Chemical Engineering

MogdamGassyHussein1, Ali Saleh Jafer2, Amer T. Nawaf3This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Raid T. Al-khateeb2, and Ali A. Hassan2,4

1Applied Chemistry, College of Applied Sciences- Samarra University- Iraq

2Faculty of Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Al Muthanna, Muthanna, Iraq

3Petroleum and Gas Refinery Engineering Department, College of Petroleum Process Engineering, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq

4College of Engineering, Al Ayen University, Nasiriyah, 64001, Iraq

 

 

Received: December 10, 2024
Accepted: April 29, 2025
Publication Date: July 11, 2025

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The work objective is to improve the treatment of oil refinery-polluted wastewater by enhancing the Electro Fenton Oxidation (EFO) technology using a novel design pilot plant Digital Baffle Electro Batch Reactor (DBEBR) through organic pollution removal to produce high-quality treated from water production. A new design enhances the mass transfer of oxidants between the molecules of wastewater. Therefore, there is a reduction of contact time between the reactants. The Electro-Fenton Oxidation reaction is then utilized to determine the performance of the Fenton reagent for the removal of organic compounds at different electrolysis times (10-30) min, Fenton reagent of H2O2 (10-40) ppm and Ferrous Sulphate concentration (5-10) ppm and pH (3-9) in a new design DBEBR. The impacts of the operating conditions were depended by using reply factorial design and Minitab-17. The speed of the impeller and current of the chemical reaction had maintained occupied as the speed of digital 200 rpm and one Amps respectively. The rapid efficient EFO for the removal of pollution is found more than 95.9% elimination competence of organic pollutants from refinery wastewater at 30 min,3pH, and 40 ppm and 8 ppm of hydrogen peroxide and ferrous sulfate respectively. From the results obtained, it is noticed that EFO reactions of the wastewater treatment with Fenton’s and currents are very successful, promising, and economical for the treatment of highly toxic and complicated industrial wastewater for instance petroleum refinery effluents, especially through new pilot plants.


Keywords: NewDesign; DBEBR; Organic compounds; Wastewater of refinery; EFO reactions


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