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Previous issue date: 2008-02-29 / In the petroleum industry, water is always present in the reservoir formation together with petroleum and natural gas and this fact provokes the production of water with petroleum,
resulting in a great environmental impact. Several methods can be applied for treatment of oily waters, such as: gravitational vases, granulated media filtration systems, flotation process, centrifugation process and the use of hydrocyclones, which can also be used in a combined way. However, the flotation process has showed a great efficiency as compared with other methods, because these methods do not remove great part of the emulsified oil. In this work was investigated the use of surfactants derived from vegetable oils, OSS and OGS,
as collectors, using the flotation process in a glass column with a porous plate filter in its base for the input of the gaseous steam. For this purpose, oil/water emulsions were prepared using mechanical stirring, with concentrations around 300 ppm. The air flow rate was set at 700 cm3/min and the porous plate filter used for the generation of the air bubbles has pore size
varying from 16 to 40 Pm. The column operated at constant volume (1500mL). A new methodology has been developed to collect the samples, where, instead of collecting the water
phase, it was collected the oil phase removed by the process in the top of the flotation column. It has been observed that it is necessary to find an optimum surfactant concentration to
achieve enhanced removal efficiency. Being for OSS 1.275 mmol/L and for OGS 0.840 mmol/L, with removal efficiencies of 93% and 99%, respectively, using synthetic solutions.
For the produced water, the removal in these concentrations was 75% for OSS and 65% for OGS. It is possible to remove oil from water in a flotation process using surfactants of high
HLB, fact that is against the own definition of HLB (Hydrophile-Lipophile Balance). The interfacial tension is an important factor in the oil removal process using a flotation process,
because it has direct interference in the coalescence of the oil drops. The spreading of the oil of the air bubble should be considered in the process, and for the optimum surfactant
concentrations it reached a maximum value. The removal kinetics for the flotation process using surfactants in the optimum concentration has been adjusted according to a first order model, for synthetic water as for the produced water. / Na ind?stria petrol?fera, a ?gua est? associada ao petr?leo e ao g?s natural, formando a ?gua de produ??o e gerando um grande impacto ambiental. Existem diversos m?todos de tratamento para as ?guas oleosas, tais como: vasos gravitacionais, sistemas de filtra??o em meio granular, flota??o, centrifuga??o e utiliza??o de hidrociclones, podendo ser utilizados de forma combinada. Entretanto, a flota??o tem mostrado maior efici?ncia com rela??o aos outros m?todos, pois eles n?o conseguem remover grande parte do ?leo emulsionado. O presente trabalho estuda a utiliza??o de tensoativos de origem vegetal, OSS (?leo de Soja Saponificado) e OGS (?leo de Girassol Saponificado), como coletores, atrav?s da flota??o em uma coluna com aera??o da suspens?o atrav?s de uma placa porosa. Para este fim, foram preparadas emuls?es ?leo/?gua por agita??o mec?nica, com concentra??es m?dias de 300 ppm. A vaz?o de ar utilizada foi de 700 cm3/min e o filtro de placa porosa utilizado para a gera??o das bolhas de ar foi de porosidade de (16-40) Pm. A coluna trabalhou a um volume constante de 1500mL. Desenvolveu-se uma nova metodologia para coletar as amostras, onde, ao inv?s de coletar a ?gua, coletou-se o ?leo removido na parte superior da c?lula de flota??o. Observou-se que ? necess?rio encontrar uma concentra??o ?tima de tensoativo para que haja uma maior efici?ncia de remo??o. S?o elas 1,275 mmol/L para o
OSS e 0,840 mmol/L para o OGS, com efici?ncias de remo??o de 93 % e 99 %, respectivamente, em ?guas sint?ticas. Para a ?gua de produ??o, a remo??o nestas concentra??es foi de 75% para o OSS e 65% para o OGS. ? poss?vel remover ?leo de ?gua
em um processo de flota??o utilizando tensoativos de BHL alto, fato que contraria a pr?pria defini??o de BHL (Balan?o Hidrof?lico-Lipof?lico). A tens?o interfacial ? um fator importante
no processo de remo??o do ?leo na flota??o, pois interfere diretamente na coalesc?ncia das gotas de ?leo. O espalhamento do ?leo da bolha de ar deve ser considerado no processo, e para as concentra??es ?timas de tensoativo atingiu um valor m?ximo. A cin?tica da remo??o se ajustou para o modelo de primeira ordem na flota??o utilizando tensoativos na
concentra??o ?tima, tanto para ?gua sint?tica como para a ?gua de produ??o.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/15743 |
| Date | 29 February 2008 |
| Creators | Silva, Paula Katherine Leonez da |
| Contributors | CPF:05641284491, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783215D9, Barros Neto, Eduardo Lins de, CPF:59545844434, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4798645D3, Dantas, Tereza Neuma de Castro, CPF:07286937391, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783139Z0&dataRevisao=null, Peres, Ant?nio Eduardo Clark, CPF:04457641634, http://lattes.cnpq.br/8666548473150908, Melo, Josette Lourdes de Sousa, Dantas Neto, Afonso Avelino |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Engenharia Qu?mica, UFRN, BR, Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Tecnologias Regionais |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRN, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, instacron:UFRN |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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