A Research Study of Development of Oil Skimmer for Sugar Industry

: In this paper includes the study of the Development of Oil Skimmer for the Sugar Industry. The utilization of skimmers in industrial applications is often needed to remove oils, grease, and fats before more treatment for environmental discharge compliance. Placed before an oily water treatment system, an oil skimmer could give greater overall oil separation efficiency for improved discharge sewer water quality.

Impact of Permeable Membrane on the Hydrocyclone Separation Performance for Oily Water Treatment

In the oil industry and academy, the treatment of water contaminated with oil using conventional hydrocyclones and membranes has been an alternative to meet the requirements established by environmental control agencies. However, such equipment is not fully efficient in the treatment of much diluted oily water, with both presenting restrictions in their performance. In this sense, the present work proposes to study the separation process of oily water using a new configuration of hydrocyclone, equipped with a porous ceramic membrane in the conical part’s wall (filtering hydrocyclone). For the theoretical study, a Eulerian–Eulerian approach was applied to solve the mass and momentum conservation equations, and the turbulence model, using the computational fluid dynamics technique. The results of the velocity, pressure and volumetric fraction of the involved phases, and the separation performance of the hydrocyclone, are presented, analyzed, and compared with those obtained with a conventional hydrocyclone. The results confirmed the high potential of the proposed equipment to be used in the separation of the water and oil mixture.