Abstract
The effectiveness of polypropylene fibers as sorbents of oil-water emulsions was the object of the research in the present publication. Thus the sorption capacity of the synthetic material of the regional production with for emulsions of different concentration was investigated. Santrauka Straipsnyje nagrinėjama polipropileno pluošto naudojimo avarinionaftos išsiliejimo metu problema. Polipropileno pluoštasnaudojamas kaip naftą sugerianti medžiaga. Pateiktos skirtingostorio polipropileno pluošto išsiliejusios naftos sugeriamumosavybės.
Highlights
The transport industry is considered to be the main source of the petrochemicals contamination and makes significant contribution to the environment quality deterioration
Three diagrams submitted below represent the effective thicknesses for emulsions with 0.5%, 10% and 20% of dispersed phase respectively
The results received due to investigation of the effective thickness of the polyprotylene material showed that fibers with tickness 0.009 m and 0.005–0.007 m are appropriate for sorbtion of proposed emulsions, opposite to fibers with other values of the mentioned paramenter
Summary
The transport industry is considered to be the main source of the petrochemicals contamination and makes significant contribution to the environment quality deterioration. There are specific cases, where the important point is supposed to be an assessment of the sorption material capability to transfer an absorbed substance in the vertical direction as a function of time. From another point of view, measurement of the height of an imbibed substance is not sufficient to make conclusions concerned effectiveness of the sorption process. The polypropylene fiber “Polfilter” of regional production (“Zakład Pracy Chronionej”, Lodz) with different thickness values was applied as a synthetic sorbent of the investigated substances. Where m is the mass of an emulsion imbibed by the material, kg; A is the cross-section of the material (product of width and thickness), m2; ρ is the substance density, kg/m3
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