlet flow of the pilot and necessary sludge was obtained at first from the Shahrak Ekbatan waste water treatment system. After analyzing the test results, it was concluded that the average percentage of excluding oil, Chemical Oxygen Demand and Biological Oxygen Demand was 29.7, 49 and 27.8 respectively. This indicates the effective role of physical treatment in decreasing oily emulsion material that would result in decreasing organic density in untreated wastewater. In biological system, the efficiency of excluding Chemical Oxygen Demand and Biological Oxygen Demand is 73.4 and 84.7, respectively. This confirms high efficiency of this unit. The samples taken from entering (influent) and exiting (effluent) wastewater of both units were tested. Standard Methods were applied to determine the considered physical and chemical parameters.     

Effects of chitosan and zirconia on setting time,mechanical strength,and bioactivity of calcium silicate‐based cement

In this research, we aimed at improving the setting properties and biocompatibility of the mineral trioxide aggregate‐like cements while maintaining the main chemical formula. Consequently, chitosan and zirconium oxide were added to the cement instead of bismuth oxide to improve the mechanical behavior, limit the possible toxicity, and enhance the bioactivity of the cements. Adding zirconia resulted in a shorter setting time and adding chitosan contributed to the setting time, mechanical strength, and biocompatibility at the same time. Thus, cements containing both chitosan and zirconia had the shortest setting time, highest compressive strength, and apatite‐forming ability.     

Effect of (Co–TeO2-doped polyvinylpyrrolidone) organic interlayer on the electrophysical characteristics of Al/p-Si (MS) structures

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - In this paper, (Co–TeO2) nanostructures were synthesized using the microwave-assisted method for the fabrication of...     

Structural Engineering of Hierarchical Aerogels Comprised of Multi-dimensional Gradient Carbon Nanoarchitectures for Highly Efficient Microwave Absorption

Recently,multilevel structural carbon aerogels are deemed as attractive candidates for microwave absorbing materials.Nevertheless,excessive stack and agglomerat...     

Motion cues and saliency based unconstrained video segmentation

Multimedia Tools and Applications - The segmentation of moving objects become challenging when the object motion is small, the shape of object changes, and there is global background motion in...